As we were heading out the door Friday, the Supreme Court of Texas handed down opinions in two local cases, one of which we’ve written about before but neither of which is the “billion-dollar case” still awaiting a result. Let’s begin with this one: City of Dallas v Heather Stewart,…
Two items-for-listening this morning: First up, a by-request; then, Schutze combs through his recordings archives and discovers he’s sitting on a JWP best-of.Here, to begin, is a segment that aired on The Ticket Friday morning — one week after Craig Miller and George Dunham acknowledged that they knew so little…
Rumors have long been circulating that something’s up with Valley View Center. Not sure what, exactly; no one’s returning calls (paging Greg Maloney). Even local commercial Realtors aren’t exactly sure. But … something. Involving the Macy’s spot. Like, say, this: On Thursday, per its agenda, the City Plan Commission will…
If you drove to Grapevine last night, entered the mall on the corner of Grapevine Mills Boulevard and Stars and Stripes Way, hurried past the Legoland, the Foot Locker and, outside the aquarium, two children strapped into some kind of bungee-jumping ride, pogoing slowly over and over again from floor…
Mayor Mike Rawlings took the mic before last night’s Observer co-sponsored Gasland screening and told the audience of council members, activists and concerned locals, “I will never vote to put any neighborhood at risk because of money.” And there are high stakes behind that sentence — tens of millions of…
Those state-lawmaker types are a shifty bunch, eh? During the state legislature’s regular session, lawmakers debated a bill that would have required proof of citizenship or legal status for anyone applying for a new or renewed driver’s license. That way, argues sponsor Tommy Williams, a Woodlands senator, illegal immigrants couldn’t…
Yesterday Leslie recounted the Dallas City Council’s vote on the membership of the ad hoc gas drilling task force — during which rookie Scott Griggs’s attempt to add Mountain Creek resident Ed Meyer to the roster was met with a deafening silence. Angela Hunt has posted to her website her…
On and off in recent years there have been several attempts to fill that vacant lot across Marilla from the Dallas Farmers Market, and each plan has gone nowhere. Which is why I got interested when I saw this: This morning the Farmers Market TIF District Board of Directors met…
But, alas, like the other video on the rally’s Vimeo page, Perry’s invitation, which just went live this afternoon, shatters the already totally shattered pretense that his August 6 prayer rally is anything but a day-long fist-bump to the governor’s personal lord and savior…
The post-inauguration celebration didn’t last long, as Mayor Mike Rawlings and city council members new and old got straight to work at a 2 p.m. meeting. After a few housekeeping items — a quick vote to unanimously select Pauline Medrano as mayor pro tem and Tennell Atkins as deputy mayor…
Leslie’s already summed up Mayor Mike’s first-ever official speech as Dallas mayor, which was given at this morning’s swearing-in of the new council. And she’s up shortly with a recap from the ad hoc gas drilling committee vote, which took a bit of a twist; she’ll let Scott Griggs explain…
It was only after Mike Rawlings became the new mayor of Dallas, only after council members new and old and in-between (in the case of Sandy Greyson) were sworn in at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center this morning did they discover they were about to step into The Breaking…
At 10 this morning at the Meyerson Symphony Center, Mike Rawlings officially becomes Dallas mayor, and Dwaine Caraway goes back to being just one of 14 council members who must travel sans security detail. Shortly after that, more than likely, Pauline Medrano will ascend to the title of mayor pro…
Tomorrow, we’ll have much more from the Build a Better Boulevard event presently slowing traffic along a stretch of Ross near and into downtown; maybe I’ll even let Leslie run the photo she took of me submerged into the dumpster swimming pool parked in Fellowship Church’s lot at Ross and…
Several times now we’ve sneak-peeked the Build a Better Boulevard Challenge set to debut along Ross Avenue, between Hawkins and Pavilion, this Sunday morning beginning at 11. Preparations are underway at this very moment, as teams of architects and planners and students begin building their better bus stops and outdoor…
I just went over to the city’s bids website to look for something unrelated when I noticed: The deadline for would-be Love Field vendors to submit proposals for restaurants and retail shoppes has been extended yet again — this time to July 13, following an earlier add-on that had ’em…
Being fairly new to town, I’m learning my Dallas history little by little. Yesterday was a good step: On the way home I stopped by the Hall of State at Fair Park, where Al Lipscomb is resting comfortably till this evening’s public wake, which begins at 6 p.m., and tomorrow’s…
This just in from Dallas City Hall: One week after last week’s Dallas Mavericks victory parade rolled from the Dallas Convention Center to the American Airlines Center, the city’s done totaled up the receipts and is ready to submit an invoice to Mark Cuban, who said he’s happy to pay…
A little while ago the city’s Park and Rec Department posted to its Hike & Bike Trails Facebook page the photo you see above. It was accompanied by the note: “Check out the new addition to the Trinity Forest Trail — a new trail bridge was just added this week!…
Remember when Dwaine Caraway gave Michael Vick a key to the city of Dallas and everyone got outraged and then-Mayor Tom Leppert had the city clamp down on who had access to the prize closet and Caraway said but look, man, I did it for the children? Yeah. Good times…
Earlier today, in an item he’s since updated, Rudy Bush noted the death of Leslie Allen Davis, among the rare regulars at the city council’s public-speakers podium whose presence was welcomed by city officials. They’ve long been charmed by his warm wishes. How Davis died remains a mystery: The police…
For as long as anyone can recall — at least six years, right? — there’s been an attempt to create a Stevens Park Conservation District intended to preserve the neighborhood around the Oak Cliff golf course. Most of the homeowners in the area are behind it; so too Oak Cliff…
