Tomorrow we’ll get back to bond-package and alley-repair city council briefings and the business community’s interest in fixing the DISD; meet the new year, same as the old. But here’s a nice way to kick off 2012 — with Boston Globe features editor Katie McLeod’s recap of her recent visit…
Schutze said it the other day: Gov. Rick Perry’s probably just a few days away from crawling back to Austin with his tail tucked between Anita’s legs. We’ll know more tonight at 7, when the Des Moines Register releases its all-important Iowa Poll, and Happy New Year to you too…
There’s just one thing that will get us out of bed the day after the editorial staff’s holiday party, on what is (ahem) supposed to be a day off: a City Hall press conference concerning organized retail theft. Mayor Mike Rawlings, Dallas Police Chief David Brown and Dallas County District…
These days it seems as though both political parties are doing everything they can to disenfranchise one of the fastest-growing demographics in the country: Hispanics. While the GOP ratchets up anti-immigrant rhetoric and champions Arizona-style immigration legislation, the Obama administration racks up record yearly numbers of deportations amid promises for…
Whilst you drink in the news that new-to-town Spec’s (where a 1.75L bottle of Old Fitzgerald runs $21.46, cheaper if you pay cash) is looking to buy Sigel’s (where the same bottle of Old Fitz costs $32), allow me to pour you another tall one the day before the day…
Just checked the calendar and noticed: The Museum of the American Railroad should be rolled outta Fair Park by … well, by Saturday, would you look at that. Except, no: Two years after the city sued the train museum, telling it to chugga-chugga thee to those new digs in Frisco…
This year began with the Dallas City Council passing that ordinance that requires all Lower Greenville businesses to get specific use permits if they want to keep their doors open past midnight. This year ends with the city entangled in two lawsuits over that ordinance: the one brought by Yucatan…
Not sure I knew there was going to be a “Northaven Trail” till I drove past the under-construction path beneath the power lines on St. Michaels a few weeks ago. Very nice. Need proof? The City of Dallas Hike & Bike Trails just posted a mini-photo album featuring 13 look-sees…
On the first day of Hanukkah (that is to say, Tuesday) my city gave to me its response to the federally filed lawsuit in which the National Solid Wastes Management Association insists the city’s new ordinance driving all trash to the McCommas Bluff Landfill is “extraordinarily anti-free-enterprise.” Catchy, no? And,…
Perhaps you’ve heard: Famous Person Khloe Kardashian lives in Dallas now. She spent her midday hours today over at Dallas City Hall, collecting toys for Children’s Medical Center of Dallas. Joining her were some 2,000 other not-famous people, all of whom stood in an enormous line for a very long…
Janet Mefferd hosts a radio show on The Word, which sits at 100.7 on your FM dial. Per her program’s description, she “takes a Christ-centered look at the news and events of the day,” and on this day that includes former Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert, who, of course, is vying…
Were this a normal Wednesday, we’d be a couple of hours into a thrilling city council meeting, at which there’d be, oh, 20 or 30 people in the audience, a few just to get warm. But as we noted yesterday, this is not a normal Wednesday: Any moment now Khloe…
It’s possible we’re not yet done with issues concerning the city of Dallas’s new council-districts map. Lawsuits, after all, have been threatened by Hispanic leaders demanding five majority Latino districts. But some two weeks after several city officials went to D.C. to visit with Department of Justice officials about the…
You wanna talk about a living Dallas City Hall Plaza, dig this: Several Friends of Unfair Park have dispatched this item from the blog of one Khloe Kardashian, now a Dallas resident courtesy her husband’s trade to the Mavericks. And, yes, city officials confirm: Kardashian will indeed be holding a…
It’s been a good 14 minutes since the state twisted its rusty knife into the already-wounded gut of women’s healthcare. But fear not: There’s a huge, ugly storm brewing between the state and federal governments over the Medicaid Women’s Health Program (WHP), and the fight appears likely to end with…
Earlier this month we noted that the city hopes to use $13 million in federal funds to turn 70 acres at Walnut Hill and Skillman into, you know, the Lake Highlands Town Center, where ground was broken way back in November 2007. Behold: On the city’s website you’ll find a…
On Friday afternoon, 30-year-old Shontell Johnson lived in a rundown house in South Oak Cliff, where she took care of 13 children: six of her own, three from a neighbor with a drug problem, and four from her sister, who’s currently in prison. The kids were sleeping on mattresses on…
This morning, a Friend of Unfair Park sent me this press release, which, on the surface at least, appears to reveal the mystery behind that real estate deal known only as “Project Wall-E” the council chatted about behind closed doors two months ago. The release is a bit inscrutable but…
Colleen McCain Nelson’s doing her part to keep South Dallas clean, going so far as to take Mayor Mike out to an illegal trash dump and getting him to call it in after 10 days’ worth of morning-paper tsk-tsks couldn’t get the jobs done. To which Dallas City Hall says:…
Kim Jong Il will never get to see implementation of the Dallas Bike Plan; neither will Václav Havel. Whether you will remains to be seen: Last we looked it’s going to take 10 years for the city to roll out a maze of bike paths — despite what council members…
Since becoming Mayor, Mike Rawlings has been consistently passionate about a few key things: South Dallas, DISD, pizza, economic development, Halloween, ethics reform — not necessarily in that order. On Rawlings’s issues hit list, ethics reform is perhaps the most high-minded and difficult to pin down, even for the Ethics…
In recent days we’ve seen a video in which the Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau sells the city to conventioneers and tourists, and a short film in which the Dallas Citizens Council sells the city to … um, the citizens council? But after the jump, here’s a real, honest-to-God pitch…
