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This morning, the Dallas City Council’s likely to approve spending $718,803 in 2003 and 2006 bond money to build the proposed Wagging Tail Dog Park near Preston Road and Keller Springs; it’s Addendum Item No. 4, for those playing along at home. As mentioned last week, though, that was but…

One week ago today, city officials were cautioning the council not to worry — Dallas ain’t about to spend $3 million to reduce 2,800 trees along the Trinity River to firewood just because the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says so. But this isn’t just a Dallas issue: Friend of…

In a small, bright room at the Center for Community Cooperation this morning, Katy Hubener, the grant coordinator for the Sue Pope Fund, officially announced $1 million available in funding for new clean air projects in North Texas. The fund was established in 2005 in honor of Sue Pope, a…

Johnnie Mae Shaw, an 83-year-old woman with heart problems, needed a ride to cast her vote May 9, so she called a phone number left on her answering machine offering free rides to those unable to make it to the polls. Evelyn Woods, Shaw’s neighbor and friend for 39 years,…

OK, so maybe that’s stretching it just a bit. But I feel like we should send Frank Librio, the city’s marketing and media relations director, just a little something in exchange for this photo of Mayor Tom Leppert and Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway from this morning’s grand opening…

Several Friends of Unfair Park have asked where the city’s getting the $29 million needed to cover the costs of further Trinity River floodway study, which, as we noted last week, pushes back the construction of the Dallas Floodway for at least 10 months and the Trinity River toll road…

As we mentioned yesterday, the city council’s Quality of Life & Government Services Committee got a look-see Monday afternoon at some of the proposed budget cuts before the full council is updated in a June 17 briefing. To close the $190 million deficit, City Manager Mary Suhm is recommending significant…

The News is reporting that Norman Brinker died this morning while on vacation in Colorado Springs; he turned 78 last Wednesday. Brinker, of course, is the Colorado-born chairman emeritus of Brinker International — and the man who, in 1984, took Larry Lavine’s Chili’s concept public; what began as a bar…

Cowboys Stadium is still recovering from Saturday’s inaugural all-day country mega-show, but the Jonas Brothers faithful are just counting down the days till June 20, when Arlington gets to bro down at the trio’s world tour kickoff.Earlier today, the three held a press conference in the house that Jerry built…

During the weekend, I exchanged a few e-mails with David Yearsley, the Cornell University associate music professor who, as you’ll no doubt recall, attacked the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts with all the subtlety of a Longhorn bull mounting a comely heifer. Turns out, more than a few Friends…

Speaking of conceptual renderings and community gardens …Couple of weeks back, we got our first look at the six Re:Vision Dallas finalists, and among the honorable mentions was the decidedly kick-ass Co-Op Canyon, which didn’t make the cut. But today, Inhabitat nonetheless offers us a closer look at one of…

If you’re headed downtown for the CityArts Celebration this weekend and have also considered a career in reality-television humiliation, then someone has dipped their chocolate in your peanut butter. And by someone, I mean NBC, which has just sent word that Friday (from 6 to 9 p.m.) and Saturday (from…

We’ll have much more on this as we inch closer to Friday, when the city council’s Economic Development Committee holds a specially called meeting to discuss a number of hot topics, among them how to tackle the old LTV Tower, whose would-be developers just went into Chapter 11. But one…