Lee Jackson

UNT May Merge its Denton and Fort Worth Schools

The University of North Texas System just announced that it's considering merging its flagship Denton campus with the UNT Health Sciences Center in Fort Worth. The UNT System Board of Regents will decide Monday whether to authorize a study of the merger, which would then require approval by the stat ... More >>

John Ellis Price, Founding President of UNT-Dallas, Will Step Down Next Year

The University of North Texas at Dallas has come along way since it was founded in 2000 as a 55-student extension of UNT's Denton campus. In 2007, it moved onto its permanent campus and three years later became a standalone institution that now boasts a shade over 2,000 students. Not long ago, it re ... More >>

Preview: Linus Pauling Quartet at LaGrange

Saturday, June 23, at LaGrange

Compilation for Late North Texas Music Writer Lee Jackson Out June 4

After the passing of Lee Jackson in March, the outpouring of emotion from friends and colleagues - in Texas and beyond - was sort of astounding. Those who had never met him felt a kinship; those who did felt the weight of that loss in the creative community. Jackson wrote about music with a passion, ... More >>

Deion Sanders' Charter School and the Making of a Prime Time Scam

A businessman and a bishop used Cowboys' Hall of Famer Deion Sanders' name to drum up interest in a charter school. Then they tried to score from the deal.

Why Wait for Mike Rawlings' Trinity Toll Road Speech When We Know What He'll Say?

Yesterday Joe told you that Mike Rawlings, our mayor, is having a press conference today to announce how he feels about the Trinity River Toll Road. So guess who's got to go to the damn thing at 12:30? OK, OK, I'm doin' it. Wow, everybody doesn't just need to get in a big huge wad about it. I'll g ... More >>

On The Passing of Local Music Writer Lee Jackson, and Six Degrees of Separation

I didn't know Lee Jackson, a North Texas music writer who passed away on Sunday after a battle with ALS. But the number of mutual friends we have dictates we were most likely in the same room or at the same show in Austin at some point, where he lived in the early Aughts, distanced by the six degree ... More >>

U.S. District Judge Furgeson Is Named Dean of UNT's Downtown Dallas Law School

​One week ago today, during council's chat about the coming bond program, the subject of the UNT Dallas College of Law came up: Angela Hunt wanted to know when the university would take over the old Municipal Building, at which point City Manager Mary Suhm reminded the council, "They're a good way ... More >>

Team UNT Dallas Gathers For Hourlong Back-Patting This Afternoon At Historic Campus

Photos by Andrea GrimesTexas Governor Rick Perry grins it up for the UNT Dallas crowd.​Governor Rick Perry visited the new University of North Texas at Dallas campus today off Camp Wisdom Road in South Dallas to mark the school's first-ever Founders Day. This afternoon marked the opening of the fi ... More >>

All About the All About Uptown Fest

Photos by Sam MertenMike Rhyner​Despite the rain early on Saturday, I found myself at the All About Uptown Festival for the third-straight year, and it wasn't until checking out the festival's website just now that I realized it's only the third year of its existence. Not a heckuva lot has cha ... More >>

Mayor Blasts Feds For "Not Being Accountable to the Citizens of Dallas" Regarding Trinity

Photos by Sam Merten​Just two days after suffering the worst defeat of his short political career, Mayor Tom Leppert offered something different from his typical canned State of the City address that we've grown accustomed to hearing around this time of year. "I am very optimistic about the s ... More >>

"Dallas Tomorrow" ... Tonight!

Sam Merten​A programming note.A few weeks ago we gave you the very advance heads-up that tonight, at the Belo Mansion, the Dallas Bar Association is hosting the "Dallas Tomorrow" forum featuring quite the bold-faced line-up: Mayor Tom Leppert, University of North Texas Chancellor Lee Jackson, Trin ... More >>

"Dallas Tomorrow" Scheduled for August 3

The Trinity Trust​I know, I know -- it's a few weeks off. Still, write it down in your Trapper Keeper: Beginning at 5 p.m. that Tuesday, the Dallas Bar Association's Public Forum Committee is holding a three-hour what's-up-Dallas at the Belo Mansion featuring quite the foursome: Mayor Tom Leppert, ... More >>

Says Mayor, Thanks to UNT Dallas Is Finally About to Become a College Town

Get to know the University of North Texas at Dallas from UNTD Webmaster on Vimeo.That video above was just posted to Vimeo by the University of North Texas at Dallas -- but says here it was sent out a couple of weeks ago to "the Board of Regents, potential donors, the Texas legislature, and elected ... More >>

Fireworks and Lasers Christen Main Street Garden, Downtown's "Park of the Future"

Photos by Patrick MichelsNo need to share scissors this time. Mayor Tom Leppert, DowntownDallas President John Crawford, effects engineer Kelly Sticksel and City Council member Angela Hunt ceremonially slice the fiberoptics Friday night. We've got more photos in this slide show.​Under a dusky purp ... More >>

Good Lord, Who Isn't Supporting Ann Margolin's Bid for City Council?

The "Vengeance" of the Trinity Pavers

Schutze is Shocked, Shocked!

Tom Leppert Brings People Together

Laura Miller Takes a Candide-like Journey Toward the Truth

Eden Run

Theatre Three gets snakebit with a Bible musical; Winter Wonderettes rattle and roll

The Lone Ranger

Right, but not quite right, Dallas County Judge Margaret Keliher is reforming county government while infuriating her Republican colleagues

Play Nice or Else

Plus: Unripe Banana Case

Idiot's Highway

That toll road they want for the Trinity is a loser

Bench Warmers

In many contested judicial races, the Republicans are grabbing all the incumbencies they can

The Orphan Chronicles

Dallas' own tribe of Oliver Twists can teach us much about the places they've been, and where we're all going

Been There, Done That

For supporters of an improved and expensive Trinity River, everything old is new again

Judge Fudge

Margaret Keliher hopes people won't know what office she's really running for

Muddy Waters

Mayor Miller rafts down the Trinity in search of truth

Fixing the Fixers

Dallas makes slow but steady progress in cleaning up mail-in ballots

The Thing That Ate Downtown

Downtown’s real estate barons are terrified that Perot-Hicks’ slick Victory project could wreak havoc on their own tax-funded plans to fix the city’s core

Bottle Rockets Downtown

A lawsuit complaining about election fraud could bust things wide open

Busting the Ballot Brokers

County officials hope reforms will prevent absentee-ballot trickery

Shotgun Love

Once again, the school board gets married the hard way

Careless Wish

He's white

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They the people; Free stuff

The old switcheroo

What happens when you no longer need the levee taxpayers voted to pay for? Why, you just spend the money on some other big dumb project.

Pig in a poke

The DISD board doesn't do its homework before offering San Franciscan Bill Rojas the top job

Money talks

Dallas County commissioners increase the pay for independent court interpreters

Mr. Mellow

John Wiley Price, the man who once toted a bullhorn in protests outside Mayor Ron Kirk's home, learns that it helps to have friends in high places

Courthouse coup

How County Commissioner Jim Jackson and his right-wing Republican cronies have Dallas' judges running scared

Mr. Nobody

Bill Simpson is eager to dig up dirt on you. He'll even write down your license plate number if you visit a topless bar. But the self-appointed guardian of Dallas morals doesn't want you to know anything about him.

Letters

Betty's In Charge

Is Dallas County's most explosive bureaucrat ruining the health department?

The Truth About Townview (Part II)

How John Wiley Price and Chad Woolery have made students pawns in Dallas' racial politics

BeloWatch

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