In advance of the 3 p.m. press conference at Dallas Police Department headquarters during which the dash-cam video that Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway doesn’t want you to see will be released, Mayor Tom Leppert weighed in on the incident briefly at this afternoon’s State of the City address at…
If you had a hard time flagging down a taxi this morning, well, consider that just a taste of what’s to come if independent cabbies don’t get their way fighting the ordinance that lets natural gas-powered taxis jump to the front of the line at Love Field Airport. Hundreds of…
Nancy Nichols did a bang-up piece in the August issue of D chronicling the myriad reasons mobile restaurateurs have had issues parking their burgeoning parade of food trucks in and around downtown (parking meters and the need to acquire a seemingly endless laundry list of permits from Dallas City Hall,…
Allegations from inside — and independent studies conducted from outside — Dallas Fire-Rescue over the past four or so years have painted a disturbing picture of what it’s like to be a female employee of DFR and fueled a costly, ongoing lawsuit in 2009. But as of last week, the…
Welcome back to City Hall, where the city council’s Quality of Life Committee is hearing from a blue-ribbon panel of downtown homelessness players, led by MDHA’s Mike Faenza and the city’s Housing/Community Services director Jerry Killingsworth. Up next is the briefing Robert mentioned on the Garland Road Vision Study, but…
Never one to let an unwelcome neighbor move in unannounced, Councilman Dave Neumann invited residents around far west Oak Cliff’s Hensley Field to come on out to the airfield last night and hear direct from XTO Energy reps about their natural gas drilling plans in their neighborhood.The City Plan Commission…
Click to embiggen for a look-see at what the Garland Road Vision visionaries envision, per today’s council briefingGoing on four years now, residents and stakeholders along and near Garland Road — at least, the stretch of Texas State Highway 78 between Interstate 635 and where it splits into Gaston and…
As Robert pointed out below, Go Oak Cliff hosted the inaugural Blues, Bandits and Barbecue street party and Better Block Redux this weekend around the Kessler, where a clay conceptual model of Stevie Ray Vaughan was on display. While I didn’t see Anderson Cooper roaming around, there were plenty of…
Below, Andrea’s still liveblogging today’s tax-hike showdown at City Hall — and Dwaine Caraway just wrapped up his prolonged, passionate north-vs.-south speech, which was accompanied by a video presentation filled with boarded-up, burned-down houses and trash-and-weed-strewn lawns in the southern sector. At some point today the council members will also…
Bon matin, Mes Amis de le Parc Qui Est Unfair. Overflow crowd this morning at the City Council Budget Meeting in 6ES, and Tom Leppert, pin-striped as ever, has just told the packed house to sit tight while they figure out what to do with everyone. Atmosphere is stuffy and…
Some killer filler this early a.m. before the showdown at City Hall: Speaking of: Ann Margolin has posted to her website “10 Reasons Why a Tax Increase is a Terrible Idea.” (And by “terrible,” I assume she means terrrrrrible. Anyway.) Margolin, of course, is among the handful of council members…
Mayor Tom Leppert has said it time and again: No tax hike. No way, no how. But in case you missed it the first 29 times, his e-vite to tomorrow morning’s council budget briefing serves as yet another just-say-no note in which he takes aim at Angela Hunt and the…
We’re but days away from the due-by date for the FY2010-11 budget, which will dominate much of the council’s time this week and next; City Hall expects so many speakers at Monday’s budget briefing that the mayor will convene the council in chambers at 9 a.m. before moving everyone upstairs…
Speaking of conceptual renderings …Just because the Downtown Connection TIF District Review Committee canceled its meeting yesterday for lack of a quorum doesn’t mean you can’t look at the Grand Ricchi Dallas design docs that were passed out ahead of time. Whenever the committee finally does get together, it’ll discuss…
Preston Hollow Democrats get a kick out of a couple of things — firstly, being Preston Hollow Democrats, and secondly, Andrea White, wife of Bill, he of the running for governor of Texas. The PHD was formed in the wake of the March ’08 primaries during which Obama fever was…
Patrick MichelsAngela Hunt at a budget town hall in late August at Frontiers of Flight MuseumYesterday, shortly after I posted that budget amendment memo in which eight council members called for a 4.91-cent tax hike, I heard from countless Friends of Unfair Park who said, more or less: “Yeah, but…
I’d planned on going to the Downtown Connection TIF District Review Committee Meeting, but, well, I had a prior commitment, and, besides, the thing was canceled for lack of a quorum. There was, though, an item of interest on the agenda: “Review and approval of design plans for 1600 Pacific…
Along with Mayor Tom Leppert and our good friends at Telemundo, we got up early this morning and rode over to the Dallas Convention Center, where the FIFA World Cup Soccer Site Selection Committee stopped by to size up the place. Like a team of mall-walking grandmas, they showed up…
Between the weather and the Rosh a few things fell through the cracks yesterday. Like, oh, former FBI agent Terence Hart’s report to City Manager Mary Suhm concerning the funeral procession for Dallas Police Chief David Brown’s son. City Hall sent the 11-page doc, and Suhm’s accompanying memo, late Wednesday…
On the other side is a fresh-off-the-virtual-presses press release from the city warning that by early tomorrow morning, there’s a pretty decent chance that as the Trinity River crests — and, as of right now, NOAA has that happening at 42.8 feet — “some areas of the City may experience…
Moments ago I received from council member Angela Hunt’s office a memo that follows, in which Hunt and seven of her colleagues (Delia Jasso, Vonciel Hill, Steve Salazar, Carolyn Davis, Pauline Medrano, Tennell Atkins and Dwaine Caraway) call for a significant tax hike — 4.91 cents per $100 in valuation…
Like I said Friday, the the FIFA World Cup Soccer Site Selection Committee’s coming to town — tonight, if Hermine doesn’t mind. Last night, Mayor Tom Leppert’s chief of staff, Chris Heinbaugh, sent a few more details concerning the visit in advance of the December 2 decision — as in,…
