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.
Residents who live near Love Field are still mad about the noise generated by the city-owned airport, but for the most part, they appear to understand their adversary is not the City of Dallas; it’s the airlines that aren’t complying with a voluntary noise curfew. The Love Field Citizens Action Committee has been working with…
Those who spend more than two consecutive hours strolling around the Dallas Farmers Market will now have to pay for parking, per action taken last week by the City Council’s Economic Development Committee. After the first two hours of free parking at the Dallas Farmers Market, patrons will be charged $3 per additional hour with…
It’s time to change the way Dallas offers home repair programs to residents, Assistant City Manager Majed Al-Ghafry said in an Oct. 8 memorandum to City Council members. Challenges and barriers with the current program create an obstacle in providing effective customer service as the programs compete with one another, the assistant city manager explained…
In 2007, Dallas resident Jane Bryant purchased a home on the corner of West Davis and North Elsbeth, about 100 yards from the Bishop Arts District. The former University of North Texas at Dallas professor had big plans to live there and operate her apparel business downstairs. She never got to live in the 1925…
The chess game over how to divide up $1.1 billion among all of Dallas’ capital needs continues, as the 2024 bond election approaches and the deadline for task force recommendations is less than two months away. Bond town hall meetings began in late September and will continue through Oct. 19. The needs far outweigh the…
