Leppert’s Got $2.7 Mil to Run For Senate

Below, in the comments, one Arthur Smythe — who, as everybody knows, hates the Cowboys — was quick to point out that Not Mayor Tom Leppert has raised $1.1 million in his bid for the United States Senate. Arthur’s comment, which I imagine was made in an English accent by…

The City Council’s Group House Party

Dallas has been trying to get a handle on group housing for years, dating back — at least — to the Boarding House Task Force formed in June ’07, which consisted of everything from code compliance to Dallas Fire-Rescue to the City Attorney’s Office. That was but one of myriad…

Why’d Mayor Tom Really Quit Early?

U.S. Senate candidate Tom Leppert posted to his website today a piece titled “Serious Leadership,” in which he says he’s just the man to take Kay Bailey’s place in D.C. because, look, “I’m not a career politician and I didn’t expect to be in this position. I’m a businessman.” Of…

Natinsky Reveals His “Priorities For Dallas”

Ron Natinsky asked members of the media to join him Monday afternoon at The Cedars Social — not for a drink, sadly, but so he could announce an endorsement (from the MetroTex Association of Realtors) and unveil a handful of “priorities” intended to rejuvenate Dallas — which include, ta da,…

Kunkle Wants Dallas to Become “No-Kill City”

The myriad issues with the Dallas Animal Services have been well chronicled, especially in our January cover story on the shelter, which described the conflicting mindsets there thusly: “The old dog catcher mentality of ‘catch, cage, kill,’ which focuses on rounding up strays, keeping them a short time and euthanizing…

City Proposes Redesign of Second Calatrava Bridge to Green-Light Construction in Mid-2012 and Add Pedestrian and Bicycle Components

Following Thursday afternoon’s presser celebrating the anticipated approval of a plan to restore the Trinity River levee system’s 100-year flood protection, we asked City Manager Mary Suhm about the progress of the Margaret McDermott Bridge — the second Santiago Calatrava-designed bridge that will replace the current IH-30 bridge. After all,…