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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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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 >>

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 >>

Dallas Food Trucks Vie for a Spot on Food Network's Eat St. Who You Voting For?

The Food Network​The 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 >>

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 >>

"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 >>

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 >>

"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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

DC9atNight's Locals Only! With Whiskey Folk Ramblers, Kirby Brown

Thursday, April 21, at Gilley's Jack Daniel's Saloon

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Dallas-Fort Worth: Addin' Jobs, Takin' Names

Toothpaste for Dinner​This 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Vacant Buildings Downtown Still Vacant. But At Least Now They Belong to Someone Else.

1604 Main Street, now off the market​Eleven 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Greg “The Hammer” Williams To Pick Up A Microphone Again For His New Gig: DOMA Presenter

We Could Listen to These Anonymous Anti-Scientology Rants All Day

Which is the Best Cell Phone Service in the DFW? What? Can't Hear You.

In the DFW, We're Old Working People With a Lot of Damned Kids

Mourning Traffic Report

"Get Your Booty to Bar-B-Cutie"?

DFW Airport Doesn't Fly with Salon

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The Forbes 35 (Drunkest)

Ever Heard of Lenny's Subs? You Will. Trust Me.

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Best Reason to Run

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Best Sporting Event No One Saw

The U.S. Olympic Triathlon Team Trials in Las Colinas

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