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.
Houston touted its Community Land Trust as an innovative solution to lead the nation in affordable housing. The plan fell short, funding was slashed, and bureaucracy got in the way, according to a comprehensive report in the Texas Tribune last month. But Houston didn’t have Linda McMahon, president and CEO of The Real Estate Council,…
North Oak Cliff is indeed getting a Sprouts Farmers Market, but it wasn’t the slam-dunk approval that it appeared to be. A casual observer at Wednesday’s Dallas City Council meeting probably wouldn’t know that the unanimously approved rezoning request was the result of a hard-fought battle almost two years in the making. The City Plan…
An elected official who recently held the Vince Lombardi Super Bowl Trophy visited Dallas City Hall on Wednesday. Kansas City, Missouri, Mayor Quinton Lucas said he has just one question for Dallas city leaders. “More than anything, I came down to see why so many young people from Kansas City move down here,” he said.…
The Dallas City Council was poised Wednesday to authorize expenditures at Dallas Love Field totaling about half a million dollars, but one of the items was deferred to April 12 — and elected officials are still not talking about the “unbearable” noise complaints that have been raised by neighbors for more than a year. The…
The Dallas City Council on Wednesday approved a comprehensive urban agriculture plan with the aim of increasing the acreage of neighborhood growing sites and providing access to healthy, local food. Objectives outlined in the Comprehensive Urban Agriculture Plan could serve equity priority areas with high minority populations by increasing the acreage of local growing sites…
