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.
It’s widely known that Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson loves his “four Ps”: public safety, parks, potholes, and property tax relief. In one of the first meetings of the new year, Johnson and the Dallas City Council gave us four more Ps: Parrish Park and a pocket park. In a December State of the City speech,…
An 83-year-old retired Southern Methodist University golf coach and his 74-year-old interior designer wife clearly qualify for a senior homestead exemption due to their age, but property tax bills are due today, and no such exemption exists for Barry Rodenhaver and Cindy Zelazny-Rodenhaver. That’s because the Dallas Central Appraisal District is classifying the home in…
In between debates over school vouchers and immigration policies, the Texas Legislature could address this session a little-known but potentially dangerous initiative of “traveling Housing Finance Corporation projects” that experts say could erode the Dallas tax base while undermining the integrity of the HFC programs that have delivered thousands of affordable housing units locally. The…
The Real Estate Council continues to show up and show out as a prominent voice in affordable housing and strategic partnership development. TREC Community Investors put its money where its mouth is late last year by naming Dominique Pryor-Anderson as its senior director of community investment. The hire comes on the heels of TREC’s longtime…
In what Mayor Eric Johnson deemed “the most important hire that the Dallas City Council makes,” Kimberly Bizor Tolbert was appointed last week as the first Black female to lead the ninth-largest city in America. Tolbert, who has served as interim city manager since T.C. Broadnax’s departure for Austin early last year, will earn an…
