Last Night, In Occupied Pioneer Park …

Last night we got word that the city is invalidating Occupy Dallas’s permit to stay in Pioneer Park till 5 p.m. Friday, since the group hadn’t secured the million-dollar insurance policy City Hall demanded on Monday. The question was: Would the city kick Occupy Dallas out at 11 p.m., the…

City Grants Occupy Dallas a Special Permit

We began the day by discussing Occupy Dallas’s missive to the mayor concerning their encampment at Pioneer Plaza, between Dallas City Hall and the Dallas Convention Center. We end it — not counting our Rangers liveblog, which is now into extra innings — with this: Following a sitdown with the…

Why Robert Jeffress Is Endorsing Rick Perry

First Baptist Dallas’s Robert Jeffress is throwing in with Rick Perry, which is hardly a surprise given Jeffress’s participation in that meeting with Perry and pastors back in June at James Robison’s LIFE Outreach International campus in Euless. (Also: Jeffress would never, ever endorse Mitt Romney. Not ever.) But he…

Dallas Gets Occupied

Doubtless you’ve heard about Occupy Wall Street, the protests against corporate greed and Wall Street bailouts (among other things) that have been going on for the last three weeks in New York. The protesters call themselves “the other 99 percent” or just “The 99,” and this morning in Pike Park…

At Last, The Adopted Redistricting Map

I swear: Every other item today won’t be a redistricting item. Even Anna’s moved on for now: She was out with the Occupy Dallas folks, and her recap of the march to the Dallas Fed is forthcoming. But the Redistricting Commission just made available the map and data packet accompanying…