The Dallas City Council was expected to vote Wednesday on a resolution that called for demolishing one Confederate monument and auctioning off another. Instead, they postponed making major decisions, voting 9-6 to review more options for a Confederate War Memorial. Then, they voted 10-5, without discussion, not to sell a statue of General Robert E. Lee but did not indicate what the city would do with it either.
The Dallas City Council will introduce a resolution next week that may well seal the fates of its Confederate monuments. It calls for the “demolition and removal” of a 122-year-old historical Confederate War Memorial. It also seeks to auction off the bronze equestrian statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, shuttered in a hangar since city officials removed it in September.
A 100-year-old Confederate monument will remain standing in the town square of a North Texas county, meeting a very different fate than did a historical statue of General Robert E. Lee in nearby Dallas.
The Dallas City Council, which moved quickly to remove a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, suddenly pushed pause on removing future Civil War monuments one week before a $1 billion municipal bond election.
Around 200 people gathered Saturday afternoon in Dallas at Lee Park to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and an unknown soldier. Peaceful protesters stood in the blistering 90-plus degree heat while facing the barren pedestal where Lee’s bronze, 14-foot tall, six-ton equestrian likeness stood from 1936 until Thursday. Dallas officials sent in city work crews to warehouse the statue.
Dallas officials brought in crews late Thursday afternoon to remove the historical statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from a public park.
A late afternoon restraining order temporarily blocked the City of Dallas from removing a bronze statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee on Wednesday.
In a resolution filed late Monday afternoon, three of the four black members on the Dallas City Council demanded the immediate removal, disposal, and/or relocation of all Confederate monuments located on the municipality’s public land.
It could cost millions of dollars to remove and relocate Confederate monuments and statues standing in Dallas public parks. It remains unclear who will foot the bill for this undertaking, says Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway.
Dallas finally named its new police chief on Wednesday. City Manager T.C. Broadnax announced he hired Detroit Deputy Police Chief Ulysha Renee Hall and, in doing so, she becomes the first woman to serve as the department’s top cop.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Wednesday afternoon that his office will assist the Dallas County District Attorney in the ongoing investigation into allegations of widespread voter fraud reported during the May 6 city council election in several precincts.
The Dallas City Council voted reluctantly to accept the county’s results from the May 6 elections, currently under criminal investigation over voter fraud allegations. This comes amid shocking secret audio recordings surfacing in which a campaign worker alleges he paid off someone inside the county elections office to tip him off when mail-in ballots were sent out.
Shortly before midnight Friday night, hackers activated 156 emergency warning sirens across the City of Dallas. The ordeal for Dallas resident lasted more than one and one-half hours.
Texas State Fair icon Big Tex will be sporting some updated western wear that pays tribute to the recently fallen and injured Dallas area police.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is standing with Dallas business leaders against a pornography convention that is slated to be hosted in the city’s convention center. Paxton filed a brief today in federal court in support of stopping the sexually-oriented show.
The pro-Muslim United Against Racism | Hate rally made an unexpected last minute venue change. The event miraculously morphed into a march and a rally less than two days before the Dec. 12 event date. No longer will the event be an Irving mosque-held event. Instead, it will be held in Southeast Dallas at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Center on Dec. 12 from 1-3 p.m.
A free speech ban on overpass roadways in the City of Dallas ended this week when a U.S. District Court ruled it unconstitutional.
The Season of Trump has offered America an unforgivable look at just how awful the Republican Establishment is. This segment I’ve labeled #GOPSmartSet reminds me so much of their degenerate brethren in the mainstream media, inasmuch as you can’t tell
Exxxotica “does Dallas,” the weekend of August 7 through 9. The triple-X rated sexpo, open to anyone aged 18 and up, bills itself as the “largest adult event in the USA dedicated to love & sex.” But not everyone agrees that the upcoming three-day sextravaganza belongs in the “Big D.”
The Third Court of Appeals in Austin has ruled against transparency in government and a Texas Attorney General Open Records opinion by holding that the City of Dallas can keep government documents secret even though the City did not comply
