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West Dallas’ District 6 Race: Candidates Debate on Housing and Development

By Shelby Skrhak / March 31, 2025 /

The Dallas City Council race for District 6 in West Dallas is going to be one to watch. With eight candidates vying for Omar Narvaez’s seat, you can almost guarantee there’ll be run-off election for this race. Incumbent Omar Narvaez is term-limited, but his former Chief of Staff Laura Cadena is seeking to take his…

Dallas Elections Attract Bumper Crop of Filers

By Bethany Erickson / February 20, 2017 /

Fourteen Dallas City Council seats and three Dallas Independent School District trustee seats are up for grabs on May 6. I’ll start saying this early — as I always do: It can cost somewhere around $1 million to hold an election, and in most May Dallas elections, we see less than 10 percent of voters…