City of Dallas
The City of Dallas filed an appeal Dec. 26 asking a judge to reverse a temporary injunction allowing short-term rentals to operate while the matter is in litigation. We knew it would come to this. When the Dallas City Council voted 12 to 3 in June to prohibit short-term rentals in residential neighborhoods there was…
Dallas has a problem with history — it keeps trying to erase it. The latest target is Dealey Plaza. Preservation architect Norman Alston offers us a two-part history lesson which seems perfect on this particular day. Gratitude for our history is something we should all think about a little more. We hope you find this…
At the end of a lengthy day of briefings last week, city officials announced they would postpone Chief Information Officer Bill Zielinski’s after-action review on the ransomware attack that took down Dallas servers and gained access to the personal data of more than 30,000 users in May. The postponement of Wednesday’s briefing also prompted the…
If a recent report from WalletHub is any indication, Dallas has some work to do if it wants to call itself world-class. The personal finance website conducted a study of the 149 largest cities in the United States comparing 36 metrics that are compiled into a “Quality of Services” score that is measured against each…
by Rick MauchCandysDirt.com Contributor Realtor Roxy Diamond learned from watching her father that the industries of law and real estate can — like peanut butter and chocolate — be quite satisfying together. Growing up in South Florida, her father was a real estate attorney. Likewise, her brother entered that field, and she grew up around…
