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.
Dallas voters will decide Saturday on the biggest bond package in city history, a $1.25 billion measure that pledges funds for parks, streets, storm drainage, economic development, homelessness, housing, and more. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday. Find your polling place here. Ten Bond Propositions A bond brochure distributed by…
South Winnetka Heights just became the first Dallas conservation district to be approved in more than 13 years. South Winnetka Heights resident Michael Evans, along with several of his neighbors, spent about three years working with city staff on the proposal that will protect their historic neighborhood from McMansions and incompatible architecture. The newly minted…
Adam Lamont is a pretty normal guy. He moved to Dallas in 2017 to work on U.S. Rep. Collin Allred’s Congressional campaign and rented an apartment with a roommate. When he got married in 2021 he moved into his wife DeDe’s Chimney Hill townhome near Lake Highlands. He teaches math and coaches sports at a…
Occasionally I’m asked why a real estate news site covers Dallas City Hall. Shouldn’t we stick to what CandysDirt.com has done best since 2011: celebrity real estate, luxury listings, and “house porn”? I began freelancing for CandysDirt.com in 2019, writing a weekly feature on open houses. In 2022, as the redistricting process was heating up…
Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Carolyn King Arnold has championed for-sale single-family housing in The Bottom District, but she spearheaded an effort last week to deny $3 million in federal grant funds for Texas Heavenly Homes, citing public safety and legal concerns. It didn’t take much convincing for other elected officials to join Arnold in her…
