• KERA focuses on the loss of women and Hispanic members on the incoming city council, noting Dallas’ growing Hispanic population. The city is half Anglo and about half black and H[...]
13 May 2013
1. No one cares. Even where turnout was heaviest – abut 20 percent in District 13, where Jennifer Staubach Gates beat Leland Burk – it still wasn’t much. And some of the totals in [...]
12 May 2013
I was a guest on Observer columnist Jim Schutze’s KNON radio show, Get Off My Lawn, last week, and will return at 10 a.m. on Saturday. Jim, ever the gentleman, even let me plug my [...]
09 May 2013
Yes, that’s the latest addition to the Walgreen’s at Mockingbird and Matilda — an eVgo electric car charging station. It has been there about a week or so. Have n[...]
08 May 2013
• Remember the water taxis that were going to shuttle us around the Trinity River park after the tollroad was built? Turns out they were such a good idea that Fort Worth wants to u[...]
07 May 2013
Dear Google: I read with great humor about your company’s Three Stooges act on lower Greenville this week. Sadly, it’s the kind of thing that I would expect from a hubris-driven mu[...]
02 May 2013
• Oak Cliff city councilman Scott Griggs says he has the votes to pass a resolution in support of marital rights for gay couples, and the council should vote on his motion sometime[...]
01 May 2013
That’s the topic of my column in the May magazine. We’re not just looking at low turnouts in the city council elections set for May 11, but what could be record-low turnouts. That’[...]
30 Apr 2013
Inrix, a Seattle-based traffic consultancy, annually ranks the most congested highways in the country. Not surprisingly, LBJ from Valley View west to Kingsley made the 2012 list – [...]
25 Apr 2013
This is probably my fault, so I’ll take one for the team. Lincoln Property, which wants to redevelop the Garland/Gaston/Grand intersection to look like it’s in Richardson, is doing[...]
25 Apr 2013
