[Update at 5:28 p.m.: The Elections Commission voted, 4-1, to make Toni Pippins-Poole the “temporary” elections administrator for Dallas County. Which isn’t the half of it. Sam will be up in a little while from what he calls “a frustrating” afternoon spent at the Dallas County Administration Building.]Sam’s at the…
Dallas County Republican Party chair Jonathan Neerman says today’s 3:30 p.m. meeting of the Election Commission — the first such gathering in more than two decades — should be relocated to the commissioners court and streamed live so citizens and the press can observe the proceedings. He’s requested as much…
Super Bowl trip up for grabs: fox11online.comDCVB honcho Phillip Jones was on Green Bay’s FOX affiliate this morning promoting a Super Bowl trip giveaway being run through the Visit Dallas Facebook page and the Twitter. Which doesn’t mean anything to you. You’re probably curious how he answered the anchor’s question:…
A Friend of Unfair Park writes: He’s heard whispers of a protest planned for 3:30 tomorrow at the Dallas County Administration Building, where the County Election Commission will meet for the first time in more than two decades. The reason, of course, is the departure of Dallas County Elections Administrator…
While that box of files might’ve stolen their thunder this morning, at least 200 sign-toting cabbies were back at Dallas City Hall this morning, marching ’round the reflecting pool to yet again complain about the preferential treatment given compressed natural gas-powered cabs at Love Field, where the city allows them…
After Chris Heinbaugh’s heads-up yesterday about the city repairing its broken seal, Intern Jesse stopped by Dallas City Hall toward Wednesday’s end to check that “S” out. I showed the photo to the boy this morning before he left for school. He grinned and demanded a high-five. “We fixed the…
I know, I know. I promised — no more about the city’s spending at least $12 million in 2006 bond funds to two-way and widen César Chávez Boulevard downtown. But that was before Patrick “Car-Free” Kennedy, the best-of blogger trying like hell to restore Dallas to walkability, chimed in today…
On the other side is a release that just arrived from City Hall announcing the Office of Cultural Affairs and Dallas Arts District’s decision to take part in D.C.-based nonprofit Americans for the Arts’s economic-impact study. The city didn’t take part in the ’05 study, the most recent conducted, which…
A couple of days back, a Friend of Unfair Park asked, via e-mail: “Have you noticed the number of cabs in Dallas recently? We drove home last night from Cole and Armstrong to the Lakewood area and counted 20 cabs. It looked like NYC. Super Bowl-related influx?” Not sure about…
I caught the tail end of former Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle’s chitchat with The Ticket’s Hardline, which aired a little past the 6 p.m. hour yesterday. During it, Kunkle talked, of course, about his maybe-sorta-more-n-likely run for Dallas mayor, which he said he’ll nail down publicly once the Super…
After hearing from a coalition of business and property owners in the Lower Greenville area that represent 5,500 households, the city council voted moments ago to approve the Lower Greenville Planned Development District, which will place tighter constraints on bars and late-night businesses on the troubled strip. The PDD has…
No doubt you’re aware that KISS’s Gene Simmons and Shannon Tweed (who I wouldn’t Google Image search from the office too hard, if I were you) are among the myriad celebs hosting Super Bowl shindigs next week. Theirs is the Aces & Angels Salute to the Troops at Fair Park,…
Chris Heinbaugh, the mayor’s chief of staff, e-mailed this morning with the good news: “I am told the seal in front of City Hall should be fixed today.” He wanted me to pass along that info to the Friends of Unfair Park — and the 7-year-old who lives in my…
[Update: For reasons explained in the piece below, Bruce Sherbet tells Unfair Park he has resigned, effective March 1. He says when he spoke to Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price today, he told him he would work through the May mayoral election — or he’d leave earlier, if Price…
At the beginning of the week, former Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle had no intention of running for Dallas mayor. Today, he tells Unfair Park, that has changed.While the 60-year-old Kunkle says he remains unsure of what he will do, chances are “greater that I will run than I won’t…
Speaking of Angela Hunt …The maybe-mayoral candidate who presently reps that stretch of downtown due to be widened says that, yes, she’s all for it. She was back in January 2009, you may recall, when she asked for a time-out so she could confer with DowntownDallas president and CEO John…
If you thought you’d heard the last from the City Council on gas drilling for a while, well, think again.Originally, the council was going to approve, without much, if any, discussion tomorrow a resolution by the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport board relating to the gas drilling on the property. The…
Assistant City Manager Jill Jordan called back late yesterday to discuss those still-in-place plans to widen César Chávez Boulevard from Live Oak to Commerce — plans that call for the demolition of one of the oldest buildings downtown. The project’s been in the planning stages for years, but Jordan says…
I’ve been playing phone tag with Keith Manoy, the city’s senior transportation planner and the point man for all things streetcar. It’s understandable. He’s been a little busy.”We’re not in the streetcar business,” Manoy says this morning. “But we’re learning.” He’s doing his best to play catch-up. Not a lot…
Wasn’t so long ago that the Dallas Public Library system appeared to be on life support, a victim of yet another round of city budget cuts. But at City Hall yesterday, during the council’s Quality of Life Committee meeting, Interim Director of Libraries Corrine Hill insisted: Quite the contrary. Said…
We’ve documented developer Jack Matthews’s plans for a hotel next door to his South Side on Lamar ever since we stumbled across it on the Landmark Commission’s agenda last July. Back then, Matthews’s subsidiary, CCH Lamar Partners I LP, told the commission: It had big plans to restore the old…
I’ve already seen council member Ron Natinsky’s for-mayor website — though, at the moment, it’s little more than an under-construction placeholder. But says here that on Thursday, he filed with the City Secretary’s Office his official paperwork naming his campaign finance treasurer, which makes it official: He’s a-runnin’ — along…
