City Hall
After three years on the job as the first full-time City Hall reporter for CandysDirt.com, I’m off to a new adventure covering the Texas Legislature, criminal justice, and Houston municipal government for The Houston Press. I get it, I’m not Luka, and there won’t be any protests about my departure. I don’t need to tell…
A survey of more than 2,000 Dallas residents showed that infrastructure maintenance is the No. 1 priority in almost every geographic district of the city, with public safety closely following at No. 2. Traffic management, social services, and code enforcement also ranked high, and about 52% of respondents said access to affordable, quality housing should…
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…
Lately, Dallas residents have expressed strong feelings about how business is conducted in City Hall. Locals also have strong feelings about the building itself, an inverted pyramid structure designed by Chinese-American architect I.M. Pei that opened in 1978. People who “aren’t from here” are prone to point out the unusual building. Native Dallasites and those…
No one was surprised this week when the Dallas City Council hired Kimberly Bizor Tolbert as the city manager. She’s already been on the job as interim for 11 months and has an impressive decades-long career in Dallas under her belt. She was widely supported by city staff and local business leaders. But there were…
