Local Government Property Tax Assessments Hit the Mail Today; We’re Probably Not Paying Enough By Jon Anderson | 1 week ago Analyzing whether the county is collecting enough in property taxes for the city to meet its infrastructure needs.
Local News New Report Details How, Nationally, Secrecy Reigns In Amazon’s HQ2 Race By Jon Anderson | 2 weeks ago Good Jobs First rounds up all the opposition to Amazon's hidden play with public dollars.
Policy Fight Against Dallas’ New Housing Policy Reveals Scars of Disinvestment By Peter Simek | 3 weeks ago Dallas' longstanding policy of concentrating affordable housing in South Dallas without providing adequate services may be changing. Or it may not.
Housing How Artists Fit Into the Affordable Housing Conversation By Peter Simek | 3 weeks ago If cities don't provide affordable housing for artists, they threaten to undermine the economic benefits the creative community offers cities.
Civics History Demands That Dallas Tears Down Its Confederate War Memorial By Peter Simek | 1 month ago Tomorrow the city council could vote to keep the monument and add "historical context" to offset negative connotations. That would be a mistake.
Local News Elizabeth Frizell Drops Her Plan to Recount Democratic DA’s Race By Matt Goodman | 1 month ago The decision is effectively a concession in the heated race.
Business We Still Don’t Know What It Will Cost to Lure Amazon to Dallas. And That’s a Problem. By Peter Simek | 1 month ago Whatever incentives regional leaders have included in the bid submitted to Amazon, it has captured the corporate giant's attention.
Local Government Come Hear About Criminal Justice Reform at D Magazine By Matt Goodman | 2 months ago Our next Happy Hour With an Agenda explores the present and future of criminal justice in Dallas.
Local News Dallas Is Losing Its Grassroots Champion of Affordable Housing By Matt Goodman | 2 months ago Weeks after his nonprofit completed a 28-point treatise of a housing policy, Mike Koprowski is heading to D.C.
Local News In South Dallas, Democratic DA Hopefuls Talk Criminal Justice Reform By Jessica Pishko | 2 months ago John Creuzot and Elizabeth Frizell, both former judges, took hard questions from the audience about the future of law enforcement in Dallas.
Local News Victor Vandergriff, North Texas’ TxDOT Commissioner, to Resign By Matt Goodman | 3 months ago The forward-thinking commissioner is widely considered to be why TxDOT is considering tearing out or rerouting freeways.
Local News Tackling Housing Affordability in Dallas Begins With Understanding By Jon Anderson | 3 months ago A citywide housing policy is a complicated one to build. Dallas must incorporate economic development and education while reckoning with the policies of our past.
