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Luxury retailer Neiman Marcus will qualify for a city grant of up to $5 million if it keeps a certain portion of its employees at a headquarters in the city of Dallas.
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Dallas has vowed to make pedestrian safety a top priority, but a city audit reveals that it does not have any written procedures related to eliminating and reducing the risk of traffic fatalities.
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Developers and business owners complain that delays in Dallas' permitting process is getting in the way of building new houses and apartments at a time when there's a shortage. But City Manager T.C. Broadnax said his staff are working to speed that up.
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State felony district Judge Hector Garza disposed, or cleared, 6,632 cases over the 40-month period ending in April. During that same period, Judge Amber Givens disposed of 4,572.
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Dallas is putting more restrictions on environmentally hazardous concrete batch plants, which have operated near Black and Latino neighborhoods for years.
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Pet stores in Dallas are now banned from selling dogs and cats after a city council vote Wednesday. The Humane Pet Ordinance is aimed at eliminating a market for commercial breeding operations like puppy mills.
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A commission redrawing city council lines in Dallas approved new boundaries on Tuesday, leaving current districts largely intact and white residents overrepresented.
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Some city leaders worry that lead contamination at a Southeast Dallas site where tons of shingles and other construction material had been dumped may also have contaminated parts of the surrounding neighborhood.
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Natural gas leaks are more prevalent in communities of color and low-income neighborhoods, according to a new report published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology,
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Southeast Dallas residents who live near the former Shingle Mountain site want the city council to approve a $2 million cleanup of toxic lead and arsenic contamination.
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Property owners and promoters who host events in Dallas without a permit could face stiff fines and could be held financially accountable for costs related to an emergency response from police or firefighters. That's if a proposed ordinance is passed.
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Debbie Orozco Solis says folks in her West Dallas neighborhood have to live with a fine dust that sometimes makes it hard to breathe. They share the neighborhood with a “concrete batch plant” that makes cement for construction projects.