The Dallas Bike Plan was updated in 2022 with a $2.5 million budget, but costs have risen to $300 million to complete high-scoring projects, and the plan is scheduled for adoption in 2025.
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Interim City Manager Kimberly Tolbert’s Audition for Permanent Gig Includes Reining In Dallas Budget
Dallas’s interim City Manager Kimberly Bizor Tolbert has proposed a biennial budget for FY 2024-25 and 2025-26, focusing on economic growth, financial responsibility, and increased funding for public safety, infrastructure, and social services.
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ForwardDallas Explained: How the Land Use Plan Can (and Cannot) Change the City
The City of Dallas’ updated land use plan, ForwardDallas, aims to address equity, environmental justice, and affordability, but the effectiveness of the plan is dependent on the city government, housing developers, and longtime industrial manufacturers.
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A Look Inside Dallas’s Proposed $1.25 Billion Bond Has The City Wondering, Where is the Money, LaShondra?
These Dallas streets have become notorious. But not for the summer day parties, life-threatening Deep Ellum nights or the random sighting of a front-facing scooter bike “gang” (because can it […]
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What is the Dallas City Charter, and how can neighbors change it?
By Michaela Rush Originally appeared in Dallas Free Press This coming November, the people of Dallas will vote not only for the presidential election, but also for proposed amendments to […]
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Dallas Leadership’s Pro-Israel Donors or: Zionist Shades of the Pegasus City
Wednesday, Dallas City Council’s meeting was packed by Pro-Palestine members of the community either living or working in the Dallas Metroplex in an effort to put greater pressure on city […]
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West Dallas Community Members Make History With a Street Topper in Honor of Late Rev. Dr. Walter Bookman
By Fatima Syed Dallas Free Press The Rev. Dr. Walter Bookman was a pastor at The New Morning Star Baptist Church in West Dallas for more than 40 years until […]
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Election Results in Dallas: What Was On Our Ballot This Year?Â
The Texas Constitutional Amendment took place November 2, with eight propositions up for a vote on the ballot.