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.
After multiple setbacks over the course of almost four years, the Dallas City Council unanimously awarded a 20-year, $4.7 million contract Wednesday to St. Jude Inc. to operate 1950 Fort Worth Avenue as permanent supportive housing for the formerly homeless. The project is being funded by 2017 bond funds and a federal grant. St. Jude…
Members of the Dallas Housing and Homelessness Solutions Committee are fired up about long-vacant properties that should have been housing the homeless and one city-owned property that was unintentionally performing that task. In a three-hour committee meeting Monday, members of the panel chaired by District 2 Councilman Jesse Moreno recommended that staff proceed with selling …
All the elements were in place for a perfect storm of a town hall meeting Monday evening. More than 100 people gathered, many wielding signs displaying their aversion to the Dallas comprehensive land use plan known as ForwardDallas. The meeting was called by District 1 Councilman Chad West who, with his appointed Plan Commissioner Christian…
The Collin County community of Fairview — perhaps familiar for being home to the famous party house of acquitted ax murderer Candy Montgomery — is at the center of a controversy of a higher order. This one has to do with a Mormon church and its proposed steeple to heaven. Representatives of the Church of…
Less than a year after a nonprofit returned the downtown property at 711 S. St. Paul St. to the City of Dallas in sparkling and secure condition, it’s become a squatting area for homeless individuals, overrun with feces and filth. It’s in such bad shape that the president and CEO of the nonprofit that occupied…
