Laura Miller
Laura Miller
Laura Millerserved as mayor of Dallas, Texasfrom 2002 through 2007. She did not run for re-election in the 2007 mayoral race. She was the third woman to serve as mayor of Dallas...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth18 November 1958
CountryUnited States of America
city officials somebody strict tax work
We need a strict revolving-door policy, so city officials can't give somebody a tax subsidy one minute, then go work for them the next.
actions due plan trust
Due to Mr. Lee's actions on the Plan Commission, the public's trust has been lost,
glass restore skin ugly
You've got to take off some of the old ugly facades and let there be glass and light. If you take the skin off and restore it, it's beautiful.
apartments credit eligible found offenders people sex
Not all these people are eligible to be in apartments on their own, ... We found some sex offenders and some felons, people who have no credit at all.
subjective
It's very, very troubling, and very subjective and very unfair,
writing people would-be
Writers would be warm, loyal, and otherwise terrific people-if only they'd stop writing.
years cities focus
In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.
children real book
Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?
real cities people
Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall.
dream air years
In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.
dream sacrifice cities
The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.
beautiful strong children
But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination.
government dysfunction waiting
There is so much chaos and dysfunction going on with the federal government that Dallas can't wait any longer for federal help.
deep-thought demand attention
The conditions conducive to deep thought have become increasingly rare in our highly mediated lives... Now we live in an attention economy, where the most in-demand commodity is 'eyeballs.