I wonder what the two women would say if you hopped in your time machine, traveled back to 2006, and told former DMN scribe Emily Ramshaw that she’d be working for an online-only nonprofit and former Dallas mayor Laura Miller that she’d be a lobbyist for an energy company that wants to build a $2 [ ... ] ...
CLEVELAND - One month from the start of the NBA's free agency frenzy, LeBron James said he's not close to making any decision ... However, he has handicapped his field of suitors ... The Cleveland Cavaliers lead the pack ... In his first interview since the Cavs' season ended with a shocking, second-round loss to Boston, James told CNN's Larry King that Cleveland "does have an edge" to re-sign him when the greatest collection of free agents in league history hits the open market on July 1 ...
Because they can, as I’ve told you before, foreclose on your home if you don’t pay the home association dues in Texas. You’re not in default to your mortgage company, but you still risk losing your home. Or lose it all together. Remember Ray Nagin, the Mayor of New Orleans? ...
1. The search for a new superintendent of the Irving school district has grown contentious. Hispanic leaders want to know why Cesar Chavez hasn’t been called back for a second interview.2. Speaking of racial tension, University Park Mayor Blackie Holmes had this to say about the passage yesterday of a ban on smoking in all [ ... ] ...
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, [ ... ] ...
Software company Covisint is nearing completion of a deal that could net disgraced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick $300,000 in commission. That’s what the Southlake resident told a Michigan judge to explain why he’d sought a delay for a hearing on what restitution he owes the city of Detroit.Another revelation of yesterday’s proceedings showed that [ ... ] ...
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 [ ... ] ...
The official opening of Main Street Garden went down tonight. The mayor’s hands were present. Lasers played a role (no joke). I overheard again — as I did at the opening of the PAC — “This doesn’t look like Dallas.” We will have more to say about this green space in the very near future, [ ... ] ...
Here is a recent memorandum from ssistant city manager, AC Gonzalez, to the Mayor and the City Council on the recent developments concerning local neighborhood markets. SPOILER ALERT: a committee and 90 days. Neighborhood Farmers Market Memo ...