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Butt out, says Dallas City Council
It’s an issue that’s long been smoldering. … [visit site to read more]
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Dallas City Hall Monitor: June 30, 2008
Your early morning dose of news and views from in and around Dallas City Hall: * Lobbying the Dallas City Council for comprehensive smoking ban begins in earnest this … [visit site to read more]
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An attempt to extinguish smoking in Dallas
At least, extinguish it in Dallas bars and other indoor public spaces, such a pool halls. That’s the tack a coalition of area and state anti-smoking organizations is taking in what’s shaping up to be...
View ArticleA smoke-free Dallas Convention Center hotel? Apparently so.
If Dallas builds a planned city-owned convention center hotel, it would have to be smoke-free, according to the city’s smoking ordinance. Section 41.2 of the Dallas City Code allows smoking in “a...
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Expanded Dallas smoking ordinance scheduled for a full City Council hearing
After months of quiet discussion and some delay, the Dallas City Council is slated to debate the future of an expanded municipal smoking ordinance that could ultimately ban people from lighting up in...
View ArticleDallas City Hall Monitor: Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Your daily dose of news and views from in and around Dallas City Hall: Even at 1500 Marilla St., few city leaders will be acutely focusing on municipal matters today now that the nation’s voters have...
View ArticleDallas’ debate on expanded smoking ordinance to be delayed?
A definite possibility, given that it’s 4 p.m. and the Dallas City Council is still in a closed-door session conducting a routine performance review for City Manager Mary Suhm. City Attorney Tom...
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Decision on expanded Dallas smoking ordinance delayed; Mayor Tom Leppert...
It may be weeks yet before the Dallas City Council crafts a proposed expansion to its municipal smoking ordinance that officials had hoped would pass by the year’s end. On Wednesday evening, Mayor Tom...
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Dallas smoking ordinance committee to conduct meeting Monday, press for...
After Monday’s Dallas City Council meeting, council member Pauline Medrano will conveine her newly created “Special Ad Hoc City Smoking Ordinance Committee” … [visit site to read more]
View ArticleDallas City Hall Monitor: Monday, November 10, 2008
Your daily dose of news and views from in and around Dallas City Hall: • The Dallas City Council will conduct a rare Monday agenda meeting today — one bound to be so long that it’s starting at 8 a.m....
View ArticleDallas City Council’s smoking ordinance vote delayed two weeks, to December 3
The first action the Dallas City Council’s new “Special Ad Hoc City Smoking Ordinance Committee” took Monday night? Delay two weeks — until December 3 — a vote on a yet-to-be-crafted smoking ordinance...
View ArticleDallas City Hall Monitor: Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Your daily dose of news and views from in and around Dallas City Hall: * No Dallas City Council meeting today, as the body conducted a rare Monday meeting two days ago. That’s because most everyone on...
View ArticleDallas smoking ordinance expansion meeting underway
And we have a draft ordinance expansion ready for discussion. It includes banning smoking inside bars and billiard halls, as well as areas “within 15 feet of any entrance to an indoor or enclosed area...
View ArticleSmoking for theatrical purposes likely safe in Dallas
As a Dallas City Council committee debates the future of the city’s smoking ordinance, one thing appears certain: Lighting up as part of a theatrical production appears safe. “The way that guy is...
View ArticleDallas City Council member Sheffie Kadane on smoking ban proposal: ‘Communistic’
One of the Dallas City Council’s most adamant smokers’ rights advocates, District 9 council member Sheffie Kadane, is livid about the idea that the council may move to ban smoking inside work offices...
View ArticleAnother Dallas smoking ordinance meeting, another meeting yet to come
A bevy of fiery words. No expanded Dallas smoking ordinance proposal – yet. So it went Monday night, as a Dallas City Council committee studying whether to ban smoking in a variety of new city venues...
View ArticleDallas City Hall Monitor: Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Your daily dose of news and views from in and around Dallas City Hall: • No lack of news Monday at Dallas City Hall. There were smoking ordinance expansions being considered, federal economic stimulus...
View ArticleSpecial meetings set for Dallas smoking ordinance, convention center hotel...
The Dallas City Council’s economic development committee has called a special meeting for 10 a.m. Thursday, at which it will likely decide on an operator — either Marriott or Omni Hotels — for a...
View ArticleWhere did the Dallas City Council stand on an expanded smoking ban in January?
Let us remind you with this article. At the time, long before serious discussion began on whether to ban smoking in bars, pool halls and, perhaps, venues beyond, several council members made some...
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Dallas City Council committee will again take up the fiery topic of smoking...
A Dallas City Council committee meets at 11:30 this morning to talk again about possible expansion of the city’s anti-smoking ordinance. The meeting will be in Room 6ES at City Hall. The … [visit site...
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