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...
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...
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...
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...
Gents, may I propose a scheme so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel: Wanna rename Industrial? Start fund-raising. Look, the city is looking at a painful budget shortfall - they're talking about hours...
Given the ongoing and heated controversy over the potential new names for Industrial Boulevard, wonder if we shouldn't add a new choice to the list: Division Street. It's quick and easy (which is why I didn't suggest Hullabaloo or Quagmire)....
Our city hall crew is providing live blogging (as opposed to the dead stuff here) on the Industrial Boulevard debate. With this fine mess they have gotten themselves into, you'd think someone might take my advice and leave the friggin'...
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...
Why didn't Dallas think of this? Don't just rename Industrial Boulevard -- sell a new name! Once again, Arlington is ahead of us. Apparently its street names are available for sale to the highest bidder -- or at least the...
And the finalists to replace the name of Industrial Boulevard are (deep breath) Cesar Chavez Boulevard, Eddie Bernice Johnson Boulevard, Riverfront Boulevard, Trinity Lakes Boulevard, Trinityview Boulevard or Waterfront Boulevard. So much for just picking three finalists. I reurge my...
Reader Paul Kramer thinks I'm way off base on Industrial Boulevard. He's inspired by the city's renaming plans: From a column of yours that I read recently I gather that you're against renaming Industrial Boulevard. I don't understand why. I...
Steve, Jack: Lovely ideas. SRV Boulevard sounds cool. Riverfront Boulevard has a ring to it -- unfortunately, it's too familiar (hint: San Antonio may call us a copycat!) I'm of the mind that the powers that be may prefer some...
OK, I was all dug in to oppose some weenie new name for Industrial Boulevard. Does the world really need another Water-Vista-Scenic-Lakes-Bland-Parkway Avenue? "Industrial" evokes the strip's true-to-life roadhouse-and-liquor-store history. But, for this proposal, I make a single exception: SRV...
After I opined last week that Industrial Boulevard doesn't need a name change, lots of readers agreed and asked how they could help preserve the thoroughfare's name. If you're serious enough about it to visit Dallas City Hall, a meeting...
I don't know that you could call it a groundswell, but I've got 25 or 30 e-mails here -- all agreeing with me that Industrial Boulevard ought to remain Industrial Boulevard. One caller also agreed. And he offered a quote...
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