Wednesday,
September 20, 2006
7:30 a.m. |
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Laura Miller
City of Dallas Mayor
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Dallas - A Legacy
The State of the Great City
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Laura Miller was elected mayor of the City of Dallas in February 2002 after serving three-and-a-half years as a member of the Dallas City Council, representing Oak Cliff and Southwest Dallas. She is a tireless advocate for improved basic services like better roads, greener parks and stricter code enforcement.
As a council member, she spearheaded the strengthening of the City's Code of Ethics and the creation of the first City Ethics Commission.
Laura led the effort to raise $100,000 from private citizens and law enforcement associations to save four inner-city public swimming pools slated for closure by the city. She also raised $110,000 from private Dallas corporations to design a mixed-use development for the Oak Cliff Gateway, which would be the first Trinity River economic development project for the Southern Sector.
Before being elected to the Dallas City Council in 1998, Laura spent 18 years as a journalist. She worked as a columnist and investigative reporter for the Dallas Observer. She was also a metro columnist for the Dallas Times Herald, the New York Daily News, The Dallas Morning News, and The Miami Herald.
Laura was won numerous awards for her weekly columns and in-depth investigative reporting. Her honors include the 1995 H.L. Mencken Writing Award, awarded annually by The Baltimore Sun to one newspaper columnist in America; six Dallas Press Club Katie Awards; and two Texas Headliners Awards.
Laura was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on November 18, 1958 and is a graduate of the University of Winconsin-Madison. She is married to a Dallas lawyer, State Representative Steven Wolens. They have two daughters, Alex and Lily, and a son Maxwell. |
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Note: Meeting begin at 7:30 am, presentation begins promptly at 7:45 am. Guests are encouraged to attend. Meeting arrangements are based on a guaranteed guest count and we are charged accordingly. Your attention to this detail is greatly appreciated.
See you there!
Bill Wallace,
Wallace Financial
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