The next meeting of the Redistricting Commission is Tuesday — I know, I know, settle down. At which point, the commission will discus yet another round of submissions, among them one from none other than council member Dwaine Caraway. Only, don’t expect the presentation — which will be made by…
I’ve tried several times this morning to reach Michael Northrup, the attorney repping a coalition of neighborhood associations at yesterday’s City Plan Commission meeting where Madison Partners’ bowling alley concept was voted down 6-5. I’ll keep trying and post his thoughts separately. But I did manage to talk to Bill…
Back in March we tried to get to the bottom of whether or not the city’s now-semi-regular warrant roundups actually work. To summarize: yes and no — yes, because “there’s a 33 percent increase of people paying their fines when we do these,” said Chief Deputy Marshal Paul Hansen; no,…
So much for cautious optimism: About an hour ago, the City Plan Commission voted 6-5 not to grant Madison Partners that specific use permit that would have paved the way for the six-lane bowling alley Jonathon Hetzel, Barcadia’s Brooke Humphries and other are hoping to open next to Good Records…
That’s what CNN’s reporting, anyhow — that Rick Perry, who called for that ”day of prayer and fasting” down in Houston on August 6 and has been the face of the franchise, could wind up on the sidelines during The Response at Reliant Stadium. That’s according to Eric Bearse, spokesman…
As you’ve probably heard, the Texas Board of Education is in the process of picking new supplemental science materials that will be used to complement the state’s outdated science textbooks. The state hopes you understand that it totally would have bought new textbooks, but it blew all the book money…
On the other side is the announcement just in from the city of Dallas’s Public Art Coordinator Kendall Ferguson, who’s looking for someone with public-art experience to craft a “White Rock Lake Centennial Commemorative Sculpture.” Budget’s plenty big: $272,000, which would buy a ton of Dallas Farmers Market peaches (not…
This afternoon, the Dallas City Council-approved gas drilling task force will take a field trip out to where gas wells are more abundant than Tex-Mex joints and compressor stations roar as though ready to blast off. That place is Arlington. The band of day-trippers leaves from Dallas City Hall at…
No doubt you’ve heard of plans to plant a six-lane bowling alley-slash-bar next to Good Records on Lowest Greenville. It was on the City Plan Commission’s agenda two weeks ago, at the same time the CPC replatted Valley View Center to make way for its inevitable demolition. Problem was, neighborhood…
In Sunday’s Dallas Morning News, reporter Brendan Case took a stab at explaining what, besides the state’s generally business-friendly policies, has helped Texas produce such a relative bounty of jobs of late. The state has added a million jobs in the last decade, Case reports. The country lost a million…
Dallas City Council remains on vacation till August (well, not everyone), but City Manager Mary Suhm and her staff remain at work needing to trim $20 million more out of the FY2011-12 budget to balance that sucker. Hence the memos sent to the council and mayor last night: One deals…
For those faithful few following the dramatic twists and turns in the Love Field concessions bidding process, you may recall that proposals were due Wednesday, following yet another extension given in June when prospective vendors had questions and concerns in need of answerin’. Well … at the beginning of this…
Just for the sake of historical accuracy, I would like to point out that the city of Dallas has claimed in court filings that the Sixth Floor Museum was behind the June 10, 2010, arrest and incarceration of Kennedy assassination author Robert Groden, who is charged with illegally selling literature…
I’ve heard from a few folks furious that council member Sheffie Kadane, a vocal proponent of gas drilling within the city limits, sat with the gas drilling task force yesterday during its inaugural meeting. As Marc McCord, an anti-drilling activist, put it in the comments below: “He showed up, took…
Earlier this year, state Rep. Marva Beck looked up at the elegant light fixtures above the House floor in Austin and decided they would be ruined by “squiggly” energy-efficient bulbs. So she delved into the bulb issue and co-authored a bill, recently signed into law by Governor Rick Perry, that…
Feels like it’s been a long while since we’ve touched upon the U.S. Senate candidacy of former Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert, last seen gigging David Dewhurst and who’s still insisting that the Trinity River Corridor Project is worthy of federal earmarks. Anyway. On Saturday he was down at the San…
At last, an interesting Redistricting Commission meeting. And a vaguely star-studded one too. Among those in attendance at last night’s meeting: council members Dwaine Caraway, Carolyn Davis and Tennell Atkins (who didn’t stick around the whole time), Schutze debating partner Sandra Crenshaw, preservationist Virgina McAlester and former plan commissioner Neil…
Gov. Rick Perry will be in Denton this week, according to his office, at which time he certainly will not address if and when he’s going to announce whether he’s running for the White House. And so, the day after the governor met with former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in…
This would be … what, round three? And here you thought the Living Plaza was a one-timer. Nope. It may be a 192 degrees tomorrow, but that’s not going to stop the City Hall staffers who’ve taken over where Jason Roberts, Brent Brown and William Whyte started. And so, beginning…
Leslie just got back from the first meeting of the city’s gas drilling task force; her wrap-up’s due shortly. But I tried tuning in earlier, thinking surely the city would live-stream this much-ballyhooed occasion. Instead I got to see Mike Rawlings conduct his first meeting as mayor (from June 27)…
Steve Thompson beat me to it, but no matter. Because, see, in advance of this evening’s meeting of the city’s Redistricting Commission, some of us were sneak-peeking the public’s submissions made to the commission, and lookie there: Among the stacks of maps is one turned in by a rather familiar…
About a month back we sneaked a peek at the city’s fingers-crossed attempt to find someone interested in buying the naming rights to the Elm Fork Athletic Complex off Walnut Hill Lane just west of Stemmons, a project expected to run upwards of $38 million and funded with 1998, 2003…
