Dallas, TX
Dallas Finally Makes it Easier for Food Trailers, Carts, and Trucks to Operate
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The Dallas Metropolis Council made it simpler for cell meals distributors to do enterprise on Wednesday. The physique unanimously accredited rewriting the dated code governing meals trailers, vans, and carts. Permits will price much less and gained’t require so many journeys to Metropolis Corridor. Charges have been dropped. Cooks can now prepare dinner uncooked fish and poultry on-site with out having to do it at a commissary and transport it to their truck or trailer. And they’ll solely need to journey to that commissary as soon as every week as an alternative of as soon as per day.
I wrote concerning the adjustments intimately when the matter handed the High quality of Life committee final month. Council handed that very same ordinance, with the promise of returning in a 12 months to additional tweak it. The brand new ordinance may also take away language requiring distributors to place wheels on their delivery containers.
Dallas was at the hours of darkness ages when it got here to regulating what it has termed cell meals models. Meals vans, which often price within the six figures, solely needed to get a allow every year. Trailers needed to get one every time they served and will solely function throughout occasions. Trailers sometimes price round $20,000, that means the added laws had been pricing out many entrepreneurs. Carts, the most affordable of all, needed to pay extra in charges than all of their bigger brethren.
None of it made sense.
Metropolis employees in contrast laws in Dallas to different cities and located us to be on our personal island. Meals entrepreneurs couldn’t convert a trailer or a car, they’d to purchase one which was commercially manufactured to serve meals. Town blocked trailers from working wherever apart from a permitted short-term occasion. It even regulated what sort of meals could possibly be cooked and the way—fish and hen needed to be breaded and go straight from the freezer to the deep fryer. No different metropolis went that far.
Right now’s vote adjustments that, and it’s terrific information for the general public simply as it’s for the cooks and businesspeople who wish to begin small and keep away from the expense of a brick-and-mortar. (And definitely for many who couldn’t afford restaurant area.)
Dallas lacks the vibrancy of cities which have a low barrier of entry for cell meals distributors. Austin’s Distant Relations was nominated for a James Beard award—and it operated out of a trailer subsequent to a brewery. Dallas’ earlier code mainly prevented that form of innovation and achievement from taking place right here.
This ordinance additionally creates just a few pilot zones to permit vans and trailers to serve with out having to pay any charges. One can be downtown, at Pacific Plaza, however the particularly thrilling one can be at Kiest Park, in Oak Cliff’s District 4. Town needed to open its eyes after the same undertaking in South Dallas, on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. That occasion, the MLK Meals Park, attracted over 5,500 individuals the eight days it was working.
“What this does, at the beginning is it cuts the barrier of entry, the capital price to get into this, by 50 % or extra. Then it cuts operational prices by 50 % or extra,” mentioned Jason Boso, who owns each Decrease Greenville’s Truckyard and a commissary. He helped write the language within the ordinance. “This opens up this entrepreneurial enterprise for range. It opens it as much as underprivileged communities. That’s going to learn our metropolis so enormously by having extra number of meals choices, by having a extra numerous meals tradition, by creating a bigger group right here thereby creating competitors thereby elevating the extent of meals.”
And that’s why try to be excited that town rolled this again.
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Dallas, TX
Cowboys LB DeMarvion Overshown named the x-factor for Dallas
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The Dallas Cowboys era of safety-turned-linebacker is over. Or is it? Guess it depends on your strict definition.
We all know that under Dan Quinn, the Cowboys former defensive coordinator, taking a safety and finding a role for them at linebacker was the norm. It started with Keanu Neal and carried on with players like Jayron Kearse and Markquese Bell.
But Dan Quinn is now the head coach for the Washington Commanders, and former Cowboys defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer is back for a second go around. Quinn’s defense was built on speed, stunts and overloads to disrupt offenses. Zimmer’s defense is much more meat and potatoes, with an adherence to bigger-sized players capable of stuffing the run, topped with a dash of disguised blitzing to unbalance things.
So in that sense, it seems like the converted safety at linebacker is out of favor in Dallas. Except for DeMarvion Overshown. Overshown’s conversion started in college, so it’s not quite like what was being done under Quinn, but he is a fast linebacker that will be used to cover tight ends and running backs as well as run sideline-to-sideline in run defense. But he also may have another component we haven’t talked as much about – a blitz specialist in Zimmer’s disguise scheme.
In a recent ESPN article, Overshown was named as the team’s x-factor.
New defensive coordinator (and former Vikings head coach) Mike Zimmer has historically used linebacker-sized linebackers to make his defense work, and he brought in longtime Viking Eric Kendricks accordingly. Kendricks’ best football is behind him, however, and if the veteran is forced into a starting role beside Damone Clark, the Cowboys will struggle in coverage over the middle of the field.
Overshown is Dallas’ best bet at finding a three-down linebacker on the roster — better than Bell, Kendricks or 2024 third-round selection Marist Liufau. Of the undersized options, he has the sideline-to-sideline range and violence into contact that will remain viable against the run. If he converts two promising preseasons into successful regular-season play, he’ll quickly become a playmaker Zimmer deploys on his complex blitzes, too.
So obviously the author of the ESPN piece is a little off-target in saying Eric Kendricks might be forced into a starting role; Zimmer actually brought Kendricks in to be the starter and to lead the defense. But beyond that, there is some merit to Overshown being an x-factor player.
Cowboys fans have seen the talent in training camp and preseason, but haven’t seen it on the field yet when it counts because of injury. But Overshown is now healthy.
“I feel great,” said Overshown through his trademark ear-to-ear smile. “Just making it to the season healthy is a plus, so we’re already doing better than last year.”
[…]
“I felt great even going into the last [preseason] week,” he explained. “It was just making sure I was healthy enough for Week 1 and making sure there were no bumps or bruises, or something that could’ve been avoided.”
Overshown’s ability to run with faster receiving-types should automatically qualify him for some third-down duty. He also shows plenty of ability to be productive in run defense with the addition of some beef ahead of him at defensive tackle. His speed and agility might also be an asset when it comes to deploying Zimmer’s blitz package.
For all those reasons calling him an x-factor is legit.
Dallas, TX
Man dies after being shot in head in Dallas
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DALLAS — The Dallas Police Department is investigating a shooting that left one man dead.
Police reported that officers responded to a call about the shooting on I-30 at North Westmoreland Road around 6:30 a.m. Saturday.
Preliminary investigations revealed that a man had been shot in the head. Dallas Fire Rescue transported him to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
No arrests have been made, and the investigation is ongoing.
Dallas, TX
Slain Dallas Police Officer remembered for servant's heart at Friday night vigil
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In an Oak Cliff parking lot turned memorial, two families united to honor Darron Burks, a man who left an indelible mark in both the fraternity brotherhood and the world of law enforcement.
“This crowd speaks highly of him and everyone knows what Brother Burks stood for. He was a pure guy. He was very pure,” said Kenneth McCloud.
Dozens gathered in the For Oak Cliff parking lot on Friday for a candlelight vigil to remember Burks, who was gunned down just feet from where he was standing just a few nights earlier.
“It hurts. I think I’m cried out today,” said Fredrick Bishop.
Bishop first met Burks through the brotherhood of Omega Psi Phi.
Although they never crossed paths at Paul Quinn College, as alumni, they both shared a commitment to their fraternity’s mission of service.
At a homecoming a couple of years ago, Bishop said that shared passion for helping others further bonded the friends when Burks sought Bishop’s help joining the Dallas Police Department.
After more than 20 years, Bishop is honorably retired from the force.
“He got to the point where he said let me see where I can do more and he wanted to serve more,” he said.
At Friday’s vigil, the men and women of Burks’s police academy class stood shoulder to shoulder with his fraternity brothers and those who knew him from his nearly two decades-long career as an educator and coach.
As they lit candles and shared stories and prayers, loved ones encouraged each other to focus on memories of good times rather than dwelling in sadness.
It’s just one of the ways they said their friend and brother would want to be remembered.
“Work to continue his vision. His vision of service to young people. His service to making a mark here in this city,” said Dallas City Council member Carolyn King Arnold.
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