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:…
Click to embiggen the chart that answers the question: “What prevents you from cycling more often?”Hanna biked on over to City Hall for last week’s Dallas Bike Plan meeting, the second and final public forum before the formal unveiling of the draft plan to the council during Cyclesomatic 2010 next…
Casa Blanca Restaurant opened at Redbird Airport back in ’60 and was there all the way till the ’03 redo, at which point the doors shuttered and the city put out the call for bids. It took a while — five years — but in the summer of ’08 the…
Sam MertenAccording to The Washington Post this morning, the Democratic Governors Association has already poured $2 million into Bill White’s campaign. Which is just the start: Today the DGA’s set to debut an ad in Dallas that attacks Governor Rick Perry on three fronts — for his 2007 executive order…
Rod ClevelandThe Red River Shootout’s up for grabs following the 2015 expiration date of Texas and OU’s deal with the city of Dallas. After that, who knows — Jerry Jones’s EnormoDome, most folks figure. Unless something happens between now and then. Hard to say.But up in Cleveland County, Oklahoma, today,…
Way back in January we noted that Fair Park was in the market for a vintage car museum; in July we added that all systems were go following Park and Rec’s green light, which gave the joint a lease in the 50,000-square-foot Grand Place exhibition hall through at least August…
Flickr user: John McStravickLast December, Maria Munoz-Blanco, director of the city’s Office of Cultural Affairs, told Unfair Park that she had hoped to have in place a new operator for the Majestic Theatre by mid-May of 2010 at the latest. Requests for proposals were out, and, fingers crossed, the city…
Dallas city officials haven’t even begun to grapple with questions of how quickly they can implement the Dallas Bike Plan or where they’ll find money to pay for it, as consultant Peter Lagerway readily concedes. But if time and money are problematic, Lagerway has good news on the space front…
Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins and Republican challenger Danny Clancy stared each other down and traded barbs this afternoon at the Belo Mansion during their first debate, and tensions peaked when Watkins was asked what three issues the two candidates can agree upon, along with what three issues separate…
Kimberly ThorpeSpeaking of things that make the mayor happy …MoneyGram International is moving its HQ from Minnesota to 2828 N. Harwood. It’s bringing 75 people to Dallas; could grow to double that in coming years. Says Mayor Tom Leppert in an official release just dispatched by Chris Heinbaugh: “Clearly Dallas’…
Broden with some dude, taken from his campaign websiteMany thanks (?) to the Friends of Unfair Park who forwarded this link to Sarah Palin’s Tuesday-eve endorsement of Stephen Broden, who, of course, is running for Eddie Bernice Johnson’s Congressional seat in the 30th District. Offered in full:It’s an honor to…
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…
