In a blog posting yesterday, the Observer's resident pessimist, Jim Schutze, was predicting that a proposal to register city hall lobbyists was DOA -- particularly with the mayor. He wrote: My prediction? A majority of the Dallas City Council believes...
The City of Dallas just announced the sale of bonds to finance the new convention center hotel. And the 4.69 percent interest rate is even better than the 5.5 percent that had been the city's target rate. Read on for...
One of our copy editors, Dorothy Pugh, assures me she cares about more than water. (This is the second question she's posed in the last few weeks about water conservation.) Here's the latest: Driving in today around 3:45 p.m., I...
There is one small downside to learning a second language: You start seeing a whole new set of irksome misspelled words. And the City of Dallas is responsible for one real jaw-grinder. A residential street near Marsh and Royal in...
Well, I'm certainly in favor of dolling up the Trinity frontage ASAP, especially since it's paid-for-up-front. Starting to look like a little bit of a political pie-fight, though, to get rid of the inconveniently located medium-security Dawson State Jail. The...
Must admit I got a kick out of Frontburner's online survey asking folks a simple question: How's it going in Dallas? Mainly loved the way Editor Tim Rogers framed the responses. Here's two of the five optional responses: No. 1...
All I wanted to do was pay my water bill online. The city of Dallas has replaced its old online payment Web site with a new one, which means you have to re-register. Well, I did, but I had difficulty...
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