Dallas City Council
City leaders: Illegal bars dodging Dallas laws
CBS11 News
Dallas city leaders admit they're having trouble cracking down on bars that operate illegally along Greenville Avenue. Critics say many bars open and close so quickly, it's impossible to keep an eye on them.
That's little conciliation for Greenville Avenue neighbors and their growing list of complaints. "The first would be traffic and cars speeding down the streets," said Lower Greenville resident Angela Turnage. "The second is public drunkenness at night [and] on the weekends. And the third [issue] is the trash."
Greenville business owners are raising their own concerns. "The City of Dallas is not doing their job on cracking down on the bars that say they're going to be a restaurant," said Chris McGuiness the owner of Dodie's Seafood Café.
Cronkite is why I studied journalism in college...
By Greg Kandra, CBS News
(CBS) Walter Cronkite, who personified television journalism for more than a generation as anchor and managing editor of the "CBS Evening News," has died Friday night in New York. He was 92.
Known for his steady and straightforward delivery, his trim moustache, and his iconic sign-off line -"That’s the way it is" - Cronkite dominated the television news industry during one of the most volatile periods of American history. He broke the news of the Kennedy assassination, reported extensively on Vietnam and Civil Rights and Watergate, and seemed to be the very embodiment of TV journalism.
Psssst... wanna buy the mayor's (domain) name?
BD's been doing some summer cleaning around the office this weekend (actually, he's trying to find some firecrackers from Philadelphia, where they really know how to celebrate the Fourth of July), and decided he needed to sell some of his e-junk.
First on the list - the domain name MayorTomLeppert.com.
There's nothing personal about the domain name, BD actually kinda sorta likes the Mayor. He bought the name after the election in 2007 and thinks the time has come to sell it.
Private registration is available, of course. Click on the image for more information.
It was a nasty weekend on Lower Greenville...
The Dallas Police Department reported three armed/aggravated robberies, a knife cutting, and bunch of arrests for stupid stuff this weekend.
There was an armed robbery early Friday morning in the BelmontNA area of Lowest Greenville. According to DPD Offense Report 0177460-W, 28-year-old Jo Yea of Carrollton and another witness were robbed at gunpoint by an unknown suspect at 230am near the corner of Matilda and Prospect.
But that's not all...
Somebody stole the Liberty Bell yesterday
Bob Ford, Inquirer Sports Columnist
Somebody stole the Liberty Bell yesterday, unhooked it from its case and carted it off when no one was looking. We won't see the Liberty Bell ever again, and a part of us all, of what makes our city special, is lost.
They sawed William Penn from the peak of City Hall yesterday, too, right about midday, right about the same time. The planter's hat and the flowing coat, the beneficent smile bestowed upon his little green town. We won't look up and see Billy again, and the skyline will never look right.
