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In wake of lawsuits, Dallas City Council will consider a broader protest...
The existing protest ordinance doesn't technically prohibit giant presidential heads. The new one probably will. (Mona Reeder/Staff photographer) Twice this year the city of Dallas has been sued over...
View ArticleDallas City Council passes restrictive gas drilling ordinance
Update, 2:33 p.m.: The council has adopted the plan commission’s recommendation for a 1,500-foot setback between wells and homes. Council Member Scott Griggs’ motion, which includes an ability for the...
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Some on council believe if city’s going to regulate Uber, it’s time to bust...
Jimmy Martin, left, and Sheldon Klain of Code Compliance spent much of today's meeting looking for answers in piles of paperwork. A discussion about regulating new transportation-for-hire services...
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Dallas will now require some, but not all, solicitors to register with city...
After two years spent researching ways to crack down on the hordes of solicitors mucking up neighborhoods with their fliers and business cards, or just trying to find out if anyone’s home, the Dallas...
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Dallas isn’t ready to tip its hand concerning new vehicles-for-hire regulations
Yellow Cabs lined up in front of the downtown Dallas Omni (Nathan Hunsinger/Staff photographer) Monday at 1 p.m. the Dallas City Council’s Transportation and Trinity River Project Committee will wrap...
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Dallas City Council wheels toward a debate over city’s 18-year-old...
In mid-May Tom promised that the full Dallas City Council was set to receive in coming weeks a briefing on the bike-helmet ordinance … or the lack of one, if some council members get their way. And,...
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Dallas City Council to consider prohibiting sex offenders from living near...
In May WFAA-Channel 8 reported on Dallas’ lack of an ordinance that keeps convicted sex offenders from living near schools, day-cares and parks, among other places where children might congregate....
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Dallas City Council will vote to pay $270,000 to make protesters’ free-speech...
You are now free to protest wherever you like wearing whatever giant head you may have in your possession. Almost two years after six people sued the city of Dallas — twice — over its ordinance...
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Dallas throws the book at family’s Little Free Library, but city officials...
The Little Free Library in front of Stacy Holmes' house, which the city says is a no-no … for now, at least. (Photos by Corby Davidson/VERY Special contributor) Yesterday Christina Hughes Babb posted...
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In Dallas it's illegal to carry a fake gun, but the 8-year-old law is rarely...
Just two guys with toy rifles walking along the Katy Trail Tuesday evening (Chris Rendon/Special contributor) In Dallas, where people are free to walk into fast-food restaurants and down neighborhood...
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Years after Dallas razed Lee Harvey Oswald's Oak Cliff apartment, city sends...
Jane Bryant outside 604 Elsbeth Street in November 2012, when she had crews peel the bricks off the dilapidated apartment complex where Lee Harvey Oswald briefly lived. (Louis DeLuca/Staff...
View ArticleOn Glenn Beck's Blaze, Philip Kingston tries to correct 'crazy' surrounding...
Your browser does not support iframes. “Your bathroom experience will not change.” Here we go … again. One day after the Dallas City Council voted unanimously to amend visit site to read more]
View ArticleJennifer Gates asks Dallas council to condemn but not ban porn convention
On Wednesday, the Dallas City Council will vote on Mayor Mike Rawlings’ resolution to ban Exxxotica, the traveling porn expo, from returning for a second year to the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention...
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City council votes to ban Exxxotica porn expo from Dallas convention center
Former U.S Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, left, gets a congratulatory handshake from billionaire oilman Ray Hunt, center, after the Dallas City Council voted 8-7 to not allow the Exxxotica porn expo to...
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