No doubt most of you aren’t all that concerned where your garbage gets dumped, so long as it’s picked up and hauled off on time. That said, the subject’s slowly but surely becoming a hot topic at City Hall, as City Manager Mary Suhm and Sanitation Services Director Mary Nix…
At this late date we’ve heard mayoral wannabes David Kunkle and Mike Rawlings address myriad issues — everything from DISD to LGBT. But, at last, a new wrinkle: Bike Friendly Oak Cliff has rounded up the runoff-ers for a question-and-answer session aimed at the hike-n-bike crowd wondering where they stand…
This just in from Governor Rick Perry’s office: He’s added congressional redistricting to the special session’s to-do list. Wait. Sorry. Wrong press release. Let’s start this over.This just in from Governor Rick Perry’s office: He’s bet Florida Governor Rick Scott “a case of Texas barbeque sauce” that the Mavs will…
Only a handful of city council members have so far stayed away from offering their endorsements in the mayor’s race, among them Angela Hunt and Ann Margolin. But that changes today: Mike Rawlings’s camp sends word that the District 13 (meaning, Rawlings’s) rep has thrown her support behind the former…
After last week’s accidental tour of the Lake Highlands Town Center, or what there is of it, we discovered: Prescott Realty and the city’s Office of Economic Development are hustling to get that long-dormant development off the ground years after that big-deal groundbreaking was buried in the economic collapse. Matter…
Recently our brotherly blog down here in Miami concocted a list of reasons why Miami is a better city than Dallas. Same ol’, lame-o stuff. Calling us fat and redneck and boasting that “nobody’s ever killed a sitting president in Miami.” Yawn. Wait, it also says we’re adjacent to a…
Tomorrow the city council will discuss why Mary Suhm wants to keep all of Dallas’ trash and allowing the public a shot at redrawing the council districts’ boundaries. But not before it votes on two hot-button issues: food trucks and campaign signs on public property.The food truck issue’s already been…
For those who do not recall the story: In the wee small hours of August 12 of last year, 59-year-old Terry Glover’s Jeep Cherokee stalled out in the middle lane of South Polk near Camp Wisdom. Glover, who was on his way home after dropping off his godson, hit the…
Among the hodgepodge of videos to which we linked only yesterday are a handful of particular note today, as Texans mourn the death of Bill Clements — the 94-year-old Dallas native, two-time Texas governor, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense under Nixon and Ford and chair of SMU’s board of governors…
Just got a note from Gov. Rick Perry and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst after Perry signed into law the voter I.D. bill, which requires voters to present photo identification at a polling place. Said the gov, “The right to vote is simply too important for us to take the act…
Just a few days ago City Manager Mary Suhm explained why the city’s seriously considering an ordinance that would demand all solid-waste collectors dump their trash at city-owned facilities, rather than one of the dozen other landfills in the region. Said Suhm, who’d proposed the idea last year without it…
Anderson Cooper, for one, will be disappointed, but Debbie Georgatos is no longer part of the Republican Party’s local leadership team. The avant-garde filmmaker and would-be Beat poet has resigned her post “as a courtesy,” newly installed Dallas County GOP chair Wade Emmert tells Unfair Park this morning.”She resigned,” Emmert…
Late last night the city posted the list of folks who’d like to be on the city’s gas drilling task force. That’s in advance of a 10 a.m. meeting scheduled for Thursday, at which time Linda Koop — chair of the ad hoc gas drilling task force nominating committee, whew…
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You won’t have Chris Heinbaugh to kick around any more — at least, not as a city official. Four years after the former WFAA reporter left journalism to go to work for Tom Leppert as his chief o’ staff, Heinbaugh’s outta there as of the June 8 council meeting. He…
Well, that was certainly fortuitous timing: On Sunday the 7-year-old who lives in my house and I went for our weekly trip to the Scotty’sTop Golf batting cages, after which we took a little drive in search of a nice afternoon hike. At which point we found ourselves in the…
Thirteen long months ago the city of Dallas finally began replacing those street signs downtown — out went South Central Expressway, up went Cesar Chavez Boulevard. It only took two years’ worth of rancorous debates as city officials and activists went ’round and ’round over which street to rename –…
In a few weeks, Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm will present to the city council some revenue-generating brainstorms she hopes could offset some of this year’s $60-million-and-maybe-more budget shortfall. Among her proposals, she tells Unfair Park, will be one familiar to anyone paying attention last year: flow control, which involves…
If anything, the results of an already outdated University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll posted this morning — outdated in that it features three would-be GOP presidential candidates who’ve said they aren’t running — more than likely reveal that at least 800 registered-to-vote Texans take Governor Rick Perry at his word…
Schutze went to that Dealey Plaza chitchat at City Hall this afternoon. Only, the Quality of Life Committee didn’t have quorum, so, per council rules, all the council got was a read-through of architect Jonathan Rollins’s PowerPoint, which we sneaked previewed yesterday. But never fear: We asked the questions council…
By the time we got to Dallas Comic Con Saturday ’round 2:30, there was still a line snaking around the Irving Convention Center. Ben Stevens, the show’s co-organizer, guesstimated that some 8,000 attendees had walked through the door — enough to cause the con to run out of badges with…
10. Regrettably, I didn’t go to the Oklahoma City National Museum, but apparently Jason Kidd did. Can’t believe that tragedy was 16 years ago all the sudden. 9. Stayed in a hip, happening part of OKC called “Bricktown.” Think of it as Dallas’ West End, with a canal running through…
