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Rawlings praises Castro, former fellow Texas mayor, for help in resolving HUD...
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings opens up the city council meeting in the reflection of the outer doors at Dallas City Hall November 12, 2014. (Nathan Hunsinger/The Dallas Morning News)visit site to read...
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Unfazed by winter chill, Rawlings rolls out Dallas’ first-ever bike-share...
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings and City Council member Carolyn Davis try out the city's first bike-share program at Fair Park. (Ron Baselice/The Dallas Morning News) Dallas Mayor Mike … [visit site to...
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On Wednesday, Rawlings to call for “time-out” that will allow outsiders to...
Mary Suhm's no longer Dallas City Manager, but she's still working with Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings on the Trinity River toll road (Lara Solt/Staff photographer) Mayor Mike Rawlings has always...
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Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings will seek re-election
(Andy Jacobsohn/The Dallas Morning News)Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings listens during a press conference in November after Dallas nurse and Ebola patient Nina Pham and her dog, Bentley, were reunited....
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Vote on Gexa’s $7-million redo put on hold while mayor considers its impact...
(File photo)Ozzfest at Starplex on July 13, 1999 The Dallas City Council was scheduled to vote today on that plan to help Live Nation fund its extreme, desperately needed makeover of Gexa Energy...
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Ebola, economy, crime, Cowboys and a toll road: Rawlings looks back at 2014,...
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings in the year-end video posted on Christmas Eve “It’s a great time to live in Dallas, Texas.” So says Mayor Mike Rawlings in a video recap-slash-look-ahead posted on Christmas...
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Read Vanity Fair’s epic ‘Dallas vs. Ebola’ story, starring Mike Rawlings and...
(LM Otero/Associated Press)Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins and Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings in October, as Dallas dealt with Ebola Earlier this week visit site to read more]
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Rawlings, Green Bay mayor wager over Packers-Cowboys game — barbecue, of course
(Rudolph Bush/Staff writer)That Rawlings is Rowdy! Of course Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings made a bet with his Green Bay counterpart over Sunday’s NFC Divisional Playoff game at Lambeau … [visit site to...
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In D.C., Mike Rawlings presents fellow mayors with Bush Institute’s Report...
(Michael Ainsworth/Staff photographer)In Dallas in June, Mayor Mike Rawlings and former U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings promised to deliver the report card given in D.C. today. On...
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Update: Obama brings Rawlings, Jenkins to D.C. for Ebola troop drawdown...
Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings, Dr. Kent Brantly and Nina Pham were among those at Obama's Ebola announcement at the White House today.visit site to read more]
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Mike Rawlings says he’s not dodging mayoral challenger or Trinity River toll...
Brad Loper/Staff photographerDallas Mayor Mike Rawlings Update at 7:16 p.m.: Turns out that no one’s showing to tomorrow’s mayoral forum, which was going to be … [visit site to read more]
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The man who would be mayor: 9 things you might not know about Marcos Ronquillo
Marcos Ronquillo. (Louis DeLuca/Staff Photographer) City Hall … [visit site to read more]
View ArticleDallas Mayor Mike Rawlings on Cowboys signing Greg Hardy: “This was a shot in...
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings on Thursday sharply criticized the Dallas Cowboys’ decision to sign Greg Hardy in spite of serious domestic violence allegations, saying that “as a Cowboys fan, this was a...
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Following council’s impromptu Trinity toll road debate, Dallas Mayor Rawlings...
The mayor doesn’t want Scott Griggs doing this without warning at council meetings anymore. Two weeks ago a couple of Dallas City Council members debated the pros and cons of a toll road between the...
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Mayor Rawlings on proposed redo of Fair Park: ‘The cart’s a little before the...
One possible future for Fair Park, as envisioned by Boston-based urban designer Antonio Di Mambro On Monday we took a long hard look at Boston urban planner Antonio Di Mambro’s proposed radical redo...
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Mayoral candidate arrested for ‘666’ taggings booted from debate with...
One of these men will NOT be on the panel tomorrow. Richard Sheridan, the write-in … [visit site to read more]
View ArticleA Dallas Cowboy and the Dallas mayor: Drew Pearson talks to Mike Rawlings,...
This chitchat between Dallas Cowboys great Drew Pearson and Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings has been on the internet for almost two weeks, and it has four views — two of which were mine after I stumbled...
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Rawlings now ‘even more anxious’ to get SMU’s study showing cause of Dallas,...
“Whoa, whoa, whoa — science.” (Nathan Hunsinger/Staff photographer) This morning visit site to read more]
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Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings backs city council incumbents, but backs away from...
The Dallas City Council is about to look a WHOLE lot different. A PAC-paid-for flier supporting Dallas … [visit site to read more]
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Listen: Mayor Rawlings on the Trinity River, potholes, his detractors and...
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings joined Craig Miller, George Dunham and Gordon Keith on The Ticket this morning for two segments: the first, a relatively straightforward rundown of some rather familiar...
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Dallas Mayor Rawlings calls Tennell Atkins’ assault conviction a ‘blemish on...
The day the city council, including Dallas … [visit site to read more]
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Dallas Mayor Rawlings ‘disappointed’ with Miles’ departure, ‘amazed’ he...
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said Tuesday afternoon he’s “disappointed” with Mike Miles’ decision to step down as the superintendent of the Dallas Independent School District. He also said he...
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Story on ill-tempered City Council members got attention
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Dallas Mayor Rawlings goes on The Ticket to agree with everyone: 'The roads...
Meanwhile, somewhere in Lakewood … (Brooks Egerton/Staff writer) You know who else thinks Dallas’ roads … [visit site to read more]
View ArticleRawlings says Dallas' future depends on data, neighborhoods and the success...
I was looking on YouTube yesterday when I came across Mayor Mike Rawlings’ appearance at The Atlantic’s City Makers Summit in San Francisco held last month (to which we made a passing reference here)....
View ArticleDallas Mayor Mike Rawlings rescued a choking woman during lunch at El Fenix...
Today at the downtown El Fenix dad performed the Heimlich on this nice lady who was choking. @Mike_Rawlings pic.twitter.com/AlahYsX7Lj — Gunnar Rawlings (@G_Rawlings) August 8, 2015
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August 8 will always be Mayor Rawlings Day at El Fenix after he saved a...
Steve Chambers, director of operations at El Fenix, gives … [visit site to read more]
View ArticleRawlings to proclaim Nov. 6 'Tim Brown Day' in Dallas to honor Woodrow...
Tomorrow at 9 a.m. at Dallas City Hall, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings will officially proclaim Nov. 6 “Tim Brown Day.” It’s about time. When the former (Los Angeles and) Oakland Raiders wide receiver was...
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Is nonprofit Fair Park Texas Foundation the future of Fair Park? Find out...
High above Fair Park during the State Fair of Texas in 2013 (Louis DeLuca/Staff photographer) On Wednesday the Dallas City Council will finally get a look at Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings’ plan for “The...
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Once again, Dallas goes after Topletz family for renting 190 'unsound,'...
2705 Pennsylvania, one of the Topletz properties cited as a drug house in the city’s new lawsuit (Google Maps) “In the City of Dallas, the name ‘Topletz’ is synonymous with dilapidated and often...
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Rawlings: Taxpayers shouldn't have to bail out imperiled Dallas police, fire...
During a 2008 trip to Europe, pension officials — including, seen here, then-administrator Richard Tettamant, visited Italy to see a possible real estate investment near Pisa, Italy. On Wednesday the...
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Audit to look at whether State Fair of Texas, others are doing their fair...
Dallas City Hall has determined it’s finally time to give Big Tex and the State Fair a more thorough examination. (Tom Fox/Staff photographer) Two Dallas City Council members want the city auditor to...
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A plan to expand Klyde Warren Park to the Perot Museum is in the works
This is what the Klyde Warren Park looks like. Now, imagine it going all the way to the Perot Museum of Nature and Science. (Kye R. Lee/Staff photo) In the few years since Klyde Warren Park first...
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37,656 patched potholes later, Rawlings says keeping Dallas' streets "at poor...
How is THIS not the new official City of Dallas flag? Seriously. Asking for a friend. The Dallas City Council spent part of the morning reviewing all the “strategic plan accomplishments” that took...
View ArticlePorn expo wants to return to Dallas convention center, but mayor has other ideas
The director of Exxxotica said Thursday he expects to bring his three-day porn expo back to the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center this year. The mayor of Dallas really hopes he doesn’t. For now,...
View ArticleDallas Mayor Rawlings wants city council to ban Exxxotica sex expo from...
Just seven months after Mayor Mike Rawlings acknowledged he could do nothing to stop a porn expo from taking it all off at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center, he is trying to stop it from...
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Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings to attend pope's border Mass at request of Ciudad...
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings won’t be attending Wednesday’s Dallas City Council meeting. But his will be an excused absence because he will be in Ciudad Juárez, among 30 state office-holders invited to...
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Rawlings: A park between Trinity River levees needs a parkway plan, then...
Guess we’ll just have to wait and see … At the Trinity Commons Foundation’s annual luncheon last year, urban planner Larry Beasley said he’d come to Dallas to put a stake through the heart of the...
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Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings, a Hillary Clinton fan, says 'enough with the...
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings went on Fox Business this afternoon and proclaimed himself “a Senator Clinton fan.” But if push came to shove, he said, and he had to vote Republican, he’d throw in with Ohio...
View ArticleMayor Mike Rawlings, three council members retain attorneys in Exxxotica case
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings and three City Council members have retained outside counsel on the chance that organizers of Exxxotica sue them personally over the council’s decision to ban the sex expo...
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Wilonsky: With teardown deadline looming, Mayor Mike Rawlings visits Tent City
Tent City (Andy Jacobsohn/Staff photographer) Editor’s note: Robert Wilonsky’s column about Dallas debuts today. “I just wanna walk around,” said the man in the blue-hooded rain jacket pulled over his...
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Rawlings calls Uber partnership targeting southern Dallas a 'win-win on so...
A Dallas driver for San Francisco-based Uber displays the ride-hailing app on a smartphone. By BRANDON FORMBY and JULIETA CHIQUILLO Staff Writers Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings’ push to bring the kind of...
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The homeless need places to live in every part of Dallas, advocates say
The Cottages at Hickory Crossing are scheduled to open in May and will house 50 of Dallas’ “most expensive” chronically homeless. At this very moment, officials with Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance and...
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Dallas Mayor Rawlings: Mark Cuban views new Mavs arena as 'legacy play,' not...
Fact or fiction or does it even matter? Jerry Jones, Mark Cuban, Mayor Mike Rawlings and Bobby Ewing …. sorry, Patrick Duffy — in a scene from “Dallas.” The TV show, that is. (TNT) There was at least...
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Wilonsky: Why does it take a crisis before Dallas City Hall shows that it...
Kris Sweckard, at the mike at Thursday morning’s news conference along Malcolm X and Pine, says animal control officers have been making a difference. (David Woo/Staff Photographer) Thursday morning,...
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Dallas tried to play ball with Texas Rangers, but Arlington's 'bear hug' was...
Dallas once sent the Texas Rangers renderings of a Dallas ballpark. It looked a little something like this. Two years ago, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings began talking to the Texas Rangers about moving to...
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Dallas Cowboys, immigration and Fort Worth vs. Dallas; 6 things to know about...
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Are Mexican businesses Dallas' best chance to become world-class city?
Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price, … [visit site to read more]
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In building our beautiful city, we need citizens like Mark Cuban
On Sunday night in Oak Lawn, participants took part in a vigil for those slain in Orlando. (Laura Buckman/Getty Images) The mayor received the text Sunday, and it read, in so many words: Let me help....
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