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.
As temperatures dipped below freezing on the evening of Jan. 18, a panel of Dallas City Council members discussed the Homelessness, Organizations, Policies, and Encampments report — the HOPE report, for short — calling for a solution to the city’s unsheltered homelessness crisis. District 2 Councilman Jesse Moreno, who chairs the Housing and Homelessness Solutions…
Kevin Rachel and his wife moved to Kessler Park in 2020 because they liked the character of the North Oak Cliff neighborhood with its diverse historical architecture, hilly topography, and lush landscape. About a year after the Rachels found their dream home on Canyon Creek within the Kessler Park Conservation District, construction began nearby on…
One of the best events in downtown Dallas last year didn’t involve a sports franchise or a holiday parade. It was just kids building with their toys at the Architecture and Design Exchange’s Brickitecture Family Build Day. Future architects and home builders constructed the Parthenon out of LEGOs at last year’s Family Day. American Institute…
Councilwoman Cara Mendelsohn raised an interesting point during a discussion about affordable housing at Friday’s Dallas City Council meeting on the 2024 bond election. Why spend bond dollars — which require issuing debt and paying interest — on affordable housing when there are already more than a dozen mechanisms in place that could accomplish the…
Following almost three hours of discussion Friday, the Dallas City Council took an informal, nonbinding straw vote to call a May bond election with an increased capacity of $1.25 billion. Dozens of parks and housing advocates attended the special-called meeting and offered hours of testimony after the council vote. Because of the increased bond capacity…
