The top local stories this afternoon from KERA News:
The Dallas City Council has picked a new city manager – pending a vote on Wednesday. T.C. Broadnax is currently the city manager for Tacoma, Washington. He also spent five years in San Antonio as assistant city manager.
Mayor Mike Rawlings said Broadnax’s experience tackling poverty in Tacoma will benefit Dallas, and that his outside perspective will allow him to deal with difficult issues in the city, like the troubled police and fire pension fund, the future of Fair Park and the city’s crumbling infrastructure. The current Dallas city manager, A.C. Gonzalez, is retiring next month after three years on the job.
Other stories this afternoon:
- The Fort Worth Symphony musicians ended a bitter three-month strike this week. The players and management agreed on a four-year contract. The deal freezes wages for two years and provides small raises for the remaining two. An un-named donor gave the orchestra $700,000, clearing the symphony’s deficit. KERA’s Bill Zeeble talked with symphony President and CEO Amy Adkins about what happens next.
- Moving Cities is the name of an ongoing video project by a London director, who portrays different cities through footage of their dancers performing around the cityscape – interacting with traffic and trains. Dallas was the first North American city to bring Moving Cities to town. Justin Marin and Art & Seek’s Jerome Weeks sat down to discuss the striking video posted online last week.
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