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,…
Two months ago we directed your attention to the fact that the North Central Texas Council of Governments and the city of Dallas had hired, at the cost of $375,000, Baltimore-based Toole Design Group to revamp the antiquated Dallas Bike Plan. Toole has developed bicycle master plans for 16 cities,…
Well, soon as the Trash-Attack Code Compliance crew cleared out, this afternoon’s party at City Hall sure died fast. Blame it on this bummer of a PowerPoint from DART, explaining the long-term impact of having flat sales tax revenues over the last 10 years, referred to simply as “The Lost…
One year after Mayor Tom Leppert and the pro hotel’ers narrow victory at the polls over Harlan Crow and the anti-hotel folks, the Dallas Omni Convention Center Hotel is approximately half its height and construction is “on time and on budget,” according to developer Jack Matthews. “I can’t tell you…
[Editor’s note: Well, look who’s returned to Unfair Park, none other than former Girl on Top Andrea Grimes. And, for some reason, she’s decided to reintroduce herself with … a liveblog from the Quality of Life Committee meeting at Dallas City Hall, where they’re covering big changes in code compliance…
Yesterday, you’ll recall, those firefighters, police officers and assorted other first responders filed four amended lawsuits related to the 1979 referendum that gave ’em all pay raises (for how long’s the billion-dollar question). We’re still waiting to see how the Supreme Court of Texas is going to rule in the…
Back in December, we ran a Q&A with Phillip Dennis, founder of the Dallas Tea Party and an adviser to the National Tea Party Coalition. You’ll find it here. But today, Dennis gets a much bigger platform: CNN’s Web site, to which he’s contributed an op-ed headlined “Politicians such as…
Citing the April 26 murder of longtime Dallas Morning News delivery driver Robert Lawrence in South Oak Cliff, Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway unveiled his “Stop the Violence” program this afternoon aimed at curbing “senseless crimes.” Although he acknowledged that the crime rate has dropped in Dallas, Caraway painted a…
Those not listening to KVTT-1110 AM yesterday around 2:30 p.m. missed Mayor Tom Leppert’s appearance on Point of View, a nationally syndicated Christian conservative talk show based in Dallas. We weren’t tuned in either, but mostly because we didn’t know about it until today’s post by DMN’er Rudy Bush. As…
The staff was all tied up today and couldn’t make it to the Earle Cabell for Terri Hodge’s sentencing. But the guilty-plea-taking ex-state represenative got a year in federal prison, because U.S. District Judge Barbara M. G. Lynn didn’t really buy her story that, look, it was all a tax-return…
Oh .. and there’s a Twitter account too. I found them all completely by accident — I was looking for something else about an hour ago, then came across his new Web site, where, yesterday, he (or, ya know) announced the launch of his Facebook page, where the mayor promises…
So tomorrow’s shaping up to be a very interesting Dallas City Council meeting: As Rudy Bush wrote yesterday, the mayor’s mighty unhappy with the no-bid concession contracts being doled out to Dallas Love Field Joint Venture and Hudson Retail at Love Field Airport, which council members have been behind for…
… it must be true. Via Burnt Orange Report, here’s some video of Gov. Hairspray and the noted stand-up comic at a town-hall rally in Tyler over the weekend, where Beck and Perry were married by state Rep. Leo Berman. The AP suggests the title of Texan was just, ya…
