Following the Money in Dallas City Council Campaigns
You can learn a lot from campaign finance reports.
By
Alex Macon and Matt Goodman
Published in
FrontBurner
April 14, 2021
12:24 pm
Earlier this month, over 50 candidates in 14 contested Dallas City Council races had to file their latest campaign finance reports, documenting their fundraising and spending over the last several months.
The Dallas Morning News has hit on some of the bigger takeaways from these records. Almost $900,000 has been pumped into contests that will determine the makeup of the city council, with Mayor Eric Johnson spared from having to run for re-election until 2023. Big-name donors who have previously backed the mayor are now supporting challenges to three incumbent city council members who voted against Johnson last fall in a battle over police overtime funding a sign that public safety concerns (and the mayor’s strained relationships with many of his colleagues) are driving forces this election
The Love Affair That Rocked City Hall
He’s been divorced four times. She is 23 years his junior. But what really got the gossip going: he’s the chief of police, and she’s a tenacious TV reporter
The debate had been raging all day at the Dallas Morning News. On Wednesday, September 20, Metro columnist Sherry Jacobson had written a story for the next day’s edition breaking the news that Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle was dating CBS Channel 11 City Hall reporter and news anchor Sarah Dodd. Jacobson’s story confirmed the rumors that had been flying around City Hall and at Jack Evans police headquarters for days. Kunkle, who had filed for divorce from his fourth wife just a month prior, had been seen canoodling with Dodd at a number of Dallas hot spots. Now the
George Schrader, former city manager who helped shape Dallas’ landmarks, dies of COVID complications
The 89-year-old played key roles in the development of landmarks such as Reunion Tower and the DFW International Airport
George Schrader, Dallas city manager from 1972-81, died on Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020 of complications from COVID. He was 89.
George R. Schrader, who served as Dallas city manager for most of the 1970s and played key roles in the development of several city landmarks such as Reunion Tower and DFW International Airport, died Thursday. He was 89.
Schrader died around 3 a.m. at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center in Plano from complications related to COVID-19, according to Cheryl Ewing Rozes, his stepdaughter. Both he and his wife, Barbara, were diagnosed with the virus in mid-December.
Take a look at the $20 million rec center Oak Cliff residents always deserved but had to fight a decade to get
Determined to bring a first-class facility to southern Dallas, council member Tennell Atkins wrangled diverse stakeholders for - at long last - a big equity win.
A Blue Line DART train pulls into the Camp Wisdom station outside the newly opened Singing Hills Recreation Center in Oak Cliff Friday. The state-of-the-art facility, which includes an adjoining senior center, is an example of a transit-oriented design that serves the needs of the surrounding community.(Tom Fox / Staff Photographer)
In a part of our city where people have too often been told they had to settle for “less than that,” Oak Cliff residents living around the icky old Singing Hills Recreation Center vowed that this time would be different.