If you’ve seen Republican Danny Clancy’s latest political ad above or his first one, you know what he views as District Attorney Craig Watkins’s biggest wart: never prosecuting a felony case. But that’s not true, according to Kurt Watkins, Craig’s cousin and campaign manager. In fact, Craig examined two witnesses,…
Way back in June, the city council’s Transportation and Environment Committee took yet another look at yet another proposal aimed at regulating neighborhood farmers markets and said, in short: Fine, looks good, next! Operators of neighborhood markets ain’t thrilled with the final product, but they’re willing to live with it,…
In mid-December, 16 Dallas Water Utilities workers sued the city in federal court, claiming City Hall engages in a “pattern and practice of disproportionate enforcement of policies with regard to their minority employees.” They also alleged the city “has engaged in blatant segregation amongst its workforce whereby teams of employees…
Perhaps you’ve heard: Dallas is no longer the city of J.R. Ewing. Mayor Tom Leppert said as much during the topping-off ceremony at the convention center hotel, and his message was reiterated today at the House of Blues during the Dallas Convention and Visitor’s Bureau annual meeting. Dallas CVB CEO…
No doubt you’ve read by now Melanie Mason’s wrap-up of Brad Watson’s interview with Stephen Broden, who’s vying for Eddie Bernice Johnson’s seat. Above is the piece itself, by request. (Well, not this guy’s request.) Incidentally, Schutze’s promised profile of the pastor pops in next week’s paper version of Unfair…
It seems like only yesterday that we were at the parking lot in front of the Dallas Convention Center to celebrate the groundbreaking of the new city-owned hotel, where Mayor Tom Leppert donned a bellhop’s hat and twice shoveled dirt into a hole before a large “D” was pulled out…
Friend of the show Amanda Warr forwards along this item from Gawker (which sprang to life on Reddit), in which a Dallas resident goes to the Audelia Road Library to early-vote for Rick Perry … only, the machine switches his votes to all-Green Party. Or does it? Another heated Reddit…
They won’t break ground on the George W. Bush Presidential Center at SMU till November 16, around the time his book’s released. But beginning tomorrow locals and road-trippers so interested can sneak peek some of the collectibles in Dubya’s prize closet at the Meadows Museum. The exhibit’s called “Breaking New…
[Update at 6:45: To spare you the trouble of reading all the way through, here’s the news. With a 7-6 vote, the commission denied XTO Energy’s application for an SUP to drill at Hensely Field. XTO can now appeal that decision to the City Council, which will, you have to…
As Friend of Unfair Park Ed D. notes in the comments below, Dallas City Hall just posted to its Facebook page six photos of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge taken by — let’s see if I get this right — “remote control plane.” Oh, so that explains why I saw…
Initially I thought this would be just an oddball novelty item: Heritage Auction Galleries is selling the door to Lee Harvey and Marina Oswald’s old Oak Cliff apartment — the one on Elsbeth and Davis Streets, more or less across the street from the Bishop Arts District. It doesn’t officially…
The Hatcher Station, one of four light-rail stations identified as by the city as a recipient of the feds’ grant announced this morningThis morning we’ve received several press releases from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Department of Transportation announcing that Dallas is getting $2,225,000…
Yesterday, downtown-working attorney Brad Nitschke sent this parking-meter picture to Angela Hunt, via the Twitter, with the note: “This is not what a commitment to downtown looks like.” To which she responded: “You’re absolutely right. Part of the update to Dallas’ Downtown plan is a parking study which will address…
Good morning, Friends o’ The Unfair Park. I’m poised alongside a couple of very handsome Dallas Morning News writers at an inadequately small Ikea work table somewhere high up in the Wyly Theatre in the Arts District — it’s that big building that looks like it’s made of bass guitar…
Last week, Jim and Sam wrote all about how City Hall’s done fed up to here with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and their demands that Dallas repair the hell out the Trinity River levees before they get re-certified. As you’re no doubt well aware by now, much of…
Jason Roberts/Go Oak CliffA look at Davis during the second round of Better Block-building in Oak CliffSpeaking of the city’s Strategic Plan Update …It’s been exactly one year since City Hall hopped aboard the Complete Streets Initiative, first rolled out at the initial Ride to City Hall and then formally…
Tomorrow morning the city council schleps all the way to the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre for its latest retreat, at which point they’ll pore over the results of the latest Strategic Plan Update. In short, it’s a look back at what the council wanted to get done in the…
A Friend of Unfair Park forwarded along this Center for Public Integrity round-up of Republicans and conservative Democrats who railed against the the $787-billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act … then asked for stimulus dough anyhow. For our purposes, the piece begins with none other than Rep. Pete Sessions, who,…
Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins accused Republican challenger Danny Clancy of lying and attempting to be the next Henry Wade at a debate last night at Friendship-West Baptist Church in South Dallas, where Watkins and his family attend church. While Watkins clearly held the home-field advantage for the final…
All the Idea Week fun that kicked off with a little “speed ideating” downtown on Monday (maybe next year we’ll finally get that speed eating session) rolled along this morning with the second annual bike ride to City Hall, showcasing the latest draft of the Dallas Bike Plan, and spotlighting…
Frank Librio, the fine PIO at Dallas City Hall, just sent word: The city’s introducing E-Alerts today, intended to keep locals “connected to City Hall,” which I assume isn’t some kind of a threat. Says the memo, all you gotta do is go to the city’s website, where, at the…
Joel KotkinWe — meaning, you — just got the nicest invitation to Dallas City Hall on November 12. It’s for a little get-together called the 21st Century City Conference, which is being staged by The Trinity Trust, The Dallas Institute and the CityDesign Studio. There’s some info on the website…
