This Black History Month we take the time to honor a Dallas pioneer, trailblazer, and legend, George L. Allen, Sr. He was the first black elected Dallas City Council Member, the first black 2-term elected Dallas City Council member, the first black Dallas Mayor Pro-Tem and the first black student to enroll at the University of Texas.

Dallas police are proposing an aggressive approach to dangerous street racing. At Monday’s Dallas City Council Public Safety Committee meeting, Dallas police presented ideas for a new ordinance. It included making it a crime to watch a street race. Numbers released at the meeting showed calls regarding street racing steadily increased from 2016 to 2019, so Dallas police created a…

Dallas police are proposing tough new measures to fight street racing, going after people who watch or businesses that allow it, but the big question is how to enforcement.

At Dallas City Council committee Monday unanimously endorsed a $400,000 grant to help support a new boardinghouse concept for inner city kids. “At Last!” is already under construction on Overton Road across from South Oak Cliff High School. It is the dream of Dallas businessman Randy Overton, who made it through law school, despite a tough childhood in Pleasant Grove….

At Dallas City Council committee Monday unanimously endorsed a $400,000 grant to help support a new boardinghouse concept for inner city kids.

Lawyers for a Dallas developer allege undercover FBI agents paid former Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway more than $20,000 in bribes. In a court filing the attorneys argue the bribe payments helped Caraway win re-election allowing him to remain in office so that the feds could use Caraway to entrap others in a corruption probe. The new allegations come…

For the first time in years, a Dallas police commander publicly stated a staffing recommendation for the Dallas Police Department. It happened Monday as Executive Assistant Chief David Pughes spoke with reporters after a Dallas City Council briefing on the implementation of a staffing and efficiency study completed last year. “I think the ideal number would be somewhere where we…

A top Dallas Police commander revealed staffing recommendations for a short-handed department as city leaders complain about the lack of progress on police efficiency recommendations.

After years of work on how to combat the surge in Dallas housing costs and departure of middle class families for the suburbs, the Dallas City Council Wednesday approved seven new Neighborhood Empowerment Zones. “I think this is critically important for us to make Dallas the type of Dallas we can all be proud of,” Councilman Casey Thomas said. The…

New plans for a proposed Downtown Dallas Subway were unveiled Tuesday at Dallas City Hall. Members of the Dallas City Council Transportation Committee voiced concerns about how Dallas Area Rapid Transit will pay the $1.4 billion price tag. The plans include a refined 2-mile route and station locations for the second downtown rail path, known as D-2. There are five…

New plans for a proposed Downtown Dallas Subway were unveiled Tuesday at Dallas City Hall. Members of the Dallas City Council Transportation Committee voiced concerns about how Dallas Area Rapid Transit will pay the $1.4 billion price tag.

Dallas Animal Services won praise Wednesday from Dallas City Council members for removing more loose animals from neighborhoods and adopting more live animals from the city shelter. “This is really the first time I’ve felt like we’re going in the right direction,” Councilman Adam McGough said. It is a tremendous change from where Dallas was just four years ago....

A big decision could bring the city of Dallas a minor league baseball team and brand new multi-million dollar venue at a century-old park. The city council voted on a plan to put Reverchon Park into private hands. It’s a big reversal, as the council just rejected the plan last month. It’s a polarizing issue for residents who live...

A big decision could bring the city of Dallas a minor league baseball team and brand new multi-million dollar venue at a century-old park.

Controversy dissolved Wednesday over the Dallas city subsidy plan for a Royal Blue Grocery Store in the Oak Cliff Bishop Arts area with near-unanimous approval from the City Council. The store that’s getting ready to open on Davis Street requested $700,000 in economic development money from the city, half of it a grant and the rest a loan.  Critics...

The Dallas City Council will meet Wednesday to discuss crime and public safety in a meeting that follows new action from the police oversight board.

The city of Dallas is just months away from the deadline to revise the “Dockless Vehicle” ordinance that regulates the use of electric scooters. Meanwhile, the debate over the scooters’ future and impact on public safety continued Monday among council members and city staff. “Getting rid of scooters in the City of Dallas is absolutely not a viable option,” District…

The city of Dallas is just months away from the deadline to revise the “Dockless Vehicle” ordinance that regulates the use of electric scooters. Meanwhile, the debate over the scooters’ future and impact on public safety continued Monday among council members and city staff.