City Hall
Dallas City Council Wednesday is set to vote on a proposed waste management plan that has some environmentalists and neighborhood residents worried. One of the more controversial c[...]
21 Aug 2012
Lake Highlands is among the Dallas areas that the city will “aggressively” spray from ground trucks, beginning tonight and continuing through Wednesday, in an effort to[...]
13 Aug 2012
We’re becoming somewhat accustomed to these notices, but be aware that Dallas City Hall reports they’ll be spraying to kill mosquitoes tonight due to the danger of West Nile virus.[...]
13 Aug 2012
After ranting a couple weeks back about the Dallas United Crew’s (formerly Highland Park Crew) plan to build a floating boathouse — which he called Carnival Cruise Ship-esque — at [...]
09 Aug 2012
Just wait. You’ll soon be able to get to the White Rock Park Loop Trail via the planned Lake Highlands Trail, which was originally routed to run north along Skillman by the L[...]
06 Aug 2012
In the midst of nationwide health care debates, some groups in Lake Highlands are building an urgent care clinic to directly help the large population of uninsured residents. The e[...]
31 Jul 2012
Tackling city-related maintenance issues in our neighborhoods Q: My alley is in terrible shape. How can I get the city to fix it? A: Call 311, and Street Services will determine w[...]
25 Jul 2012
Three things stand out after last week’s Oak Cliff house fire, in which a family lost its home because the city’s 911 system was overloaded: • Our city services are now on a par wi[...]
09 Jul 2012
Can we really afford the luxury of public green space? Instead of a Town Center, we ended up with — Watercrest Park! Pardon my glee, but for once a developer has built something th[...]
28 Jun 2012
Pride can express itself in the form of a bumper sticker, as District 10 councilman Jerry Allen is hoping to prove. In an effort to get school pride to “stick,” Allen, [...]
26 Jun 2012
Dallas United Crew, formerly Highland Park Crew, hopes to build what they call in their presentation to the park department “a new community boathouse for Dallas on White Rock Lake[...]
21 Jun 2012
In response to requests from citizens and parents, the city in agreement with Richardson Independent School District (RISD) will construct a crosswalk and traffic signals across fr[...]
13 Jun 2012
