Say, Let’s Meet at the Lily Pad Today

Tuesday evening, Mayor Dwaine’s not-quite-chief-of-staff Chris Heinbaugh sent word: At 2:30 today, Caraway, council member Ron Natinsky, Grand Ricchi’s Leobardo Trevino, Arts District exec director Veletta Lill and Downtown Dallas Inc.’s CEO John Crawford will gather for a press conference to discuss “the future of the historic Statler Hilton Hotel,…

Kirk on Leppert and Dallas’s Next Mayor

Last week, the Texas Tribune sat down in Austin to chat up U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk. Today, the Trib posted some of that interview, during which Kirk reveals that when he stepped down as Dallas Mayor, he cried. So did Schutze. Like a baby.You can watch the video. Or…

It’s Official: Tom Leppert for U.S. Senate!

Here’s the announcement posted moments ago on ’bout-to-be-former-Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert’s website, which is titled, like the brand-new campaign adshort film (mmmm … doughnuts) you see above, “Why I’m Running.” For U.S. Senate, that is.I bring a unique conservative approach to government. I’ve created jobs, grown a business, and cut…

Tomorrow’s Deck Park … Today! Again!

We began the week by sneak-peaking one of the latest Woodall Rodgers Deck Park renderings unveiled at yesterday’s $9-million press conference. As promised, here are two others provided by the Foundation, which now needs but $17 million to cover amenities and park operation for the first three years of the…

Caraway Talks to WFAA About Being Mayor

Tom Leppert writes in his official letter of resignation sent to the city council that he will officially step down as mayor at 11:59 p.m. tomorrow. At which point Dwaine Caraway will become the interim mayor of Dallas, and no one’s more excited about that than Schutze, as you’ll see…

Leppert Defends Defense of Marriage Act

In the comments below, a Friend of Unfair Park notes that shortly before Mayor Tom Leppert said his farewells to the Dallas City Council, he hopped on his Twitter account to take issue with President Obama’s announcement that he believes Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional…

Mayor Tom’s Farewell Speech

Mayor Tom Leppert to Step Down: The Final Council Speech from Dallas Observer on Vimeo.As promised, here’s the entirety of Mayor Tom Leppert’s adios speech given to the city council at the close of today’s meeting. For some reason, the audio and video fell out of sync. Which somehow makes…

Dallas PD On “Safety at North Park Mall”

Two days ago we received an e-mail from a “william@bubblelifemedia.com” that insisted, “The gang activity at NorthPark sounds like an escalating problem thats not under control yet and could get worse.” The missive also contained a link to this page at something called Park Cities iPhone Reporter (I dunno –…

Mayor Leppert’s Last Day is Friday

Moments ago, after the last of the afternoon speakers came to the council chambers microphone to denounce Mayor Tom Leppert and the media one last time, the mayor said what we’ve known was coming since last night, if not well before: He’s outta here.”This will be my last city council…