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New Mayor but Familiar Issues on Dallas’s Horizon
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| Contributor | DFWDem |
| Last Edited | DFWDem May 11, 2007 08:43pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
| News Date | Saturday, May 12, 2007 02:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | DALLAS — The $69 margarita at N9NE Steakhouse in Ross Perot Jr.’s $3 billion Victory Park development is not the most expensive drink in town, but it is one way of toasting the better times that some see ahead for a long-struggling Big D.
“This is our version of Rodeo Drive,” said Mr. Perot, son of the software entrepreneur and 1992 presidential candidate, showing off his Riviera of boutiques on 75 acres of hotel towers, condos and clubs alongside his American Airlines Center, the sports arena near downtown, in what was, until 1998, a polluted brownfield of rusting railyards and industrial plants.
Now the question is who will lead a resurgent Dallas. After five turbulent years, Laura Miller, perhaps the nation’s only investigative reporter turned big-city mayor, is not running again, setting off a wild scramble to head the nation’s ninth-largest metropolis, long troubled by crime, scandals, racial polarization and government gridlock.
In an interview at City Hall, Ms. Miller, 48, voiced pride at the forest of construction cranes, the flowering of the arts district, and her partly successful fight against new coal-fired power plants in Texas. |
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