One month ago, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport board member, former Dallas Housing Authority chair, ’07 Dallas City Council candidate, one-time chair of the City Plan Commission and longtime Friend of Unfair Park Betty Culbreath wrote on her blog that it’s time for Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price to go…
Back in June, Schutze laid out his case against the under-construction City Performance Hall in the Arts District, which is set to open in September 2012 and serve as a home for six tiers’ worth of small- to mid-sized arts orgs in need of fancier digs. Today the council’s newly…
This holiday season, City Hall, the Dallas Police Department and the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office would like to remind you not to buy your gifts out of the trunks of cars or through sketchy-seeming eBay sellers. At a packed press conference at City Hall this morning, Mayor Mike Rawlings,…
A couple of months back the council’s Economic Development Committee got a look at Dallas’s workforce and jobs courtesy the Office of Economic Development, which asked: Does the city have the “wrong workforce or the wrong jobs?” Said the briefing, reiterating a familiar catchphrase uttered in recent years, the city’s…
Schutze’s must-read of the winter has finally arrived: the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Dallas Floodway Environmental Assessment, in which we finally get a good look at the city and HNTB’s $30 million in proposed fixes for the Trinity River’s levees. Not sure when Jim will turn in his report;…
Far as lower-tier bowl games go, the second-ever TicketCity Bowl — to be played January 2 at 11 a.m. at the Cotton Bowl — is about as intriguing as it gets: The University of Houston (so, so, so close — a one-loss team, thanks to Southern Miss over the weekend)…
As it turns out, the United States Postal Service is looking at shuttering several post offices in the city — not just the main processing facility on IH-30, but also its locations in the Earle Cabell Federal Building (known as “Station C”), the Belmont Finance Station on Greenville Avenue and…
For those wondering whatever become of the stagnating Lake Highlands Town Center, a ray of hope appears on the council’s Economic Development Committee’s agenda for Monday: “Community Development Block Grant Section 108 Guaranteed Loan Application for the Lake Highlands Town Center.” I’ll post the actual briefing docs when they’re posted…
There’s a piece in this morning’s Wall Street Journal in which Unfair Park’s cross-the-street neighbor Harlan Crow and Fort Worth oil man Charles Moncrief explain why they’re throwing their money at Mitt Romney after years spent filling Rick Perry’s coffers. Long story short: It’s that openin’-his-mouth thing he does. It’s…
In mid-October we predicted that the hearing before the Permit and License Appeal Board over whether the club Afterlife should have its dancehall license revoked would probably be the most exciting thing that’s come before the board in a very long time. In hindsight, that was probably an understatement. At…
Pike Park, on Harry Hines as you’re heading into downtown, sits more or less in the shadow of the American Airlines Center; you’ve probably driven by it hundreds of times, even if you’ve never stopped once. Built in 1914 at the cost of a little more than $18,000 in what…
I won’t horn in on the music blog’s review of last night’s Wilco-Nick Lowe show in the Music Hall at Fair Park. Seems about right to me, though the first-timer can’t appreciate the giddy shock of hearing A.M. standard “Passenger Side” slid into that short, sharp, shard-filled set list that…
This morning’s News carries a paywall-less story about yesterday’s meeting of the minds between Rick Perry and Phoenix-area sheriff Joe Arpaio. (No wall on an immigration story? Liberal media!) It was the move of a desperate candidate, and it came on the same day Perry forgot both the legal voting…
Over the course of the day a few items have rolled in related to American Airlines and AMR’s Chapter 11 filing this morning. Among them: A Q&A from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport about how the bankruptcy might but probably won’t affect the airport (it follows in full); and a statement…
Late yesterday I got a call back from Dallas Water Utilities Director Jody Puckett, for whom I’d left a message about Irving and the North Texas Municipal Water District’s need to buy water from the city. We set up a time to chat this morning, and just got through visiting…
The city’s spent the last month or so piloting some Complete Streets projects all ’round town, among them the Grand Avenue Better Block-ing that transformed the four lanes and land in front of R.L. Griffin’s Blues Palace near Fair Park the Saturday before Thanksgiving. Sustainable Development and Construction is this…
Speaking of Dallas’s water supply …I was on US 380 yesterday, headed to Cattleman’s Cafe in Blue Ridge for chicken-fried steak, when, driving toward Farmersville, I espied what’s left of Lake Lavon, down some 13 feet due to the drought. “It’s stunning,” in the words of North Texas Municipal Water…
Yesterday we gave you the heads-up: Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has brought in former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement to try to throw out what they claim are the federal court’s “unlawful redistricting maps.” And, right on cue, they’ve filed their emergency stays with the U.S. Supreme Court: All…
A couple of weeks back, during those water conservation and watering restriction briefings, council member Scott Griggs had a few questions for Dallas Water Utilities Director Jody Puckett that she wasn’t prepared to answer, among them: Is the city presently selling water to gas drillers, and, be honest, how much…
On Wednesday we got our first look at the new-look Texas maps drawn by the court, which is attempting to rectify the U.S. Department of Justice’s concerns that the state Legislature is attempting to keep Hispanics from voting for Hispanic candidates, especially in Dallas-Fort Worth. To which Texas Attorney General…
The U.S. Department of Energy has coughed up $115 million for something called The EV Project, rolled out in October 2009 with the intention of spending the next 36 months analyzing how and how much folks actually charge their electric cars. A report’s due in 2015, and Dallas is among…
Last night, Mayor Mike Rawlings hosted a community forum at Cedar Crest Golf Course, billed in the invitation as an “update on the City of Dallas.” Backed by council members Dwaine Caraway and Tennell Atkins and a large supporting cast of other city officials, he tried to reassure the crowd:…
