Category: Politics

Dallas officials are exploring a new streetcar route that could connect the downtown convention center area with Fair Park in South Dallas, but city leaders say the proposal is still in its earliest planning phase. The city’s transportation department is collecting public feedback through May 6 as it studies whether the project should move forward. […]

Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson has not publicly addressed the city’s widening budget problems, even as City Manager Kimberly Bizor Tolbert moved Friday, April 24, 2026, to impose broad spending controls across city government. The cost-cutting directive comes as Dallas works to manage rising expenses, weaker sales tax revenue and pressure on its employee health fund. […]

Dallas has ordered an immediate freeze on most city hiring, discretionary spending and nonessential travel as officials work to close a budget shortfall running into the tens of millions of dollars. City Manager Kimberly Bizor Tolbert announced the cost-control measures Friday, April 24, 2026, in a memo to department directors. The decision follows growing financial […]