In Dallas, gentrification has always arrived riding a bulldozer. Poor people get kicked out of their homes and their communities are scraped off the face of the earth. Nobody even asks where they went. But a new idea is afoot in West Dallas, the city’s latest gentrification battleground. In this…
Oh, thank goodness. It looks like we won’t have take Fair Park, our neglected and benighted 277-acre exposition park at the center of our city, and marry her off to the Park Cities after all. As The Dallas Morning News reported last week, national corporate interests, some with international experience managing public attractions…
Dallas is a burger, young people as the meat and fixings and rich whites and poor blacks as the buns.
If the relationship between Dallas City Hall and HUD isn’t against the law, it ought to be.
Thursday afternoon, the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System voted to allow members of the fund’s controversial Deferred Retirement Option Program to make limited, monthly withdrawals from their accounts. Thus ended a moratorium on withdrawals that began earlier this month. Members with DROP accounts will still not be allowed to make…
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller will cap off an eventful 2016 with a trip to Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. Miller will interview with White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and Trump strategist Steve Bannon in hopes of becoming the secretary of agriculture, according to a statement released by…
Just before the holiday, Dallas City Hall learned it is being accused and maybe criminally investigated in federal housing matters.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott is not done with the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Late Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks ruled that the organization’s lawsuit against Abbott, filed last December after the governor had the FFRF’s secular nativity removed from the capitol, can proceed to trial. In his ruling, Sparks said…
Dallas author Kurt Eichenwald says Trump supporters sent him an image on Twitter that caused an epileptic seizure.
In the end, there wasn’t much drama in Monday’s electoral college vote. Electors across the United States, despite showing a bit more independence than they usually do, ratified the coming presidency of Donald Trump, confirming that the New York real estate developer will take the oath of office on Jan…
Dallas City Council member Philip Kingston is back at it. In an attempt to build on the anti-Trinity toll road council coalition, Kingston is violating a longstanding council tradition and openly campaigning against one of his fellow sitting council members. Kingston’s target is District 6 council representative and Mayor Pro…
Late Thursday afternoon, U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks issued a temporary restraining order that blocks the state of Texas from requiring burial or cremation for any tissue stemming from a miscarriage or abortion that takes place outside of a woman’s home. Without Sparks’ order, the burial requirement would’ve gone into effect…
As more of the old Trinity toll road promoters retire with it un-built, we could be looking at the end of the game.
As expected, the Dallas City Council voted 15-0 Wednesday afternoon to appoint Tacoma, Washington, City Manager T.C. Broadnax as replacement for Dallas City Manager A.C. Gonzalez when Gonzalez calls it quits at the end of January. Following a closed-doors executive session of the council last Friday, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings…
Not even Ben Carson can make HUD any worse than it is already.
On Monday, the Dallas City Council’s Public Safety Committee got its first look at the latest and greatest plan for city staff to address one of Dallas’ largest quality of life issues — panhandling on the city’s streets. Allan Sims, Dallas’ Neighborhoods Plus czar, proposed that the city use some…
Sorry to repeat myself. Last week I told you about a private sector proposal to provide 1,000 units of affordable housing in West Dallas while encouraging home ownership to protect existing neighborhoods from gentrification. I’m afraid I need to ring that bell once more just for emphasis. The proposal is…
Mayor Mike Rawlings says the city of Dallas can’t fund $1.1 billion to fix its police and fire pension woes. I can. Easy.
Late Friday, Moody’s Investors Service announced that, for the third time in less than two years, it was downgrading the city of Dallas general obligation bonds. In layman’s terms, that means that the city’s credit rating — its ability to borrow money through the sale of bonds — has taken…
T.C. Broadnax, currently the city manager in Tacoma, Washington, is the lone finalist for Dallas’ open city manager job, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings announced Friday morning. Broadnax’ nomination comes after a week of interviews with members of the city council and, at a reception Tuesday night at city hall, the…
Taking back interest and cost of living payments already agreed to by contract is bankruptcy-lite for Dallas.
A strange thing went down at Wednesday’s Dallas City Council meeting. With little fanfare and no discussion, the council appointed Walkable DFW founder Patrick Kennedy to the Dallas Area Rapid Transit Board. This move came despite the council transportation committee’s previous recommendation of environmental lawyer Howard Gilberg for the post. Frustrations…
