This morning the city posted the agenda for the first-ever meeting of the Gas Drilling Task Force, which kicks off Tuesday at 2 p.m., don’t be late. The agenda’s mostly a bunch of introductory what-whats: Chair Lois Finkelman will give some opening remarks, outline its scope and schedule, review the…
The in-box is filled this morning with more news concerning Rick Perry’s “day of prayer and fasting” in Houston next month — you know, The Response. Let’s begin with this: Several Friends of Unfair Park have forward a piece I first saw this morning on Startlegram great Bud Kennedy’s Facebook…
Tuesday night, I was on the phone with Park and Rec second-in-command Willis Winters, who happened to be standing near the Lily Pad in Main Street Garden. Mid-sentence, he stopped talking, said, “Excuse me,” then said, rather loudly to someone standing near him: “Are you going to pick that up?”Ah,…
On a certain local man’s 65th birthday, The New York Times wonders whether Dubya and Gov. RIck Perry’s relationship will help or hurt the latter’s more-n-likely run for the White House. After all, they’re frienemies now — have been for years, with Perry insisting since at least ’07 that “George…
Directly below, in the comments, a reader accuses us of ignoring Angela Hunt’s handful of weekend tweets concerning “bums camping out in our [downtown] parks, making them unusable for families, children, & residents.” Can’t ignore what you didn’t see, but Hunt was referring specifically to Main Street Garden, where, she…
The boy and I swung by Fair Park Sunday, and on our way out we drove past the Museum of the American Railroad. Which reminded me: The museum and the city of Dallas, which sued to get those trains chugga-chugga’d to Frisco back in January 2010, were set to go…
For those who haven’t really read the Dallas Bike Plan, you might want to sit down with it sooner than later — both the 76-page document and the June addendum, which runs 42 pages. Like, say, turn to Page 33 of the plan, where you’ll find the heading “Strategic Demonstration/Early…
As we were heading out the door Friday, the Supreme Court of Texas handed down opinions in two local cases, one of which we’ve written about before but neither of which is the “billion-dollar case” still awaiting a result. Let’s begin with this one: City of Dallas v Heather Stewart,…
Two items-for-listening this morning: First up, a by-request; then, Schutze combs through his recordings archives and discovers he’s sitting on a JWP best-of.Here, to begin, is a segment that aired on The Ticket Friday morning — one week after Craig Miller and George Dunham acknowledged that they knew so little…
Rumors have long been circulating that something’s up with Valley View Center. Not sure what, exactly; no one’s returning calls (paging Greg Maloney). Even local commercial Realtors aren’t exactly sure. But … something. Involving the Macy’s spot. Like, say, this: On Thursday, per its agenda, the City Plan Commission will…
If you drove to Grapevine last night, entered the mall on the corner of Grapevine Mills Boulevard and Stars and Stripes Way, hurried past the Legoland, the Foot Locker and, outside the aquarium, two children strapped into some kind of bungee-jumping ride, pogoing slowly over and over again from floor…
Mayor Mike Rawlings took the mic before last night’s Observer co-sponsored Gasland screening and told the audience of council members, activists and concerned locals, “I will never vote to put any neighborhood at risk because of money.” And there are high stakes behind that sentence — tens of millions of…
Those state-lawmaker types are a shifty bunch, eh? During the state legislature’s regular session, lawmakers debated a bill that would have required proof of citizenship or legal status for anyone applying for a new or renewed driver’s license. That way, argues sponsor Tommy Williams, a Woodlands senator, illegal immigrants couldn’t…
Yesterday Leslie recounted the Dallas City Council’s vote on the membership of the ad hoc gas drilling task force — during which rookie Scott Griggs’s attempt to add Mountain Creek resident Ed Meyer to the roster was met with a deafening silence. Angela Hunt has posted to her website her…
On and off in recent years there have been several attempts to fill that vacant lot across Marilla from the Dallas Farmers Market, and each plan has gone nowhere. Which is why I got interested when I saw this: This morning the Farmers Market TIF District Board of Directors met…
But, alas, like the other video on the rally’s Vimeo page, Perry’s invitation, which just went live this afternoon, shatters the already totally shattered pretense that his August 6 prayer rally is anything but a day-long fist-bump to the governor’s personal lord and savior…
The post-inauguration celebration didn’t last long, as Mayor Mike Rawlings and city council members new and old got straight to work at a 2 p.m. meeting. After a few housekeeping items — a quick vote to unanimously select Pauline Medrano as mayor pro tem and Tennell Atkins as deputy mayor…
Leslie’s already summed up Mayor Mike’s first-ever official speech as Dallas mayor, which was given at this morning’s swearing-in of the new council. And she’s up shortly with a recap from the ad hoc gas drilling committee vote, which took a bit of a twist; she’ll let Scott Griggs explain…
It was only after Mike Rawlings became the new mayor of Dallas, only after council members new and old and in-between (in the case of Sandy Greyson) were sworn in at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center this morning did they discover they were about to step into The Breaking…
At 10 this morning at the Meyerson Symphony Center, Mike Rawlings officially becomes Dallas mayor, and Dwaine Caraway goes back to being just one of 14 council members who must travel sans security detail. Shortly after that, more than likely, Pauline Medrano will ascend to the title of mayor pro…
Tomorrow, we’ll have much more from the Build a Better Boulevard event presently slowing traffic along a stretch of Ross near and into downtown; maybe I’ll even let Leslie run the photo she took of me submerged into the dumpster swimming pool parked in Fellowship Church’s lot at Ross and…
Several times now we’ve sneak-peeked the Build a Better Boulevard Challenge set to debut along Ross Avenue, between Hawkins and Pavilion, this Sunday morning beginning at 11. Preparations are underway at this very moment, as teams of architects and planners and students begin building their better bus stops and outdoor…
