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.
What do you do with a crime-ridden extended-stay hotel in close proximity to a major highway and a DART station that has been dubbed the “Hotel From Hell”? If Mark Melton is involved, it’s likely to be used for affordable housing. A letter of intent was signed last week by Volunteers of America to purchase…
At the last moment, CandysDirt.com publisher Candace Evans entered the District 11 race against Jaynie Schultz. Evans said she only decided to run this week after reading about the fire at Valley View mall last Friday. She told no one, not even her staff, about her decision. “I just cannot stand to see the waste…
5 p.m. Monday, Feb. 20: This story was updated to show that Dallas City Council candidates Rickey Lee Perry (District 3), Barbara Markham (District 10), and Jrmar Jefferson (mayor) did not meet qualifications and therefore will not appear on the May 6 ballot. Forty-five candidates have filed for 14 Dallas City Council races and the…
A $3 billion reconstruction of the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center Dallas is on the horizon, and elected officials have a lot of unanswered questions. During a Feb. 7 joint meeting of the city’s Transportation and Infrastructure and Economic Development committees, the Dallas City Councilmember and voters who approved Proposition A in November got a…
A Black woman might feel like the odds are stacked against her in the male-dominated field of architecture and construction. Plus, English isn’t the first — or even the second language — for Wenguel Yohannes, a construction manager for one of Dallas’ premier multifamily developers, Alamo Manhattan. But this story isn’t about how Yohannes beat the…
