Back in May there was a story in The News about attempts to ID so-called “chronic offenders” downtown who are “having a hard time complying with the laws in Dallas and the rules of The Bridge,” in the words of Deputy Chief Vincent Golbeck, who was promoted to Assistant Chief…
On a whim this morning I visited the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park’s Web site, where I found the video above: a nearly 7-minute-long Quin Mathews-made tribute to Willis Winters, the assistant director of City of Dallas Park and Recreation Department. Winters is far more than just another City Hall bureaucrat…
Back in early June, Andrea liveblogged a council committee meeting during which there was a brief discussion of paying sanitation workers a “living wage” of $8.88 per hour, which would up residential fees by some 30 cents a billing cycle. From the liveblog: “‘I disagree that $8.88 is a living…
In the last few weeks, before and after the early July 4 pepper-balling incident on Lower Greenville, we’ve had many late-night, mostly curbside conversations with folks who manage, own and work at the establishments down under. These bars, clubs and restaurants will be affected by the proposed city ordinance to…
While his political future remains unclear, Mayor Tom Leppert raised a combined $243,000 in donations in the first half of this year, according to campaign finance reports filed yesterday. Meanwhile, his officeholder account and two specific-purpose committees — Friends of Tom Leppert and Re-Elect Tom Leppert — netted only $86,000,…
After the jump is the city’s 25-page motion to dismiss the lawsuit filed by Robert Groden on June 30, in which alleges, among myriad other things, that the city and the Dallas police are harassing him and violating his First Amendment rights because they won’t let him sell his conspiracy-theory-pushing…
Some of the winners of the 21 National Endowment for the Arts grants handed out Thursday know precisely how — and where — that money will be spent. In Los Angeles, the $100,000 awarded through the Mayors’ Institute on City Design 25th Anniversary Initiative will go toward the mixed-use Broadway…
Arizona’s new immigration law has been a polarizing political issue to say the least, with President Obama challenging its constitutionality through the Department of Justice by launching a July 6 lawsuit against Arizona and Governor Janice Brewer. So it was only a matter of time before Republican heavyweights Rick Perry…
Thanks to Mayor Tom Leppert’s push for a lobbyist registration ordinance, we’re now privy to the lobbying efforts of City Hall insiders like the mayor’s top South Dallas consultant, Willis Johnson. And with quarterly reports due by the end of today, we figured it was a good time to see…
Back in June we noticed there were plans afoot to build a 150,000-square foot teevee and movie production facility at 2901 S. Lamar Street — in a warehouse owned by a partnership that includes South Side on Lamar and convention center hotel developer Jack Matthews. The $400,000 build-out cost is…
Angela Hunt wants to make one thing clear: That proposed ordinance that would rezone Lower Greenville Avenue as a Planned Development District isn’t “Area 51, black helicopter, keep-it-quiet stuff. There’s nothing secret about this.” Which is why, late Tuesday, she released the revised ordinance to be presented at a July…
A few profs and economists, among them SMU’s own Bernard Weinstein, are among those in the new issue of Fortune trying to figure out how “Texas powered through the global fiscal crisis,” while California “remains locked in such a pronounced slump compared to its economically and demographically similar cousin to…
Apart from the Caesar salad, there wasn’t much to report from the Keep the Dollars in Dallas press conference at the NorthPark Maggiano’s that couldn’t be found in Ray Perryman’s 25-page report, which we’ve already posted. So instead of back-and-forthing it with the respective pro and con groups, who’ve already…
For the last several days I’ve been trying to find out the answer to one simple question: Is the water in Fish Trap Lake — site of the Dallas Watersports Complex since put on indefinite hold by the Dallas Housing Authority — safe for wakeboarding?Chad Lacerte, who had hoped to…
Elliot’s at the Keep the Dollars in Dallas press conference at this very moment — he’ll post his Qs and their As shortly. Till then, some light lunchtime reading follows on the other side: Ray Perryman’s 25-page report — The Economic and Fiscal Effects of Expanding Alcoholic Beverage Sales in…
Been trying to get more info from the city concerning what, exactly, this just-handed-down ruling from the Fifth District Court of Appeals of Texas means. But, in short, it appears that a lengthy legal battle concerning a small slice o’ street off Inwood Road and Walnut Hill Lane has come,…
… turns out, it was already out-of-date.Council member Angela Hunt just sent us the latest iteration of the proposed ordinance that would turn Lower Greenville into a Planned Development District. And though much of it’s the same as Avi’s copy, which dates back to April, the new version (so new…
A major tip o’ the yarmulke to Avi Adelman, who, in advance of a July 29 meeting called by council member Angela Hunt, just posted a draft of the proposed ordinance that would turn Lower Greenville into a Planned Development District. Avi got the doc today via an open-records request…
I don’t know if Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway is a smart man. I don’t know if he’s an honest man. But I know Dwaine Caraway loves to hear Dwaine Caraway talk, and for some reason, people love to watch Dwaine Caraway loving to hear himself talk. Which maybe explains…
Two months ago to the day, we told you about Dallas County Republican Party chair Jonathan Neerman’s public information request for the calendar of Democratic Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins dating back to his first day in office — January 1, 2007. Seemed like a reasonable request — after…
Last week I noted that a fairly significant wakeboard event — scheduled to be held at the long-in-the-works Dallas Watersports Complex on Fish Trap Lake — had to find a new home, after the Dallas Housing Authority pulled a Sybil and told Chad Lacerte thanks but no thanks after giving…
When I spoke to City Manager Mary Suhm on Friday, she reminded: As she works to cutgut $131.1 million from the FY2010-2011 budget that’s due to council next month, the numbers change “every day.” Why, she said, at the end of last week “we got a good sales tax check…
