When I directed your attention to those pretty pictures filling City Hall’s 2012 calendar yesterday, I forgot to note: Those are the latest top-prize-getters in the third annual Trinity River Corridor Project Photo Contest. Tops, again, was the great Sean Fitzgerald, winner of the second annual contest. That’s his work…
In June 2010 we told you the remarkable tale of a rather unremarkable-looking building that stands at 4526 Leland Avenue, near the intersection of Hatcher Street and S. Central Expressway in South Dallas. It came to our attention because its owner, Vanessa Baker, was seeking landmark status for the property…
A couple of months back we noted that as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s $115-million EV Project, which will spend a few years analyzing if and how much folks actually charge their rides, San Francisco-based ECOtality will be plugging in electric vehicle charging stations at a handful of…
For the last several months we’ve watched construction crews buzzing up and down the scaffolding erected in Webb Chapel Park, on Cromwell between Royal and Marsh. We knew what was coming: the latest “art” pavilion, one of many funded with ’03 and ’06 bond money (speaking of). Per the recently…
City Manager Mary Suhm reminded the council, again and again, by way of introduction: Today’s presentation on the 2012 bond program is very, very, very, very preliminary. There will be many more meetings, including February confabs in every district. The numbers are rough, very rough — guesstimates of guesstimates. The…
Before the city council comes back from lunch-time recess for some Bond, 2012 Bond talk — a belated Christmas miracle! — allow me to direct you to City Hall’s annual post-holiday gift: the 2012 calendar, so I won’t be the only one who knows when Quality of Life Committee meetings…
We ended the year by lamenting City Hall’s inability to implement the new Bike Plan due to two speed bumps — the need for public hearings and the lack of money. But we begin the new year with word that for at least one stretch of concrete, money has been…
Below we noted that after his dismal showing in Iowa last night, Governor Rick Perry went back to Austin to pray and fast — so sad. But minutes ago he tweeted this magnificent photo, accompanied by the note: “And the next leg of the marathon is the Palmetto State…Here we…
We’re about four hours away from finding out who won those long, hard-fought caucuses in Iowa, which Rick Perry is trying like holy hell to win based on the newly minted video you’ll find on the other side. It’s quite the stars-and-stripes-and-church-cross spectacular — like something Jerry Bruckheimer might have…
It was something we heard an awful lot from City Hall in 2011: We expect that to be funded in the 2012 bond program. City officials said it about the Elm Fork Soccer Complex, expanding the Cotton Bowl to keep Texas-OU in Dallas past 2015, implementing Complete Streets and addressing…
Speaking of the Dallas County Commissioners Court (or at least I was, to myself, since you’re probably doing something far better with your last holiday-break day off) …Late last night Cecile Fernandez sent word that she wants to replace back-to-BBQ Maurine Dickey as the commissioner for the new-look District 1…
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…
