Friendship-West’s Dr. Frederick Haynes, a longtime Leppert ally, spoke in favor of a tax hike: “We cannot ride first class without paying for it.”Hey y’all. I rode the elevator up to City Council Chambers this morning with Carolyn Davis, who is doing this whole Jackie O thing in a fun-collared…
Photos by Danny FulgencioOut back, the Stingray Bay at the Children’s Aquarium at Fair Park gives visitors the hands-on experience of feeding the rays.Till Monday afternoon I hadn’t been in the Dallas Aquarium at Fair Park since I was, oh, maybe 11, 12 years old. This much I recall of…
Hal SamplesOn the set of Lone Star. Sure hope we get to see this episode.Well I’ll be damned. We’re up and running again. For now. How … surprising. Again, data was corrupted, but at least everyone got a scholarship (thanks, Congressional Black Caucus!). My apologies, of course — you couldn’t…
While Mayor Tom Leppert has dismissed headlines surrounding the budget as “perpetuated unfortunately by politics,” we pointed out that he’s been sending out campaign e-mails and mailers in a desperate effort to secure enough votes among his colleagues to prevent a tax hike. Despite his campaigning, eight council members agreed…
As we mentioned last week, Mayor Tom Leppert spiced up his State of the City address with, among other things, some harsh comments directed toward the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Not only did he claim the corps is “not accountable to the citizens of Dallas,” Leppert urged them to…
After hearing from the public and discussing the issue at great length last Thursday, the City Plan Commission stopped short of recommending an SUP for XTO Energy to drill for gas at Hensley Field. It would be the first drill site for natural gas in Dallas proper, and while XTO’s…
Photos by Danny FulgencioI’m headed to Fair Park shortly for a Very Special Sneak Peak at … well, you’ll find out later, so there. Till then, the surest sign yet that the State Fair of Texas kicks off its till-October-17 run this very Friday: the annual erecting of Big Tex…
The City Auditor’s Office this morning released its look-see at the amount of overtime paid to Dallas Police Department officers waiting around to testify at municipal court. DPD’s got a general order that says: Off-duty officers can either hang around court waiting for trial and be guaranteed two hours overtime…
Longtime Dallas Love Field Airport food and beverage concessionaire Gilbert Aranza has accepted the city’s offer to extend his lease through the remainder of the new terminal’s construction, according to a statement just released by Aranza. As requested by the Dallas City Council, we signed an agreement with the City…
Gov. Rick Perry said concealed handgun laws have made Texas safer during a campaign stop at McClelland Gun Shop yesterday afternoon while receiving endorsements from the National Rifle Association and the Texas State Rifle Association. He also continued to milk his story about killing a coyote with a handgun while…
Says so right here: November 10. She’ll be out promoting Austin-based Heroic Media, self-described as “a faith-based non-profit that reduces abortion by creating a Culture of Life through television, billboard and internet advertising which connects women in crisis with life-affirming pregnancy centers.” No word on ticket prices yet, and I…
We’re down in the big room at City Hall, where the City Plan Commission’s taken over the big boy chairs and taped their nametags over the City Council’s placards. As they wend their way through the less-thrilling zoning issues on the agenda, the smallish crowd in here is waiting patiently…
Dallas Independent School District’s Facebook pageThat photo above? Comes from DISD’s Facebook page, from Saturday’s launch of “Operation Comeback,” during which Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert and Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa went out looking dropouts. The twosome will reteam this morning at Townview for the launch of “a…
In advance of the 3 p.m. press conference at Dallas Police Department headquarters during which the dash-cam video that Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway doesn’t want you to see will be released, Mayor Tom Leppert weighed in on the incident briefly at this afternoon’s State of the City address at…
If you had a hard time flagging down a taxi this morning, well, consider that just a taste of what’s to come if independent cabbies don’t get their way fighting the ordinance that lets natural gas-powered taxis jump to the front of the line at Love Field Airport. Hundreds of…
Nancy Nichols did a bang-up piece in the August issue of D chronicling the myriad reasons mobile restaurateurs have had issues parking their burgeoning parade of food trucks in and around downtown (parking meters and the need to acquire a seemingly endless laundry list of permits from Dallas City Hall,…
Allegations from inside — and independent studies conducted from outside — Dallas Fire-Rescue over the past four or so years have painted a disturbing picture of what it’s like to be a female employee of DFR and fueled a costly, ongoing lawsuit in 2009. But as of last week, the…
Welcome back to City Hall, where the city council’s Quality of Life Committee is hearing from a blue-ribbon panel of downtown homelessness players, led by MDHA’s Mike Faenza and the city’s Housing/Community Services director Jerry Killingsworth. Up next is the briefing Robert mentioned on the Garland Road Vision Study, but…
Never one to let an unwelcome neighbor move in unannounced, Councilman Dave Neumann invited residents around far west Oak Cliff’s Hensley Field to come on out to the airfield last night and hear direct from XTO Energy reps about their natural gas drilling plans in their neighborhood.The City Plan Commission…
Click to embiggen for a look-see at what the Garland Road Vision visionaries envision, per today’s council briefingGoing on four years now, residents and stakeholders along and near Garland Road — at least, the stretch of Texas State Highway 78 between Interstate 635 and where it splits into Gaston and…
As Robert pointed out below, Go Oak Cliff hosted the inaugural Blues, Bandits and Barbecue street party and Better Block Redux this weekend around the Kessler, where a clay conceptual model of Stevie Ray Vaughan was on display. While I didn’t see Anderson Cooper roaming around, there were plenty of…
Below, Andrea’s still liveblogging today’s tax-hike showdown at City Hall — and Dwaine Caraway just wrapped up his prolonged, passionate north-vs.-south speech, which was accompanied by a video presentation filled with boarded-up, burned-down houses and trash-and-weed-strewn lawns in the southern sector. At some point today the council members will also…
