I Ask the Candidates: What Do You Think of People Who Keep Chickens in Their Backyards?

They (the city) seldom enforces the noise ordinances. In fact when I have called the police (numerous times) to complain about construction noise when I am trying to sleep in the morning I get little results. After all as one city employee told me "Dallas is owned by developers". and by gosh we can't hold those developers to ANY standards because that would hamper the high tax values that come with their shoddy products.

You're an idiot. Are you really advocating for career politicians? TLep and LaMiller are totally different but here you cast them as the same because of their one terms? You know what I'm sick of? People sitting in the State House and the Senate for five and six decades. Yeah, we really need more of that at the local level.

I just love how Kunkle had the perfect answer for that question... way to tip him off Jim and coached very nice by the black widow herself, the lady who was responsible for the ordinance, the wife of Kunkles campaign treasurer and the exwriter of the Observer Laura Miller. A vote for Kunkle is a vote for Miller. And to the person that thought she was a good Mayor I guess love strong Mayor forms of government and hate the Cowboys. You can tell you truly suck at a job when u leave after 1 elected term (Miller and Leppert). And Kunkle is already talking about only running 1 term...

I lived near chickens in Austin. And roosters. In fact, they were next door. I, too, thought they were 'quaint' when I first moved in and heard them. Sorry, Jim, but now I'm with Mayor Miller. That stuff about roosters crowing at sunrise? Don't know how anyone could tell. They crowed all the damned time, except, maybe, between 11:45 pm and 11:48 pm. About as loud and as annoying as cats fighting but cats generally don't fight all day long and most of the night. It was caw, crow, yelp, squawk, squawl, shriek, yowl. Pretty unnerving. Didn't get used to it. Sounded like a starter motor going bad and a marching band tuning up.

Most fun this campaign season, definitely

Chicken keeping for the soul? I can confirm that there is a rooster in Preston Hollow. It lives on Deloache. I think Schutze chickens are coming home to roost on that pro-tax policy. Schutze chickens should be eaten. Quick somebody call Popeye's!

Natinsky=Nastinky aka 'tool'

I never realized that the reason Laura Miller had such a hard on for getting rid of chickens in Dallas was just to piss off Mrs. Jim Schutze.

Natinsky and Okpa sound like chicken shits.

I hear roosters every morning in Casa View. I find it charming actually. Now, when my next door neighbor had two calves, I didn't much care for that. Flies and all. I'll never forget the amount of effort it took the city to get involved. They kept asking where I lived and that it was legal. I read the city code to them. Finally I drove to city hall and showed up at my counsel person's office. Soon the cows were gone.

You two should be hired to moderate all presidential and vice-presidential debates. We might finally get the candidates on some questions that they weren't expecting. Lord knows how Trump would answer the dreaded "chicken question."

Well, I go bike riding around several neighborhoods early in the morning on weekends. I sometimes hear a rooster crow, but it does not bother me. I think it all depends on the number of birds and how they are cared for. At least the Dallas ordinance is not as strict as Garland's. In Garland you are only allowed 2 females of any barnyard variety, unless your property is zoned agricultural.

The Peep at the Coops tour was rained out, officially. It has been rescheduled for May 22.

Ah yes, the "Laura Miller Memorial Anti-Rooster Law". Her biggest accomplishment in city government.