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July 14, 2020July 14, 2020

Dallas Rich Get Richer

The Dallas rich keep getting richer. The City of Dallas Eviction Moratorium is over and worse – the Coronavirus Dallas Rental Assistance Program is pushing money into districts with higher socioeconomic status.

The Coronavirus Dallas Rental Assistance Program was put into action to try and help citizens in need. It was expected the program would be up for at least a month with applications being processed daily. The system was overwhelmed by applicants by the second day both the hotline and website were shut down, not accepting any more applications.

COVID19 brought many fears to the City of Dallas. One of them was how to work with Shelter in Place orders. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate in Dallas tripled from 4.6 in March to 12.3 in May 2020 similar to the spiking COVID19 numbers.

Mayor Eric Johnson took to Twitter to announce that only 9,996 applicants were eligible for the second phase of the program. After the website shut down it was reported at least another 15,000 applicants were not able to finish. This is without taking into account the many people had no idea of this rental assistance program or the many immigrant communities who don’t qualify for the program.

The Eviction Lab at Princeton University estimated that 1.5 million people are evicted in the United States annually.

10 million people were evicted in the years following the 2008 financial crisis. Some have suggested we may see an eviction rate as high as 8% or 28 million people being evicted in the just the next few months.

The Dallas Rich Are Not Stopped by The Eviction Process

Dallas Rich District Landlords Receive Most Rental Assistance Income

Some districts most affected by the coronavirus were left with little to no help from the programs set up by the city. An example, District 5 accounted for only 3% of applications and several residents said they heard nothing about the program from City Council Member Jaime Resendez. While accounting for only 3% of program applications, none were approved for District 5 and local residents are bewildered by Resendez’s attitude towards their needs.

Dallas Rich Council Districts Get Richer

The South Dallas sector ended up receiving less than 20% of the funds. This is a bad look for city leadership and management that talks about equity, but usually fails to deliver.

June 20, 2020June 12, 2021

Atkins Appointee In Trouble

Tennell Atkins appointee to the Permit and License Appeal Board may be appealing a dismissal soon.

Michael Clark Smotherman, the District 8 representative to the Dallas Permit and License Appeal Board has some issues it appears.

In multiple Facebook and Twitter posts it appears he is not only pushing back on Black Lives Matter, but is also asking for assault against peaceful protestors, not unlike Philip Archibald, who was recently arrested and indicted by the US Attorney’s Office.

Tennell Atkins Appointments

Council Member Atkins has yet to respond for comment. Other Atkins appointees can be found here.

June 18, 2020June 12, 2021

Failing Governor Plans To Fail Students…Again

Governor COVID19 strikes again. State legislators were informed Thursday morning in a conference call that Texas students will be returning to public schools in person this fall.

Per a Texas Tribune article: “It will be safe for Texas public school students, teachers, and staff to return to school campuses for in-person instruction this fall. But there will also be flexibility for families with health concerns so that their children can be educated remotely, if the parent so chooses,” said Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath.

The TEA is expected to release additional guidance for school districts next Tuesday, but the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) standards are clear.

This is another poor decision by a Governor and his team that is seeing massive growth in COVID19 numbers as he mangles the response to the disease.

Centers for Disease Control COVID19 Standards

Governor Abbott Plans To ReOpen Despite COVID19

The more people a student or staff member interacts with, and the longer that interaction, the higher the risk of COVID-19 spread. The risk of COVID-19 spread increases in school settings as follows:

Lowest Risk: Students and teachers engage in virtual-only classes, activities, and events.
More Risk: Small, in-person classes, activities, and events. Groups of students stay together and with the same teacher throughout/across school days and groups do not mix. Students remain at least 6 feet apart and do not share objects (e.g., hybrid virtual and in-person class structures, or staggered/rotated scheduling to accommodate smaller class sizes).
Highest Risk: Full sized, in-person classes, activities, and events. Students are not spaced apart, share classroom materials or supplies, and mix between classes and activities.

COVID-19 is mostly spread by respiratory droplets released when people talk, cough, or sneeze. It is thought that the virus may spread to hands from a contaminated surface and then to the nose or mouth, causing infection. Therefore, personal prevention practices (such as handwashing, staying home when sick) and environmental cleaning and disinfection are important principles that are covered in this document. Fortunately, there are a number of actions school administrators can take to help lower the risk of COVID-19 exposure and spread during school sessions and activities.

June 18, 2020June 12, 2021

Waste Not Want Not: July Quality of Life Changes

Monthly bulk waste and brush standards are changing effective July 1 for the City of Dallas. The quantity of a monthly brush and bulky trash set out for residential Sanitation customers may not exceed ten (10) cubic yards.

Waste Management - City of Dallas Regulation Changes — Brush Regulation Changes

Ten (10 ) cubic yards is roughly the equivalent of 10 household ovens. Once per year a residential customer is allowed an oversized collection of up to twenty (20) cubic yards, provided notification is made to the City the week in advance of the scheduled collection by contacting 3-1-1.

Waste/Sanitation Department Webpage

Dallas Sanitation has a webpage up – Curbside Manners – with a detailed FAQ and other information for city residents.

June 17, 2020June 12, 2021

TexasCOVID Trends After Governor Plays Blame Game

TexasCOVID and Governor Greg Abbott became a Twitter trending social media topic on Tuesday. In comments June 16 he criticized younger residents of his state for what he said was the reason in the coronavirus spike.

TexasCOVID Trends After Governor's Comments

Abbott specifically called out young people.

“What we’re seeing there is that people of that age group, they’re not following these appropriate best health and safety practices,” he said in an interview Monday with Lubbock’s KLBK-TV. “They’re not wearing face masks, they’re not sanitizing their hands, they’re not maintaining the safe distancing practices. And as a result, they are contracting COVID-19 at a record pace in the state of Texas.”

Abbott provided no data to back up his assertions that TexasCOVID infections were increasing among 20-somethings faster than any other group.

A Texas Department of State Health Services spokesman Monday said it’s too soon to have hard data on 20-somethings contracting COVID-19 at a record pace.

TexasCOVID History

The state of Texas began its phased reopening plan at the end of April. Bars were allowed to open May 22 with limited capacity and Abbott announced on June 3 that Texas would enter its third phase of reopening, meaning that restaurants could increase capacity to 75%.

The Governor said: “”We believe that a lot of people have let down their guard,” the governor said. “The summer’s here. Things are opening up. They feel like they can go out without having to wear a face mask.”

Abbott must have forgotten his own role in letting his guard down though. He alone took responsibility for reopening Texas as Scott Braddock noted back in April when the Governor removed the traditional authority centers, county judges and city mayors, from the decision making process.

There has been a steady rise in cases since the state moved into the third phase, Texas saw another new peak Tuesday, reporting 2,622 new cases and 2,518 Texans who have tested positive for the coronavirus are currently hospitalized.

A group of Texas mayors asked Abbott to require face coverings in public. Even with overwhelming scientific data that we are still in the first phase of TexasCOVID, Abbott has refused to require face coverings.

TexasCOVID Press Release From Clay Jenkins

Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins in a press release stated he had no desire for an argument with the Govenor or for jailing the non compliant, but “he was “calling on the Governor to either require masks through gubernatorial action or allow local governments to make the decusion for their communities.”

Clay Jenkins Talks About TexasCOVID response

June 16, 2020June 16, 2020

Galleria Shooting

Dallas Galleria had a shooting Tuesday evening and the suspect remains at large per Dallas Police.

Authorities are searching the mall for the shooter, police said. The victim was taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital in an unknown condition, police said.

Officers were called to a shooting in the 13300 block of Dallas Parkway about 6:45 p.m.

Dallas Galleria

Stores at the mall are currently open to fifty percent of normal capacity due to COVID19 precautions.

Witnesses heard screaming and could smell the odor of “gunpowder.”

North Dallas has had an abnormal uptick in gun violence in the past week with six shootings in one day late last week. Additional information will be posted as it becomes available.

June 16, 2020June 15, 2020

Violent Boogaloo Vigilante Charged by Justice Department

Violent Boogaloo vigilante, Philip Archibald, was charged by the Justice Department for Conspiracy to Sell Steroids.

Archibald is the same person who owns the Facebook account below claiming to be hunting Antifa. He later claimed he had been hacked.

Archibald was posting these threats at the same time Dallas Police Department officers were beating a man on the street who was prone on the ground.

Violent Boogaloo Also Peddling Steroids

Per the Department of Justice Philip Archibald was also selling steroids when not “hunting Antifa.”

Philip Russell Archibald, 29, of Lancaster, was charged via criminal complaint with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances. Coconspirator Danielle Bocanegra, 30, of Lampasas, was also charged.

“The Northern District of Texas will not tolerate the peddling of steroids in our community. We are grateful to our law enforcement partners for helping us dismantle this steroid trafficking ring,” said U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox.

According to the complaint, Mr. Archibald, a self-proclaimed bodybuilder and personal trainer, allegedly ran a steroid distribution ring that spanned across north Texas.

At Mr. Archibald’s detention hearing, prosecutors argued that the defendant posed a threat to the community, noting that the defendant, who has been tied publicly with the anti-government Boogaloo movement, used his social media accounts to advocate vigilante “guerrilla warfare” against the National Guardsman patrolling Black Lives Matter protests. In a recent Facebook post, he claimed to be “hunting Antifa” and threatened to “kill” looters. The Court granted the government’s motion and ordered Mr. Archibald detained pending trial.

June 15, 2020June 12, 2021

Breaking: Blood Shortage At Carter Bloodcare

Dallas has a severe blood shortage and needs your help now!

If you made a New Year’s Resolution you have’t kept, here is an easy way to redeem yourself. Be a hero and donate whole blod today!

Carter BloodCare is taking walk-ins now through 3:30 in the parking lot of Episcopal School of Dallas (4100 Merrell Road).

Blood Shortage in Dallas

Carter BloodCare has been serving Dallas since 1951 when J.K. and Susie L. Wadley chartered the Wadley Research Institute and Blood Bank. They changed the name of the nonprofit organization in 1993 to BloodCare of Dallas. Fort Worth was being served by Carter Blood Center, founded in 1957 with grant support from the Amon G. Carter Foundation.

Carter Bloodcare is recognized throughout the medical and research communities for providing a high quality of products and services to our hospital partners, community supporters and blood donors.

Their primary purpose is to provide life-saving resources to local hospitals in our regional communities. They are proud to be one of the AABB-accredited blood centers in the state, their laboratory is certified by the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy (FACT), and they are also licensed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Additionally, they are affiliated with America’s Blood Centers – a group of community blood centers providing half of the blood that is transfused in the United States.

Carter BloodCare is known for our commitment to quality, strength in industry expertise, and a passion for saving lives.

Please contact Other Side Dallas with other opportunities for our neighbors to serve their neighnors.

June 15, 2020June 15, 2020

Chief Hall Listening Tour Goes Bad

Chief Hall started a listening tour and it went bad – quickly.

Chief Hall who was met with protests responded: “One of the things we can’t do, and I am here to speak to you, and if you don’t want to hear me, then there’s nothing that I can do for you if you don’t want to hear,” Hall said.

Hall continues to be under the impression she can dictate protestor’s feelings on her lack of command experience and poor decision making as evidenced by non-protest bystanders being hit by rubber bullets, officers assaulting a prone adult male recording events, and her lies about her Rules of Engagement at the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge.

Her Sunday “conversation” outside city hall but cut her speech short as people in the crowd called on her to resign as has been done on Change.org with nearly 2000 people asking for her to leave office or Dallas City Council to remove her.

A Dallas police insider complained Chief Hall was not even in uniform. The tweet made clear Dallas Police does not issue polos, but that there are two sets of rules – one set for Hall and one for everyone else.

Chief Hall Continues To Gaslight

Chief Hall spoke to protesters, hoping to have a conversation about needed changes in policing. Instead, the protesters wouldn’t let her talk.

“I was on my knees with my hands up and was tear gassed,” one protester said.

The meeting with protestors appears to be one more attempt to change the narrative. Late last week Chief Hall dropped a video via Dallas Police saying DPD was taking a knee with protestors as opposed to on them.

June 12, 2020June 12, 2020

Take A Knee Gaslights Dallas

“Take A Knee” comes to Dallas in the form of a new gaslighting video from Renee Hall and Dallas Police Department.

The new video just released by the Dallas Police Department begins with the statement — “To the communities we serve: We hear you.”

It asks residents to “work together to end racism” and join the department to #TakeAKnee.

Included in the video is Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo as well as other Chiefs and County Sheriff’s across the country joining protesters. The video goes on to say, “Before we can move forward we need to pause… to listen before we speak.” The video includes images of officers from other departments embracing protesters. It includes images of other officers taking a knee as crowds cheer. The video continues saying “Black lives do matter”.

Take a Knee

Dallas police spokesman were unavailable for comment as to whether or not Chief Hall learned this level of gaslighting from Donald Trump during his Dallas visit.

Dallas police have a long history, like Derek Chauvin, of taking a knee into citizens’ backs. It is particularly deceptive for Chief Hall to coopt that phrase given her own violent tendencies and poor command judgements.

We have provided descriptions of officers shooting rubber bullets at bystanders, beating a prone citizen filming activity, and lying about their actions on the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge.

One viewer noted “she had to get footage from elsewhere because all she did was yell and tear gas people.”

Another viewer said this was just to save her budget and perhaps her job.