Politics
• 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
There’s an interesting story in the Dallas News today by Matthew Haag (it’s behind the paywall) about DISD Supt. Michael Miles becoming the media punching bag for Dalla[...]
30 Apr 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
Advocate photo editor Danny Fulgencio reports from last week’s George W. Bush Presidential Center opening: With road closures and airtight security, last Thursday’s chr[...]
29 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
To find the City Council items that matter most to our neighborhood, you could scroll through this 626-page PDFof next week’s agenda. Or you could hover over the hot spots on this [...]
23 Apr 2013
Fundraising is well underway for District 14 with seven candidates vying for Angela Hunt’s council seat. Former assistant city attorney Bobby Abtahi is gaining momentum and a[...]
15 Apr 2013
Alex Winslow’s new neighbors weren’t excited to hear about the request he recently submitted to the City Plan commission to rezone the residential property at the north[...]
04 Apr 2013
