On Friday, the Texas Attorney General’s Office told the city of Dallas to give up those police records pertaining to Mayor Dwaine Caraway’s pals Arthur and Archie. At which point Caraway’s attorney — Michael Payma of Payma, Kuhnel, & Smith — turned around and sued Greg Abbott, claiming the AG…
By now you’re no doubt aware that the old Municipal Building downtown, otherwise known as the ca.-1914 City Hall, is where the University of North Texas hopes to put the UNT Dallas College of Law, which still needs to be funded by the state Legislature in the current session. Right…
This morning, the council’s Economic Development Committee will take up whether or not to give Dean Foods a $250,000 economic development grant (and $1,673,964 in tax abatements) for that new factory in the southern sector, which Ron Natinsky mentioned last week.At the same time, the committee will consider another grant…
We’ve mentioned in recent months Ralph Isenberg’s efforts to bring Saad Nabeel back to North Texas, where a University of Texas at Arlington electrical engineering scholarship awaits the 20-year-old Frisco Liberty High grad. Nabeel, though, was deported to Bangladesh last year: His family had been denied political asylum a decade…
Austin’s not a “major city”? Hunh. Tried to drive in Austin in the last 15, 20 years? Traffic seems pretty major. And last I looked, there was some big college there — that’s what my diploma says, anyhow. And something about a state capitol? Look, I dunno. I’m always drunk…
Last night, Dallas Independent School District trustee Edwin Flores held court in the E.D. Walker Middle School auditorium, where some 100 district parents bundled up to hear Flores talk about the coming budget cuts thanks to the state’s shortfall. (If the district is serious about saving money, maybe it ought…
Along with a handful of other media outlets that filed open records requests about the incident at Mayor Dwaine Caraway’s home near Cedar Crest Golf Course known as the “Arthur and Archie” ordeal, we asked for notes, audio, video and any other possible documents related to the case. However, as…
More than a year ago we mentioned that Fair Park would be getting a new attraction: the Texas Museum of Automotive History, which would be parked in Grand Place — the very site where the Ford Motor Co. had its exhibit during the Texas Centennial Exposition in 1936. But aside…
Mayor Dwaine Caraway and 11 current and former council members endorsed council member Ron Natinksy for mayor this afternoon at City Hall Plaza. Caraway urged voters, especially those in the southern sector, to choose Natinsky instead of David Kunkle or Mike Rawlings because the city is already headed in the…
Never could find the time to take that tour of the old LTV Tower today, but as promised in yesterday’s Statler-tour item, Angela Hunt did indeed stroll the future Grand Ricchi yesterday with developer Leobardo Trevino. She just posted a series of photos showing that 1600 Pacific has indeed been…
As he explained to us a couple weeks ago, Chad Lasseter has some grand ideas, including moving the Texas Rangers to either Fair Park or West Dallas and providing free Wi-Fi downtown. He also disagrees with District 14 council member Angela Hunt on a handful of issues, such as her…
The city sent word a little while ago: Beginning at 6 a.m. Saturday, the Dallas City Marshal’s Office will conduct yet another warrant roundup of “individuals with outstanding arrest warrants for unpaid traffic and non-traffic citations.” Happens every spring. If you’re so inclined, you can browse the motherlovin’ mammoth list…
Just minutes before presiding over his first meeting as the city’s newly minted mayor, Dwaine Caraway assured a group of around 150 folks gathered for a light breakfast in the Flag Room at City Hall that he’d continue the “positive direction of the city” during his four months in office…
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,…
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…
Political consultant Carol Reed answered questions about the battle for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Kay Bailey Hutchison, the Dallas mayor’s race, the 2012 Republican presidential primary and an assortment of local and state issues last night at a meeting of the Dallas Log Cabin Republicans. However, she…
On February 13, Steve Thompson wrote that ex-municipal judge Staci Williams — a Hockaday grad with a Georgetown law degree dismissed by the Dallas City Council last June — might sue the city. The reason: Williams claimed repeatedly that she was sexually harassed by Administrative Judge C. Victor Lander, who…
Welcome to City Hall, where nothing seems to have changed too drastically since Mayor Dwaine Caraway took the reins over the weekend. Any doubts you might have had should be assuaged by item number one on this afternoon’s agenda at the Transportation and Environment Committee briefing, where, as Robert told…
Patrick’s liveblogging this afternoon’s meeting of the council’s Transportation and Environment Committee, whose agenda reads like an Unfair Park greatest-hits: City of Dallas Complete Streets Initiative Update, 2011 Dallas Bike Plan and The Better Block Project. You might wanna peruse the docs before the festivities begin — especially the Complete…
Over the weekend, local gas-drilling opponents forwarded to media members Ian Urbina’s piece in Sunday’s New York Times about the heretofore unknown dangers posed by hydraulic fracturing, which involves injecting water, sand and a laundry list of toxins known and unknown into the ground that busts up rock and releases…
A little more than a week ago, the U.S. Census Bureau revealed that the city of Dallas barely grew between 2000 and 2010 — by 0.8 percent, to be precise, though Matt Stiles and Emily Ramshaw, the Texas Trib’ers contributing to this morning’s New York Times, are generous enough to…
At midnight, Dwaine Caraway will erase the “pro tem” from his title and become, simply, Dallas Mayor. And though he will replace U.S. Senate candidate Tom Leppert for just a few months, Caraway tells Unfair Park this evening: “It’s very humbling to be able to be in this position.” He…
