Patrick Michels and I are at City Hall for this afternoon’s big ol’ teevee announcement with the mayor and Pistol Pete. And we’ll return shortly with a few choice quotes and, better still, photos. But here’s the big announcement, which I tried to tease yesterday without spilling all the beans:…
Here, to start your morning, a few highlights from today’s 858-page council agenda, which we’ll begin with a shout-out to Brad Kirby. Surely you remember him? Back in January, Kirby went down to Dallas City Hall to tell the horseshoe about his stolen dogs. He proposed an ordinance that would…
Sadly, we were unable to attend D-Spotting Downtown Dallas’s Membership Forum wingding this afternoon at Union Station. So I asked Mayor Tom Leppert’s chief of staff, Chris Heinbaugh, if he could provide the mayor’s remarks: “The State of Downtown Address.” And so he did, along with the official release from…
The Texas Film Commission just sent word that tomorrow at 3 p.m., Mayor Tom Leppert and Governor Rick Perry will be joined by 20th Century Fox TV execs at Dallas City Hall to announce “additional television series coming to the Dallas area.” Which begs the question: In addition to The…
Good afternoon from the hoppin’est club in Downtown Dallas, Room 6ES inside City Hall, where the Transportation and Environment Committee is presently meeting, as Bobsky told you earlier today, about issues related to transportation, the environment and committees. On the agenda: air quality, water conservation and long-range transit planning.First up…
A couple of times in recent days we’ve linked to Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm’s list of maybe-coulds offered as fund-raising suggestions to a cash-strapped city council that just doesn’t wanna raise taxes. But have you really studied the document? Like, say, the part about how Suhm thinks City Hall…
As we told you yesterday, Willis Johnson is lobbying Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway on behalf of Concessions International in an attempt to secure the company lucrative concession contacts at D/FW Airport — at least, according to Johnson and the lobbyist registration form he filed with the city. Johnson, one…
Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Pauline Medrano began this afternoon’s Love Field Concession Committee meeting by letting folks know why the committee was formed — to clear up “perception issues reported by the newspaper” — and what the ground rules would be — “no political grandstanding.” Medrano, who co-chairs the committee…
At this very moment, Sam’s at the inaugural meeting of the Love Field Concessions Committee, and never have so many been so concerned about the selling of food, drink and magazines at an airport. That said, I finally spoke with Sylvia Ross, the vice president of compliance and contracts at…
Right about now Progress Dallas’s peoples are at Dallas City Hall dropping off the petitions it says will most definitely trigger a local option election allowing Dallas residents the opportunity to vote for drenching the dry parts of town in beer and wine. Progress Dallas says it has way more…
In case you missed it, the nonprofit folks over at the Trinity Trust and Texas Horse Park, Inc. flew media types and others in a helicopter last week to check out the 600 acres upon which the Texas Horse Park is expected to be built. Invited guests included D’s Glenn…
So. Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway just called. Like, just.Said he just sat down to read Unfair Park and noticed that item wherein Mayor Tom Lepperts’s consultant Willis Johnson says he met with Caraway a few weeks ago to discuss concessions at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.Caraway says that most certainly…
Shortly after I posted this morning’s item about the Love Field Concessions Committee meeting, I got an e-mail from a Friend of Unfair Park that contained what you’ll see after the jump: an Official City of Dallas Lobbyist Registration Form submitted on April 13 by Willis Johnson — local…
Late last night, Dallas City Hall finally posted the briefing docs for tomorrow afternoon’s debut performance of the Love Field Concession Committee, formed after Mayor Tom just said no to those no-bid contracts on April 28. And, no wonder it took forever to get online: Sucker’s 72 pages not including…
A little while ago, Chris Heinbaugh, Mayor Tom Leppert’s chief of staff, sent word that the mayor won’t be distracted by faraway matters. Far as he’s concerned, what happens in Arizona stays in Arizona. That said, the blog’s all yours, Mr. Mayor:”Through most of its recent history, the Dallas City…
It was déjà vu at this morning’s Trinity River Corridor Project Committee meeting as Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway preached about revitalizing the Cedar Crest Boulevard bridge and Carolyn Davis pressed city staff for transparency — two themes from the last get-together nearly a month ago. Although Davis has been…
Mayor Tom had busy morning: At 7:30 a.m. he dropped by the Annual North Dallas Chamber Membership Breakfast at the Hilton Dallas Lincoln Center, where he addressed the looming $131.1-million budget shortfall and said, hey, could be worse: “With all the challenges we have on the budget, there are many…
My wife and son stopped by the 7-Eleven at Marsh and Forest a few minutes ago to see how Carlos Quintanilla’s protest was workin’ out for him. My boy took this photo, and as we now pay him for his blog contributions in Slurpees, it worked out well for us…
After an hour spent in exile while the city council’s Economic Development Committee spent an hour talking about The Mall Formerly Known as Red Bird, we’re finally down to business — and, no mention of what they decided to do about Southwest Center Mall. It’s like it never happened. I…
Greetings, Friends! I’m the only person wearing jeans in the Dallas City Council Chamber today for the Texas Senate Committee on Intergovernmental Relations meeting starring state Sen. Royce West and an ensemble cast of local government officials talking about the effect and implementation of state legislation passed during the last…
For more than 40 years, Dallas County Constable Jaime Cortes says, he led an exemplary life, rising up through the ranks of law enforcement in the last decade without running into trouble. But over the course of the last nine months, Cortes claims his reputation has been “smeared tremendously” by…
In an attempt to keep Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins’s schedule private, his office has asked for an opinion from the Texas attorney general regarding a public records request for Watkins’s calendar dating to his first day in office. In a May 6 letter to Attorney General Greg Abbott,…
