Dallas City Council’s plan to hand over the day-to-day operations of Fair Park to a private foundation headed by Walt Humann is on hold. In a Thursday afternoon memo, new Dallas City Attorney Larry Casto told Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings and the rest of the council that the city would…
Please note, dear Dallas, there is one place Donald Trump flies straight to with his coattails on fire when he needs an emergency injection of cash. Here. Yikes. His political castle crumbling at his heels, Trump knew there was one spot in this whole nation he could always count on…
Fresh off a Sunday night debate performance, GOP presidential nominee and admitted genital-grabber Donald Trump swung through Texas on Tuesday to pick up a pile of cash at private fundraisers in San Antonio and Dallas. The media was not allowed inside either event but Katrina Pierson, Trump’s Dallas-based spokeswoman, streamed…
Mayor Mike Rawlings called a news conference at City Hall yesterday to take credit for a 14-day restraining order granted by District Judge Ken Molberg to stop the Khraish family and their firm, HMK, from evicting 300 tenants living in low-rent single-family homes in southern and West Dallas. More on…
This, I hope, will not turn into a rant. I want it to be more of a solemn prayer. I pray that this city, my city, will deeply and sincerely examine its heart where the poor are concerned. But I could start ranting anyway. It happens. I want you to…
Friday, Donald Trump got caught. The Washington Post published a transcript of a tape, recorded while Trump talked to Billy Bush on a bus ride to a soap opera cameo. (For those who haven’t read the transcript, it’s at the end of this post.) Trump’s foes gleefully attacked, but so did a…
Texas Senator Ted Cruz continued his Donald Trump-supporting tour Tuesday morning, stopping by right-wing radio host Hugh Hewitt’s show to insist his formal rival won the first general election debate on Monday night. The senator earlier called Trump a “sniveling coward,” “serial philanderer” and “pathological” this spring. But these days he’s…
The Dallas City Council’s transportation committee left no doubt Monday about what the city wants DART to do as the transit agency moves forward toward its new 20-year plan: Build a subway downtown and fix the dysfunctional bus system. And the committee had one “don’t” as well: Don’t allocate a ton of…
Dallas Police Department Deputy Chief Rob Sherwin, the new temporary leader of Dallas Animal Services, didn’t hide the grim reality of what his department is going to have to do to stem the tide of the more than 8,000 loose dogs currently roaming southern Dallas. Dallas Animal Services is going…
The first draft of Dallas’ surprisingly controversial southern Dallas deck park is out. Phase one of the proposed $118 million park build-out looks an awful lot like its cousin, Klyde Warren Park. Spanning I-35 between Ewing and Marsalis Avenues, the park — assuming it gets funded — will initially feature…
This week the Dallas City Council completed its single most important task of 2016 when it passed the city of Dallas’ budget for the next fiscal year. Like the city itself, the new budget was heavily influenced by Dallas’ formative event of 2016, the July 7 police ambush that killed…
Construction cranes rise all over the skyline, traffic jams rush hour, so many apartment/condo projects crowd the city’s older neighborhoods that you can hardly see the neighborhoods. With this sheer volume of economic activity that we can see in this city with our bare eyes, how does City Hall still…
Years go by. I’m OK. Sleep great. Steady hands, no shakes. Then out of nowhere I awaken one night from a dead slumber covered in a cold sweat with eyes like silver dollars and a throbbing heart. And I know. Somewhere out there in the black of night, the beast…
Too many times I tell you how City Hall doesn’t have a single desk where the buck stops, how you can’t get City Hall to do anything for you, and I always forget to mention the exception. There is one thing you can do to make City Hall work like…
Dallas Police officer Jesus Martinez, over the last two-plus years, has been charged, fired, let go by a grand jury and rehired by the Dallas Police Department. Thursday afternoon, the saga of this officer continued as he announced that he was suing outgoing Dallas Police Chief David Brown and the…
Last week, a woman waking her dog in the Ash Creek neighborhood of northeast Dallas noticed something amiss — all of the books were missing from the curbside Little Free Library box. The neighborhood quickly rallied. “She called another neighbor who drove around to check the other LFLs in our neighborhood,” says…
On Wednesday, the Dallas City Council granted landmark status to the iconic Lakewood Theater. It wasn’t exactly a fight. Everyone, from neighbors to the theater’s owners to city officials, wanted the theater, its marquee and phallic purple tower to stick around, so it was a sense of relief that greeted the 15-0…
First Baptist Church of Dallas Pastor Robert Jeffress wants to repeal the Johnson Amendment. The mega-church pastor, leader of a flock of more than 12,000 parishioners, is pushing for America’s churches to be allowed to make political donations and endorsements. “I want to say this very clearly, I am for…
Friday afternoon, Dallas County Health and Human Services confirmed the county’s second 2016 death from the West Nile Virus. The victim, whom the county did not name, was in their late 50s and lived in the 75248 zip code in far North Dallas. Forty-two Dallas County residents have contracted the…
Politicians and social media have opened up a new low in the art of political discourse. Late Thursday night and early Friday morning, Dallas Republican state Representative Jason Villalba took to Twitter — something he does often with inconsistent results — to say that he plans to push for an…
After nearly ten years of marriage, Marlena’s husband left her. This would not be the first time he had left her and their two young children — many times he had disappeared for days with no explanation. He was always in and out of jail. But this time, it would…
The city of Dallas got poured out of court again yesterday in its decades long extra-legal persecution of Kennedy assassination expert Robert Groden, making the 82nd time the city has lost against Groden in its own municipal courts, not counting a major slap-down suffered by the city in the 5th…
