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March 26, 2012
GAO: Shale-Gas States Have No Idea Where Natural Gas Gathering Pipelines Are
Speaking of urban drilling and gas releases in populated areas like Mansfield, the Government Accountability Office says the gathering pipelines used to collect natural gas from drill sites are unregulated, and their locations are often unknown. The GAO conducted site visits in, among other places, ... More >>
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March 22, 2012
Booze Hounds
Speaking of urban drilling and gas releases in populated areas like Mansfield, the Government Accountability Office says the gathering pipelines used to collect natural gas from drill sites are unregulated, and their locations are often unknown. The GAO conducted site visits in, among other places, ... More >>
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March 8, 2012
The Doctor Said I Need More Vitamin Ch
Speaking of urban drilling and gas releases in populated areas like Mansfield, the Government Accountability Office says the gathering pipelines used to collect natural gas from drill sites are unregulated, and their locations are often unknown. The GAO conducted site visits in, among other places, ... More >>
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February 2, 2012
Dallas May Be Out of the Drought (For Now), But Watering Restrictions Are Far From Over
With the release of its latest map this morning, the U.S. Drought Monitor made it official: A few weeks' worth of heavy rain have officially removed Dallas-Fort Worth from the historic drought that has most of the state bone-dry. (Watch the 12-week animation here.) And per the AP's breaking-news ... More >>
Blogs
January 20, 2012
Supreme Court Tosses District Judges' Redistricting Maps, Says Texas Needs a Do-Over
Back in November U.S. District Judges Orlando Garcia and Xavier Rodriguez down in San Antonio drew up new congressional and state House and Senate maps, since they so hated the ones submitted by the Texas Legislature. The judges claimed the state willfully ignored the state's growing Hispanic pop ... More >>
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January 9, 2012
Dallas Food Trucks Vie for a Spot on Food Network's Eat St. Who You Voting For?
The Food NetworkThe folks at Food Network's food-truck reality show Eat St. have reached out to food bloggers across the country, hoping they'll help get out the vote for local trucks competing for a spot on the show. There are four trucks from the Dallas/Fort Worth area competing for a spot ... More >>
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November 23, 2011
If Nothing Else, MALDEF's Very Happy With the Federal Court's New State Redistricting Map
About a month ago we noted that the Department of Justice was very unhappy with how state legislators redrew Texas's congressional districts -- something to do with how the new map "actually reduced minority electoral power" in Dallas-Fort Worth, for starters. Hence the ongoing litigation in San ... More >>
Blogs
November 7, 2011
"Last Night Was a Bitch," Other Mothereffing Moments From Rangers' Pre-Game 7 Pep Talks
For sports bootleg collectors, this is pure gold: six minutes of motivational cursing from the Texas Rangers' locker room in the moments before Game 7 World Series. Dozens of copies, all from Joe Sports Fan, landed in the Unfair Park in-box overnight, and for most the takeaway is skipper Ron Washing ... More >>
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October 27, 2011
DoJ: Texas's New Election Maps Seek to Deny Hispanics Voting Rights, Especially in DFW
Overnight, several Friends of Unfair Park sent different versions of the same story, which says: The state quite deliberately submitted to the Department of Justice new election maps that discriminate against the Hispanic voter -- especially in Dallas-Fort Worth. As in: "There is direct and circu ... More >>
Blogs
October 26, 2011
"The End of Local Radio"? Reports Say Clear Channel May Be About to Go All "Robotics."
Clear Channel owns and operates six radio stations in the Dallas-Fort Worth market: KDGE-FM, KDGE-FM, KEGL-FM, KFXR-AM, KHKS-FM and KZPS-FM. But several times this morning, Friends of Unfair Park have sent this piece from Time Out Chicago that says at any moment, any or all of them could lose t ... More >>
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October 17, 2011
Cannibal Corpse: Why They Tore Down the Whirly Ball And Put in a Sam's (And a Walmart)
In my day, this was also the site of the best Sound Warehouse in town. In my day.Over the weekend I espied the deconstruction site you see here, across from Bachman Lake at Northwest Highway and Marsh. The new Sam's right there took me by surprise -- so too did the disappearance of the landmark W ... More >>
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June 21, 2011
One Expert's Take on State's Redistricting. And: DISD's About to Begin Drawing Its New Lines.
Speaking of redistricting ...Had an awfully long talk with Dallas County Commissioner Maurine Dickey this afternoon, which I'd post now if she didn't mention a few things worth tracking down. So that'll have to wait till tomorrow. But while we're on the subject, I see here that Nate Silver and re ... More >>
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June 8, 2011
Really Chick-fil-A? Daddy/Daughter Date Night?
Chick-fil-A isn't OK with working on Sundays, but they do seem to be OK with dads dating daughters. June 18, the day before Father's Day is Chick-fil-A Daddy Daughter Date Night. So, if you're currently dating your dad, know that starting at 5 p.m. that day, 70 Chick-fil-A restaurants in the Dall ... More >>
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May 16, 2011
Urban Land Institute: Dallas's "Bold [Roads] Retooling Could Run Short of Fuel for a While."
Click to embiggen a look at LBJ Freeway in the year 2016. Give or take.That LBJ Freeway overhaul we've been warning you about gets underway today as crews begin the first phase of the HOV-lane shut-down, between Luna Road and Midway Road. But, hey, look at it this way, says Andy Rittler, spokesm ... More >>
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May 9, 2011
Feds Roll Out $15 Million to Begin Studying Feasibility of DFW-to-Houston High-Speed Rail
About a month back we looked at docs the Texas Department of Transportation submitted to the Federal Railroad Administration in the hopes of landing some federal money dough for that loooooong-discussed Dallas-Fort Worth-to-Houston high-speed rail line. Long story short: The state wanted $18 mill ... More >>
Music
April 21, 2011
DC9atNight's Locals Only! With Whiskey Folk Ramblers, Kirby Brown
Thursday, April 21, at Gilley's Jack Daniel's Saloon
Blogs
February 4, 2011
Now It's "A Debacle"?
While I was writing the DART item below, about 29 Friends of Unfair Park forwarded along the freshest of hot-off-the-press tweets from Sports Illustrated's Peter King:I'm telling you: I-30 between Dallas Fort Worth is a plow-less, snow-windswept moonscape. This is officially a debacle.At this v ... More >>
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January 7, 2011
Dunno About Super Bowl Sunday Being a No-Fun Zone. But No-Fly Zone? You Betcha.
No doubt this will displease Shotgun Schutze, the noted model rocketeer and crop-duster who has crazy-big plans for Super Bowl Sunday. But via RotorNews we get a look at the Federal Aviation Administration's just-issued temporary flight restrictions issued for Dallas-Fort Worth during that weeken ... More >>
Blogs
December 27, 2010
Dallas-FW, Briefly a Top-Five Contender in $1.5-Mil Food Bank Challenge, Is Falling Fast
Two weeks ago today, Mayors Tom Leppert, Mike Moncrief and Robert Cluck asked locals to "like" Walmart's Fighting Hunger Together campaign, which is doling out $1.5 million to food banks nationwide -- $1 million to the top Facebook vote-getter, and $100,000 each to the next five highest-ranking c ... More >>
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November 16, 2010
A Playground That's No Child's Play
A sobering stat: The National Human Trafficking Resource Center receives more calls from Texas than any other state, and 15 percent of those calls come from Dallas-Fort Worth, according to Sara Taylor with DFWTraffick, a local organization dedicated to combating sexual exploitation in the area. I ... More >>
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October 28, 2010
Say, Out-of-Towners, Why Rent an Apartment When You Should Just Buy the Whole Complex?
The San Raphael Apartments near the Galleria recently sold to a Cleveland REIT.Says GlobeSt.com this morning, there used to be a time when investors wanting to gobble up multifamily properties kept their coin on the coasts. No more: Now, "Dallas-Fort Worth is at the top of that list," per a direc ... More >>
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September 22, 2010
Transpo Report Says 34 Percent of Dallas, Fort Worth Roads Are "Poor." Could Be Worse?
Many thanks to the Friend of Unfair Park who forwarded along this just-released report from TRIP, a D.C.-based transportation research group: Hold the Wheel Steady: America's Roughest Rides and Strategies to Make our Roads Smoother. Says the study, which paints a grim picture of the bumpy road ah ... More >>
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July 28, 2010
Dallas-Fort Worth: Addin' Jobs, Takin' Names
Toothpaste for DinnerThis morning the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its latest look at employment and unemployment figures for Your Major Metropolitan Areas, and when they put the June '09 numbers next to the June '10 numbers, look at who comes out on top: "The largest over-the-year in ... More >>
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July 26, 2010
Dallas, a Top-Five Exportin' Town
This morning Pilgrim's Pride announced it'll be exporting chicken to Russia (my favorite Ramones bootleg, incidentally) from its Dallas plant -- good timing too, given that the Brookings Institution just released a report stressing the need for export growth in order to "boost competitiveness." T ... More >>
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April 2, 2010
One Sign of the "Stabilizing Local Economy": Rise in Apartments Rentals
On Wednesday, MPF Research released a press release touting the enormo bump in Dallas-Fort Worth apartment rentals: "During the first three months of the year, renters absorbed 6,520 apartment units, the best quarterly demand performance seen since fall 2007." And, says Greg Willett, nearly 10,00 ... More >>
Blogs
January 27, 2010
Here Everything's Better, Assuming You Want An H-E-B And Live in Burleson
Late last night, after grocery Aldi released its list of local locations and opening dates, a Friend of Unfair Park wondered how oh how we and everyone else missed this interview with H-E-B Chairman and CEO Charles Butt that ran in the San Antonio Express-News last weekend. In it, Butt addresses ... More >>
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December 2, 2009
According to the FDIC, Quite a Few of the DFW's Households Don't Have a Bank Account
CNNMoney.com directs our attention this afternoon to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s first-ever report documenting how many Americans are "unbanked." Says the study, Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington boasts an awfully high percentage of households who don't use a bank -- 10.9 percent, to be preci ... More >>
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October 7, 2009
Rent Control Part Two
Two years ago, GlobeSt.com took a look at the state of Dallas-Fort Worth's apartment market and said, in short, Lookin' good. Occupancy rates were on the rise, as were rents -- up to an average of $724 a month. But today, things are a little different: Rates are higher than they were in '07 (up t ... More >>
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October 6, 2009
Dallas, Apparently, Am Not Smart
At least, that's the assessment from the brain trust behind Tina Brown's The Daily Beast, which has posted its list of America's Smartest Cities and put Dallas-Fort Worth at No. 48 ... out of 55. Commenters have taken issue with how the list was assembled (using such things as the percentage of r ... More >>
Blogs
September 10, 2009
Vacant Buildings Downtown Still Vacant. But At Least Now They Belong to Someone Else.
1604 Main Street, now off the marketEleven months ago, Mayor Tom Leppert gathered the media beneath 1604 Main Street to detail his plan for dealing with 36 vacant buildings downtown. We've spilled plenty of virtual ink documenting the doings with two of the more high-profile properties, but this ... More >>
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September 1, 2009
Travel-Time Study Says Dallas Has a Lot of People, a Lot of Cars, a Lot of Traffic. K, Then.
Interesting-ish note from the latest U.S. traffic travel-time study, this one released this morning by something called INRIX: Dallas-Fort Worth, the fourth-most populous metro area in the country, ranks as the fifth-most congested -- and despite the slight uptick in travel time, the DFW still dr ... More >>
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June 12, 2009
What the Frack?
This morning's Wall Street Journal investigates the cause of the 18 earthquakes that have rattled the Dallas-Fort Worth area since 2008 -- from just east of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport down to Cleburne most recently -- and concludes, well, ya know, not really sure. Because on the one han ... More >>
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April 29, 2009
The DFW's Still All Smogged Up
Justin CozartThe view from Las Colinas toward downtown Dallas last DecemberThe American Lung Association released its annual State of the Air report this morning -- and, sorry, Dallas, Collin, Tarrant and Denton counties, but when it comes to smog, the report card still reads "F." Indeed, notes the ... More >>
Blogs
December 1, 2008
Open-Carry Advocates Are Bringing Their Gunfight to the DFW Airwaves
Tomorrow, don't be surprised if you start hearing radio ads advocating an open-carry policy for handgun owners with the proper permits. The folks behind OpenCarry.org are attempting to get some spots on the Dallas-Fort Worth airwaves in which they demand the Texas Legislature allow folks to wear the ... More >>
Blogs
November 26, 2008
Just Because, Texas Watchdog Sifts Though AG's Open Records Opinions
Just to see what's open and what ain't these days, Texas Watchdog's Jennifer Peebles sifted through a stack of November 12 rulings handed down by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's office concerning open records requests. Today, she posts the results.About half of the opinions concern requests gen ... More >>
Blogs
July 16, 2008
Greg “The Hammer” Williams To Pick Up A Microphone Again For His New Gig: DOMA Presenter
Just to see what's open and what ain't these days, Texas Watchdog's Jennifer Peebles sifted through a stack of November 12 rulings handed down by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's office concerning open records requests. Today, she posts the results.About half of the opinions concern requests gen ... More >>
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April 4, 2008
We Could Listen to These Anonymous Anti-Scientology Rants All Day
Just to see what's open and what ain't these days, Texas Watchdog's Jennifer Peebles sifted through a stack of November 12 rulings handed down by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's office concerning open records requests. Today, she posts the results.About half of the opinions concern requests gen ... More >>
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December 26, 2007
Which is the Best Cell Phone Service in the DFW? What? Can't Hear You.
Just to see what's open and what ain't these days, Texas Watchdog's Jennifer Peebles sifted through a stack of November 12 rulings handed down by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's office concerning open records requests. Today, she posts the results.About half of the opinions concern requests gen ... More >>
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September 12, 2007
In the DFW, We're Old Working People With a Lot of Damned Kids
Just to see what's open and what ain't these days, Texas Watchdog's Jennifer Peebles sifted through a stack of November 12 rulings handed down by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's office concerning open records requests. Today, she posts the results.About half of the opinions concern requests gen ... More >>
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July 16, 2007
Mourning Traffic Report
Just to see what's open and what ain't these days, Texas Watchdog's Jennifer Peebles sifted through a stack of November 12 rulings handed down by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's office concerning open records requests. Today, she posts the results.About half of the opinions concern requests gen ... More >>
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July 11, 2007
"Get Your Booty to Bar-B-Cutie"?
Just to see what's open and what ain't these days, Texas Watchdog's Jennifer Peebles sifted through a stack of November 12 rulings handed down by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's office concerning open records requests. Today, she posts the results.About half of the opinions concern requests gen ... More >>
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June 15, 2007
DFW Airport Doesn't Fly with Salon
Just to see what's open and what ain't these days, Texas Watchdog's Jennifer Peebles sifted through a stack of November 12 rulings handed down by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's office concerning open records requests. Today, she posts the results.About half of the opinions concern requests gen ... More >>
Blogs
January 3, 2007
In Case of Emergency...
Just to see what's open and what ain't these days, Texas Watchdog's Jennifer Peebles sifted through a stack of November 12 rulings handed down by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's office concerning open records requests. Today, she posts the results.About half of the opinions concern requests gen ... More >>
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November 30, 2006
The Forbes 35 (Drunkest)
Just to see what's open and what ain't these days, Texas Watchdog's Jennifer Peebles sifted through a stack of November 12 rulings handed down by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's office concerning open records requests. Today, she posts the results.About half of the opinions concern requests gen ... More >>
Blogs
July 12, 2006
Ever Heard of Lenny's Subs? You Will. Trust Me.
Just to see what's open and what ain't these days, Texas Watchdog's Jennifer Peebles sifted through a stack of November 12 rulings handed down by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's office concerning open records requests. Today, she posts the results.About half of the opinions concern requests gen ... More >>
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April 3, 2006
Gang Bang
Just to see what's open and what ain't these days, Texas Watchdog's Jennifer Peebles sifted through a stack of November 12 rulings handed down by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's office concerning open records requests. Today, she posts the results.About half of the opinions concern requests gen ... More >>
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July 21, 2005
Get Out
Just to see what's open and what ain't these days, Texas Watchdog's Jennifer Peebles sifted through a stack of November 12 rulings handed down by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's office concerning open records requests. Today, she posts the results.About half of the opinions concern requests gen ... More >>
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