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Our recommendation for Dallas City Council, District 8 Incumbent Tennell Atkins faces a trio of challengers.
In the four-way race for Dallas City Council District 8, our nod reluctantly goes to incumbent Tennell Atkins.
Atkins, 64, represented District 8 from 2007 to until he was term-limited in 2015. After sitting on the sidelines for two years, voters returned him to office in 2017 and reelected him in 2019. This year, he is seeking his seventh two-year term.
After Atkins’ 12 years on the council, which have been unremarkable, it is probably time for new leadership and fresh views on economic development, affordable housing, education, the paucity of job opportunities and other persistent issues in this high-need district.
‘Maybe the way I’ve saved people’s lives is by giving people hope’: Why this longtime Dallas priest won’t quit
Even his beloved birds and piles of junk can’t ease 86-year-old Father Tim into retirement and that’s good news to the many who love this champion of the needy.
The Rev. Timothy Gollob stands Tuesday in the Oak Cliff backyard where he keeps a trove of his collected treasures and trinkets. Father Tim officially retired in June after half a century’s service at Holy Cross Catholic Church in southeast Oak Cliff.(Lynda M. González / Staff Photographer)
They remember a different time in Dallas, when, for about two decades, “residents had a string of thoughtful, sincere and righteously angry advocates who served on their City Council.”
Former Mayor Laura Miller stopped over a dozen coal plants from being built during the administration of Gov. Rick Perry and implemented the first green procurement ordinance in the region. Former City Council member Angela Hunt hunted down waste, corruption and “staff shenanigans.”
Then, there were former City Council members Scott Griggs, Philip Kingston and Mark Clayton who helped defeat the Trinity Toll Road and gas drilling prospects in Dallas.
“Sometimes they fought their council opponents directly. Sometimes they made sure documents that were never supposed to see the light of day got their own spotlight,” the post read. “You knew these partisans would find a way to advance the cause. Because that cause was why they wanted to serve.”
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