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.
Landlords across the country are facing lawsuits for profiting off inflated rent prices, and the Dallas City Council is lending its support to state and federal legislation to protect tenants. Legislative Director Clifford Sparks reviewed a Jan. 8 memorandum about the city’s legislative priorities related to housing and homelessness at a committee meeting last month. …
An environmental justice organization that has made huge recent progress toward righting wrongs of the past just made another bold move: hiring its second executive director in 30 years. Downwinders at Risk was formed in 1994 to fight Midlothian cement plants. Since then the nonprofit has done tremendous work advocating against southern Dallas batch plants…
Over the objection of District 12 Councilwoman Cara Mendelsohn, the Dallas City Council recently approved a $1.85 million economic development grant to assist with the “extraordinary cost” of required off-site wastewater infrastructure improvements at a mixed-use development in The Cedars. Councilman Jesse Moreno, who represents the area, said housing is needed in the rapidly growing…
Dallas leaders are talking a lot these days about displacement — people getting forced out of their homes because they can’t keep up with rising rents, home values, or property taxes — but is anybody doing anything to solve the problem? The short answer is yes. Builders of Hope Community Development Corporation is at the…
Solid waste collection is one of the top 10 deadliest jobs in the U.S., and Dallas officials are looking at ways to reduce hazards in neighborhood alleys, a department director told the City Council earlier this month. Director of Sanitation Cliff Gillespie said alley collection is provided to about 38 percent of customers, and the…
