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City Hall Roundup: Garbage Truck Cams, CRE Grant Fund, KBH Convention Center Year-in-Review

By Charles Grand / December 14, 2025 /

Well, that’s a wrap for Dallas City Council meetings this year, with the official holiday recess underway. That’s not to say there aren’t some board and commission meetings tentatively scheduled for next week, but developments on big ticket items and policy questions will probably be few and far between until next year. Nevertheless, here are…

Former North Texas Lawmaker, NFL Player Tapped to Lead Housing and Urban Development

By Charles Grand / November 28, 2024 /

President-elect Donald Trump announced on Friday evening that he’s nominating former Texas lawmaker and D-FW native Scott Turner to head up the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. “Scott will work alongside me to Make America Great Again for EVERY American,” Trump wrote in a statement touting his pick’s accomplishments. Turner, a former NFL…

Title Tip: How Will The Federal Government Shutdown Affect Your Closing?

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / January 2, 2019 /

By Lydia Blair Special Contributor In case you’ve been out of touch lately, we’re experiencing a federal government shutdown. The U.S. government doesn’t shut down too often. But when it does, there is a ripple effect. Some areas feel the effects more than others. We shouldn’t feel it too much in the title business unless…

Study Reveals Effects of Latest HUD Assistance Policy Proposals

By Jon Anderson / June 8, 2018 /

Being poor is no picnic in a thousand little ways. People give the poor grief for using food stamps to buy junk food and sugary drinks. And now, a study using data from the New York State Department of Health hints at a partial reason: Food manufacturers know food stamps are issued monthly and typically…

Jon Anderson: As Housing Prices Become Painful For Everyone, Federal Legislation Aims to Squeeze the Poor

By Jon Anderson / May 1, 2018 /

One would think that growing up in a poor and broken home would inform your worldview towards empathy later in life. But no, apparently it’s just like parents’ age-old freak-out on sex education that forgets their own terrible first experiences on the topic. It’s almost like hazing theory: “If I had to go through it,…