As long as it's occupied chiefly by liquor stores, bail bondsmen, and pandhandlers fresh out of Lew Sterrett - and as long as you can't actually see the river unless there's a flood - I'm going to have trouble remembering...
But there's still much work to be done on the package, which won't be formally voted on until at least the second week of November. We're having some technical issues here, so I can't link to other stories right now....
Well, Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert and Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway are still pushing ahead. And they're still meeting some resistance from colleagues who suggest the mayor's moving too fast and not going far enough. So far, I don't hear...
Dallas City Council member Carolyn Davis continues to make us proud. Now she's wondering how she can possibly pick her daughter up from school if she's actually expected to attend council meetings. Ms. Davis is upset that a new council...
The Dallas City Council has postponed consideration of two changes in the way it conducts meetings. But I'll go ahead and offer my first-blush reaction to the two proposals. As far as restricting when and how often people can speak...
...when it came to keeping an eye how the city throws it weight and money around. I began calling him Wrong-Way Rasansky after he threw sharp elbows at a 14-year-old working on an Eagle Scout project that entailed building bat...
Well, our City Hall wrecking crew reports that, based on an informal, ridiculously unscientific online survey of Dallas City Hall Blog readers, it's District 14's Angela Hunt. Um, does this mean she gets a street named after her? You know...
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...
James, your friend and mine, Steve Blow, sure got the Angela-Hunt-can-do-no-wrong mopes riled up on the Dallas Observer blog. All pretty predictable, though: Blow bad; Angela Hunt good....
Or rather one elephant in particular, Jenny, the Dallas Zoo's lone pachyderm (in photo). And Mr. Blow says the City Council member has gone too far in meddling with the zoo's day-to-day operations....
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...
Boy, how does the simple renaming of a street become such a political hot potato? And how does the overwhelming survey choice -- Cesar Chavez Boulevard -- turn into a debate over immigration? Jump over to the City Hall blog,...
There are some strange goings-on at Dallas City Hall, but it's all for a good cause....
I have no idea what this means, but we had as much reader interest regarding La Madeleine's aborted attempt to charge for its bread as we did in former Dallas City Council member James Fantroy's decision to go to prison....
Blow, speaking of James Fantroy's decision to go to prison instead of apologize for his misdeeds, our online survey question is clogged with comments. The question was: "Did James Fantroy make the right decision?" So far, 178 of the 219...
Quite a strong column for tomorrow's paper, Mr. Blow. For BoldTypers, here's a tease: It's good to test your reflexes once in a while. Thanks to former Dallas City Council member James Fantroy, I know my gag reflex is working...
Congratulations, Dallas residents. You're in the hotel business. Since I'm no good at gazing into the future, I truly cannot predict whether the City Council's decision will prove to have been a wise, forward-looking stride toward downtown renaissance or a...
Some of you will remember former DMN reporter Dan Shine, who left Big D for a more inferior Big D. Well, Dan, all too familiar with the silly bickering on the Dallas City Council, offers up a video that captures...
Back in January, we told you about three possible logos that the city of Dallas was considering to "brand" the Trinity River project. On Tuesday morning, the City Council's Trinity River Corridor Project Committee will receive the staff's recommendation on...
Transportation writer Michael Lindenberger says a couple of seats on DART's board of directors are up for grabs -- including one held by the late Lynn Flint Shaw: Dallas City Council transportation committee members will interview at least three nominees...
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