Another redistricting post, I know. Settle down. But this one’s especially interesting: Dwaine Caraway, Tennell Atkins and Carolyn Davis have made it very clear that whatever the redistricting map ends up looking like, they want four “winnable” African-American districts. At last week’s forum, that was also important to the majority…
No doubt you recall: A couple of weeks ago we discovered the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wants the city to pay back $15 million in federal funds doled out for the Dallas Floodway Extension project. Problem is, we don’t have it — at least, not all of it. Rebecca…
Well, look what made Courthouse News today: Yucatan and Service Bar’s lawsuit against the city over the late-night specific use permits as mandated by the Lower Greenville ordinance. Good timing too, given yesterday’s no-go for both bars in front of the city council. The whole petition’s here, but by now…
At around 9, before the Dallas City Council voted on the measure that would direct all trash collected in the city to the landfill in southeast Dallas, more than 50 students and teachers at Paul Quinn College marched around City Hall chanting and wearing white T-shirts that read, “I AM…
On this jam-packed city council Wednesday, we now come to the late-night specific use permits that Lowest Greenville Avenue bars Yucatan and Service Bar are asking for — the ones the City Plan Commission denied, based upon the planned development district ordinance passed by the city council in January. As…
Brantley’s been at Dallas City Hall for this morning’s flow control vote, which began with that promised pre-game protest by the students of Paul Quinn College, who stood throughout the entire discussion that ran close to two hours. (Save for one protester, who fainted during the discussion, prompting a five-minute…
When it came time for the city council to vote on the FY2011-12 budget moments ago, it wasn’t without a few bumps in the road. Several council members told City Manager Mary Suhm they weren’t at all thrilled with her plan to shuffle fire trucks with the intention of retiring…
The council may or may not vote on that ordinance involving the redirecting and recycling of solid waste today. It all depends where flow control falls on the action-packed agenda, which includes passing the budget (that should go smoothly) and debating Yucatan and Service Bar’s denied-at-CPC specific use permits (which…
Anyone who’s even glanced Unfair Park in the last few months knows by now that City Manager Mary Suhm and Mary Nix, head of Sanitation Services, are hoping that the city council will vote tomorrow on a proposal that will force all solid-waste haulers to dump their trash at the…
If, say, during your lunch break this afternoon you were to dip between the Trinity River levees, you would see the trail Jason Roberts first promised back in June — the one that, when completed, will link Bishop Arts on one side of the river to the Katy Trail on…
The council’s Transportation and Environment Committee kicked off its 1 p.m. meeting with a review of the LBJ Express project, with TxDOT and Trinity Infrastructure reps telling council members: “There is possibility you will receive complaints about noise” related to construction, but, hey, they’re moving as fast as they can…
Speaking of Quality of Life …At the end of January, the council committee debuted a short film titled The Shopping Cart Menace!, which tallied up the number of abandoned carts in and around Vickery Meadow (spoiler alert: 40 espied during a 20-minute look-see) and demanded the council “pass an ordinance…
There are a couple of council committee meetings worth keeping an eye on today; we’re spending lunch with Transportation and Environment at 1, matter of fact, where the North Texas Clean Air Steering Committee’s Oil and Gas Task Force, LBJ Express and Complete Streets are on the action-packed agenda. Ah,…
As the redistricting process goes on (and on and on), you might expect the public to become less involved, especially when a meeting takes place late on a college-football Saturday afternoon. But, in fact, the opposite seems to be true: Yesterday’s public forum, like the one in August, was packed,…
Yes, as a matter of fact, they did close the 7-Eleven on Lowest Greenville this morning — at midnight, almost to the second. And, at just past midnight, the sidewalks — which, moments before, had been thick with club-goers shuffling from drink special to drink special at the Pussycat Lounge,…
Probably should have broken this week’s stack into about 12 different items, seeing as how one of the docs is 178 pages (many redundant) just on flow control, which involves forcing all solid-waste collectors in the city to dump everything at the city’s McCommas Bluff Landfill or other city transfer…
Once more, we return to Lowest Greenville Avenue, which tonight will see cops and code out in force to enforce the planned development district ordinance that officially kicks in at one second after midnight. Which, of course, you already knew.Since last we addressed this issue this morning, there have been…
Given the standing-room-only turnout for the Redistricting Commission’s August 20 public hearing, I have no doubt the council chambers will again be jam-packed tomorrow, when the city council meets to discuss those 10 proposed amendments to the commission’s submission(s). I mean, after yesterday’s preview performance, that’s going to be some…
That beer and wine lawsuit’s never going away. But the city’s lawsuit against the Museum of the American Railroad in Fair Park, which first pulled on to the tracks in January 2010, is officially over. As of yesterday, matter of fact, which I discovered when pulling up that court jacket…
Now then, back to the continuing saga of Lowest Greenville …Last night, a certain Barking Dog tagged along as officers from the city’s Code Compliance were out warning business owners that if they don’t have one of those specific use permits allowing them to stay open after midnight, they’ll be…
By now you’ve likely come across the line Republican strategist Mike Murphy dropped on the Twittersphere a while back, in which he likened listening to Rick Perry talk to “watching a chimp play with a locked suitcase.” Well, last night Perry got another chance to play with the suitcase, as…
It’s been all of three years, almost to the day, since then-Mayor Tom Leppert and Tennell Atkins played a game of catch on the Cotton Bowl field to formally commemorate the end of $57 million worth of redos, $30 million of which was paid for out of the 2006 bond…
