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Blogs
September 25, 2014
Dwaine Caraway Does a Terrific Vonciel Hill, but Maybe Not a Good Way to Win Her Vote
Earlier in the week Dallas City Council member Dwaine Caraway told The Dallas Morning News that he had the votes necessary to secure the three-quarters majority of the City Council to override the City Plan Commission, which voted 13-1 against his proposal to rename South Lancaster Road after Nelson ... More >>
Blogs
September 5, 2014
Dwaine Caraway Has Skipped 52,500 Calories and Dropped 15 Pounds in the Last Three Weeks
City Council member Dwaine Caraway might be having a bit of trouble abiding by his own "Pull Your Pants Up" initiative after losing 15 pounds since the start of his Councilman Caraway Wellness Challenge three weeks ago. Caraway checked in at 300 pounds at the press conference announcing the challe ... More >>
Blogs
June 18, 2014
City Council Spends Much of the Morning Arguing About Term Limits, Puts Off Uber Again
After finally worming its way onto the Dallas City Council's briefing agenda, the newly revised transportation-for-hire ordinance, the one that's supposed to fix the whole Yellow Cab/Uber/Lyft mess, has been put off. Despite protestations from Sandy Greyson, who headed the work group behind the ne ... More >>
Blogs
June 4, 2014
Dallas Officials Will Probe Alleged Racism at Kung Fu Saloon, and Maybe Go for Happy Hour
After DeAndre Upshaw repeated his story, this time for the Dallas City Council, about the bouncers at Uptown's Kung Fu Saloon who appear to discriminate based on race, the City Council had an idea. They could all meet there for happy hour. "You mention about no socks," Councilman Dwaine Caraway sa ... More >>
Blogs
April 14, 2014
Hundreds of Thousands of Dallas Pets Are Living in the City Illegally
How many dogs and cats are there in Dallas? It's a hard, maybe impossible figure to nail down with any certainty, but extrapolating from the Humane Society's U.S. pet-ownership statistics, the number is just north of 600,000. The American Veterinary Medical Association's pet-ownership calculator giv ... More >>
Blogs
March 24, 2014
Dallas Set to Decide on Plastic Bag Ban on Wednesday
It's entirely possible that the Dallas City Council will show up on Wednesday, argue for an hour or two, then decide that it's not quite ready to vote on banning plastic and other single-use carryout bags, Dwaine Caraway's March-vote-or-bust pledge be damned. But, thanks to a draft of the ordinance ... More >>
Blogs
January 15, 2014
Dallas Will Decide on Plastic-Bag Ban in March. For Real This Time.
March. That's when the Dallas City Council will finally decide whether to ban single-use plastic (and paper) bags. That was the takeaway from today's council briefing on the subject, the umpteenth since Councilman Dwaine Caraway launched his crusade last March. For the first hour of the meeting, i ... More >>
Blogs
January 9, 2014
White Rock's Dog Park is Getting a $1 Million Redo, but First, Why Are There None in Southern Dallas?
Yesterday, the Dallas City Council green-lighted a long-delayed, million-dollar renovation of the dog park at White Rock Lake. Built for a song a dozen years ago, it is crowded, muddy and in bad need of an overhaul. City Councilman Dwaine Caraway agrees. He, like the rest of his colleagues, voted f ... More >>
Blogs
December 9, 2013
Caught With Weed? Some Dallas Councilmembers Want to Seize Your Car.
If you're not familiar with Tenaha, Texas, go back and read this The New Yorker piece from August detailing how police and prosecutors in the tiny East Texas town used civil forfeiture laws and a phantom suspicion of drugs to seize cars, cash, jewelry and anything else they could find from innocent ... More >>
Blogs
August 21, 2013
Dallas is a Long, Long Way From Making Up Its Mind on a Plastic Bag Ban
A young boy buys a bag of potato chips. He's barely out of the local bodega when he takes his first bite, thoughtlessly tossing aside the plastic bag it came in. Meanwhile, in an alleyway nearby, two more of the polyethylene sacks dislodge themselves as a garbage truck empties the contents of a gray ... More >>
Blogs
July 24, 2013
Dwaine Caraway Wants Dallas to Talk About Race, and Not in Anonymous Blog Comments
Yesterday, Councilman Dwaine Caraway issued a call for a formal, citywide discussion on race. It isn't scheduled to take place until September 21, probably at City Hall, but it got a head start in the The Dallas Morning News' comments section.
Blogs
June 10, 2013
The City Is Marching Toward a Plastic Bag Ban
In a weekend story previewing the City Council's discussion today on single-use plastic bags, the Dallas Morning News ran a photo of a tattered Kroger bag snagged on a barbed wire fence, downtown Dallas looming as a backdrop. "What I want to hear is who's going to go get these bags off this barbed ... More >>
Blogs
May 29, 2013
Rudy's Gets New Digs, and South Dallasites Get More Sodium
It is impossible to miss Rudy's Chicken as you drive down Lancaster Avenue through southern Dallas. The overwhelming aroma of chicken and grease will hit you long before you see the peeling red and orange paint that marks the storefront. The string of ruby brake lights are a beacon, guiding you, oh ... More >>
Blogs
May 13, 2013
Dwaine Caraway Wants to Dig Up Main Street, Turn it Into the River Walk
Right now, the City Council is debating whether to lower fees and loosen the rules governing what businesses can put on sidewalks and public rights of way, the idea being that more sidewalk cafes and awnings and creative signage and landscaping can help create a more enjoyable urban experience. Plan ... More >>
Blogs
April 10, 2013
Civil Rights Leader Peter Johnson Excoriates Council for Proposal to Bus Out Homeless
Last week, as they City Council was being briefed on the still very incomplete effort to end chronic homelessness in Dallas, a frustrated Dwaine Caraway proposed a surefire solution: Why not round up the homeless people, stick them on a Greyhound bus, and send them back to where they came from? Most ... More >>
Blogs
March 19, 2013
Dwaine Caraway Wants a Plastic Bag Ban Right Now, Thank You Very Much
City officials have made this much clear: a plastic bag ban, a la Austin and any number of California cities, will be coming to Dallas -- eventually. Just last month, assistant city manager Jill Jordan told the City Council that Dallas is "maybe a year or two" away from considering such a measure. B ... More >>
Blogs
January 2, 2013
Willis Johnson and KKDA Were Booted Off the Air Yesterday to Make Way for a Korean Radio Station
The writing's been on the wall, one supposes, since KKDA-AM, a.k.a. Soul 73, abruptly laid off Bobby Patterson and most of the rest of its on-air staff, but the terse announcement posted to the station's website yesterday still comes as a shock: "Soul 730 KKDA is no longer broadcasting on the radio ... More >>
Blogs
December 4, 2012
Dwaine Caraway Probably Violated Ethics Rules, Definitely Thought About Running For Governor
Last week, Dwaine Caraway sent us a little pre-Thanksgiving note. It read, in full: We are pleased to invite you to the District Four Community Celebration, on Monday, December 3 from 10am-2pm. The event will be held in the 6th Floor Flag Room at Dallas City Hall. Hosted by Councilman Dwaine Caraw ... More >>
Blogs
October 4, 2012
Park Board Does Not Think They're Bungling Search for a New Director, Is Really Hurt Dwaine Caraway Would Say That
Last week, the city's Park and Recreation Board made City Council member Dwaine Caraway very unhappy when they announced their plans to go about searching for someone to replace outgoing department director Paul Dyer. The seven-member committee won't be hiring a national search firm, instead lookin ... More >>
Blogs
October 2, 2012
Dwaine Caraway Thinks Dallas is Bungling its Search for a New Park Director
The city's Park and Recreation Board is looking for someone to replace Paul Dyer, who is retiring after two decades at the helm of the parks department. Last week, a seven-member search committee, comprised of park board president Max Wells and a half dozen other board members, decided to keep the s ... More >>
Blogs
September 24, 2012
A Dispatch from Dwaine Caraway's Long, Tense, Tearful Anti-Sagging Summit
It was pretty much guaranteed that Dwaine Caraway's "Saggin' Pants Forum," held Saturday in City Hall chambers, was going to be weird. This was, after all, almost a full afternoon devoted to the City Council member and former mayor's ongoing crusade against men who don't belt their pants at the wais ... More >>
Blogs
August 28, 2012
Grab Your Belts, Hide Your Drawers: Caraway's Saggin' Summit Coming September 22
A few weeks ago, City Council member Dwaine Caraway ventured down to the first floor of City Hall, where he saw a sight that made his blood boil. Among the people waiting in line at the Bureau of Vital Statistics window was a very young man with his pants hanging down towards his knees. Preventing ... More >>
Blogs
July 26, 2012
Dwaine Caraway on Dixon Circle Killing: Fix the Big Picture or See It Get Worse
We're all holed up behind our verbal barricades on this Dixon Circle deal, me among the worst of them, surprise surprise. So maybe it's worth remembering that Dallas city councilman Dwaine Caraway was out there Tuesday night. He was urging calm among the hundreds of people angry about the fatal shoo ... More >>
Blogs
June 13, 2012
Councilman Caraway Relaunched His War on Saggy Pants Today, and Damn if We Didn't Go Buy a Belt
Today, City Council member Dwaine Caraway relaunched his war on saggy pants with a press conference/"Pull 'Em Up" summit in City Hall, and it was without a doubt the single best thing to ever happen to Dallas. First there was the star-studded cast of characters: all of City Council, except for May ... More >>
Blogs
June 6, 2012
Dwaine Caraway Relaunching Crusade Against Sagging Pants
Councilman Dwaine Caraway announced this morning at the City Council briefing that despite his half-decade long effort to get young men to pull 'em up, Dallas' sagging epidemic is only getting worse. "It's a doggone shame," he said. Seems that Caraway recently spotted two young men strolling throu ... More >>
Blogs
May 2, 2012
The Ongoing and (Slow-Moving) Fight to Regulate Boarding Homes in Dallas
The city of Dallas has been grappling for years with how to better regulate boarding homes for the elderly, mentally ill and disabled , which are currently subject to very little oversight. About three weeks ago, the city council's housing committee was told that licensing and regulating the homes c ... More >>
Blogs
January 26, 2012
Dwaine Caraway's Looking Out For the City
On Wednesdays I keep the city council broadcasts dialed up in the office for the high irritainment value. Besides, you never know what'll happen. Take yesterday, for instance. There were a few things I wanted to keep an eye on, but at the bottom of the bottom of the list was Addendum Item No. 10, ... More >>
Blogs
December 14, 2011
"Trees Do Not Vote" and Other Highlights From Contentious Council Talk About a Walmart
Speaking of Dwaine Caraway ...The city council just voted on that Walmart Supercenter proposed for Ledbetter and R.L. Thornton, and though it ultimately passed unanimously it was no simple thing -- far from. It was quite the discussion -- heated at times, thoughtful at others. On the surface it w ... More >>
Blogs
October 6, 2011
Race to the Finish: After Ugly Redistricting Meeting, Council (Barely) Settles on Map
Yesterday afternoon, around 5:30, as a tiny audience sat in the city council chambers, former Mayor Dwaine Caraway came by and declared to Unfair Park, "I think we got something." That's right. A final redistricting map. Finally.Caraway spoke about three hours too soon, though. Last night at 8:30 ... More >>
Blogs
September 22, 2011
Tennell Atkins, Dwaine Caraway Demand Four African-American Seats Stay On City Council
Photo by Anna MerlanCaraway and Atkins at this morning's press conferenceDid you wake up this morning wondering what all the arguing's going to be about at Saturday's redistricting forum with Mayor Mike Rawlings and the city council members? Wonder no longer! At a City Hall press conference just ... More >>
Blogs
August 17, 2011
Marvin Crenshaw, Dwaine Caraway and Sandra Crenshaw on the Fate of Dallas's Black Districts
Anna's gotten to know the city awfully well in a very short amount of time -- that's what sitting through every single redistricting meeting will do to and for you. And she was there for four hours last night, even though she's got a cover story due, like, now. And she'll be there all d ... More >>
Blogs
August 8, 2011
Dwaine Caraway Isn't About to Let the City Close Pools, Especially Two In His District
Mary Suhm was right about one thing: When I asked her Thursday where she saw the council pushing back on her proposed FY2011-12 budget, she said, well, probably pools -- specifically, her suggestion that the city shutter five of its 17 pools in the coming fiscal year. Those pools: Bonnie View, Ex ... More >>
Blogs
August 5, 2011
Dwaine Caraway Speaks at Longest Redistricting Commission Meeting Ever & Other Highlights
The end is near ... sort of. The city's Redistricting Commission is inching towards putting together a city map it can forward on to the city council, and everyone -- the public and commissioners alike -- is trying to get in a parting shot before then. Last night's meeting was a marathon ... More >>
Blogs
July 22, 2011
More Fun With Redistricting As We Look at Caraway and Davis's Unusable Submissions
Click to embiggen Dwaine Caraway's proposed map, or just look at it here.The next meeting of the Redistricting Commission is Tuesday -- I know, I know, settle down. At which point, the commission will discus yet another round of submissions, among them one from none other than council member Dwai ... More >>
Blogs
June 27, 2011
Dwaine Caraway Bids Goodbye to the Mayor's Seat. Don't Expect a Return Visit.
This was Dwaine Caraway's last day as temporary unelected mayor of Dallas. He is now the former temporary mayor or FTM. But he thinks he's prime material for full-time elected mayor at some point in the future. That's not true. The reason why it is not true may not be what everybody thinks. ... More >>
Blogs
June 27, 2011
He's Mayor For Two More Hours ...
At 10 this morning at the Meyerson Symphony Center, Mike Rawlings officially becomes Dallas mayor, and Dwaine Caraway goes back to being just one of 14 council members who must travel sans security detail. Shortly after that, more than likely, Pauline Medrano wi ... More >>
Blogs
June 23, 2011
You Want a Key to the City? Here You Go.
Remember when Dwaine Caraway gave Michael Vick a key to the city of Dallas and everyone got outraged and then-Mayor Tom Leppert had the city clamp down on who had access to the prize closet and Caraway said but look, man, I did it for the children? Yeah. Good times. Only, see, it's not hard to ge ... More >>
Blogs
June 14, 2011
Mayor Caraway to Push Back Vote on Gas Drilling Task Force Till Griggs Is Sworn In
Photo by Patrick MichelsPatrick's heading down to City Hall shortly -- not just for the noon-thirty all-star press conference on the plaza, during which the mayor and police chief and council members will fill in every last blank concerning Thursday's 10 a.m. Mavs parade, but for today's meeting ... More >>
Blogs
May 10, 2011
Mayor Assembles Council Brain Trust, Or Something, to Review Ethics Rollback
City Attorney Tom Perkins and Mayor Dwaine Caraway at last week's council meetingWhile I was on the phone with Chris Heinbaugh about the item just below this one, he mentioned that Mayor-Not-For-Long Dwaine Caraway informed his council colleagues today that he's ready to go with that whole ad hoc ... More >>
Blogs
May 5, 2011
The Day Provides Yet Another Campaign Season Highlight: A New Dwaine Caraway Radio Ad
Photo by Sam MertenMany thanks to the great Rudolph Mantooth Bush, head scorekeeper at The News's City Hall Blog, who has shared Mayor Dwaine Caraway's sequel to his Payday Loan King ad slamming Mike Rawlings for his six-year stint on the board of directors of Ace Cash Express. But it's so much m ... More >>
Blogs
May 4, 2011
The Greatest Sideshow on Earth: When The "Transparent" (Cough) City Council Talks Ethics
City council members Angela Hunt and Vonciel Jones Hill are kicking ass at today's contentious hearing on the city council's recent unethics reform, which is about to wrap up. (Or not.) The council voted last April 13 to gut its ethics policy and allow political contributions from representatives ... More >>
Blogs
April 1, 2011
Caraway Rallies Troops to Shutter Hooker-Plagued Luxury Inn, Over Lawyer's Objections
Photos by Patrick MichelsMayor Dwaine Caraway, DPD Chief David Brown, City Attorney Tom Perkins, council members and other familiar faces gather to announce the closure of the Luxury Inn on S. Buckner Boulevard.If the city's shutting down another hookers-n-drugs party shack around town, you can b ... More >>
Blogs
March 31, 2011
Trinity Levee Repairs on Track to Beat FEMA's Deadline, But Corps Stresses Approval "Cannot Be Guaranteed"
Photos by Sam MertenTrinity Trust Foundation chair Margaret McDermott Cook says Dallasites will be running from her as fund-raising for the Trinity project resumes.It was all smiles and back-slapping this afternoon as the city, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Trinity River Corridor Project p ... More >>
Blogs
March 30, 2011
Could It Be ... Solar-Powered Water Taxis? Nah. Just "Significant News" About Trinity Levees.
City Hall just sent word: Tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. in the Flag Room, Mayor Dwaine Caraway, Trinity River Corridor Project Committee Chairman Dave Neumann and representatives of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Trinity Trust Foundation and Trinity Commons Foundation will hold a press conference to a ... More >>
Blogs
March 15, 2011
Sendai's Response To Caraway's Missive: We're Kinda Busy Over Here, But Thanks Anyway
City of DallasCaraway chats with Ebby Halliday at her 100th birthday celebration today sponsored by the East Dallas Chamber of Commerce. Mayor Dwaine Caraway sent a letter on Friday expressing the city's "deepest condolences" to his counterpart in Sendai, Japan, Mayor Emiko Okuyama. Caraway menti ... More >>
Blogs
March 9, 2011
Mayor Dwaine Caraway's Records and Tapes Are Private? Not By a Long, Smelly Shot.
Yesterday a commenter wrote in to Unfair Park in reference to an item about Dallas Mayor Dwaine Caraway and the legal action he has brought against his own city to prevent the release of an embarrassing police tape. The commenter said, "It's hard to imagine the tape shows anything other than ... More >>
Blogs
March 4, 2011
Turns Out DPD Has Audio of Supposed Dispute Between (Ahem) Arthur and Archie -- and Attorney General Says They Must Release It
Photo by Sam MertenMayor Dwaine CarawayAlong with a handful of other media outlets that filed open records requests about the incident at Mayor Dwaine Caraway's home near Cedar Crest Golf Course known as the "Arthur and Archie" ordeal, we asked for notes, audio, video and any other possible d ... More >>
Blogs
March 3, 2011
Endorsements Aplenty For Ron Natinsky, Including Mayor Dwaine Caraway, Who Says There's No Time to Learn About Anyone Else
Photos by Sam MertenMayor Dwaine Caraway asked mayoral candidate Ron Natinksy to put an endorsement sticker on his blazer this afternoon.Mayor Dwaine Caraway and 11 current and former council members endorsed council member Ron Natinksy for mayor this afternoon at City Hall Plaza. Caraway urg ... More >>
Blogs
March 2, 2011
Mayor Dwaine Caraway's "Calling a New Play"
Photos by Sam MertenMayor Dwaine Caraway, his wife and council member Dave Neumann this morning at the City Hall Flag Room.Just minutes before presiding over his first meeting as the city's newly minted mayor, Dwaine Caraway assured a group of around 150 folks gathered for a light breakfast i ... More >>
Blogs
March 2, 2011
Outside the Statler, a Celebration. Inside the Statler, a Sneak Peek at the Work to Be Done.
Photos by Sam MertenWho can you name in this gathering of officials the mayor pulled together for a press conference-closing group photo?When Sam and I got to Main Street Garden around 2:15 this afternoon for the Statler-sale press conference, there weren't a lot of people around -- just a few fo ... More >>
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