Mayor Mike Rawlings

Here’s an event didn’t make our “This Weekend” post because it’s happening tomorrow, Jan. 7. (We haven’t considered Thursday part of the weekend since college.)

At 7:30 a.m. Mayor Mike Rawlings will provide a State of the City address at the Doubletree hotel on North Central Expressway. The event is sponsored by North Dallas Chamber of Commerce, which is based in our neighborhood. Tickets are $60 for individuals and include the cost of breakfast. Purchase yours here.

If this speech is anything like the one Rawlings gave last week at the Hilton Anatole, it should be impassioned.

The Dallas Morning News Reports that during that engagement Rawlings said, “ ‘You will hear people say this is a rotting city … These people want to pull in their horns and hunker down and fix the basics.’ ” This was apparently directed at Councilman Philip Kingston who had called Dallas a “decaying city” on Facebook the day prior. Read more about the tiff here.