Email Author Robert Wilonsky

2012 Stories by Robert Wilonsky

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  Dallas County Constables, Commissioners Court Agree to End Federal Lawsuit. At Least For Now.

  published Feb 29, 2012

  Noticed on PACER this morning something that's gone unnoticed since its filing at the end of last week: That heated lawsuit pitting Dallas County constables against the Dallas County Commissioners Cou... More >>

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  What Sickoutr Dallas ISD Says More Teachers Showed Up Today Than Usual.

  published Feb 29, 2012

  I called Dallas Independent School District spokesman Jon Dahlander early this morning to see if that lone, anonymous teacher's call for a leap day of protest went answered by his peers. No, says Dahl... More >>

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  The Bridge's CEO Explains Shelter's Role in Exposing Alleged $375 Mil Health Care Scam

  published Feb 29, 2012

  When the U.S. Attorney's Office unsealed the indictment yesterday alleging that Dr. Jacques Roy spearheaded the largest healthcare fraud in the nation's history out of his DeSoto office, they revealed... More >>

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  Why, Yes, That's Jon Anderson at the Kessler

  published Feb 29, 2012

  Daniel opened up DC9 this morning with his thoughts about last night's intimate Tim DeLaughter-Jon Anderson two-fer at the Kessler, which really was something special -- so much so that DeLaughter and... More >>

• Margaret Hunt Hill, Meet Justin Terveen

  published Feb 28, 2012

  We began the day on the bridge, we end the day on (OK, near) the bridge -- this time with one of Justin's photos compiled for the Margaret Hunt Hill slide show you'll find here. It was either this or ... More >>

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  Fret Not, as Plans to Renovate Old Dallas High School Downtown Remain on Track

  published Feb 28, 2012

  Sunday's supposed to be my last day 'round here, but I just may stick around till Monday. The reason: The just-posted agenda for Monday's meeting of the council's Economic Development Committee promis... More >>

• Federal Judge Has Tossed Suit Involving '08 Assault of Student at Dallas ISD Middle School

  published Feb 28, 2012

  Calvin Beckton, a former band teacher at Boude Storey Middle School, is serving a 10-year stint in the TDCJ's Fort Stockton Unit for the 2008 sexual assault of a 14-year-old female student to whom he'... More >>

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  600 Elsbeth, Site of Rotting Apartment Complex In Which Lee Oswald Once Lived, Is For Sale

  published Feb 28, 2012

  Speaking of the assassination of John F. Kennedy ...For a long while now we've written about the ongoing fight between the city of Dallas and Jane Bryant, owner of the decaying apartment complex on 60... More >>

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  Feds Allege Local Doctor Behind "Largest Healthcare Fraud Case" in U.S. History

  published Feb 28, 2012

  We received a release this morning from the U.S. Attorney's Office inviting us to a noon-thirty press conference at the Earle Cabell, at which time U.S. Attorney Sarah Saldana, Deputy Attorney General... More >>

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  Alliance-AFT Tells Dallas ISD Teachers They Really Ought to Come to Work Tomorrow

  published Feb 28, 2012

  Had a couple of readers ask late yesterday: Why no mention of tomorrow's maybe-could-be-probably-not Dallas ISD teacher "sickout," which a single anonymous teacher's calling forr To which I responded:... More >>

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  Southwest Airlines Takes On Site That Makes It Much Easier and Cheaper to Check In Early

  published Feb 28, 2012

  Love Field-based Southwest makes it easy to check in early: Pay the carrier an extra $20 for a round-trip flight, and as soon as the early-bird check-in line opens, some 36 hours before take-off, you'... More >>

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  In '07, Peter Burks Was Killed in Baghdad. Now His Photo's Being Used to Sell Dating Website.

  published Feb 27, 2012

  Peter Burks, as you can see here, was the very model of The American Hero: a Trinity Christian Academy and Texas A&M graduate (he was also president of Pi Kappa Phi) who, after stints working for,... More >>

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  Take a Virtual Tour Through the Arboretum's Wondrous Children's Adventure Garden

  published Feb 27, 2012

  A technical glitch (on my end, I guess -- sabotager) kept me from listening in on Dallas Arboretum president and CEO Mary Brinegar's presentation to the council's Quality of Life Committee this mornin... More >>

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  Where the Sidewalk (and Money) Ends, or: It Won't Be Easy Implemeting Complete Streets

  published Feb 27, 2012

  At the end of last week we glanced at those surveys conducted during those citywide Complete Streets workshops put on by City Hall beginning last fall, input from which will go toward the manual Susta... More >>

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  City Hall Says It's Really Cleaning Up With That $15 Garage Sale Permit Fee

  published Feb 27, 2012

  Back in the fall of 2010, the city's garage-sale permit fee, then just a proposal, raised quite the ruckus -- so much so, you may recall, Neil Cavuto told Dwaine Caraway during a FOX News appearance t... More >>

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  Dallas Director Who Captured Demise of Dublin Dr Pepper Raising Funds to Finish Documentary

  published Feb 27, 2012

  On the final day of 2011 -- "a slow Saturday" -- Don Merritt drove from Dallas southwest to Dublin. He used to make the 120-mile trek all the time and figured on this day he'd grab some footage in add... More >>

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  Celebrate Johnny Cash's 80th Birthday By Listening to His March '97 Show at the Majestic

  published Feb 26, 2012

  Been saving this one for today: February 26, the day John R. Cash was born in Kingland, Arkansas in 1932. It's a keepsake from Cash's last-ever show in Dallas: March 15, 1997, at the Majestic Theatre,... More >>

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  Memo to Council: So Far, the Downtown Omni Hotel Has "Exceeded Financial Projections"

  published Feb 25, 2012

  Contained within the stack of memos the City Manager's Office dispatches to media every Friday night was the one you'll find below from Assistant City Manager Ryan Evans, who gets an assist from Ed "T... More >>

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  For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Brent Best Explains These 42 Slobberbone Covers

  published Feb 24, 2012

  I've still got a few of the work-week rock-and-roll adioses stashed away, and guess I'd better use 'em or lose 'em between now and the next week or so. So let's start with this -- a bootleg officially... More >>

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  Downtown Dallas Inc.'s Looking For Someone to Take Over Main Street Garden's Eat-N-Drinkery

  published Feb 24, 2012

  Had a feeling that when The Lily Pad Cafe shuttered about a month ago it wasn't going to return to its digs at Main Street Garden. The official reason for its closing: "cold weather." But when it's 80... More >>

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  On Its 85th Anniversary, Local Big Brothers Big Sisters Reunited With a Historic Piece of Paper

  published Feb 24, 2012

  Out of nowhere, moments ago, I got an email from Dan Stuchal, on the executive team at the local Big Brothers Big Sisters. He's a Friend of Unfair Park, he explained, and well aware of my affection fo... More >>

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  Train Museum CEO Says Rolling Stock Will Leave Fair Park For Frisco in Late April

  published Feb 24, 2012

  Got a call this morning from Bob LaPrelle, president and CEO of the Museum of the American Railroad, which, as you're well aware by now, is due to roll out of Fair Park to its new digs in Frisco. I'd ... More >>

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  Two Local Trading Card Companies Head to Court Over 750 Old Kevin Durant Autographs

  published Feb 24, 2012

  Decades after my sports card-collecting prime I've become familiar once more with the doings of that particular industry, thanks to my 8-year-old son's obsession with cards -- baseball, mostly, and Ho... More >>

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  Blaming City, Museum of Automotive History Pulls Out of Fair Park. City Says: Not Its Fault.

  published Feb 23, 2012

  One year ago, or close enough, Stephen Page gave us a tour of his Texas Museum of Automotive History in Grand Place at Fair Park -- its temporary home, we were told, but an appropriate one, given the ... More >>

• This Week in Rangers Spring Training: Wash, JD and Nolan on Yu. Then, The Main Darvish.

  published Feb 23, 2012

  All week it's been leading up to this: Yu Darvish's first spring training press conference, held today, wherein we discover what the newest Texas Ranger loves about the U.S. and Nolan Ryan and Greg Ma... More >>