Many thanks to the Friend of Unfair Park kind enough to send our way this afternoon Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington’s bipartisan list of 2010 Most Embarrassing Re-elects (and a Governor to Watch). The headline kinda says it all: Rep. Joe Barton, a hard R with a thing…
You remember Chad Lacerte, right? He’s the man behind the Dallas Watersports Complex, which had the full support of the Dallas City Council was supposed to open on Fish Trap Lake till the Dallas Housing Authority sunk it, claiming it wasn’t in the best interests of the residents of West…
On Friday we sneak-peeked that proposed $2-million economic development grant proposal intended to “support emerging development opportunities in North Oak Cliff.” Before Wednesday’s vote, the council’s Economic Development Committee is slated to take up the subject in mere moments; here’s the PowerPoint prepared in advance of their chitchat, which you…
Chapter 31, Section 31-35 of the Dallas City Code already provides definitions for coercion (“… to approach or speak to a person in such a manner as would cause a reasonable person to believe that the person is being threatened …”) and solicitation (“… to ask, beg, solicit, or plead,…
We tried to get into Fair Park yesterday for The Big Doings and realized rather quickly we should have ditched the car elsewhere and taken the Green Line. During almost all of Saturday there was traffic for miles (30 was backed up like it was the last day of the…
The memo, just in from Dallas City Hall, speaks for itself. Meters or private lots only. Well, hell, read it for yourself. Weekend listening tomorrow morning. Me, I’d start with this.Parking at City Hall Memo…
So much for North Oak Cliff not needing City Hall …On Monday, the council’s Economic Development Committee will discuss an “economic development grant proposal to support emerging development opportunities in North Oak Cliff.” Which is kinda vague till you look at the corresponding item (No. 57, to be exact) on…
I’ll say it again: Having lived in the Love Field flight path for most of my 42 years, what noise? But some of you probably don’t feel the same way — like, for instance, those who’ve called or written Angela Hunt to complain about the uptick in rumble in recent…
A Friend of Unfair Park alerts us: Mayor Tom Leppert is on today’s episode of National Public Radio’s Tell Me More, along with Utah Governor Gary Herbert. The subject: How Utah and Dallas are leading the economic recovery, per that Brookings Institution report to which we directed your attention yesterday.Listen…
As Robert mentioned earlier, the U.S. lost to Qatar in its bid for the 2022 World Cup, leaving the couple hundred folks gathered in the lobby at City Hall speechless. Still smiling as the news was announced on a big screen TV, Mayor Tom Leppert said afterward that he couldn’t…
… you might wanna swing by Dallas City Hall, where Mayor Tom and the Dallas World Cup Bid Committee and Hunt Sports Group chairman Clark Hunt and a few FC Dallas players (including goalkeeper Kevin Hartman, defender Ugo Ihemelu and forward Ruben Luna) and former Colombian National Team midfielder Oscar…
You have some four hours left to submit your proposal to run the Dallas Farmers Market. Might as well — there’s not a lot of competition. I spoke with Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm last night, and despite the fact the deadline’s been extended several times, there may be but…
The day after the local GOP lost its fourth-straight election cycle to Democrats, Dallas County Republican Party chair Jonathan Neerman told us “it’s very unlikely” that he’d run for a third term in 2012, citing the need for “fresh leadership.” But soon after the Hunton & Williams lawyer appeared to…
Two weeks ago today, state Rep. Leo Berman of Tyler filed H.B. 295, which says: “The secretary of state may not certify the name of a candidate for president or vice-president unless the candidate has presented the candidate’s original birth certificate indicating that the person is a natural-born United States…
Last week, just as city officials were heading out the door for their extended, city manager-ordered vacation, Assistant City Attorney Charles Estee filed The City’s Official Response to that suit contesting the vote that paved the way for the off-premise sale of beer and wine citywide. It’s brief — but…
Patrick Michels has been all over XTO Energy’s efforts to sink some gas drills in and around Dallas, a piece of which may or may not wind up on the council’s year-ending agenda on December 8 following the City Plan Commission’s decision last month to deny the wastewater-spilling Exxon subsidiary…
All those energy companies with gas drilling permits before the Dallas City Council on December 8, take one step forward. Not so fast, XTO. The Fort Worth-based energy company had been slated to bring its appeal of the City Plan Commission’s specific use permit denial before the council a week…
The Skype’d wedding of Mark Reed and Dante Walkup — held at the Dallas W hotel, officiated over Internet teleconferencing software in Washington, D.C. — went viral a few weeks after the gay couple was legally married in our nation’s capital in October. Gay rights activists the world over celebrated…
Most humans would probably be grateful if someone would come by a couple times a day and tidy up after them. Feral cats likely feel differently. They’re often brought to Dallas Animal Services scared and stressed out, and their sparse cages offer nowhere to hide from kennel workers who feed,…
Shame there’s no one at Dallas City Hall till Monday, because this just popped up on the year-ending December 8 council agenda: an ordinance that will “prohibit multiple registered sex offenders from residing in the same dwelling unit, with certain defenses.” Says the agenda, the council first discussed this item…
At this point, it’s hard to recall precisely where we left off when last discussing the city’s attempts to regulate community gardens; after all, it’s only been a subject for discussion (and point of contention) since, like, June 2009? Last I remember, Kris Sweckard, managing director in the Office of…
Brad Kizzia, the attorney repping Robert Groden in his fight with the city to keep selling his JFK conspiracy materials in Dealey Plaza, missed a golden opportunity for some terrific PR by filing these docs with the court yesterday instead of Monday, November 22. Then again, there was a method…
