If you weren’t aware that we’re but a week away from the Republican Party of Texas’s 2010 convention at the Dallas Convention Center, you’ll find Harvey Kronberg’s preview at Quorum Report, part one of which was posted yesterday evening, awfully helpful. (If, that is, you’re a subscriber — the rest…
Walked into today’s city council briefing a couple minutes late to catch Tennell Atkins talking about how Dallas needs “classy,” and then they gave a long and lengthily introduced award to Wal-Mart wherein everybody was really enthusiastic and in no way embarrassed that they were giving an award to Wal-Mart…
This, if I am not mistaken, is the very National Public Radio story that introduced me to Jubilant Sykes, the classically trained baritone who crossed over to pop long before Renée Fleming released her controversial new Dark Hope. Sykes, who’s performed at venues as varied as Carnegie Hall and the…
Well, so much for the Lily Pad opening today in Main Street Garden.Rudy notes that Park and Rec has sent word that someone kicked in the park eatery’s bathroom door last night, which means that certificate of occupancy will have to be put on hold till repairs are made. Which…
It’s been a long while since MIG posted any new Downtown Dallas 360 updates — trust me, I look at the Web site, oh, once a week as MIG begins wrapping up the doc due to the city council by no later than August. But on Friday morning the planners…
Ten minutes before the 5 o’clock kick-off of last night’s 2011 Dallas Bike Plan Open House, there were already some 100 folks milling about City Hall’s 6th Floor Flag Room. And by the time officials busted out the PowerPoint at 6, all but a handful of the seats in the…
The city’s more or less shut down till Tuesday, what with a furlough day and Memorial Day on the schedule. Which is why City Hall has early-posted its Wednesday council briefing agendas on two subjects near and dear to every citizen: water and trash. At least one of ’em is…
The second meeting of the city council’s Love Field Concessions Committee is underway, and co-chair Ron Natinsky just told Assistant City Manager A.C. Gonzalez, who was giving the committee an “easel presentation,” that his posters were merely larger representations of last week’s briefing that he gave to the committee. As…
Surely you need no reminder to attend the Dallas Bike Plan Open House this evening at City Hall — 5 to 8 p.m., if you haven’t already written it on the cover of your Trapper Keeper. By way of a ramp-up, I direct your attention to Patrick “Car-Free” Kennedy’s Web…
So. Patrick and I just returned from the press conference in the Flag Room at City Hall, where quite the bold-faced crowd gathered for Coyote Slim’s big announcement with Mayor Tom Leppert, state Sen. Royce West and various Fox execs, including exec veep Jim Sharp. Only, we left not quite…
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…
