April Towery
April Towery is former News Development Director for CandysDirt.com and covers Dallas City Hall. She studied journalism at Texas A&M University and has been an award-winning reporter and editor for more than 25 years.
The past year was a good one for Dallas home production and 2025 is poised to be even better, a Zonda real estate advisor told members of the Dallas Builders Association last month. Bryan Glasshagel says he’ll be paying attention to migration to Texas and employment growth as home builders head into the first quarter…
Jimmy Carter, the longest-living U.S. president and a Nobel Peace Prize-winning humanitarian, died Sunday. He was 100 years old. When the former president entered hospice care almost two years ago, CandysDirt.com reached out to Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity. We were connected with Blaine Cowart, who recalled volunteering with the former president in 2014. Cowart’s…
The office manager of an East Dallas senior living facility is behind bars, accused of bilking more than 100 residents out of their Social Security stipends, to the tune of $1.8 million. Diane Carol Dancer is charged with felony theft at the Autumn Leaves community near White Rock Lake. Family members of Autumn Leaves residents…
Voters spoke at the ballot box in November by demanding transparency and accountability from their elected officials, and there’s little doubt they’ll show up again in May when up to 10 sitting council members will be vying for another term at the horseshoe. Residents saw this year how their voices mattered. They showed up en…
As 2024 comes to a close and we look back on the hundreds of stories about new real estate projects, City Hall shenanigans, and developers with innovative solutions to the affordable housing crisis, a few names stick out. Some were heavily criticized; some were hailed as heroes. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, here are your…
