Where to begin, where to begin as we sneak peek the council’s week ahead? Perhaps at Jim’s favorite destination — the shores of the Trinity River. Tomorrow’s meeting of the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee looks to be the most interesting in a long while, as the council starts adding…
On the other side is the final dispatch from Chris Heinbaugh, Mayor Tom Leppert’s chief of staff, who’s among the traveling party wrapping up that trade mission to Spain and France. The quote in the headline comes from the release that follows, in which Leppert says the Euros are ready…
A couple of weeks ago, MoneyGram announced it was moving its HQ from Minnesota to Dallas — you remember that, right? And at the time, City Hall said the move involved “a public incentive package” that the city council had to approve — oh, like it wouldn’t. Anyway. Some Friends…
“When you are a leader and you make hard decisions, you piss some people off.”–Rick Perry to Politico…
Courtesy Chris Heinbaugh, who’s at far rightNo idea what Jack E. Jett means when he says Leppert’s the “most photographed Mayor in the history of the WORLD!”Right now, you’re probably wondering to yourself: Hey, how’s Mayor Tom enjoying his European vacationtrade mission to Spain and France? Well, from the looks…
Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins outraised Republican challenger Danny Clancy by more than $50,000 during the latest three-month fund-raising period, while Clancy outspent his Democratic counterpart by more than $20,000, according to campaign finance reports. Both candidates struggled to raise dough — Watkins nabbed just $136,000 and Clancy $83,000…
Much like everyone else in Dallas media, I received a call this morning from Dallas County Republican Party chair Jonathan Neerman, who told me that Danny Clancy awoke to find his SUV on blocks with its tires stolen. Already aware that his wife Julie, a Dallas municipal court judge, had…
Sara KerensScott and Mariana Griggs at the “West Dallas Country Club,” otherwise known as their community gardenYou probably forgot all about City Hall’s efforts to regulate community gardens — after all, it’s been about two months since the topic came up at the council’s Transportation and Environment Committee meeting on…
Pardon this blurry screengrab from one of Heinbaugh’s iPhone videos. Next time I should just go with.(Note to self: Stop. Watching. Baseball.)OK, then. Just received the latest postcard from Chris Heinbaugh, who’s tagging along on Mayor Tom & Co.’s trade mission to Europe. It follows. But long story short: Back…
Funny thing: Yesterday, in the comments below, longtime Friend of Unfair Park Montemalone asked this about the Dallas delegation’s trade mission to Europe: “I wonder if this latest terror threat/alert/political red herring will have any effect on their trip?” Well, Monte, the mayor made a video just for you, and…
Andy SiegelA Friend of Unfair Park was saying only yesterday he hadn’t heard much in recent weeks about the upcoming vote to get Dallas wet from folks for or against the off-premise sale of beer and wine citywide. Which reminded me: Whatever happened to election foe Andy Siegel’s plan to…
Remember when I said you’d never see this picture again? Apparently, I was wrong.Right about now, Mayor Tom Leppert, council member Ron Natinsky, state Rep. Rafael Anchia, Office of Economic Development head Karl Zavikovsky and a few other folks on the Dallas trade mission to Europe are probably fast asleep…
Nobody at City Hall can seem to hear enough about permanent supportive housing these days, and since the Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance’s Mike Faenza just can’t talk it up enough, we’re back at City Hall for another update on how the city’s PSH programs are doing at filling up neighborhoods…
Two months back we got to discussing the case of Saad Nabeel, who came to the U.S. with his parents when he was 3, graduated from Frisco’s Liberty High School, received an electrical engineering scholarship to the University of Texas at Arlington — only to find himself deported by the…
Afternoon, Friends of Unfair Park. Here I am in bristly cold City Hall prepared to bring you the latest in how Dallas is going to keep you safe. Or, how you’re going to keep your damn selves safe with iWatch. Between that and Dwaine Caraway’s magic crime-reducing cameras, we should…
Back to the Dallas Farmers Market again. But only because following our discussions on Friday, the city posted to its official up-fer-bids website further addenda concerning the physical and fiscal shape of the market after some folks interested in taking the market out of the city’s hands had further questions.Among…
On March 23, 2007, the Dallas City Council signed off on the anti-idling ordinance, which went into effect October 1, 2007, and penalized vehicles weighing more than 14,000 pounds from idling for more than five minutes between April 1 and October 31 — the so-called “ozone season.” Drivers caught idling…
OK. So back to the Dallas Farmers Market for a moment …As promised, I spoke with City Manager Mary Suhm. I asked her, straight off: Did the Dallas Farmers Market in fact lose $800,000 during the fiscal year that ended, like, yesterday? Her answer: “It’s the end of the fiscal…
I’ve spent the better part of the morning trying to find out some answers to the myriad questions raised by last night’s Channel 8 piece regarding the fate of Dallas Farmers Market. David Schechter points out: The city has said that the downtown was expected to lose $137,000 during FY2009-10…
Moments ago, I heard some heroic music blaring from Schutze’s office. I walked in and found Jim inches from his computer screen, watching this video over and over and over again, as though it were a porn loop. It’s from Dallas City Hall, a just-posted teaser for the Margaret Hunt…
I hope you don’t need a face-to-face with Mayor Tom Leppert, council member Ron Natinsky, state Rep. Rafael Anchia or Karl Zavikovsky, head of the Office of Economic Development, any time soon. They won’t be around — instead they’ll be in Madrid, Valencia and Paris between October 2 and 10…
I hopped on the city’s website this morning in search of something entirely unrelated when I noticed this: At the top of the page is a reminder that beginning tomorrow (geez, October already?) you’ll need a permit to hold a garage sale in the city of Dallas. Cost: $15. Reason:…
