Dallas City Hall Stinks of Broken Government
Don’t get distracted by the mayor and council’s ongoing squabbles. What’s really wrong with Dallas is its system of government.
By Peter Simek
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February 2, 2021
3:33 pm
Last week, the Dallas City Council held a five-hour special meeting that was one long embarrassment. On the surface, the meeting was called to take stock of the city’s vaccination registration and deployment efforts, which are still a mess. But the meeting was really a desperate attempt for the Council to confront the city’s elusive and divisive mayor.
Council members have complained for months that they can’t so much as get Mayor Eric Johnson on the phone to discuss city business. They find out about important issues via memo, press releases, and TV and radio interviews. Oak Cliff Councilwoman Carolyn King Arnold said she hasn’t spoken directly to Johnson in 13 months. It’s absurd. The once rising star of the Texas Democra
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BET debuts two new projects during Black History Month under its media-focused initiative “Content For Change,”
“BET and CBS News Present: Boiling Point” and investigative documentary series
“Disrupt & Dismantle” with award-winning journalist, speaker, author, and philanthropist
Soledad O’Brien.
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Soledad O’Brien’s critically acclaimed 2011 series
Black in America took a long, hard look at the challenges faced by Black people in our country. A decade later, the challenges continue to manifest in our everyday lives, and
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A person working with Modern Geoscientists, an environmental company, inspects the air quality during the removal process to make sure the air is not harmful to the residents.
The city of Dallas has created a dashboard to help residents track what’s happening as Shingle Mountain is torn down.
The six-story pile of shingles in southeast Dallas should be removed by March. Crews have been making good progress, city officials told City Council members on Tuesday during a special Environment and Sustainability Committee meeting.
In December, the city began to haul away the roofing materials, which had been piling up for three years.
In the heart of Southeast Dallas, a huge pile of toxic waste looms over a community. It's a mound of shingles stacked so high it's been nicknamed "Shingle Mountain."