Add City Manager Mary Suhm to the list of folks lined up to bury the so-called Dallas Pedestrian Network, otherwise known as the downtown tunnels. But two days ago she told the DSpotters that those inhabiting the maze of passageways beneath the downtown skyscrapers ain’t nothing but “a community of…
Contained in the stack of City Hall memos distributed to media last night was one from Assistant City Manage Forest Turner to the mayor and council members. In it, Turner announced that at long last, the city has chosen the new manager for Animal Services: Jody Jones.Jones, who is expected…
Two small but important bits of information from a long U.S. Army Corps of Engineers press gathering this afternoon: First: In order to fix the Trinity River levee system, Dallas will have to build an impervious concrete-like barrier between the levees and the river. Second: The barrier will have to…
After Mike Rawlings wrapped Ron Natinsky’s endorsement this morning at the Adolphus, he joined fellow Dallas mayoral hopeful David Kunkle for lunch with the Dallas Regional Chamber and paying guests from Texas Instruments, DART, Oncor and Southwest Airlines. After finishing their chicken, the race’s two remaining contenders took the stage…
Just spent 20 minutes getting an earful from Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm and City Attorney Tom Perkins, who insisted, over and over, that the city’s lawsuit over those Trinity River records has nothing whatsoever to do with our request to see “all the individual invoices paid in relation to…
How about some good news for the Dallas Independent School District? That would come from today’s online edition of The Washington Post, where longtime education columnist Jay Mathews ranks more than 1,900 public high schools across the U.S. — the first time he’s done so for the paper, after 13…
Patrick’s at the Adolphus Hotel for the noontime showdown between David Kunkle and Mike Rawlings, their first debate since Saturday’s elections results sent the two into the June runoff. But before the fireworks, or whatever, Ron Natinsky (who received 17,430 votes on Saturday) pulled the assembled media aside to make…
Earlier this month, Dallas Police reported finding the body of 18-year-old Jonathan Sierra in a room at the Aloft Hotel downtown, across from Dallas City Hall. DPD suspected that the Skyline senior, who’d been to his senior prom and was all set to graduate, died of alcohol poisoning. At the…
As we noted a couple of weeks back, Dallas City Hall’s taking applications for the gas-drilling task force Angela Hunt demanded after Dave Neumann failed to make good on his promise to do … well, anything, really. Linda Koop’s chairing the thing. And Mayor-For-Now Dwaine Caraway — the same man…
I knew where I’d be tomorrow back in January, when we first mentioned that, oh, some guys named Stan Lee and Leonard Nimoy would be attending the Dallas Comic Con, which makes its move to the newly opened Irving Convention Center after years in Richardson and Plano. Figure we’ll get…
Left a few messages for Dallas Independent School District board trustee Carla Ranger yesterday, but never heard back. No matter — she’s always got her blog. And there, this morning, she has posted a rather straight-forward item headlined “Trustees should remove Superintendent Hinojosa immediately for bad faith.” Because Ranger, like…
10. You knew the Thunder wouldn’t be content to lose another game of one-on-one with Dirk Nowitzki. They fronted him in the post. They doubled him. They held him to 29 points. Nick Collison, touche. And, you’re right, that’s something I thought I’d never type. 9. Mavs coach Rick Carlisle…
Moments ago, the Cobb County School District outside of Atlanta, Georgia, named Michael Hinojosa as its superintendent. He was, as expected, its sole finalist — but as per school district policy there, they will wait 14 days before officially naming him the superintendent.All seven members of its board of education…
Mitt Romney, who’s polling well amongst would-be GOP presidential contenders, stopped in Arlington today to grab a bite of Rudy’s barbecue — and take a bite out of President Obama, specifically his Middle East policy speech, which Romney said “threw Israel under the bus,” a sound bite making the national…
It would now appear all but certain Dallas Independent School District Michael Hinojosa is out the door, joining his Fort Worth counterpart Melody Johnson, who surprised her board today with a resignation letter of her own. We’ll know for sure soon enough. Watch it live, after the jump. If you…
Down below, Dallas Independent School District trustee Bruce Parrott says he wants to know “how does the business community feel” about Superintendent Michael Hinojosa’s more-than-likely departure for the top job in Cobb County, Georgia. (The Atlanta Journal Constitution is now reporting that “Dallas school chief Michael Hinojosa is reportedly going…
Shortly after The News broke the news that Dallas Independent School District Michael Hinojosa is a finalist — perhaps the sole finalist — for the top job at the Cobb County School District outside of Atlanta, I asked DISD spokesman Jon Dahlander if there would be a statement forthcoming. His…
Earlier this week we received word that some parents sending their kids to the First Presbyterian Church Developmental Day School on St. Paul downtown are concerned about plans for a piece of property adjacent to the school. Seems they just discovered that developer Larry Hamilton and John Greenan, executive director…
Backed by a new group of law-enforcing backers calling themselves “Crime Fighters for Kunkle,” former Dallas police chief and mayoral hopeful David Kunkle took a minute this morning to cast himself as a force for sunshine and justice at City Hall. Introduced by David Dean, chairman of board of the…
Adrian Beltre got the big hit. Ian Kinsler made the defensive play. And, in a first, Mark Lowe salvaged what Neftali Feliz ruined. The Rangers beat the Royals in extras last night and — pending a weekend visit through Cliff Lee and the formidable Phillies’ pitching staff — might avoid these…
Earlier this month, city officials — among them For-Now Mayor Dwaine Caraway, City Manager Mary Suhm, about-to-be-out Trinity River Corridor Project Committee chair Dave Neumann and others — schlepped to D.C. to beg for more money for the Trinity River Corridor Project. Specifically, the city wants federal earmarks for three…
If the Mavs-Thunder somehow doesn’t do it for you, how about some Colonial golf out in Fort Worth or even a basketball game played by football players? After delivering a eulogy for his dear friend Ron Springs at his Carrollton funeral this morning, former Dallas Cowboy Everson Walls will help host…
