It’s The Big Day today for gas drilling activists here at City Hall, and as Robert mentioned yesterday, the environmentalist set kicked off the party by joining up with the local NAACP chapter to take a tougher look at gas drilling and compressed natural gas. The “historic alliance” makes a…
At the end of February, city and council officials explained Dallas’s meager 0.8 percent population growth over the last decade thusly: “The third-largest city in Texas is simply built out.” Which lead police chief-turned-mayoral candidate David Kunkle to wonder whether it wasn’t time to re-brand Big D as the “‘donut…
Over here you’ll find the highlights from last night’s mayoral debate held in front of dozens on the SMU campus; KTVT-Channel 11 was kind enough to cut it up into little pieces, lest we choke on the whole thing. But let’s begin the morning at the end of affair –…
Back in December 2008, we introduced you to foul-mouthed Jonathan Neerman, who had the misfortune of taking over as Dallas County Republican Party chair during a Barack Obama-led Democratic ass-kicking at the polls. One day after the GOP swept local state House races and lost again to the Democrats countywide…
While package stores keep on feeling the “significant impact” of the election that opened up beer and wine sales citywide, lawyers for the city are one step closer to beating back that legal challenge over the petitions that got the issue on the ballot back in November. Today at the…
As Patrick mentioned yesterday, the city council will at long last debate that gas-drilling task force Angela Hunt pitched only after Dave Neumann promised but failed to deliver his own proposal. In advance of The Big Day, several groups — Downwinders at Risk, Dallas Area Residents for Responsible Drilling, You…
Yesterday on the City Hall Blog, Rudy Bush noted that Love Field concessionaire Gilbert Aranza has sued the city in an effort to halt its efforts to find new food-and-beverage and retail concessionaires. As we noted last month, the city recently opened up the bidding process, and Aranza, who’d wanted…
Mayoral Mike Rawlings just posted to his campaign website his Southern Sector Development Plan, which kicks off by ID’ing what the former Pizza Hut CEO and Park Board president refers to as “key beachheads”: Bishop Arts & Jefferson Avenue, Pinnacle Park/Mountain Creek, Lancaster Kiest Transportation Corridor, Paul Quinn/UNT Dallas Education…
Shortly after city council candidate James Nowlin filed his campaign finance report Friday afternoon, he was beaming about raising $51,000 compared to incumbent Angela Hunt’s $28,700 haul during the reporting period that ended April 4. “Dallas has spoken, and the voters of District 14 have spoken,” he told Unfair Park…
At long last, the Dallas City Council’s set to tackle the subject: What to do about allowing natural-gas drilling on city property. According to a presentation prepared by city staff for Wednesday’s briefing, the council can choose from one of the following options: form a task force, hire a consultant…
More than three years ago, some residents living in the Disney Streets in Northwest Dallas proposed turning the neighborhood into a Conservation District in an effort to protect some of its mid-century marvels. But as former City Plan Commissioner and Northwest Dallas lifer Robert Ekblad told Unfair Park back in…
Back in late January Oncor told the Public Utility Commission it wanted to raise Dallas residents’ electricity bill by, oh, let’s say $4 to $5 a month. Even though there’d been a three-buck jump in your bill only two years ago. Said Oncor, look, it had no choice: People aren’t…
Perhaps you recall: We had a pretty good back-and-forth back in December ’09 over city staff’s thoughts on Cityville at Cityplace, the mammoth mixed-use development that’s been planned for the former Loews Cityplace site since forever. After Kroger asked for that variance to sell beer and wine closer to Alex…
Now that you’ve had time to chew on our analysis of the mayoral candidates’ fund-raising prowess, we thought it was time to take a quick look-see at how the city council races are shaping up. Unfortunately, eight candidates still haven’t filed their campaign finance reports online as of 2 p.m.,…
On the other side you will find a report William H. Whyte — The Organization Man — gave to the Dallas City Council on June 15, 1983. Whyte, then a fellow at the Dallas Institute who often came to town to give speeches on how to make our city “livable,”…
After the comments began streaming in on yesterday’s preview of the public art proposals for the Ross Avenue Underpass, there was no way we’d miss a chance to hear direct from the artists about, well, what exactly they were thinking.Two general thoughts on the artists’ live proposals: For one, all…
Till a few minutes ago, Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Pauline Medrano and I had been playing a marathon game of phone tag in recent days, following District 2 council candidate Billy MacLeod’s efforts to get the city, county and even the Department of Justice to remove Esperanza “Hope” Medrano Elementary…
Saw a story on Channel 5 last night, which follows below, about how Chad Lacerte’s building a wakeboard park up in Allen — you know, the one that was supposed to open on Fish Trap Lake last summer, before Dallas Housing Authority president Mary Ann Russ drowned it last July…
Former TracyLocke CEO Mike Rawlings easily outpaced the field of mayoral candidates by raising a whopping $1.03 million — nearly three times the combined haul of Ron Natinksy and David Kunkle — during the reporting period that ended April 4. Council member Natinsky reported $239,000 in donations, and ex-Dallas Police…
On Monday KERA’s BJ Austin asked the four candidates for Dallas mayor: Why you? At which point Mike Rawlings whipped out his wallet, David Kunkle flashed his badge, Ron Natinsky cued up an eight-track cassette and Edward Okpa offered his campaign’s catchy catchphrase, “Busboy to Mayor.” Today Austin and the…
For as long as I can recall, the city’s been talking about making the Ross Avenue underpass at Central Expressway in the Arts District an art project all on its own. Tonight, it inches closer to reality: On your way home, you’re all invited to an open house meet-n-greet at…
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