If you’re not sitting down here in the Council Chambers at City Hall right now, then you’re missing one of the fine ways to spend a Thursday afternoon in Dallas: sitting in on a meeting of the City Plan Commission. We’ve already covered student foot traffic across roads near schools,…
On Sunday we took a look at the new pavilions at Brownwood Park on Walnut Hill Lane, just as they were getting their finishing touches following some issues with a contractor that tried to cut corners. At which point Willis Winters, assistant director of Park and Rec, told us the…
Yesterday I joked: Since the city can’t find anyone to take over Dallas Farmers Market, maybe Tom Spicer and I would just go ahead and take the keys. But Spicer — the man behind Spiceman’s FM 1410 on Fitzhugh, beloved seller of produce to chefs professional and amateur alike, and…
Does no one want to take over operations at the downtown farmers market? Sure seems like it: On a whim this afternoon I went over to the city’s official bid site to see how plans for privatizing the market were going, only to find that the request for proposals was…
Joking happily about how he’s already told you to pull up your pants and quit the K2, Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway hosted a press conference this afternoon in the Flag Room at City Hall to get all up in your personal business some more with his “Quit Smoking Dallas!”…
As you’ll see in this video just posted by Dallas City Hall, a six-point buck got stuck, then put in a truck. At the end, a Texas Parks and Wildlife game warden explains what happened, but long story short: The city was called out after TPWD received reports of two…
The Dallas City Council doesn’t have the most exciting agenda today — though if you’re interested in the state of sales tax revenue from ’02 to ’09, I’ve got just the PowerPoint for you. But to the more interesting business: First thing this morning, Dave Neumman, chairman of the Trinity…
Speaking of the mayor pro tem …City Hall just sent word that tomorrow at City Hall, Dwaine Caraway will be joined by SMU associate psychology prof Jasper Smits, clinical psychologist Jay Ashmore of the Cooper Aerobics Center and others to launch a citywide anti-smoking initiative. Its title: “Quit Smoking Dallas.”…
Shortly before the vote on Proposition 1, which allowed for the citywide off-premise sale of beer and wine, we noted: Goody Goody Liquor and Vantex Enterprises, the parent company of Centennial and Big Daddy’s, contributed $30,000 to the anti- campaign under the moniker No Alcohol PAC/Neighborhood For Safety. They were,…
Sitting in a white patio chair on the porch of her 86-year-old house Sunday afternoon, Yvette Laster can look directly across the street to the new Jubilee Park community center, the $6 million building named for Walt Humann and T. Boone Pickens that opened to great fanfare in September. For…
Or: What do voluntary compliance mean?No doubt you’re well aware of the fact that for the last six weeks or so, you’ve needed a city-issued $15 permit to hold a garage sale in the city of Dallas. But when last we peeked at the permitting process, there were but three…
What you see above are the new pavilions at Brownwood Park on Walnut Hill Lane, between Webb Chapel Road and Marsh Lane. When I spotted them Friday morning, contractors were putting the finishing touches on the three structures, which have been very slow to take shape. “We had difficulty with…
You knew it was coming. And now, it’s here: the lawsuit against the city of Dallas that Andy Siegel vowed to file by week’s end in which he asks the court to void the results of last week’s vote to allow the off-premise sale of wine and beer citywide. It…
Back in April, we told you about Angela Hunt’s decision to reconsider her August 2008 vote to shut down Woodard Paint & Body Shop and develop a compromise to allow the family-owned business to remain at its location on Ross Avenue where it opened 90 years ago. The dozens of…
Andrea’s headed back from Dallas City Hall, where she stopped by the 21st Century City Shindig to katch some Kotkin. But before she left, she caught City Manager Mary Suhm’s noontime announcements concerning big doings down on the Trinity. This is what Andrea just posted in the comments:ANNOUNCEMENT TIME. “I…
Feliz morning, Unfair Amigos! I rolled into City Hall a few minutes ago and found myself standing amid many trendily slacks-ed, bottle-rim bespectacled folks up here in the sixth-floor council chambers. Those New Urbanists, they are a good-looking, if easily spotted, bunch. We’re here for the 21st Century City Conference…
So says Mayor Tom Leppert’s chief of staff Chris Heinbaugh in this just-posted Gay Travel look-see at the city. It accompanies these out-and-abouts on Cedar Springs, at Fair Park, the W Hotel in Victory Park, Gay Bingo, Cyclone Anaya’s, the Nasher Sculpture Center and the original Sonny Bryan’s.Just don’t try…
About a month ago we gave you the heads-up that Dallas City Hall would be overrun all day today with planners and politicians looking for a home in the heart of the 21st Century city. Fingers crossed a few of us’ll have time enough to slip in and out during…
Dallas, at least as of this very moment, is all-wet when it comes to the off-premise sale of beer and wine. And as Rudy Bush noted this morning, there hasn’t exactly been a rush to the Oak Cliff Municipal Center’s permit office — in large part because of the city…
Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin told a crowd of pro-life advocates gathered at the Majestic Theatre last night that the largest advance in the abortion industry has been the passage of Obamacare and called Barack Obama “the most pro-abortion president to ever occupy the White House.” Palin, introduced…
On Tuesday we got a couple of sneak peeks at the Lower Greenville of the future — meaning, the end of next year, all things go according to plan. Late yesterday, council member Angela Hunt, who’s spearheading the streetscaping with Pauline Medrano, posted to her blog a recap of this…
I’ve been trying on and off throughout the afternoon to keep up with the city council’s attempts to canvass the results of last week’s election — specifically, the votes overwhelmingly in favor of Proposition 1 allowing for the off-premise sale of beer and wine citywide. About half an hour ago,…
