Back in March we were alerted to a cabbie strike out at Love Field Airport, when the members of the Association of Taxicab Operators protested the city’s eventual vote that allowed compressed natural gas-powered taxis to hop to the front of the line at Love Field. The ATO eventually took…
Flipped over to the Kennedy Center Honors late in the show, just as a certain Arts Magnet grad was foo-fighting over Paul McCartney’s “Maybe I’m Amazed.” And first thing I saw was former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk, now the United States Trade Representative. Clearly, it still pays to be the…
Last night, at the suggestion of a Friend of Unfair Park, I went over to the Love Field Modernization Program website to watch a nearly seven-minute-long look at the what was and what will be at the city-owned airport currently undergoing renovations. It wasn’t there just a couple of weeks…
Had a very long, very off-the-record chat with don’t-call-him-Graffiti-Czar John Barr late last week, during which he dropped the hint that this week, the city would roll out some new tech aimed at power-washing the hell out of the city. But the Oak Cliff attorney, who’s been reaching out to…
Two weeks ago today, Mayors Tom Leppert, Mike Moncrief and Robert Cluck asked locals to “like” Walmart’s Fighting Hunger Together campaign, which is doling out $1.5 million to food banks nationwide — $1 million to the top Facebook vote-getter, and $100,000 each to the next five highest-ranking communities on the…
Andrea, as you’ll no doubt recall, spent most of last Thursday in the City Plan Commission meeting, waiting for them to get ’round to the Lower Greenville Planned Development District discussion. During the public hearing, Andrea liveblogged this update:Michael Davis says he does not support fee waivers “of any kind”…
This just in from the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission: As promised, the agency has begun issuing permits to retailers looking to sell beer and wine in previously dry parts of town. So far, it ain’t a lot, as just three stores have been given their off-premise permits in the last…
Rudy beat me to it, but for those wondering to whom Mayor Tom’s been sending those come-to-Dallas iPhones, well, The Oregonian found one lucky recipient: Tim Boyle, the president and CEO of Columbia Sportswear. And while Boyle has no interest in moving his HQ outta the Pacific Northwest, why, he…
Mayor Tom Leppert and wife Laura, representatives from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, city council member Delia Jasso, and — dun-dun-dah! — former Dallas Cowboy Cliff Harris gathered earlier this morning in the Flag Room at City Hall to call for volunteers for a new study of a new medication…
A couple of weeks back, as you no doubt recall, Assistant City Manager Forest Turner sent the mayor and city council a memo in which he wrote that come January 3, the general public would no longer be able to park beneath Dallas City Hall. One James Reginald Calloway Schutze…
OK, so Oak Cliff lawyer John Barr doesn’t want to be called the graffiti czar. Fine. Not the point. This is: Scott Henson, who serves Grits for Breakfast, penned an item this morning in which he writes that much of what Barr told Sam on Wednesday sounds pretty danged good…
Swear, this is the last item about the wet-dry legal fight you’ll read here for the rest of the year. (Maybe.)But yesterday, reps from the City Attorney’s Office, the attorneys fighting to overturn the results of the November 2 election allowing for the citywide sale of beer and wine and…
At present, the Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau is HQ’d out of the Republic Center on N. St. Paul. But the city just sent word: The DCVB late yesterday signed a deal (amount undisclosed) with developer Jack Matthews to move into a yet-to-be constructed office complex next to the convention…
You remember Shannon DeMerse, right? No? She’s the former Ivy Jane employee who somehow managed to steal $1.9 million from Ivy Jane, the clothing company that, at the time, was owned by council member Dave Neumann and his wife Frances (though now it’s all Frances’s following the couple’s divorce). Anyway.Allen…
Worries about groundwater contamination from hydraulic fracturing around the Barnett Shale got a fresh wave of attention yesterday — first with a pair of federal suits filed in Dallas, and then with the Town of Flower Mound’s denial of a request to drill near to Grapevine Lake. Keystone Energy was…
Put down your Angry Birds Seasons, it’s time for the City Plan Commission public hearing! Today the big item on the agenda is the rezoning of Lower Greenville into a Planned Development District that would require businesses to obtain specific use permits if they want to remain open past midnight…
Like I wrote yesterday, Sam was at that council briefing during which they back-and-forthed over those three themes for the new-n-improved Love Field. Sam shot me a few texts during the meeting, including some funny quotes from council members as they pro-and-conned the options. But when he got back, he…
After this morning’s post about Keep the Dollars in Dallas’s attempt to intervene in the lawsuit contesting the results of the November 2 wet-dry election, several Friends of Unfair Park wondered: When is the judge slated to rule on Andy Siegel’s request to halt the presently ongoing permitting process while…
Sam’s at City Hall for the council’s Love Field briefing, but he got there in time for the 1:30 announcement of the city’s new “graffiti czar,” attorney John Barr. Only, Barr told Sam in their post-announcement chat, “Don’t write that I’m a czar.” Whoops. My bad.Anyway. You remember Barr, right?…
We mentioned this yesterday: The City Plan Commission will hold a public hearing tomorrow to discuss Angela Hunt and Pauline Medrano’s proposed ordinance requiring businesses on Lower Greenville to get a specific use permit if they plan on staying open past midnight, among other proposed regs. Andrea, but of course,…
Grocery stores all over town — certainly, those in dry-for-now North Dallas — are making space for beer and wine sales; what you see above is but a bit of the empty fridge awaiting product in the Preston Forest Tom Thumb. But, as you no doubt recall, on Friday attorney…
No? Shame. No matter: He or she will be named tomorrow! From the city, this just in:Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert will announce a new initiative to fight graffiti in Dallas at the Wednesday, December 15th City Council briefing. He, along with District 1 Councilmember Delia Jasso will discuss the new…
