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The Mysterious Plan for a Mayoral Compound
Another layer of secrecy between the people and their government?
By Wylie H. Dallas
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When Does Our Confederacy Conversation Target Street Names in Oak Cliff?
How sublimated do references or symbols of the Confederacy have to be before they are deemed inappropriate?
By Peter Simek
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We Can’t Let Our Guard Down When it Comes to the Trinity Toll Road
Until the Beasley Plan is translated into engineering schematics, until those schematics get the thumbs up from federal authorities, and until there is a concrete funding strategy that is signed off on all the invested parties then we can’t really say for sure what anyone plans to pursue in the Trinity River floodplain.
By Peter Simek
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Will Mike Rawlings Protect the ‘Vision’ for the Trinity River Project?
After his sweeping victory to a second term in last Saturday’s mayoral election, Mayor Mike Rawlings declared that what residents voted for was a “vision for Dallas.”
By Peter Simek
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Why Voting This Saturday Is Not Enough
A mailer from the Trinity Commons Foundation arriving just days before the election makes no mention that there is an election.
By Peter Simek
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What Can We Learn About the Trinity River Project From Yesterday’s Dallas City Council Meeting?
What started as a presentation of the plan the mayor’s urban design “Dream Team” created for the Trinity River morphed into a workshoping of byzantine parliamentary procedure.
By Peter Simek
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Mayor Rawlings Reproaches Scott Griggs for Trinity Toll Road Tirade
The mayor released a memo rebuking the council members for speaking in violation of the Texas Open Meetings Act.
By Peter Simek
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Our Salesman-In-Chief’s Sorry Case for the Trinity Toll Road
The mayor employs a “customer is always right” approach to public policy.
By Peter Simek
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Mayor Mike Rawlings’ Strange Case for the Trinity Toll Road
He's furiously juggling under the overpass.
By Wylie H. Dallas
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How to End Homelessness? Give the Homeless Homes
Utah cut its chronically homeless population by 72 percent in the past nine years simply by giving the homeless homes.
By Peter Simek