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Races for six Dallas City Council seats are headed to runoffs this summer. Residents will be able to cast their vote in June to decide who will represent them in Districts 2, 4, 7, 11, 13 and 14. Council members in 2, 11 and 14 have met their term limits, meaning new faces will take all of those seats.
District 2
In District 2, voters will choose between former park board member Jesse Moreno and Sana Syed, an ex-Dallas city spokeswoman and current executive at a real estate investment firm. Moreno has the endorsement of Adam Medrano, the district’s incumbent. The winner will be the first person in 16 years to represent the district who doesn’t belong to the Medrano family. Jesse Moreno’s wife, Monica Moreno, however, is a member of Medrano’s city staff.
Viney was one of Blewett’s opponents in the general City Council election before it went to a runoff with a former city plan commissioner for the district, Paul Ridely. Blewett came in second to Ridley.
In an emailed statement to her supporters, Viney said: Though the May 1 election did not go our way, I will nevertheless continue to fight for the safety and prosperity of our City and for District 14. It is with that conviction that I agreed to meet with Councilman Blewett regarding his willingness to adopt the Viney campaign’s platform on public safety and to restore all monies defunded from the police overtime budget.
The Scooters Are Back. This Could Be Awesome.
Let s welcome back Big Scooter to Dallas.
By Alex Macon
Published in
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May 14, 2021
12:51 pm
Don’t call it a comeback. Not yet. But electric rental scooters banned from the streets of Dallas last fall after two wild years that saw them both hailed as an important mobility option in a city freeing itself from a car-centric past and decried as a menace to law-abiding citizens everywhere could be returning sooner rather than later.
“We’ve heard a lot from community groups and locals who want scooters back in Dallas,” says Alex April, the head of government partnerships for Spin, a Ford Motor Co. subsidiary that pitched its scooter service at City Hall last week. “Spin wants this to be done in a responsible manner to make sure this program is successful long-term.”
Dallas is halfway through electing a new slate of city council members. Most of the seats were decided in the May 1 general election, with six to be decided by runoffs on June 5.
While we’re preparing for the new council and while there’s still time for voters to ask questions of the runoff candidates I thought I’d present an agenda for culinary change in Dallas. Here are seven concrete ways that the next council can make our city a better place to eat and drink.
By the way, to any future council members reading this, if you package these items up in one big omnibus agenda item, may I humbly suggest a name? Call it the Enabling New Culinary and Hospitality Innovation and Leadership Across Dallas Act (ENCHILADA).