Read all about it here. And tomorrow, you can read why I'm applauding and pinching my nose at the same time, a delicate act not intended for the faint of heart. Or, put another way, I'm saying, "Way to go,...
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...
In my column today, for which I've received about a dozen or so emails supporting the idea of more thorough, comprehensive oversight, I suggested the need for a blue-ribbon panel that would search for the best practices and best ideas...
Shouldn't surprise anyone that Mayor Tom Leppert managed to keep an overwhelming council majority in his corner to stave off a proposed 1-cent property tax hike. As I mentioned here, the mayor spelled out the big reason he's opposed to...
Like you, Mr. Blow, I read the proposed Dallas city ethics reform story with great interest. After sitting through many days of the ongoing public corruption trial, I'm glad to see the mayor and council members addressing what clearly is...
I was astonished to read this morning that U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn said she wants to keep the city hall corruption trial moving briskly. So it can be finished by... the end of October?! Those poor jurors. They began...
As a journalist who's covered the city and as a taxpayer who regularly contributes to its coffers, I'm always amazed when City Hall decides to balance its books by cutting or delaying such essential services as street repair. I know...
Boy, I really was torn over which place I wanted to be this morning -- at the council festivities over at the Meyerson Symphony Center and City Hall, where a lot went down today--- or, over at the Earle Cabell...
...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...
University of North Texas economist Bernard L. Weinstein offers a simple -- and probably highly unpopular -- suggestion for balancing the budget: cut city salaries and raise property taxes. The city, as you know, is trying to wipe out a...
As I mentioned here, the city's bent on ridding bars and pool halls of carcinogenic cigarette smoke. Jacquielynn Floyd says here we might as well take the anti-smoking ban statewide. Fine with me: It's no secret that I've long held...
I took a harder look at Dallas Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway's gun buyback program and, despite its good intention, don't get yout hopes up. For years, experts have been telling anyone who'll listen that buying back guns is...
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...
Does this have an oddly familiar ring to it? Terrell Bolton, former Dallas police chief, vowed vindication in the courts Monday after he was fired from his job as police chief in DeKalb County, Ga. If somebody in DeKalb County,...
City officials already are projecting that next fiscal year's budget, which kicks in on Oct. 1, is shaping up to be a monster. We're talking about a $100 million potential budget gap, although, as the story points out, it's early...
Yes, there needs to be protection for rank-and-file officers from capricious or politically motivated firings. But this is nuts: FIred officers who are demonstrable bad cops - thugs, cheats, thieves - reinstated to their jobs by third-party arbitrators. Certainly there...
Dallas is putting some operational teeth in its new, more-restrictive smoking policy. In addition to outlawing butt-puffin' in bars, pool halls, and pretty much any other public venue, the city will provide a squad of "sanitarians" to make sure the...
The DMN editorial today was right on the money in its assessment of the conditions that allowed problems to fester at the apartment complex where Dallas police Senior Cpl. Norman Smith was shot to death Tuesday. (Yours truly hinted at...
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...
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