A Friend of Unfair Park who’s thinking of spending the Fourth of July tea-partying out at Southfork Ranch — “but only for Mickey Dolenz,” she writes, and I smell fresh-baked sarcasm — directs our attention to a forthcoming Dallas appearance by Ann Coulter, who’ll be at the Fairmont Hotel on…
Just stumbled upon quite the shindig planned for July 4 out at Southfork Ranch — something called America’s Tea Party, which is being put on by the Dallas Tea Party folks (nawww) but features a cross-country list of speakers tentatively scheduled to rally the troops. Here’s the roll call thus…
Sorry, Kurt Watkins, but your invite to tonight’s Dallas County Young Democrats shindig at Mayor Tom Leppert’s favorite Lower Greenville hot spot got spammed out — don’t take it personally, same thing happened to my mom earlier today. That half-hearted apology out of the way, the DCYD’s communications director does…
Update: We’ve got more photos from the protest in our slide show.About 65 protesters — and nearly as many members of the local media — showed up at the southwest corner of Preston Road and Royal Lane yesterday at 4:30 to march with Cindy Sheehan to George W. Bush’s house…
More than once in recent days, Dave Levinthal’s had to warn City Hall Blog commenters to stay on topic and stop shouting, “Voter fraud!” in the District 1 Dallas City Council runoff pitting Delia Jasso against Justin Epker. Seems there’s been a lingering question about whether 65-year-old Juana Rodriguez voted…
Perhaps you have an idea how the city can cut, oh, $100 million in order to fix its busted-up budget. Or, just maybe, you’re really not terribly keen on the idea of City Manager Mary Suhm leaving 12 code enforcement positions unfilled in order to make up the ever-expanding deficit…
To keep this brief, here’s the takeaway from this morning’s New York Times profile of former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk, who’s now “the unlikely new U.S. trade representative,” as the paper puts it. The gist of the story is this: Everybody likes Ron Kirk. Everybody. So far. Because, well, they…
A seven-part download this weekend by Danielle McClelland, in the Dallas City Hall Public Information Office, allows those who missed out on the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge’s groundbreaking ceremony to have a look-see at the event, which took place on December 9, 2005. It’s been mostly downhill for the project…
At the Dallas County Republican Party’s annual Reagan Day Dinner in February, we described Cedar Hill City Council member Wade Emmert as a rising star likely to become the party favorite in the race for county judge in 2010. Emmert wouldn’t confirm his plans with us at the event, but…
Mayor Tom Leppert’s in D.C. this morning at the invite of Barney Frank, whose House Financial Services Committee is set to discuss why it’s become so danged difficult and cost-prohibitive for cities to issue bonds — and how Washington can fix it, despite the Fed’s “important misgivings” about guaranteeing municipal…
I don’t get whatever cable outlet carries The Eddie Bernice Johnson Show. No matter. The congresswoman from Dallas has just posted to YouTube her interview conducted this week with Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert. Here’s part one; parts two and three follow. I won’t lie: She needs something to spice up…
Sometime this morning, we expect the Dallas City Council to approve a daytime curfew for minors under the age of 17, which, according to the ordinance, will “help combat truancy, thereby reducing juvenile crime, juvenile violence, and juvenile gang activity occurring in the city during school hours.” Despite opposition from…
Now that I’ve had some time to reflect on Saturday night’s narrow loss at the polls by Harlan Crow and the 41,287 Dallas voters opposed to a taxpayer-owned hotel, I realize the most important vote on this issue took place almost 15 months ago. Dallas will get its convention center…
Late last night council member Angela Hunt posted to her blog a note concerning the vote in favor of the convention center hotel. Therein, she extends the olive branch and vows to make ‘er work, because, well, that’s what 43,382 people demanded:The voters of Dallas have spoken and settled the…
“The message tonight is Dallas is moving forward,” said Mayor Tom Leppert as the crowd here at Gilley’s roared in approval. The votes still aren’t all in, but, said the mayor, “I can tell you tonight the winner is the Dallas taxpayer.”The mayor looked exhausted and seems to have aged…
With 510 of 534 precincts reporting, and the convention center hotel now looking more like a sure thing — it’s 42,433 for, 40,484 against — Pulle reports that it’s all hugs and fist bumps at The Loft at Gilley’s. Says Matt, Mayor Tom Leppert was just spotted giving Mayor Pro…
Waiting for the boys to call in, as no doubt the mood’s shifted at both The Loft at Gilley’s and Tucker on Ross Avenue just a bit. Because, with 427 of 534 precincts reporting, the margin’s grown wider in the pro-hotel faction’s favor: 39,506 (51.28 percent) who voted for the…
Caught up with the mayor after he gave the obligatory interview to a television reporter, and he looked (and sounded) a little more optimistic. Asked why this election wound up being about him, he said that he disagreed. “They played that game, but it wasn’t about me,” he said forcefully…
With 252 of 534 precincts reporting, Mayor Tom Leppert’s got to be breathing a little easier — at least, for the moment. Dallas County Elections is reporting that the Vote No side has 30,056 votes, for 50.44 percent of the vote. CATOH can count thus far 29,535 votes. Which means…
Perhaps Carol Reed was right about closing strong: With 79 of 534 precincts reporting, the Proposition 1 race is only getting tighter — separated by a mere 207 votes now. At the moment, the pro-hotel faction has taken the teensy-weensy lead with 22,481 votes, or 50.23 percent of the vote…
Contrary to what’s been reported elsewhere, the Citizens Against the Taxpayer-Owned Hotel party at Tucker on Ross Avenue is, in fact, open to the press and public. Matter of fact, not only is Merten on hand for the gathering, but so too are KXAS-Channel 5’s Ken Kalthoff and Trey Garrison…
Just minutes after the Mavs lost to the Nuggets on a last-minute three-pointer, a campaign staffer for the Vote No folks reported the early-vote tallies on a chalkboard in the middle of The Loft dining room. It was hard to discern any type of reaction from a crowd still stung…
