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October 21, 2014
How Awful Is Your Street: A Searchable Database of Dallas Road Conditions
(NOTE: The search tool below was working a moment ago, but is now experiencing technical difficulties. Please stand by.) Dallas has terrible streets. Ask any driver who hasn't been rendered prematurely senile by the constant jostling over disintegrating pavement or any cyclist who's survived a run- ... More >>
Blogs
October 17, 2012
Judge Halts Dallas' Flow Control Plan, Basically Calls City Hall a Bunch of Liars
A federal judge has ruled that the City of Dallas pretty much lied about every single aspect of its so-called "flow-control" trash program. Judge Reed O'Connor granted a permanent injunction against a new city ordinance that would have forced commercial haulers to take all their trash to the city- ... More >>
Blogs
September 11, 2012
City Hall's Notion of Flow Control: Money Flows in, Control Gets Trashed
Last year, Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm and Mayor Mike Rawlings locked arms to push through a so-called "flow control" law, now locked up in a lawsuit, forcing commercial trash haulers in Dallas to use the city landfill instead of commercial dumps. Mayor Rawlings was candid about why. He admitted ... More >>
News
February 16, 2012
Michael Sorrell Revived Paul Quinn College (and Almost Died Doing It)
Dallas' only historically black college was on the brink of collapse. Now the students are protesters, the football field is a farm and the president is the star.
Blogs
November 23, 2011
Mayor Mike Rawlings Last Night: "Everything I Look At, I Ask, 'Is It Right for Southern Dallas?'"
Last night, Mayor Mike Rawlings hosted a community forum at Cedar Crest Golf Course, billed in the invitation as an "update on the City of Dallas." Backed by council members Dwaine Caraway and Tennell Atkins and a large supporting cast of other city officials, he tried to reassure the crowd: City Ha ... More >>
Blogs
September 27, 2011
Paul Quinn President, Regional Chamber Prez Ask Council to Delay Vote on Flow Control
Paul Quinn College President Michael SorrellAnyone who's even glanced Unfair Park in the last few months knows by now that City Manager Mary Suhm and Mary Nix, head of Sanitation Services, are hoping that the city council will vote tomorrow on a proposal that will force all solid-waste haulers to ... More >>
Blogs
September 7, 2011
Still No Consensus at City Hall on Converting Refuse to Revenue -- Or How to Do It
Waste as opportunity, or waste as the perpetuation of racial and economic inequality? Unfair interference in the trash-hauling free market or the forward-looking future of refuse? Both sides have been hashing it out for a while now, but the Dallas City Council's black members will get back to ... More >>
Blogs
August 2, 2011
Knee-Deep in the Waste Stream as Sanitation Services Head Mary Nix Talks Flow Control
Reason I missed Sanitation Services head Mary Nix last week was because she was on a plane bound for California -- Roseville, specifically, site of a "resource recovery" facility that converts trash into renewable energy. Which means ... get ready ... we're about to talk about flow control, the p ... More >>
Blogs
February 4, 2011
Come for the Super Bowl. Stay for the Skiing.
Photos by Justin TerveenI texted Justin shortly past 1 a.m.: "You getting this?" Silly me. He was at Fair Park at that very moment, snapping away. For hi-res versions, and time-lapse video, go here.Seven hours later and ... impressive. Unless you're, say, Sports Guy Bill Simmons, who shoots up th ... More >>