The staff was all tied up today and couldn’t make it to the Earle Cabell for Terri Hodge’s sentencing. But the guilty-plea-taking ex-state represenative got a year in federal prison, because U.S. District Judge Barbara M. G. Lynn didn’t really buy her story that, look, it was all a tax-return…
Oh .. and there’s a Twitter account too. I found them all completely by accident — I was looking for something else about an hour ago, then came across his new Web site, where, yesterday, he (or, ya know) announced the launch of his Facebook page, where the mayor promises…
So tomorrow’s shaping up to be a very interesting Dallas City Council meeting: As Rudy Bush wrote yesterday, the mayor’s mighty unhappy with the no-bid concession contracts being doled out to Dallas Love Field Joint Venture and Hudson Retail at Love Field Airport, which council members have been behind for…
… it must be true. Via Burnt Orange Report, here’s some video of Gov. Hairspray and the noted stand-up comic at a town-hall rally in Tyler over the weekend, where Beck and Perry were married by state Rep. Leo Berman. The AP suggests the title of Texan was just, ya…
This morning, Frank Librio at City Hall sent two audits released this morning by Craig Kinton — one of which dives into whether or not the Dallas Police Department is properly counting crime stats per federal Uniform Crime Reporting guidelines. You can read the 29-page doc for yourself after the…
So, I’m getting some work done just now when I get an e-mail heads-up from Borders: “JUST ANNOUNCED! A New Memoir By George W. Bush. Available Nov. 9. Pre-Order Now!” And, sure enough: Crown Publishers today announced the release date and further details about the ex-president’s new book titled Decision…
I’ve been pestering Frank Librio in Dallas City Hall’s Public Information Office for The Official Word on Harold Nogle, who, according to Texas Tribune’s city payroll database, is the fourth-highest-paid city official. And, while he was at it, maybe he had some more info about the city’s dependence upon the…
Merten just got around to looking at Texas Tribune’s list of city of Dallas employees’ salaries. He called me, shocked — SHOCKED — at some of those numbers. He also wanted to know who the who is Harold Nogle, the fourth-highest paid city employee at $208,000 — which puts him…
So insists the Texas Jewboy and former gubernatorial candidate in a piece penned for Tina Brown’s Daily Beast, the headline of which is “Why Democrats Should Blame Themselves for the Tea Party.” Friedman, who lost to his bid to become the Democratic nominee for agriculture commissioner last month, writes of…
Moments ago, D.C.-based Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington released its report Worst Governors, which claims to serve up “in-depth analyses of 11 elected officials who have pushed their states’ best interests aside in favor of their supporters, families, political parties and bank accounts.” And, yes, Rick Perry’s among…
Baffled and outraged preservationists quietly vacated Monday afternoon’s Public Safety Committee meeting after the city council committee voted unanimously to adopt a new historic building demolition ordinance without public input. Katherine Seale and Scott Potter of Preservation Dallas stood at the lectern awaiting an opportunity to speak, but the committee…
Although the city council’s Trinity River Corridor Project Committee didn’t vote on a plan to transform Riverfront Boulevard into a not-really-a-“complete street,” committee members voiced support of the $54.5 million project, with chair Dave Neumann describing this morning’s briefing as “very energizing.” However, Carolyn Davis questioned why renderings presented by…
The George W. Bush Presidential Center at Southern Methodist University won’t be breaking ground till November, but its policy arm, the Bush Institute, has already had a busy spring. Shacking up in SMU’s Collins Center, it hosted its first events last month, covering education leadership, literacy in Afghanistan and natural…
Maybe you’ve seen the latest issue of Newsweek on newsstands — that cover’s hard to miss. It’s kind of the all-Texas issue, matter of fact, with Evan Smith contributing this piece about the hubbub over the high-school social-studies curriculum and Daniel Gross’s essay about how “the Texas turnaround may help…
You’re probably well aware that the Texas Motor Speedway’s open for business this weekend, culminating with the running of the NSCS Samsung Mobile 500 at 2 p.m. Sunday. And if you’re not, well, no matter — this photo of Governor Rick Perry, snapped by our Rachel Parker yesterday during kick-off…
Heading west on I-30 from downtown last night, you’d have passed two stretches of stalled traffic — the first, along the access road just across the Trinity, made up of the grumbling masses in line for the Dallas Main Post Office, waiting to get their tax returns postmarked on April…
While District Attorney Craig Watkins has rejected two offers by the Office of the Attorney General to assist in a criminal investigation of the constables, the OAG is conducting an ongoing civil investigation of Dowdy Ferry Auto Services, according to an open records request filed by Unfair Park. Dowdy Ferry…
Two years after Texas Department of Transportation officials told Dallas that they could no longer afford to cough up the cash needed to maintain the plant life in the medians and window boxes along the stretch of Central Expressway between Woodall Rodgers and LBJ Freeways, the city council’s Transportation and…
More than two dozen folks — several of whom broke meeting protocol by talking to council members and city staff — showed up yesterday afternoon to hear the Transportation and Environment Committee tackle … well, attempt to tackle how to regulate the neighborhood farmers markets that have popped up around…
When Republican Ken Mayfield admitted to us that he’s been recruiting volunteers to help Democrat Beth Villarreal defeat Precinct 5 Constable Jaime Cortes in Tuesday’s upcoming Democratic primary runoff, Cortes was one of the first people we called for reaction. Especially after Mayfield said he doesn’t know Villarreal, whose best…
Wednesday at 5 p.m. was the filing deadline for anyone interested in running in the May 8 special election to fill state Rep. Terri Hodge’s District 100 seat — and the Texas Secretary of State’s Web site shows there’s but one candidate, Eric Johnson, who trounced guilty-plea-taking Hodge in the…
Nothing whets our political appetite like rumors of alliances between Republicans and Democrats during election season. So when we heard that Republican Dallas County Commissioner Ken Mayfield was helping Democratic candidate Beth Villarreal in her campaign against Precinct 5 Constable Jaime Cortes, we thought we’d won the lotto. Sure, Mayfield’s…
