As expected, the Dallas City Council voted 15-0 Wednesday afternoon to appoint Tacoma, Washington, City Manager T.C. Broadnax as replacement for Dallas City Manager A.C. Gonzalez when Gonzalez calls it quits at the end of January. Following a closed-doors executive session of the council last Friday, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings…
Not even Ben Carson can make HUD any worse than it is already.
On Monday, the Dallas City Council’s Public Safety Committee got its first look at the latest and greatest plan for city staff to address one of Dallas’ largest quality of life issues — panhandling on the city’s streets. Allan Sims, Dallas’ Neighborhoods Plus czar, proposed that the city use some…
Sorry to repeat myself. Last week I told you about a private sector proposal to provide 1,000 units of affordable housing in West Dallas while encouraging home ownership to protect existing neighborhoods from gentrification. I’m afraid I need to ring that bell once more just for emphasis. The proposal is…
Mayor Mike Rawlings says the city of Dallas can’t fund $1.1 billion to fix its police and fire pension woes. I can. Easy.
Late Friday, Moody’s Investors Service announced that, for the third time in less than two years, it was downgrading the city of Dallas general obligation bonds. In layman’s terms, that means that the city’s credit rating — its ability to borrow money through the sale of bonds — has taken…
T.C. Broadnax, currently the city manager in Tacoma, Washington, is the lone finalist for Dallas’ open city manager job, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings announced Friday morning. Broadnax’ nomination comes after a week of interviews with members of the city council and, at a reception Tuesday night at city hall, the…
Taking back interest and cost of living payments already agreed to by contract is bankruptcy-lite for Dallas.
A strange thing went down at Wednesday’s Dallas City Council meeting. With little fanfare and no discussion, the council appointed Walkable DFW founder Patrick Kennedy to the Dallas Area Rapid Transit Board. This move came despite the council transportation committee’s previous recommendation of environmental lawyer Howard Gilberg for the post. Frustrations…
Richard Spencer, the white nationalist whose fans give Nazi salutes, does come from here, after all.
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings finds himself cornered at the OK Corral by a bunch of low-rent landlords.
Most of the time, the interests of the Texas Association of Business and Republicans in the Texas Legislature line up pretty well. Both groups want fewer government regulations on employers, expansive at-will employment and school choice vouchers for Texas parents, among other things. Over the past couple of years, however,…
Dallas attorney Faith Johnson is Dallas County’s new district attorney. Tuesday morning, Governor Greg Abbott announced that Johnson, previously a Dallas County district judge and assistant prosecutor for the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office, will serve the rest of the term Susan Hawk was elected to in 2014. Hawk resigned…
We all know there’s only one way to keep up the city’s basic infrastructure. Pay for it.
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings on sued the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System Monday morning. Well, sort of. Officially, Rawlings filed his suit merely as a resident. The pension system has gone through crisis after crisis as it’s bid to escape the deep financial hole created by former fund director…
If Ben Carson takes over HUD and he’s a loon, is that really worse than what we had there before?
A little more than a month after David Brown’s last day with the Dallas Police Department, the public got its first glimpse of what the former chief will be doing next. On Wednesday, ABC News announced that Brown, who served 33 years with DPD, will be joining the network to…
The more the mayor of Dallas talks about shutting down withdrawals from the police and fie pension fund, the faster the withdrawals will come.
Three Expo Events, the company behind the Exxxotica porn convention that graced Dallas in May 2015, is again asking a federal judge to force the city to book the event at the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center. Here’s the legal backstory. Acting at the behest of Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings, the…
The five finalists are in for Dallas’ open city manager’s gig and, surprisingly, people on both sides of city hall’s political spectrum seem pretty happy with the choices. Among the five are four municipal employees — one of whom is a city of Dallas employee — and one corporate executive…
More than a good city manager, Dallas needs a really politician at the helm.
That Sam’s Club, the one the neighborhood that calls itself the East Village has been fighting against for around three years, isn’t going to get built. At least not right now, after Judge Michael O’Neill threw out the zoning change that would’ve allowed the Sam’s Club in the first place…
