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...
Perhaps former Dallas City Council member and big-fish defendant Don Hill's attorney, Ray Jackson, will never admit this, but Hill did not serve himself well by taking the stand in his own defense. That's probably why none of the other...
....whether Sheila Farrington Hill's attorney, Victor Vital, is having second thoughts about allowing Hill's mistress-turned-wife take the ring. Ooops, I mean stand. Prosecutor Marcus Busch is pulling off his best Sugar Ray Leonard impression in the courtroom, and Hill is...
My colleague, Jason Trahan, says prosecutors are now beginning to show jurors how the money flowed in the alleged pay-for-play scheme. You could argue that prosecutors already have provided ample evidence of wrongdoing against some of the defendants. But, to...
I'm glued to my chair reading the cross-examination of Brian Potashnik, the governent's star witness in the Dallas City Hall corruption trial that Jason Trahan is expertly covering and blogging. I couldn't return to the courtroom today. Alas, other pressing...
I was standing near our office manager a few minutes ago and she informed me that I'd just missed a telephone call that she intercepted. She said a reader called me a "racist" because I used the term "white noise"...
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...
Yet another defendant (lawyer John Lewis) in the ongoing City Hall public corruption case just pleaded guilty and agreed to testify against Hill, who once had ambitions of being mayor. Prosecutors expect to file plea papers today for John Lewis,...
Yes, ex-Dallas schools technology chief Ruben B. Bohuchot finally got his comeuppance, namely an 11-year prison sentence for bribery and money laundering. Of course, he'd faced up to 20 years in the pokey, so it could have been worse. The...
My intrepid colleague, Jason Trahan, takes note of ex-Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill's financial woes, which, as he mentioned, I alluded to in Saturday's column. My column, BTW, generated two extreme reactions: One reader accused me of being Mr....
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