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City Hall Roundup: DallasNow, Paxton Unloads

By Charles Grand / April 20, 2025 /

If anyone’s interested in what’s been going on at Dallas City Hall recently, we’ve got some of that for you this Easter. The biggest news, at least from my perspective, is City Manager Kimberly Bizor Tolbert hitting the pause button on all new real estate acquisitions until new procedures are put in place to better…

What’s All the Drama Over the EPIC City Community About?

By Charles Grand / April 7, 2025 /

Still in the early phases of development, the master-planned EPIC City community has become a cultural lightning rod in North Texas, drawing scrutiny from state authorities and prompting accusations of bigotry from the project’s developers. In case you haven’t heard about it, EPIC City is a proposed 402-acre development in unincorporated Collin County and Hunt…

George P. Bush’s Defeat Could Be The End of The Line For a Four-Generation Political Dynasty

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / May 25, 2022 /

By James BarragánThe Texas Tribune When George P. Bush burst onto the scene at the Republican National Convention in 2000, the handsome, 24-year-old nephew of presidential nominee George W. Bush had all of the makings of a future leader of the GOP. He was already political royalty — heir to a dynasty that included his…

Pandemics And Property Taxes: Don’t Expect A COVID-19 Miracle

By Jon Anderson / May 4, 2020 /

On May 15, the Dallas Central Appraisal District will be mailing property tax appraisal notices. Property owners will have the normal 30-day window to protest their valuations. For those newly homesteaded in 2019, you had until April 30 to file your exemption (just like always). Gentlemen and ladies, start your engines. Aside from appraisal date…

Ken Paxton Lives in a Pretty Modest House in McKinney, Actually: Be His Neighbor!

By Candy Evans / August 4, 2015 /

As you now know, our Attorney General was photographed and booked without the requisite towel-about-the-neck-that you or I would get if we were arrested in Collin County. That was because 396th District Court Judge George Gallagher of Tarrant County, said he didn’t have to. Judge Gallagher is presiding over the case: But unlike everyone else who gets…