A Complete Look at the New Members of Dallas’ City Council Committees
On Friday, Mayor Eric Johnson announced his long-awaited appointments for Dallas’ City Council Committees. Of note: the freshman Chad West (North Oak Cliff’s representative) captures a spot as a chair....
View ArticleCasey Thomas Gets a Wrist Slap for Unreported Use of the VisitDallas Suite at...
Dallas’ Ethics Advisory Commission hit Council member Casey Thomas with a violation Tuesday morning stemming from his use of VisitDallas’ suite at American Airlines Center. Thomas’ recommended...
View ArticleLeading Off (10/16/19)
Dallas Baptist Cleared After Threat. The campus was on lockdown for more than four hours yesterday. It was a “bomb and coordinated armed” threat called into campus police. Atatiana Jefferson Pointed...
View ArticleThese Are All the Changes Coming to VisitDallas
VisitDallas will eventually get out of purgatory, but we may have to wait another six months or more for the City Council to decide whether to send it to the good or bad place. The agency’s contract...
View ArticleDallas Docs Make Bank on Pharma and Medical Device Royalties
A handful of Dallas doctors pocketed more than $1 million last year through royalties, ownership interests, and in some cases, consulting and speaking engagements tied to the pharmaceutical and medical...
View ArticleNorth Dallas Families Regroup After an EF-3 Tornado Rips Through Their...
Ann Marie Scichili stood on her back porch and pointed at her neighbors. “That house doesn’t have a roof anymore,” she said. “This house had a tree fall in on it.” And that fence back there, tipped...
View ArticleAerial Photos Show the Tornado’s Path Through Dallas
The National Weather Service says the tornado that tore through Dallas on Sunday night was an EF-3, bringing winds as high as 140 miles per hour. Yesterday we published a slideshow of photos that...
View ArticleThe White Rock Lake Dredging Feasibility Study Is Official
Good news today for fans of White Rock Lake: the city will pay for a feasibility study on dredging its silt-filled asset. City Council swept through a resolution on Wednesday that pulled $99,300 from...
View ArticleLeading Off (10/24/19)
Tornadoes Caused $2 Billion in Damage. That’s the estimate from the Insurance Council. There were nine tornadoes. It’s the most expensive severe weather event in the history of North Texas. Activists...
View ArticleIt Was Wednesday Before Jennifer Gates Believed There Would Be No Casualties...
I had to bother Jennifer Staubach Gates for another story today, but when I got the North Dallas Council member on the phone, she was nice enough to also bring me up to speed on her last few days in...
View ArticleLee Kleinman Says the City Is Still in Emergency Mode
We checked in with Councilwoman Jennifer Staubach Gates yesterday about the city’s reaction to Sunday’s tornadoes. The districts of Gates and Councilman Lee Kleinman took the brunt of the damage in...
View ArticleThe Atlantic Profiles Dallas DA John Creuzot
From The Atlantic this week, we get a sweeping view of John Creuzot’s first seven or so months atop Dallas County’s justice system. The piece is framed as the inside story of a progressive DA’s attempt...
View ArticleWalkable Neighborhoods Could Boost Dallas’ Dismal Economic Mobility, Study Says
As we wrote about earlier this year, there is much economic opportunity inside Dallas’ pedestrian-friendly spaces. A recent study of Dallas-Fort Worth’s 38 most walkable neighborhoods found that they...
View ArticleHouse Damaged by the Tornado? Lease a Six-Bedroom For Just $20,000 Per Month
The home Michael Sharry has lived in for the last two decades is destroyed. Boards and branches pile up out back in the gap where the fence used to be. Light streams in through caved-in ceilings, blue...
View ArticleLeading Off (10/30/19)
Questions About Greenville Mass Shooting Arrest. The Sheriff’s Office says they have their man in 23-year-old Brandon Ray Gonzalez, who actually gave an interview from jail Monday. His family and a...
View ArticleThe City’s VisitDallas Alternatives Aren’t Great
VisitDallas got slapped around earlier this month when it went before the City Council. “I think they grasp the changes that need to be made, but I don’t think it was communicated as effectively at...
View ArticleSome On Council Don’t Want to Subsidize ‘Luxury’ Market Royal Blue Grocery
Austin-based Royal Blue Grocery wants to put a fourth locally sourced market here, but it says it will need $700,000 from Dallas to make it work. On Monday, because their city is still stricken by food...
View ArticleLeading Off (11/6/19)
Birabil, Armstrong Advance to D100 Runoff. That’s Mayor Eric Johnson’s old Texas House seat. Lorraine Birabil, who worked as Texas Outreach coordinator for Beto O’Rourke’s Senate campaign, pulled 33...
View ArticleAgainst the Odds, a Fabric Alley Shop Survives the Tornado
Two years ago, straight line winds whipped through Dallas and ripped air conditioning units clean off Rick Cohen’s Dallas fabric warehouse. His Houston location was flooded by Hurricane Harvey in 2017,...
View ArticleThe Mayor Selects an Ethical Czar
Eric Johnson, Dallas’ mayor who came under scrutiny for taking a job with a high-profile Dallas law firm just a few months after campaigning on fixing the city’s ethics problems, selected a head of...
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