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    Let Me Sum Up

    Why Dallas city manager Mary Suhm should be grilled like a hanger steak. Plus: Kahlua!

    Eric Celeste
    Feb 27, 2013 | 8:37 am

    Today the Dallas City Council will question city manager Mary Suhm about some shady stuff. It’s kinda complicated. It’s about gas-drilling rights, city-owned parkland, and whether Suhm lied to the council when she told the gas-drilling company it could probably do itself some gas drilling on said city-owned parkland.

    If you want to read more on the matter, check out Jim Schutze (who broke the story) here and here and here. Or you can read Rudy Bush here and here. Once you’re up-to-date, you just need to know one thing about what is going on today.

    As soon as she’s done explaining exactly what happened, and how the city attorney says she was within her right to tell the gas-drilling concern it could concern itself with all the gas drilling it wants, you should close your eyes and picture Joe Pesci saying this: “Everything that [gal] just said is bullshit. Thank you.”

    This is not just my opinion. This is the opinion of anyone, including councilmembers, who read what Suhm wrote in her infamous “letter of good faith” (which was pretty clear). Suhm can throw out The Otter Defense all she wants — and you should watch that video, because it’s awesome — but that doesn’t mean we have to agree with her tortured, specious reasoning.

    Because, again to quote Mr. Pesci: “Does the defense’s case hold water?” No it does not! Read that last Rudy Bush link above, the one where the environmental group puts Suhm in a figure-four leg lock and refuses to let go. It shows pretty clearly (as though this wasn’t already apparent) that Suhm believes she could do whatever she wanted, and that included telling the council one thing and then doing the opposite.

    Such hubris has been standard operating procedure for Suhm for a long time. But to quote one councilmember who talked to me earlier this week, this episode is “the height of her arrogance.” (That councilmember was not Angela Hunt, for what it’s worth. I know I worked for her, but she puts her name behind her words. Witness her quote in the Rudy Bush story from Saturday regarding the fox and the henhouse.) It is further proof what one former city staffer told me when he e-mailed the following:

    This is just another example of what has long been happening. Mary Suhm runs this city by fear. She needs to be held accountable, or retire. But she won’t be the former, and she won’t do the latter.

    Why is the council scared to grill her publicly on this? I honestly don’t know. Finally, at least, the Dallas Morning News ed board seems to be interested in exploring one of her messes. That sort of public heat is important, because for too long Suhm’s ridiculous standard line — that she’s just a city servant, doesn’t like the limelight, and therefore deserves to operate behind the scenes — has allowed her to skate.

    Such a position has never made sense. She’s the most powerful person in Dallas! Hold her freaking accountable! Demand more than her recent half-hearted contrition. (“I have to take the responsibility for it.” Aw, do you have to?) In today’s case, we should see from her complete honesty and unmitigated proclamations of guilt, or she should be roasted. Under our system, the only check we have to a city manager, especially one who runs the city as she sees fit while lying to our representatives, is public humiliation. So let’s get to it.

    Elsewhere

    City leaders can complain all they want about the DMN’s alleged jihad against Parkland, but if a federal inspection were held today — a year after the hospital was given a laundry list of changes to implement — it still wouldn’t pass.

    Cornyn and Cruz — a.k.a., C&C Wingnut Factory … No? Maybe? — voted “no” on Hagel as Defense Secretary, to the surprise of no one.

    As much as I like making fun of Irving, I think the city’s ISD has a point here. Everyone says schools shouldn’t teach to the test, but those who don’t are punished for not playing the game. That said: IRVING! Ha! Amirite?

    Retweets

    I have nothing to add.

    Beer drinkers file $5M lawsuit charging Anheuser-Busch with 'watering down' Budweiser & Michelob. bbc.in/13hf5km

    — Jim Roberts (@nycjim) February 27, 2013

    Except that I’m not sure this is the answer.

    Did I mention that today just happens to be National Kahlua Day!In case you're wondering what to have for... fb.me/2HywrlWzx

    — wrr101 (@wrr101) February 27, 2013

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    population report

    Booming Dallas suburb was the fastest-growing city in the U.S. in 2024

    Amber Heckler
    May 19, 2025 | 10:36 am
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    Dallas' population has grown to nealry 1.33 million residents.

    The Dallas suburb of Princeton grew faster than any other city in the United States in 2024, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

    The new population report said Princeton's population has more than doubled in the last five years. The city saw a dramatic growth rate of 30.6 percent from July 2023 to July 2024, now boasting a population of just over 37,000 residents. The suburb is located 42 miles northeast from downtown Dallas.

    The report also revealed Dallas retained its No. 9 spot on the list of the 15 most populous cities in the U.S. Dallas gained more than 23,000 residents during the one-year period, bringing the city's population to 1,326,087 people in 2024.

    Elsewhere across North Texas, Fort Worth surpassed 1 million residents and eclipsed Austin as the 11th largest city in the nation. Fort Worth had the fifth-highest numeric increase in population last year, 23,442 residents, to bring the city's total population to 1,008,106 residents.

    Houston and San Antonio were the only Texas cities to have higher numerical growth rates than Fort Worth. Houston gained 43,217 residents – the second-highest increase nationwide – while San Antonio ranked No. 4 in growth with an additional 23,945 residents.

    Austin has yet to surpass the 1 million population threshold and has a population of 993,588 residents, the report says. The city now ranks 13th on the list of most populous U.S. cities after ranking 11th in 2024.

    Sandwiched between No. 11-Fort Worth and No. 13-Austin is San Jose, California, whose population of 997,368 puts it in the 12-largest spot.

    Fastest growing U.S. cities
    Six additional Texas cities made the list of fastest-growing U.S. cities, with several in the DFW Metroplex:

    • Fulshear, near Houston (No. 2) with 26.7 percent growth (54,629 total population)
    • Celina (No. 4) with 18.2 percent growth (51,661 total population)
    • Anna (No. 5) with 14.6 percent growth (31,986 total population)
    • Fate (No. 8) with 11.4 percent growth (27,467 total population)
    • Melissa (No. 11) with 10 percent growth (26,194 total population)
    • Hutto, near Austin (No. 13) with 9.4 percent growth (42,661 total population)
    The Austin suburb of Georgetown's growth has continued to slow since 2023, and it no longer appears in the list of fastest-growing cities. However, it did surpass 100,000 residents in 2024.

    San Angelo, a small city in West Texas, also surpassed the 100,000-population threshold.

    Most populous U.S. cities in 2024
    New York City maintained its stronghold as the biggest in America in 2024, boasting a population of nearly 8.5 million residents. Los Angeles and Chicago also retained second and third place, with respective populations of nearly 3.88 million and more than 2.7 million residents.

    "Cities in the Northeast that had experienced population declines in 2023 are now experiencing significant population growth, on average," said Crystal Delbé, a statistician in the Census Bureau’s Population Division. "In fact, cities of all sizes, in all regions, showed faster growth and larger gains than in 2023, except for small cities in the South, whose average population growth rate remained the same."

    The 15 populous U.S. cities as of July 1, 2024 were:

    • No. 1 – New York, New York (8.48 million)
    • No. 2 – Los Angeles, California (3.88 million)
    • No. 3 – Chicago, Illinois (2.72 million)
    • No. 4 – Houston, Texas (2.39 million)
    • No. 5 – Phoenix, Arizona (1.67 million)
    • No. 6 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1.57 million)
    • No. 7 – San Antonio, Texas (1.53 million)
    • No. 8 – San Diego, California (1.4 million)
    • No. 9 – Dallas, Texas (1.33 million)
    • No. 10 – Jacksonville, Florida (1 million)
    • No. 11 – Fort Worth, Texas (1 million)
    • No. 12 – San Jose, California (997,368)
    • No. 13 – Austin, Texas (993,588)
    • No. 14 – Charlotte, North Carolina (943,476)
    • No. 15 – Columbus, Ohio (933,263)
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