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Mail-in votes a major piece of Adam Medrano’s Dallas City Council victory 20 May 2013 | 11:01 pm
Just before Election Day, I posted a story about how mail-in ballots could impact council races. As it turned out, that was particularly true in one case – Adam Medrano’s defeat of Herschel Weisfeld i...
Dallas City Council will vote to end long legal saga of a man who spent 10 months behind bars after police hid evidence 20 May 2013 | 07:56 pm
Thomas Hannon in 2009 (G.J. McCarthy'/Staff photographer) A scheduled vote by the Dallas City Council on Wednesday should once and for all end a six-year-long saga that involved Dallas … [visit site t...
Long considered a vacant eyesore, 211 N. Ervay now targeted for office, retail redo using $2 million in TIF funding 19 May 2013 | 05:39 pm
A little more than a year ago city officials were still talking about a downtown Dallas that was absent 211 N. Ervay, the Thomas Stanley-designed aquamarine tower built by Leo Corrigan in 1958 that’s ...
Dallas wants to build 15,000 square feet of somewhere to park, eat and shop next to the Omni 18 May 2013 | 02:02 pm
A lovely, hazy look at the new development planned for the Omni's sideyard Seems like only yesterday the Dallas City Council was being sold on the Tourism Public Improvement District, the promise of $...
Tomorrow at the Trinity River Wind Festival, proof that you don’t need anything more than a big open space 17 May 2013 | 10:41 pm
In 2011, the first year of the Trinity River Wind Festival, folks knew what the city often forgets: You don't need to build it for the people to come. (Mona Reeder/Staff photographer)
Under proposed plan, Mary Suhm will leave as Dallas City Manager July 1 but work with city through December 31. A.C. Gonzalez to serve as interim mana... 16 May 2013 | 07:31 pm
City Manager Mary Suhm (Mona Reeder/ Dallas Morning News) Mayor Mike Rawlings has proposed a … [visit site to read more]
10 things most people don’t know about Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm 16 May 2013 | 06:15 pm
Mary Suhm working out at the gym of her personal trainer In January 2012. (MICHAEL AINSWORTH/The Dallas Morning News) As Scott Parks mentioned below, he wrote am engaing
Mary Suhm’s strengths as Dallas city manager included consistency, follow-through, and letting City Council members have the spotlight 16 May 2013 | 05:31 pm
I wrote a profile of Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm a couple of years ago and spent several days … [visit site to read more]
Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm to step down this year 16 May 2013 | 03:20 pm
Photos: See Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm through the years Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm
Anti-gay flier spurs Dallas council to re-consider open microphone rules 16 May 2013 | 12:05 am
Richard Sheridan (Richard Sheridan) Most people who hang around City Hall or work in the Dallas press long enough will eventually be subjected to Richard Sheridan. In the guise of battling for civil r...
