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Maybe Tom Leppert Should Take a Hint from Nashville’s Mayor?

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Published Dec. 8, 2009 at 12:39 p.m.

Or I guess I should say, “Maybe Tom Leppert could invent a time machine, go not too far into the future and see how other cities handled the convention center hotel issue, come back to Dallas and the present, and change his mind about public funding.” From Nashville Mayor Karl Dean, which, for some reason, [ ... ] ...

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Completely Unsurprising Headline, Ctd.

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Published Nov. 13, 2009 at 10:49 p.m.

At the ribbon-cutting tonight for Dallas’ Main Street Garden, Mayor Tom Leppert said he wasn’t fazed or “surprised” by today’s news that GOP gubernatorial hopeful Kay Bailey Hutchison will remain in the U.S. Senate at least until next March. He also said it wouldn’t affect his future plans one way or the other–plans that Gromer Jeffers [ ... ] ...

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Completely Unsurprising Headline: “Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert Considering Run For U.S. Senate”

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Published Nov. 13, 2009 at 2:52 p.m.

He finally admitted it during a taping of Inside Texas Politics. It only took him a year ...

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Leading Off (8/25/09)

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Published Aug. 25, 2009 at 7:40 a.m.

1. Mayor Leppert says he will propose huge changes to the way the city conducts its zoning cases, a process change he has been working on since 2007. The plan has three key components, which I should list here, but just typing the words “zoning cases” makes me so very sleepy. Jump and read if [ ... ] ...

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Mark Your Calendars: Best Dallas Open House of the Year

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Published Aug. 16, 2009 at 12:53 p.m.

The one you won’t want to miss…  coming up August 30…  get inside an almost $9 million dollar Preston Hollow mansion just around the corner from former Mayor Laura Miller’s digs. Come to think of it, Mayor Tom Leppert is just up the street. Stay tuned to Dallas Dirt for all the lurid details… ...

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Will Mayor Tom Leppert Run for Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison’s Seat?

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Published Aug. 13, 2009 at 10:03 a.m.

Mayor Leppert took a turn Monday on Fox Business to talk about the need to get federal stimulus money flowing in Dallas and other big cities. He is getting much better at these gigs. A solid performance. He came across as very mayoral. But watch the smile on his face when he’s asked at the [ ... ] ...

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Leading Off (8/5/09)

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Published Aug. 5, 2009 at 7:22 a.m.

1. According to a new study, Dallas leads the state in having the most expensive health care (a writer to Andrew Sullivan has first-hand — or first-face — experience). So Mayor Tom Leppert is trying to get to the bottom of the problem, chatting up the president of Cigna HealthCare’s Texas region about the whys [ ... ] ...

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Leading Off (7/23/09)

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Published July 23, 2009 at 8:07 a.m.

1. In a move that surprised only people who are really easily surprised, Mayor Leppert didn’t pick council member (and chief thorn in his paw) Angela Hunt to chair (or even vice chair) any of the council’s seven main committees. In possibly related news, Leppert also decided not to kick himself in the crotch yesterday.2. [ ... ] ...

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Chief Kunkle’s Tat, Ctd.

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Published July 23, 2009 at 11:41 a.m.

The news of the Chief’s Road Runner tattoo got me thinking: what other local notables have semi-secret tattoos, and what are they of? Since I’m me, I’m going to throw out some wildly inaccurate guesses:• Mayor Leppert has the exact same tat, in the same location, as Golden State Warriors forward Stephen Jackson• Mark Cuban [ ... ] ...

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Dallas Mayor Leppert Just Fishing For Real Estate?

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Published June 24, 2009 at 11:07 a.m.

They are not “actively marketing their home” nor hankering to move, and they don’t have their eyes set on another abode. But now that the kids are gone, Mayor Tom Leppert and his wife, Laura, are toying with the idea of selling their 10,106-square-foot home in the honeypot of Preston Hollow — a hop, skip and jump [ ... ] ...

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