Dallas City Council
It’s official: Bobby Abtahi is running for Dallas City Council, specifically the seat vacated by term-limited Angela Hunt. Oh excuse me, it’s ROBERT Abtahi, former Dallas City Plan Commissioner. You see, I know him as Bobby, a young man who was friends with my daughter in middle and high school and who, at the age…
Now I’ve heard everything. At Wednesday’s Dallas City Council meeting, our fearless leaders were actually pitched the idea of creating a citywide program to test every Dallas dog’s DNA in order to cure people who don’t clean up after their pups. The pitch came from a company that runs a dog-poo DNA program in use at the Ilume, called Poo Prints. Love the name. The Ilume, in case you do not know, is a way cool, high end apartment complex on Cedar Springs Road near the Tollway.
This has got to be some sort of a Texas State Fair related joke. The Dallas County Commissioners apparently want a new attraction, a 21st Century version of the famous Ferris Wheel at Fair Park, in downtown Dallas. They want to construct a huge rotating obervatory in Founders Plaza, to sit on top of the…
On Wednesday, the Dallas City Council will be briefed on a proposed map that the city’s redistricting commission approved. And there is going to be a you-know-what show, I am sure. The plan essentially adds a Hispanic district, giving Hispanics a total of four, plus the potential of winning one more district in which a Hispanic candidate could win a…
Steve Bartlett, remember him? He was on the Dallas City Council from 1977 to 1981, represented some of us in Congress, and is now President and CEO of The Financial Services Roundtable, a lobbying group for several prestigious financial services companies. OMG, politics to lobbying, who’d a thunk it? Membership consists of 100 financial companies including Wells Fargo,…
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