This afternoon, U.S. District Judge David Godbey helped City Hall and Occupy Dallas come to a verbal agreement that protestors can not only keep camping outside City Hall, but can also use City Hall restrooms and keep their current signage — two issues disputed in the lawsuit seeking a temporary…
I’ve been regretting all day we didn’t have a warm body to spare to send to the ribbon-cutting of The People’s Hotel, aka the downtown Omni. Then this arrived, courtesy the good folks at Weber Shandwick: Larry Hagman and Linda Gray — in town shooting Dallas, of course — joining…
Yesterday we confirmed the existence of council member Delia Jasso’s amended council-districts map she hopes will replace the version the city submitted to the Department of Justice at the end of October. Actually, we were told, it wasn’t really a map, more like a redo of District 1, with Jasso…
Tomorrow morning, I expect, we’ll post the PowerPoint that goes along with a simply titled but nonetheless intriguing item that appears on the council’s Quality of Life Committee agenda for Monday morning: “Downtown Vending.” Rumor’s been circulating for a long while now that efforts are underway to rewrite the section…
Stephen Benavides, an organizer with the United Steelworkers, was one of eight arrested Saturday at the Occupy Dallas protest at the downtown Bank of America tower during Bank Transfer Day, aimed at encouraging the use of not-for-profit credit unions over for-profit banks. But while the other protesters were jailed on…
Back in February, City Hall proudly announced that Walmart was going to build, build, build all ’round town — “more than a dozen new projects in the city of Dallas,” said the release, with a Supercenter at R.L. Thornton and Ledbetter Drive at the very tippy-top of that list. And…
After several hours of deliberation, a jury returned a verdict of not guilty in the felony animal cruelty trial of Tyrone McGill, the former animal shelter manager indicted in August 2010 following a May ’10 incident at the Dallas animal shelter involving a cat trapped behind a wall that wasn’t…
Four long years ago we wrote about two local ministries — Big Hart Ministries and the Rip Parker Memorial Homeless Ministry– that filed suit against the city of Dallas in federal court over an ordinance that they say kept them from serving food to the homeless and violated their religious…
So far, there’s been little indication that the council has any interest in reopening the debate over the new council-districts map approved (barely) on October 5 and dispatched to the Department of Justice three weeks later. As you may recall, six council members did ask Mayor Mike Rawlings to add…
A couple of weeks back we noted that the city’s Animal Shelter Commission has created the Dallas Companion Animal Project, a task force “charged with developing a blueprint for ending the killing of adoptable animals.” And while Nathan Winograd may not be the biggest fan, the project proceeds apace: This…
Below you’ll find the original agreement the city of Dallas and Occupy Dallas entered into last month after that trip to the courthouse that was all fist-bumps and high-fives. Problem is, the agreement is affixed as an exhibit to even more legal docs Occupy Dallas’s attorneys took to the courthouse…
OK, so just below this item is last night’s Saturday Night Live sketch starring the best Rick Perry impersonator yet, Rick Perry. But a lot’s happened since then as the Perry camp attempts to salvage the campaign. Like that tweet from the gov you see above. And: the hastily popped-up…
I was sitting down to watch some teevee when the bossman emailed: “Rick Perry just shit the bed.” Ah. Yes. Tonight’s debate, otherwise known as: The Night Rick Perry’s Campaign Ended when he couldn’t remember … couldn’t remember … something … oops. Shame too, though at least Bill Hader should…
Late this afternoon, former animal shelter manager Tyrone McGill took the stand to testify in his defense at his felony animal cruelty trial, which began yesterday. While the prosecution attempted to paint a picture of McGill as an indifferent, unreachable bureaucrat who willfully allowed a cat to die behind a…
At the end of business yesterday City Hall sent that memo from City Manager Mary Suhm and that letter from First Assistant City Attorney Chris Bowers. Both said more or less the same thing: Occupy Dallas has till 5 p.m. Saturday to clean up its mess behind Dallas City Hall,…
Never did hear from City Manager Mary Suhm about what she intended to tell Mayor Mike Rawlings concerning Occupy Dallas’s continued camp-out behind Dallas City Hall. No matter: Moments ago Suhm sent to the mayor and city council a memo outlining what she says are “numerous, ongoing, and material breaches”…
After completing jury selection yesterday, the prosecution began laying out its case this morning in the felony animal cruelty trial of former animal shelter manager Tyrone McGill, who is currently on administrative leave and continues to draw a paycheck from the city of Dallas. “This is not a difficult case,”…
In the wake of two reports concerning the city’s response to Saturday’s arrest of eight Occupy Dallasites, some Friends of Unfair Park have asked: Is the city going to boot the protesters camping out behind Dallas City Hall, allowed by agreement following last month’s trip to the courthouse? The short…
A few weeks ago we noted that developer Craig Hall finally wants to build in the Arts District — 25 years after he first came to the city with those extraordinary renderings of that spiraling tower. But he has maintained for months that the proposed Hall Arts Center, which would…
At long last, that proposed Greenville Avenue bowling alley, next to Good Records, just went before the Dallas City Council — its last hope following the City Plan Commission’s gutter ball over the summer. But District 14 rep Angela Hunt — who, along with Pauline Medrano, birthed the Lower Greenville…
The chief clerk in Judge Gracie Lewis’s courtroom confirms: Jury selection is set to begin this morning in the trial of Tyrone McGill, the former Dallas Animal Services manager indicted in August 2010 on charges of animal cruelty for his alleged role in allowing a trapped cat to die within…
Pretty lackluster episode of Saturday Night Live last night — and no, that isn’t a cue for you to go on about how the show hasn’t been worth watching since (insert whatever era during which you first saw the show). It’s been strong lately, a nice mix of “funny ha-ha”…
