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Well, it’s been one week back at work for Dallas City Council members at City Hall, and there’s already been plenty of action worth covering. Council members were gone for five weeks for summer break while staff plugged away and worked to craft policy for the city’s elected representatives to consider. Here’s a rundown of…
A shooting at the State Fair of Texas last year prompted a ban on concealed firearms at the fairgrounds, but this year Texas legislators are pushing back against the policy. Seventy Texas lawmakers signed a letter saying that banning guns makes the South Dallas fairgrounds less safe for visitors. Before the ban, licensed gun owners…
Some longtime Dallas residents have made it clear they don’t want housing density or multifamily development in their single-family neighborhoods. Typically they cite potential impacts on traffic and property values. Few will say out loud that they’re concerned about living next to poor people or criminals. And while those conversations aren’t occurring frequently at recorded…
The business office manager of an East Dallas senior living community is on unpaid leave after being accused of bilking residents out of more than $67,800. It doesn’t appear that the woman has been fired yet, pending the results of a police investigation and forensic audit, but she’s referred to as a “former employee” in…
If you’d just started using City of Dallas online dashboards last week, you might not even know the ninth-largest city in the U.S. was hacked by cyberterrorists in May. The City Council voted June 28 to spend nearly $4 million with Houston-based Netsync Network Solutions to install and maintain a “threat and anomaly detection system”…
