City Secretary Deborah Watkins and her staff oversaw the selection of ballot positions this morning in the Flag Room at City Hall, as mayoral and city council candidates for the May 14 election chose envelopes with numbers inside. Former Park Board president Mike Rawlings landed the top spot among mayoral…
Forthcoming in moments, Sam’s recap of this morning’s ballot-place-picking procedure at Dallas City Hall. But two days ago we listened in as the four candidates for Dallas mayor — Mike Rawlings and David Kunkle especially — debated the root cause of domestic violence at the North Texas Food Bank’s forum…
Standing near the pool at the Belmont Hotel in what 2007 mayoral race runner-up Ed Oakley called “the best part of the city of Dallas,” mayoral candidate Ron Natinsky this morning announced his five-pronged approach to implement the West Dallas Urban Structure and Guidelines plan. He said the first step…
No doubt you recall the hubbub surrounding the Love Field concessions-bidding process that consumed much of last year as Mayor Tom and the council argued over no-bid contracts for incumbents Gilbert Aranza, Helen Giddings and Eddie Bernice Johnson. It was certainly fresh on my mind only Tuesday night, when I…
There was a rather interesting exchange between mayoral candidates Mike Rawlings and David Kunkle at this morning’s mayoral debate at the North Texas Food Bank. And it began with a question posed to all four candidates (including, of course, Ron Natinsky and Edward Okpa) by moderator Janet Davis, one of…
A few weeks ago, as you’ll no doubt recall, Angela Hunt called for the formation of a gas drilling task force that would consist of no fewer than 10 people, among them experts well versed in the subject of fracking, neighborhood residents impacted by XTO Energy’s requests to drill near…
All four mayoral candidates are running on similar platforms to improve neighborhoods and boost economic development. But underdog Edward Okpa sought to set himself apart from the field this afternoon, claiming David Kunkle and Mike Rawlings “don’t have the relevant facts” to make the necessary progress in neighborhoods. He also…
Mayor Dwaine Caraway sent a letter on Friday expressing the city’s “deepest condolences” to his counterpart in Sendai, Japan, Mayor Emiko Okuyama. Caraway mentioned in the missive that his wife, state Rep. Barbara Mallory Caraway, had attended the Sendai International Marathon, and said, “Due to our years of people-to-people exchanges…
From the Texas Enterprise Fund, that is — otherwise known as the state’s “deal-closing fund” intended, in part, to bring new bidness to Texas. The governor was in Richardson earlier today to announce the state’s “investing” $2.45 million in Virtual Computing Environment Company, a Cisco-created cloud-computin’ company that’s building a…
As Sam pointed out last week, it’s clear that mayoral candidate Mike Rawlings is well funded — so much so he’s released what appears to be a web-only mini-doc shot, for the most part, at the Good Street Missionary Baptist Church on Bonnie View. It also features two current council…
Apparently, the Dallas Police Department is none too thrilled with how info is being disseminated about tomorrow’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade and Party along Greenville Avenue; what — this wasn’t as clear as green beer? Which is why Senior Corporal Kevin Janse, the department’s spokesman, forwarded a memo First Assistant…
The majority of neighborhoods surrounding Fair Park are riddled with vacant, boarded-up homes and empty lots. Atlanta Street is no exception. Across from the Park South Family YMCA, Todd Russell bought a 672-square-foot house in June 2009 from the city to save it from demolition. But less than a month…
As the Japan-American Society of Dallas/Fort Worth’s website points out, “Dallas and Sendai became International Friendship Cities in August 1997, when Mayor Ron Kirk and Mayor Hajimu Fujii signed a formal agreement in Sendai.” Which is why, shortly after the 8.9-magnitude quake and tsunami struck off the shore of that…
Vanity Fair’s Jim Wolcott directs our attention today to a dispatch from Los Angeles-based photographer Donald Barnat: “Disappointment at Dealey Plaza,” posted yesterday. Long story short: Barnat was in town during the Super Bowl and, like most visitors to our city, found himself at the corner of Houston and Elm…
Yesterday we covered Dallas Mayor-turned-U.S. Senate candidate Tom Leppert’s position on National Public Radio. This afternoon, on the Facebook, I got this note from Not Mayor Tom:Excited to launch our new petition calling on President Obama to stop our dependence on foreign oil, boost natural gas production, and create jobs…
Back on February 11, former four-term city council member Sandy Greyson told us that she was “seriously considering” a run for her old District 12 seat now occupied by mayoral candidate Ron Natinsky. The self-described “night owl” e-mailed us shortly after midnight Monday morning to let us know she was…
Real estate broker and international trade consultant Edward Okpa has submitted the necessary 357 signatures of registered Dallas voters required to run for mayor, joining David Kunkle and Ron Natinsky on the May 14 ballot. Former Park Board president Mike Rawlings has also announced his candidacy, but he hasn’t submitted…
In the last 24 hours, press releases have piled up in the in-box announcing three very different mayoral debates featuring ex-Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle, current city council member Ron Natinsky and former “homeless czar” and Park Board president Mike Rawlings.One’s traditional: On April 19 at 7 p.m., KTXA-Channel 21…
Fingers crossed, we’ll get to this asked-and-answered more than once a month. But not a week goes by that four, five e-mails don’t pop up in the in-box wondering what in the wide, wide world of sports became of City Manager Mary Suhm’s plan to take the downtown Dallas Farmers…
It would appear The Hot Topic today is about how hard one can get their drink on at the St. Patrick’s Day Party and Parade along Greenville Avenue Saturday. The Dallas Police Department sends word that one need look no further than the Central Patrol Division’s website, which has the…
A couple hours after U.S. Senate candidate Tom Leppert tweeted what you see above, we contacted Leppert spokesman Shawn McCoy to find out why the former mayor supports eliminating public funding for National Public Radio. He said he’d talk to him and get back to us. We never heard back…
If there was any question that former Park Board president Mike Rawlings would be the top fund-raiser among the three announced mayoral candidates, he’s seemingly answered it by unveiling a new television ad this morning as pricey mailers hit mailboxes throughout the city yesterday. The TV ad and mailer –…
