It's nice to see that city leaders may finally be reaching agreement on a street to rename in honor of Cesar Chavez. And, of course, I'm glad to see it's the one I was pushing. But shhh! Don't say a...
Dallas City Council member Steve Salazar just called to tell me that a proposal to rename Young Street for Cesar Chavez is no longer on the table. He said all options are back under consideration -- including my idea of...
Dallas City Council member Dave Neumann, who managed to overspend his city-allotted office budget then said he wasn't going to make up the difference, now says he will. Way to go, Neumann. Now, for heaven's sake, will you please apologize...
Steve, regarding your earlier post, I think there's a great opportunity for renaming not just Dallas Farmers Market but the sections of the streets that envelope the marketplace after Cesar Chavez. "Cesar Chavez Circle" (or Square, if you like) would...
With the city promising to find some new way to honor Cesar Chavez within 90 days, I'd like to reurge my motion that we name Central Expressway for him. Not the freeway, but rather the downtown street with the confusing,...
Or, more bluntly: How renaming Industrial Boulevard turned into a no-way-out, political cul-de-sac. Amazing to me that folks at Dallas City Hall can't put their heads together and figure out a reasonable alternative to this fruitless debate. There's majority support...
It's kind of funny. Folks commenting online are mostly negative about my idea to rename the downtown, surface-street stretch of Central Expressway for Cesar Chavez. But readers e-mailing me directly are almost unanimously enthused about the idea. Reader Frank had...
Said yesterday that I'm weary of all this street-name-change talk in Dallas. And I meant it. But as colleague Rudolph Bush points out, another round is underway at the City Plan Commission, which is considering the proposal to rename Ross...
If not Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert, then who's best poised to put an end to this street-naming mess? Any volunteers? I said it before, and I'll say it again: Big D has really dropped the ball on this one. Everyone...
Now that it's official - getting a street renamed is a direct measure of political heft - maybe the city needs to figure out a way to keep the process orderly. The furor over changing Ross to Cesar Chavez is...
Since Dallas Zoo officials have come up with the compromise position of keeping Jenny the elephant in Dallas, reader Jay Crisford suggests we go the next step in the spirit of compromise.... Give Jenny a new name -- Cesar Chavez....
Not much fun to be a city council member during the vote to force a longtime Ross Avenue body shop to shut its doors. While it was considered necesssary to spur the city's stated goal of upgrading the stretch of...
I was at the Dallas City Council's Trinity River Corridor meeting this morning, and it went about as well as it could. The committee worked out a deal that involved the panel recommending changing the name of Ross Avenue in...
As a general rule, the best blog postings and the best comments are short and sweet. We all have real work to do, right? But Bill Betzen has offered a long comment on the Cesar Chavez street-naming controversy that makes...
Jesse Diaz tends to wear me out. He's just a little too vocal. But he is talking some sense in a letter to the editor today: We have a time-honored practice of naming public spaces after people who have had...
What a merry day it'll be at City Hall tomorrow! There'll be lotsa fun-and-fireworks, an angry, polarized turf battle that didn't have to happen at all - an ugly, embarrassing race argument over something that has nothing to do with...
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