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• 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
This Monday and Tuesday are the last opportunities to vote early before the municipal and ISD elections next Tuesday, May 11. Here’s a Google map of early voting locations (t[...]
06 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
In case you haven’t heard, every living U.S. president will be gathering at the Bush Library Thursday for a big grand-opening party. My invitation must have been lost in the [...]
23 Apr 2013
Back in November, we told you about cloudy-water problems in Munger Place. Seems things have progressively gotten worse. The water collected in the pictured Ozarka bottle, says the[...]
15 Apr 2013
That’s the amount the council will be asked to spend to keep the control tower open at Dallas Executive Airport, which is on the federal sequester budget cut hit list. My favorite [...]
01 Apr 2013
As the publicity mounted for the Kip’s Big Boy statue installation on Abrams Road after our initial story (TV, radio and the DMN all ran stories), I had a feeling it would be[...]
29 Mar 2013
Five years ago, when the bosses downtown were putting together the first of their spending cuts budgets, we were assured that basic city services like fire and police protection wo[...]
26 Mar 2013
That’s the challenge that candidates in nine contested city council races, including the seven-candidate epic in District 14 in East Dallas, are facing in May. Turnout for city ele[...]
20 Mar 2013
