Jerry Buchmeyer

Re: A Teacher Sues DISD

Re: A Teacher Sues DISD...

Re: A Teacher Sues DISD...

A Teacher Sues DISD, Claiming It Manufactured Evidence, Scared Him Into Quitting and Landed Him in Jail. For Starters.

School for Scoundrels

The World Accordion to Buchmeyer

Attack of the Killer Gadflies (Part I)

You don't take Rick Finlan and Don Venable seriously? That could be a mistake you live to regret.

Observer writer Rozen wins Dallas Bar prize

You don't take Rick Finlan and Don Venable seriously? That could be a mistake you live to regret.

Luna landing

Chris Luna's deceitful public-service career finally hits bottom

Power Houses

A celebrity home tour of Dallas' rich, famous--and all too often tasteless--movers and fakers

Hello, Dallas! DART Light Rail is here

A celebrity home tour of Dallas' rich, famous--and all too often tasteless--movers and fakers

Events for the week

A celebrity home tour of Dallas' rich, famous--and all too often tasteless--movers and fakers

Buzz

A celebrity home tour of Dallas' rich, famous--and all too often tasteless--movers and fakers

Publicity Paul

U.S. Attorney Paul Coggins loves feeding his name to the papers. But what's he done that's news?

Lawsuit against Observer thrown out

Case breaks new ground in protecting press rights

Temper, temper

Judge John Henry McBryde ruled his court like a minor despot, angering lawyers and fellow judges. Now they're lined up to depose him, and the Constitution be damned.

Letters

Judge John Henry McBryde ruled his court like a minor despot, angering lawyers and fellow judges. Now they're lined up to depose him, and the Constitution be damned.

Buzz

Judge John Henry McBryde ruled his court like a minor despot, angering lawyers and fellow judges. Now they're lined up to depose him, and the Constitution be damned.

Flood money

The Trinity River Plan's billion-dollar vision of levees, parks, and ponds has Mayor Ron Kirk--and most of Dallas--spellbound. But engineers warn it could lead to a flooding catastrophe and destroy the same poor neighborhoods it's designed to help.

Rambo Justice

Are bad-boy lawyers Bill Brewer and John Bickel building a bridge to Dallas' minority communities, or trying to sell them one?

Buzz

Are bad-boy lawyers Bill Brewer and John Bickel building a bridge to Dallas' minority communities, or trying to sell them one?

Welcome to the neighborhood

North Dallas residents find that having a housing project for a neighbor isn't so bad

Dissed robes

Federal Judge John H. McBryde gets more than a slap on the wrist from his outraged brethren

The garden of life

In East Dallas' Little Asia, a community blooms in fields of litter

Letters

Eyes wide shut; Vigilante justice; Long live the queen; And more

Bubble Brains

Think a strong mayor is a good idea? See who agrees with you.

Sweetheart Deal

How does Virginia McGuire make a profit in the nonprofit business of creating affordable housing? Simple. She pays her husband.

Lost Houses

By my count, somebody may be shorting Judge Buchmeyer 110 low-income houses in West Dallas

Bare Knuckles and Bare Breasts

Forget talk of a settlement. Bachman Lake homeowners vow to fight their war against bare nipples to the bitter end.

Houses Divided

A fight over public housing pits working-class East Dallas homeowners against their poorer neighbors in a battle tainted by claims of racism

Scene, Heard

Band-related paper cuts and other ironies.

Home Again

Horace Caraker got what he wanted: jail time

Blowing it

Was it a conspiracy or city bungling that let Baby Dolls keep its license? Guess.

Hot and bothered

The city's ordinance governing topless clubs is a joke. But Bachman Lake-area residents are determined to get rid of the clubs by any means necessary.

Gimme shelter

Ethnic Albanians seeking asylum are snared in a battle between the INS and a determined lawyer

Reno vs. Belo

The U.S. attorney general accuses WFAA of violating anti-wiretapping laws in the Peavy case

Prison sweet prison

Horace Caraker doesn't belong in federal prison. But he likes it there, and he'll threaten a president if it means going back.

The Late Judge Jerry Buchmeyer's Son Sends the World's Greatest Press Release

​Well, it was more of an e-mail from Jon Paul Buchmeyer -- a sort-of casual, friendly heads-up about his book Alphabet City: My So-Called Sitcom Life. The book tour-slash-traveling party begins, but of course, in Dallas on May 17 with a wingding at the Hotel Palomar. So, then, whatever is the book ... More >>

Bill Fisher handed the FBI a chance to clean up City Hall. Does that make Fisher Mr. Clean?

​Well, it was more of an e-mail from Jon Paul Buchmeyer -- a sort-of casual, friendly heads-up about his book Alphabet City: My So-Called Sitcom Life. The book tour-slash-traveling party begins, but of course, in Dallas on May 17 with a wingding at the Hotel Palomar. So, then, whatever is the book ... More >>

The Historical Figures To Be Turned Into Giant Puppets For Calatrava Bridge Bow

Barefoot Sanders​I seem to recall there was some discussion in October about West Dallasites famous enough to include in that parade of giant puppets scheduled to march across the Margaret Hunt Hill during opening-weekend festivities planned for early March -- ah, yes, there it is. So happens the ... More >>