We’ve already gotten former Dallas Police Chief-turned-Dallas mayoral candidate David Kunkle’s response to Mike Rawlings’s latest campaign mailer. Now, it’s Ron Natinsky’s turn to respond to the flier, which says — without naming him — that Natinsky served as chair of the city council’s Economic Development Committee “while the tax…
[Update at 8:09 p.m.: Jim sends word from the courthouse that Judge Snelson has denied that request for an injunction, leaving the temporary restraining order to dissolve at midnight — and the records will be released after all. Tomorrow, maybe, no word yet on when.] Jim’s at the George Allen…
Thanks to the Facebook page Where’s Neumann, we learned this morning that council member Dave Neumann has been a no-show at several candidate forums held this month. The page’s unknown author named recent forums sponsored by LULAC, the NAACP and both the West Kessler and Cedar Vista neighborhood associations, claiming…
A couple of weeks back we got Mike Rawlings’s first big-money mailer — a slick meet-the-candidate flier highlighted by quite the ’70s ‘stache — accompanied by the first of what’s proved to be a series of good-looking short films starring the mayoral candidate. (The most recent follows.) The latest four-pager…
[Update at 3:52 p.m.: Jim sends word that Mayor Dwaine Caraway has just taken the stand during the evidentiary hearing now expected to stretch into the evening. More to come.][Update at 1:41 p.m.: Jim reports that Judge Teresa Guerra Snelson has denied Caraway’s request to extend the temporary restraining order…
If nothing else, Mayor Dwaine Caraway’s letters to and from Sendai following the earthquake and tsunami served to remind us of the long, deep connection shared between the International Friendship Cities. So too does a video posted on the other side that comes from the Dallas Independent School District, which…
At this very moment, President Obama’s chief of staff, William Daley, is looking for someone to replace Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, who Obama tapped on March 9 to become the next ambassador to China. An afternoon Wall Street Journal item reminds: “Ron Kirk, the U.S. trade representative, is widely considered…
Since he quit being nonpartisan mayor to run as a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, Tom Leppert has certainly made his politics very clear: He’s for drilling in the Arctic Wildlife National Refuge and a balanced-budget amendment, and against National Public Radio and gay marriage and cap-and-trade. Brian Bolduc, a…
If you read our story about the ballot drawing Friday morning for mayoral and city council candidates, you might have noticed the omission of a certain someone from the District 14 race. Chad Lasseter — the guy who slammed Angela Hunt for bailing on Tom Leppert’s adios and aimed to…
Once or twice a week for the past couple of months, an e-mail will pop up in the in-box about a proposal to put a gas station and convenience store in the Lowe’s parking lot on Inwood Road just off of Forest Lane. It’s no small development, either: According to…
City Secretary Deborah Watkins and her staff oversaw the selection of ballot positions this morning in the Flag Room at City Hall, as mayoral and city council candidates for the May 14 election chose envelopes with numbers inside. Former Park Board president Mike Rawlings landed the top spot among mayoral…
Forthcoming in moments, Sam’s recap of this morning’s ballot-place-picking procedure at Dallas City Hall. But two days ago we listened in as the four candidates for Dallas mayor — Mike Rawlings and David Kunkle especially — debated the root cause of domestic violence at the North Texas Food Bank’s forum…
Standing near the pool at the Belmont Hotel in what 2007 mayoral race runner-up Ed Oakley called “the best part of the city of Dallas,” mayoral candidate Ron Natinsky this morning announced his five-pronged approach to implement the West Dallas Urban Structure and Guidelines plan. He said the first step…
No doubt you recall the hubbub surrounding the Love Field concessions-bidding process that consumed much of last year as Mayor Tom and the council argued over no-bid contracts for incumbents Gilbert Aranza, Helen Giddings and Eddie Bernice Johnson. It was certainly fresh on my mind only Tuesday night, when I…
There was a rather interesting exchange between mayoral candidates Mike Rawlings and David Kunkle at this morning’s mayoral debate at the North Texas Food Bank. And it began with a question posed to all four candidates (including, of course, Ron Natinsky and Edward Okpa) by moderator Janet Davis, one of…
A few weeks ago, as you’ll no doubt recall, Angela Hunt called for the formation of a gas drilling task force that would consist of no fewer than 10 people, among them experts well versed in the subject of fracking, neighborhood residents impacted by XTO Energy’s requests to drill near…
All four mayoral candidates are running on similar platforms to improve neighborhoods and boost economic development. But underdog Edward Okpa sought to set himself apart from the field this afternoon, claiming David Kunkle and Mike Rawlings “don’t have the relevant facts” to make the necessary progress in neighborhoods. He also…
Mayor Dwaine Caraway sent a letter on Friday expressing the city’s “deepest condolences” to his counterpart in Sendai, Japan, Mayor Emiko Okuyama. Caraway mentioned in the missive that his wife, state Rep. Barbara Mallory Caraway, had attended the Sendai International Marathon, and said, “Due to our years of people-to-people exchanges…
From the Texas Enterprise Fund, that is — otherwise known as the state’s “deal-closing fund” intended, in part, to bring new bidness to Texas. The governor was in Richardson earlier today to announce the state’s “investing” $2.45 million in Virtual Computing Environment Company, a Cisco-created cloud-computin’ company that’s building a…
As Sam pointed out last week, it’s clear that mayoral candidate Mike Rawlings is well funded — so much so he’s released what appears to be a web-only mini-doc shot, for the most part, at the Good Street Missionary Baptist Church on Bonnie View. It also features two current council…
Apparently, the Dallas Police Department is none too thrilled with how info is being disseminated about tomorrow’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade and Party along Greenville Avenue; what — this wasn’t as clear as green beer? Which is why Senior Corporal Kevin Janse, the department’s spokesman, forwarded a memo First Assistant…
The majority of neighborhoods surrounding Fair Park are riddled with vacant, boarded-up homes and empty lots. Atlanta Street is no exception. Across from the Park South Family YMCA, Todd Russell bought a 672-square-foot house in June 2009 from the city to save it from demolition. But less than a month…
