City Hall To Get Its “S” Back Today

Chris Heinbaugh, the mayor’s chief of staff, e-mailed this morning with the good news: “I am told the seal in front of City Hall should be fixed today.” He wanted me to pass along that info to the Friends of Unfair Park — and the 7-year-old who lives in my…

Former Chief Kunkle For Dallas Mayor? Maybe.

At the beginning of the week, former Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle had no intention of running for Dallas mayor. Today, he tells Unfair Park, that has changed.While the 60-year-old Kunkle says he remains unsure of what he will do, chances are “greater that I will run than I won’t…

City’s Chief Transpo Planner Talks Streetcars and Why First Downtown to Oak Cliff Line Is “Critical Spine” Of System of the Future

I’ve been playing phone tag with Keith Manoy, the city’s senior transportation planner and the point man for all things streetcar. It’s understandable. He’s been a little busy.”We’re not in the streetcar business,” Manoy says this morning. “But we’re learning.” He’s doing his best to play catch-up. Not a lot…

Checking Out the Future of the Library

Wasn’t so long ago that the Dallas Public Library system appeared to be on life support, a victim of yet another round of city budget cuts. But at City Hall yesterday, during the council’s Quality of Life Committee meeting, Interim Director of Libraries Corrine Hill insisted: Quite the contrary. Said…

The City’s Not Fond of 5750Dallas’s Cutouts

On Monday we took a couple of looks at bcWORKSHOP’s public-art installation known as 5750Dallas, intended to spark a conversation about homelessness and consumption and so forth. It certainly got noticed — by Dallas Code Compliance, which wants ’em vanished by week’s end, per last night’s WFAA lead-off piece. Shouldn’t…