Most of the time, when the subject of scrap-metal recyclers comes before the Dallas City Council the conversation grows contentious, with southern sector council members and residents wondering, yet again, why their part of the city, which lacks grocery stores and movie theaters and other quality-of-life basics, is the one…
No, really. At the 1:41 mark. Pete thinks it’s hilarious…
After postponing last Thursday’s meeting so council members could ride in the Dallas Mavericks’ parade through downtown, the city council’s Ad Hoc Gas Drilling Task Force Nominating Committee got back to speed-dating candidates for the committee Tuesday afternoon. The intention: paring down the list of 67 wannabes to 18 finalists…
First, a programming note: Plans are to liveblog, yet again, today’s 2 p.m. meeting of the council’s Ad Hoc Gas Drilling Task Force Nominating Committee, if only because last week’s was such a humdinger as the council struggled to add someone — anyone — from the Oak Cliff area affected…
During last Thursday’s NBA championship parade for the Mavericks, Fake Mayor Dwaine Caraway — remember, he’s only interim Mayor because Tom Leppert up and quit — rode in a red convertible and waved to his unadoring crowd. Yep, the guy who gave the key to the city to Michael Vick…
This morning, Frank Librio, spokesman for the city, called to say that at 10 this morning, officials with the city, the Dallas Police Department and Dallas Fire-Rescue were meeting to review the events leading to the likely drug overdose of 19-year-old Andrew James Graf and the hospitalization of 30 others…
I was going to post about something else presently up for grabs on Lone Star Auctioneers’ website … till I ran into this: The city of Dallas is auctioning off a Bell Helicopter Model 407, with the current bid sitting at $987,500. Sounds nice: “The engine is a Rolls Royce…
On Friday we spoke with Janis Burklund, head of the Dallas Film Commission, about why the city council will on Wednesday more than likely approve a $235,000 economic development grant for a film and television production studio in a S. Lamar warehouse owned by Jack Matthews. Long story short: Burklund…
It’s always fun to play around with Dallas County’s elections website after a race. Above, for instance, you get a look at which parts of town went Rawlings and which went Kunkle. More fun (and dispiriting): the precinct-by-precinct breakdowns. Lotta zeroes and single digits on there…
First off, to the Friend of Unfair Park who noted yesterday that Paula Blackmon would be named mayor-elect Mike Rawlings’s chief of staff today, kudos. That’s indeed correct, says City Hall: Former Mayor Tom Leppert’s deputy chief of staff, who took a gig as University of North Texas at Dallas’s…
Twice now, following a weekend excursion to the scenic, dancing-watered parkingscape known as Lake Highlands Town Center, we’ve checked in on the city’s efforts to back-on-track that stalled-out mixed-use development. Good timing: At 9:30 this morning Office of Economic Development director Karl Zavitkovsky will spent about half an hour briefing…
Shortly after 11:30 last night, not long after an infinitesimally small amount of Dallasites elected a new mayor, the calls and email began pouring in, all saying more or less the same thing: Chaos has erupted at the Electric Daisy Carnival dance-fest at Fair Park; dozens of ambulances on the…
Mike Rawlings is the new mayor of the city of Dallas, besting David Kunkle by some 7,000 votes: 30,487 to 23,853 with all but a few precincts having reported in. Anna Merlan, one of crack newcomers, is at the Meddlesome Moth. She files this:Rawlings said he just got off the…
David Kunkle’s once again at the San Francisco Rose watching election returns he’d probably like to return right now, given Mike Rawlings’s commanding lead at the moment: 26,427 to 19,856. That said, the former Dallas Police chief isn’t ready to give up just yet: “You fight the good fight, you…
I’m killing time at this point … and this bottle of Old Fitzgerald. And while we wait for the county to update its election totals, I’m reading tomorrow’s New York Times, which is full of local-interest stories — more than our own daily, probably. Like this nice piece about Dallas…
Dallas County’s just posted early-voting results — and, as was the case on May 14, Mike Rawlings snagged a huge slice of vote. Which is to say, of the 24,818 early ballots dropped in the box, the one-time Homeless Czar got 59.17 percent (or 14,685). Which leaves former Dallas Police…
We’re, what, nine whole minute away from our first look at early-voting results … like anyone cares. I spoke with Toni Pippins-Poole, Interim Dallas County Elections Administrator, earlier this afternoon, and she described the action at the polls as “so, so, slow — about what we expected.” Which is to…
‘Round this time last year Al Lipscomb was hospitalized at Methodist following a fall that resulted in a broken leg; Gromer Jeffers wrote that the former council member wasn’t “doing so well these days.” Which was a far cry from just two years ago, when Sam ran into him at…
This just in from the Associated Press: “Key advisers to Texas Gov. Rick Perry are beginning to lay the groundwork for a campaign for Iowa’s leadoff GOP presidential caucuses in case the Republican decides to seek the 2012 nomination.” And, this just in from Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s office: He’s…
On Wednesday, the Dallas City Council will vote on whether or not to give Jack Matthews’s CCH Lamar Partners that $235,000 economic development grant needed to help finish out a film and television production facility on S. Lamar. (It’s Item No. 98 on the agenda.) As you’ll recall, there was…
“Complete Streets” is a catchphrase that’s been rolling ’round Dallas City Hall since at least October 2009, when the council’s Transportation and Environment Committee was first introduced to the concept . Now, there’s a website: Dallas Complete Streets, which explains right there in the intro:In the past, Dallas’ streets were…
Nick and Patrick are at the convention center; another photographer’s embedded with the Mavs inside the barricades; another is posted at the American Airlines Center. That said, we won’t beat you down with all-day posts from today’s parade; only when it’s appropriate and when it’s over. But here, two hours…
