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2012 Stories by Robert Wilonsky

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  Read the Economic Impact Study Suggesting the Texas Horse Park's a $15-Million Gamble

  published Feb 20, 2012

  Let's begin with what City Manager Mary Suhm said to wrap up the February 1 council back-and-forth over the recently revived Texas Horse Park: "If y'all don't want to do this, just tell me." But, look... More >>

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  Dial "F" For Fraud: Auditor Craig Kinton to Tell Council City's Code of Ethics Comes Up Short

  published Feb 20, 2012

  Shortly before the holidays, Leslie sat in on an Ethics Advisory Commission get-together during which its members stewed in an existential funk, asking themselves such questions as: ""Are we accomplis... More >>

• Discovering a Rare Bobby Patterson Single Mentioned in the Warren Commission Hearings

  published Feb 19, 2012

  A Friend of Unfair Park wondered Saturday afternoon: Is the "unknown teen" named Robert Patterson heard singing "Tell Me How" and "Dear Debbie" on this purchased-this-morning Future Records single non... More >>

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  From This Moment Forward, Woodall Rodgers Deck Park Will Be Known As Klyde Warren Park

  published Feb 19, 2012

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  Your First Look at the Eateries, Drinkeries and Shops the City Wants to Put in New Love Field

  published Feb 18, 2012

  Contained in the stack of memos sent to the city council late last night was the rare note from Mayor Mike Rawlings. In it, he asks the Fab 14 to make every attempt to attend one of the three committe... More >>

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  Council to Vote on Lifting Alcohol Spacing Rules in Deep Ellum, With Uplift's Blessings

  published Feb 17, 2012

  At the risk of turning this into Uplift Park ...At long last, peace has been made between Uplift Education and those business operators and property owners in Deep Ellum worried that a charter school ... More >>

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  DISD: Some at Ebby Halliday Elementary Used "Inappropriate Means to Instill Discipline"

  published Feb 17, 2012

  Speaking of the Dallas Independent School District's doings ... No doubt you recall the ugly allegations that came out of Ebby Halliday Elementary School in the fall, stories of abuse and intimidatio... More >>

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  Trustee Edwin Flores Has Decided Not to Run For the Dallas ISD School Board Again

  published Feb 17, 2012

  On the other side is a missive I just received from Dallas Independent School District board member Edwin Flores, in which the longtime District 1 trustee announces that he will not seek another term.... More >>

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  Dallas Center for Architecture to Argue: "Bright Lights, Great Cityr" Should Be Illuminating.

  published Feb 17, 2012

  Long before the downtown Omni opened we were treated to a sneak peek of its light show, which folks either think is the right shade of shiny or plain tacky, a debate that becomes especially heated whe... More >>

• Lawsuit Has Everything You Wanted to Know About Cutthroat Business of Cell Tower Industry

  published Feb 17, 2012

  Digging through the federal filings this morning I came across this item of some intrigue: TriStar Investors, Inc., v American Tower Corporation, filed yesterday at the Earle Cabell and a surprisingly... More >>

• Right Now, At Least, the Dallas ISD Isn't Making Much of Anything By Way of Ad Revenue

  published Feb 17, 2012

  In May we hopped about this ad-adorned Dallas County Schools bus, one of many so decorated courtesy an ad agency specializing in school-bus advertising (hence the name of its website). As Dallas Indep... More >>

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  For Sale, an Extremely Rare Look at Downtown When Horses and Streetcars Shared Main Street

  published Feb 17, 2012

  I had been contemplating a host of assorted humdrum news items with which to begin this gray Friday when Friend of Unfair Park PeterK dropped in the in-box the photo you see above, taken from an E.W. ... More >>

• Sure, You're Invited to a 2012 Bond Program Town Hall. Just Don't Expect to Get Much.

  published Feb 16, 2012

  Last month, you'll no doubt recall, City Manager Mary Suhm told the city council that 2012 bond program, which we'll vote on in the fall, will be a fraction of a shadow of a hint of its mammoth '06 pr... More >>

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  Dallas PD Loses Assistant Chief Floyd Simpson to Corpus Christi, Where He'll Be Top Cop

  published Feb 16, 2012

  A couple of years back Scott Goldstein wrote quite the flattering profile of Dallas Police Assistant Chief Floyd Simpson -- as in, "In a profession that demands toughness, Simpson embodies compassion.... More >>

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  "Two-Fifths of Dallas Households Are Just a Crisis Away From Serious Financial Trouble."

  published Feb 16, 2012

  At this very moment Anna's at the press conference over at Communities Foundation of Texas's Caruth Haven HQ, where Mayor Mike Rawlings, among others, are poring over the details of the CFT's latest s... More >>

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  What the Ballpark in Arlington Will Look Like When the Texas Rangers Return to the Field

  published Feb 16, 2012

  Back in November the Texas Rangers invited media folk out to the Ballpark in Arlington for a sneak peek at $11.5 million worth of renovations being made out in Vandergriff Plaza, where, among other th... More >>

• A Reminder That Your Primary Source for Texas Primary News Is Still Dallas Attorney Michael Li

  published Feb 16, 2012

  In recent weeks the back-and-forth over Texas's redistricting and the will-it-won't-it primary date has turned into a blur of legal briefs and oral arguments; seems that May 29 is the primary date now... More >>

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  Some on City Council Continue to Pit Charters Against DISD. For the Children, Of Course.

  published Feb 15, 2012

  A little after 2:30 the council got 'round to that Uplift briefing, which was supposed to be about the city's creating a nonprofit corporation to help the charter school sell tax-free bonds for its ex... More >>

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  Read Uplift Education's Parking Study Done For Proposed Laureate Preparatory in Deep Ellum

  published Feb 15, 2012

  In the wake of the Zoning Board of Adjustment's vote yesterday not to grant Uplift Education the parking waiver it requested on Elm Street, in the old Baylor offices in Deep Ellum, I spoke with some s... More >>

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  City Council to Discuss How to Reconcile Developing the City With Conserving Our Water

  published Feb 15, 2012

  In one way, shape or form we've noted most of what the city council will discuss this afternoon during its briefing. But there's one briefing we've overlooked: Water Conservation and the Land Developm... More >>

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  Tom Field Principal Ousted Here, Then in D.C., Tells Washington Post She Did Nothing Wrong

  published Feb 15, 2012

  In November The News broke the news that Roslyn Carter, the principal at Tom Field Elementary, took teaching to the test a little too far -- at least, according to Dallas Independent School District i... More >>

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  Better Than Any Trailer (or Coffee), Badu and Ronson Re:Generate on Late Show Last Night

  published Feb 15, 2012

  This is absolutely within the purview of Unfair Park's more musically inclined sibling; my apologies in advance, Audra. But for months I've had this song stuck in my head; the same goes (and then some... More >>

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  Denied Request to Offload Parking Spaces in Deep Ellum, Uplift's Not Going to Give Up

  published Feb 14, 2012

  It feels like forever ago that we began discussing Uplift Education's plans to open Laureate Preparatory in Deep Ellum, in the old Baylor offices on Elm Street; but, no, it was only a few weeks ago. A... More >>

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  With Josh Lewin Out the Door Friday, Mark Elfenbein's a Solo Act Again (For Now)

  published Feb 14, 2012

  Mark Elfenbein's known for a good month that Josh Lewin would be taking a spot in the New York Mets' radio booth this season. His cousin told him. Says the longtime sports-radio fixture known as Elf, ... More >>

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  Or You Could Always Go to the Midway Set Up in Valley View Center's Parking Lot

  published Feb 14, 2012

  Speaking of midways, as we were yesterday, and Valley View Center, as we are, um, frequentlyr ...We were out running a few errands late Sunday when I espied the Ferris wheel presently sitting in the m... More >>