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Waxahachie Daily Light
April 16, 2018
There again, city government is working hard to make that possible,” Wiser stated. “The excitement generated by the employees of the Waxahachie Police Department regarding our new police building can be described as pure energy. The new building provides multiple areas specifically designed to hostÃâà...
Star Local Media
April 15, 2018
More importantly, the Coppell homestead exemption rate is 5 percent, although Dallas County and nearly every city around us has a rate of 20 percent. Relative to other ... First and foremost, the mayor needs to set a tone of representing citizen's voices to the city government, and not the other way around.
Artsy
April 15, 2018
The fair gets support from the city government, too. Dallas mayor Mike Rawlings addressed journalists, exhibitors, and a few enthusiastic collectors at Thursday morning's press conference, wearing an “I [HEART] ART” pin on his lapel. He told people in the crowd they were currently standing in “the largestÃâà...
Herald-Banner
March 14, 2018
Tayo Ayanlola - Ayanlola has held positions in the U.S. Department of Defense as well as the City of Dallas, where he is currently employed. He specializes in ... He began his career in city government in Winnsboro, Texas, where he was the director of community development from 2005 to 2011. He thenÃâà...
Community Impact Newspaper
March 6, 2018
Here are the updated results from the contested March 6 primary elections for races that affect city of Plano residents. All results are unofficial until canvassed. See coverage on statewide races from our partners at The Texas Tribune.
CNN
February 20, 2018
(CNN) The National Rifle Association should move its annual convention from Dallas to somewhere else after last week's massacre at a Florida high ... the mayor is absent, said he's expressing a personal belief about the NRA and has not initiated any action in the city government to stop the convention.
D Magazine
January 18, 2018
Fort Worth is reliant on residential and not commercial growth. Most people living here work outside the city proper, and many commute to Dallas. The city has increasingly become a bedroom community for the rest of North Texas, which explains why Fort Worth is also an afterthought to many executivesÃâà...
Community Impact Newspaper
January 16, 2018
Plano ISD schools will remain open Tuesday as road conditions were better than initially forecasted in some parts of North Texas. ... on Tuesday said Plano ISD would not be posting a closure notice following the cold front and winter storm that rolled through the Dallas-Fort Worth area the night before.
Dallas Observer
January 8, 2018
Almost 12 years ago, the federal agencies everyone wants to beat up on now for not doing enough to help Houston tried to alert all of us in Texas and the nation that very bad things were ahead for us. We got a quite specific warning here in Dallas. We didn't just ignore the warning. Our city governmentÃâà...
Patch.com
December 19, 2017
AUSTIN, TX — Members of the Austin City Council on Tuesday selected Spencer Cronk, a Minneapolis city coordinator, as the new city manager. Council members emerged from a closed-door special council meeting at City Hall to announce their decision. The city manager's slot in Austin has been vacantÃâà...
NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
November 8, 2017
Dallas County voters decided "against" school bus provider Dallas County Schools Tuesday, voting to shut down the 171-year-old agency with 58 percent of the vote. With the release of early voting numbers at 7 p.m., Dallas County Schools supporters found themselves behind from the start with 56 percentÃâà...
Park Cities People
October 26, 2017
A 1940 graduate of Highland Park High School, Houseman earned a business administration degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1946. In 1943 ... Following elected office, Houseman remained involved with city government as a longtime member of the Capital Projects Review Committee.
WFAA
October 6, 2017
The item's approval was announced by the city government shortly after 11 a.m. Oct. 5. #ATXCouncil approves resolution recognizing the second Monday of every October as Indigenous Peoples' Day in the City of Austin. — Austin Texas (@austintexasgov) October 5, 2017. With the resolution's approval,Ãâà...
CNNMoney
September 11, 2017
Texas is notoriously business friendly and home to four of the five fastest growing regions of the country, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. ... While many cities are suffering a brain drain -- when locally educated workers move elsewhere -- Dallas' was bested only by San Francisco in terms of attractingÃâà...
New York Times
September 6, 2017
But their efforts came to a halt when Judge Sidney Fitzwater of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas granted a temporary ... further action as needed, including authorizing the renaming of certain public places,” according to text of the resolution provided by the city government.
Palestine Herald Press
August 28, 2017
Texas is feeling the full might of Hurricane Harvey, and though Palestine is not in the direct path of the storm, local leaders and businesses are preparing ... told the Herald-Press that, although the city has shelters set up to house and feed over 500 people, their current directive is to refer evacuees to Dallas.
Texas Tribune
August 4, 2017
City governments, particularly those led by Democrats, are to blame for problems nationwide, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick ... But "the fact that city elections are nonpartisan is one of the greatest things about city government,” said Bennett Sandlin, executive director of the Texas Municipal League. "We like toÃâà...
The Texas Observer
July 31, 2017
She had all but stopped speaking to the two commissioners — longtime City Council member Sally Martinez and Alex Quintanilla, another stalwart in the city government. Reyes simply stopped showing up for council meetings in early 2017, accusing Martinez and Quintanilla of ganging up on her.
Texas Tribune
June 6, 2017
The Texas Municipal League, a city government advocacy organization, called Abbott's priorities an “all-out assault” on Texas voters' abilities to shape “the character of their communities.” ... Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings and Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price could not be reached for comment Tuesday.
