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October 24, 2014
Dallas Wants to Kill the Tietze Park Pool, Which Is Dumb and Unneccessary
Sorry, everybody else, but this is one of those times I have to go all-in, full-tilt, do-or-die East Dallas on you. East Dallas! Listen to me! They're going to take Tietze Pool away from you! Tietze Pool! One reason you moved into the Greater M Streets Area, also known as Far Outer Lakewood, also ... More >>
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September 3, 2011
Memos to the Council: This Week, Filling In a Few Big Blanks on the FY2011-12 Budget
Photo by Harry WilonskyJust what you wanted to kick off your Labor Day Weekend -- 16 pages' worth of budget Q's and A's prepared by the City Manager's Office for the city council following the August 8 budget briefing. There are 49 questions, all told, ranging from Big Picture to footnotes that f ... More >>
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July 16, 2011
As Dallas City Manager Inches Closer Toward a Proposed Budget, Some Revealing Insights
Dallas City Council remains on vacation till August (well, not everyone), but City Manager Mary Suhm and her staff remain at work needing to trim $20 million more out of the FY2011-12 budget to balance that sucker. Hence the memos sent to the council and mayor last night: One deals with just some ... More >>
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November 3, 2010
Voters Tell City of Dallas That It's Not OK to Sell Elgin B. Robertson and Joey Georgusis Parks
Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm first suggested selling Elgin B. Robertson Park in mid-May, in a document presented to the city council titled "FY 2010-11 Budget: Brainstorming Ideas." Wrote Suhm and city staff, money raised from dispensing with the 257 acres on Lake Ray Hubbard -- a parcel of land ... More >>
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November 2, 2010
Alas, There Were No "I Voted" Stickers
Don't let the empty doorway at right fool you -- Leonides Gonzalez Cigarroa M.D. Elementary, home of the Fightin' One-One-One-Seven, was full of voters early this a.m. 'Round 8 all the booths were occupied, and a short line was forming behind me; hence the brief wait till space cleared. I was No. ... More >>
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November 2, 2010
Dallas Is Getting Wet, And It Ain't the Rain
It was way back in February that Gary Huddleston, the Dallas market's director of consumer affairs at Kroger, first made it known he was leading yet another effort to get Dallas all wet and make it possible to buy beer and wine wherever citywide. Nine months later, the treasurer of Keep the Dolla ... More >>
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June 15, 2010
Says the Man Who Wants to Save Samuell Farm: "You Can't Make Parks by Getting Rid of Parks."
This isn't our first item about Park and Rec's proposal to sell Samuell Farm and Samuell New Hope Park, and it won't be the last. I'm waiting to hear from the Texas Attorney General's Office how it feels about Thursday's agenda item, given that it was but 14 months ago the state told the city tha ... More >>
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June 14, 2010
Ain't Gonna Work on Samuell Farm No More? The City Would Like to Sell Beloved Property.
The entirety of Samuell Farm in an aerial snapshot taken by Hugh Brooks's now-defunct Friends of the FarmI expect this won't be our last item on this subject today, given the years of blood, toil, tears and sweat that have been spilled over Samuell Farm. But just a little more than a year after t ... More >>
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June 14, 2010
W.W. Samuell Told Dallas It Could Never Sell His Farm. How, Then, Did It Come to This?
Photos courtesy the Friends of the FarmOne of the foot bridges on Samuell FarmI just spoke with Willis Winters, assistant director of Park and Rec, about the potential sale of Samuell Farm and how it landed on the board's agenda this Thursday in the first place. Says Winters, it actually came up ... More >>