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Dallas Now Has a Plastic Bag Ban for “Single Use” Plastic Grocery Bags & I Heart Lee Kleinman

By Candy Evans / March 26, 2014 /

Honestly, the Dallas City Council spent the morning arguing about plastic grocery bags, what City Councilman Dwaine Caraway calls “single use” bags, even though myself and everyone I know uses them over & over to hold garbage or dog doo. We now have joined 150 other U.S. cities as Dallas retailers will have to charge customers…

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Dallas City Council to Determine Fate of Plastic Grocery Bags & Maybe Get Us Sued Again?

By Candy Evans / March 26, 2014 /

You may have heard that the Dallas City Council is nearing a vote or a discussion or something on what to do about those thin plastic grocery bags some of use whenever we pick up groceries, drugs, sundries, whatever. They call them “one-time use” but I tend to use them a couple times. I don’t…

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With White Rock Dog Park Getting a Million-Dollar Makeover, Should We Be Investing More in Southern Dallas Instead?

By Joanna England / January 13, 2014 /

Great story from our favorite Dallas Observer reporter, Eric Nicholson, on the proposed $1 million makeover the White Rock Dog Park is getting.

It’s probably the most popular dog park in all of North Texas, considering that when I’ve taken my Great Pyrenees mix there, I’ve run into folks from Frisco and Murphy. It gets a lot of use, and some days it’s little more than a fenced-in mudhole, so it could definitely use some work. But $1 million worth of work?

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