Robert Wilonsky

Oh, I have asked the city spokesperson many questions about this. MANY.

Rangers unveil 'One Riot, One Ranger' statue addition at Globe Life Field The Texas Rangers on Monday announced a permanent statue addition to the left field concourse at Globe Life Field. The “One Riot, One Ranger” statue, which has a lengthy history in Dallas-Fort Worth, ...

Cool new statue, Texas Rangers!

Don't worry, no one will go to the Wikipedia page for it to see why it's not at the airport anymore. www.mlb.com/news/rangers...

After ICE sent her mother back to Mexico, a 17-year-old high school senior was left to care for her younger sisters. bit.ly/4rFk3V7

Wilonsky: A mom deported, 4 kids left behind and an 80-year-old Dallas Girl Scout troop leader’s good deeds After ICE sent her mother back to Mexico, a 17-year-old high school senior was left to care for her younger sisters.

“My house is one place they let them come because they know they’d have to kill me before I let [ICE] in the door. Unless good people step up and let their voices be heard, nothing is going to change. We can’t let this keep happening, especially to children.”

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Nobody asked for this cheap-ass shit.

The city of Dallas, which is about to abandon I.M. Pei's City Hall to Miriam Adelson for a casinorena, is very good at wasting time and money to make things worse. Example ∞, the unnecessary rebranding of one of the few things in Dallas people like, Love Field.

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Yesterday/Just now

The most spot-on description of Dallas and Fort Worth I've ever heard. I would read a whole book of this; listen to it, certainly.

Dallas wants to shift responsibility for Wings’ new practice facility to the WNBA team The City Council on Wednesday delayed a vote on a revised deal, citing unanswered questions about why the planned Oak Cliff practice facility is now $27...

Ah, yes. The Wings. Related to this cluster?

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This morning, Dallas City Council member Adam Bazaldua posted to FB this memo from Sports Mayor, which calls for a vote on City Hall's fate next week. The CM adds: "This process is a joke and an insult to our taxpayers. I hope the voters are paying attention to this Mavericks/City Hall boondoggle!!"

i started a new job in this building a few weeks ago…it’s an amazing building and i really hope Council chooses to save it

i also hope they would reconsider previous proposals for making the plaza a more vibrant public space…when i walk to grab lunch or coffee, it’s like traversing a wasteland

Along with the rest of me, a heap of ashes.

I left this under your FB comment, as well, but I did turn up that one piece of paper that refers to the plaza as “Municipal Complex not Park Property," But as one former city attorney told me Monday, well, this could all be settled by a lawsuit.

Thanks. Somehow missed this, and it didn't come up during several interviews this week with current and past Park Department leadership. Now, of course, Palomino refuses to weigh in, while Parks folks seem resigned to the fact that a sports facility can go on parkland (Cotton Bowl, Wings at Joey G).

Wilonsky: Dallas City Hall’s plaza likely isn’t parkland, but it is The People’s Front Porch It appears after doing some digging that a voter referendum on the sale of Dallas City Hall Plaza won’t be a roadblock the keep-it crowd has hoped for. And,...

When the council gives it away, Dallas will lose the one place in town where we gather to celebrate, mourn, shout, reflect. Which, I think, is why so many folks, like me, so quickly took to this idea that the plaza was sacred parkland untouchable without our OK.

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After a briefing about conditions at Dallas City Hall, which was just a recitation of a publicly available PowerPoint, the city council has been hiding from The People for nearly two hours. Most everyone left. Very respectful city council we got here.

How do you get so many people to
Dallas City Hall? Propose selling and tearing down Dallas City Hall. (For yet another Mavericks arena.)

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure:

On July 12, 1978, Springsteen & E Street Band played an even smaller venue, to just 1,600 people, after failing to fill Memorial Auditorium 5 weeks after Darkness on the Edge of Town's release. The perfect set from a legendary tour.

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I said the very same thing to someone else.

The State of City Hall report is out.

Read it here:

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Takeaway: The fix is in.

While going through the archives for this piece, I found my favorite photo of Dallas City Hall. Taken while it was under construction in 1975.

Wilonsky: The man who tended to Dallas City Hall in 1978 on why it shouldn’t be torn down “That place is an embarrassment to the city of Dallas,” David Voss told me Wednesday. Not the building, he said. Never the building or the council chambers,...

David Voss worked for Dallas 3 times.

As a maintenance man who kept the old City Hall in one piece. As manager of all city-owned buildings in NW Dallas. Then, as the man in charge of keeping I.M. Pei's City Hall shining.

Now, he just wants to keep it standing.

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Wilonsky: Why police, feds finally busted NW Dallas ‘brothel’ and adult book store There are also two pieces of paper affixed to Pandora’s front door. One is the temporary restraining order. The other says, “CLOSED FOR REMODEL.” Because I...

Traffic from the Paris parking lot often spills into Harry Hines. But weeks ago, I asked city attorneys about Pandora's, as a couple of guys who live in Harry Hines' storm-drain tunnels said they'd seen cops busting folks there. Turns out the place is a "brothel."

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More: "We’re grateful for the long-term relationship we have with Mayor Mario Vasquez and the City of Hutchins and look forward to continuing our work to find a buyer or lease tenant that will help drive economic growth.”

Was just texted a statement from a PR rep that says despite being contacted about selling its warehouse in Hutchins, "Majestic Realty Co. has not and will not enter into any agreement for the purchase or lease of any building to the Department of Homeland Security for use as a detention facility."

Thor Christensen's review of the Bruce Springsteen solo acoustic show at the Bronco Bowl on Jan. 26, 1996.

Bruce Springsteen at the Bronco Bowl on Jan. 26, 1996. Photo by The Dallas Morning News' Randy Eli Grothe.

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure:

“I think I’ll be playing only bowling alleys from here on out. There’s something to it." -- Bruce Springsteen on Jan. 26, 1996, when he played Oak Cliff's Bronco Bowl. Can't stop listening to a show I thought I'd never hear again.

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Wilonsky: A brief, proud history of Dallas ISD’s student protests, which – sorry – didn’t start this week This week’s protests were preceded by last week’s brief walkout at Thomas Jefferson High School, my alma mater, where students never actually left campus. The...

“I learned more life lessons in that week than if I’d gone to class that Monday."

In 2006, Gustavo Jimenez used MySpace to organize a student walkout & march on Dallas City Hall.

"I was very proud of them," says former Dallas ISD superintendent Michael Hinojosa.

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Um, Meat Loaf.

I enjoy Robert's column and agree that random gunfire is a problem. However, among the solutions discussed here (i.e., in-person police responses vs. new policing technology), I couldn't help but notice one that wasn't mentioned at all: Making fewer guns accessible to Texas residents.

The Eclipse of Dallas The city’s core is losing its central role in the region.

"This half-baked vision may be the nation’s worst downtown-revival strategy, and not only because it would destroy the city’s one-of-a-kind Brutalist colossus. [It's] based on a fundamental misunderstanding of what makes downtowns worthy ... in the first place."

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Wilonsky: Decades later, Dallas still can’t quiet neighborhoods that sound like war zones The phone rang at 11:55 Saturday night. The call was coming from inside the house. “Do you hear that?” asked the voice on the other end. “Sounds like Fallujah...

Random gunfire is just something my NW Dallas neighborhood has gotten used to. It takes something like Saturday night's outburst -- some 30 shots fired over a 10-minute span -- to even get everyone's attention. Even then, Dallas PD couldn't do anything about it.

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