The race is truly on for the Dallas City Council and Mayor's elections. Today, my wife and I received a letter in the mail from Dave Neumann announcing his candidacy for the Dallas City Council from District 3. In the letter Mr. Neumann uses leadership as the theme, and focuses on neighborhoods, safety and...
I will periodically update the site with additions (or subtractions) to the field for the City of Dallas May 2007 General Election. The full list of candidates can be found HERE. Mayor Edward E. Okpa has entered the mayor's race, bringing the number of mayoral candidates to a cool 20. Also note that...
For those who may have missed it Nanette Lee was interviewed by Debbie Denmon, where she talked about her departure from K104. Click HERE to see the interview at the Channel 8 website.
On Saturday night, I served as a judge for the Miss Black and Gold Pageant hosted by the Texas A&M Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha (Pi Omicron). The entertainment for the evening was provided by June Starr. When the curtain opened for her performance, Ms. Starr was sitting at a piano accompanied...
The Return Home – Part 4 By John Spriggins John Spriggins and his daughter Kendall I built my first house in 2002; it is two doors down from my grandmother's house on the same street where I grew up, Holmes Street. South Dallas is much better today than it was when...
Steve Brown of the Dallas Morning News had an article in Thursday's Business Section hailing the start of construction on The Beat condominium project in the Cedars Area of town. If you aren't familiar with the Cedars, think Southside on Lamar. The Beat will be 10-stories high, and across the street from...
As time moved, on I graduated from high school. The lessons I learned in school could not match any of the life lessons I learned growing up in South Dallas. Fortunately there was a great counselor at our school, Mr. Stevens, who helped me get into college and got me...
Today we continue our look at John's Spriggns essay The Return Home. Make sure you visit John's website to see some of his art work. Also find out more about John by viewing his C.V. This thumbnail is a Spriggins original work that hangs on my living room wall titled "Music Makes Me...
John Spriggins is one of the brightest young artists in the country, and he was raised right here, in Sunny South Dallas. When you visit his website, it will not take long to realize that this man is working with a gift from God. And yet the widest computer screen could not capture the size and...
I've been getting a lot of questions about who I think will be Dallas' next mayor. My answer was usually, "isn't there like 47 people running?" I had a general idea who would be the major players, but I knew I needed to bone up on the candidates. So I...
