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January 12, 2012
On Flood Control, Dallas Better Think Nationally or Be Ready to Drown Locally
Man, talk about whistling past the graveyard. At yesterday's Dallas City Council meeting, council members Tennell Atkins and Delia Jasso asked good questions about the city's flood control plans, and City Manager Mary Suhm and her assistant, Jill Jordan, gave good answers. But it was all deck chairs ... More >>
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December 5, 2011
Between the Lines in Corps' Trinity River Enviromental Assessment: Don't Blame Us
Buried between the lines in a 246-page document released by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers today is a significant national story about the future of flood control in American cities. I doubt very many reporters will dig it out. I'll give you the thumbnail sketch. You may wish I had kept my ... More >>
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November 17, 2011
Deep Into the Corps: Agency's Own Leaky Docs Express Doubts About City's Levee Fixes
On November 10 I wrote a column for the paper about documents leaked to me from within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers indicating that the corps has no faith in repairs to the Trinity River levees being proposed by the City of Dallas. I can show the documents to you now. They tell quite a st ... More >>
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October 27, 2011
Shelter for the Storms
On November 10 I wrote a column for the paper about documents leaked to me from within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers indicating that the corps has no faith in repairs to the Trinity River levees being proposed by the City of Dallas. I can show the documents to you now. They tell quite a st ... More >>
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September 8, 2011
For Bastrop: 10 Songs About Putting Out Fires
The wildfires raging through the greater Austin area have everyone on edge. The Forest Service has stated that they're taxed to the limit, Rick Perry briefly abandoned his presidential run to focus on the blaze and the smoke is causing breathing problems as far north as Waxahachie. Meanwhil ... More >>
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June 17, 2011
Dallas' Southern Recipes Sends Truckloads of Pork Rinds to Alabama Tornado Victims
Dallas-based Southern Recipe, the world's largest manufacturer of pork rinds, has donated $10,000 of their pork rinds to The Today Show's Lend a Hand Tour benefiting tornado victims in Birmingham, Alabama. We're not sure if the first thought on the Alabamans' minds was, "What I wouldn't give ... More >>
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June 17, 2011
It's Been Truly Inspiring to Watch D Apologize for Rah-Rah'ing Trinity Toll Road. Oh, Wait.
I'm sure at some moment in history, all of the people who had insisted the earth was flat went very quiet. After some centuries of debate, burnings at the stake and loud dinner-table arguments, the jury was in. Everybody knew it was round. The exponents of flat were suddenly extremely reticent o ... More >>
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May 25, 2011
Last Night: Here We Go Magic, Caveman, Carlo Canlas at Dada
Here We Go Magic, Caveman, Carlo CanlasDadaMay 24, 2011Better Than: Sitting in a bathtub at home with a dog and a baby both trying to eat each other.Pete Freedman's phoneHere We Go Magic goes unplugged. Because, you know, they had to.First, there was a crash, followed by a series of booms, and th ... More >>
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February 25, 2011
Indiana's Gov Won't Run for President? Too Bad. He Could've Saved Dallas From Dallas.
Mitchell DanielsNew York Times columnist David Brooks, who usually writes from a perspective anyone outside of Texas would consider conservative, has a fascinating column today about Indiana Gov. Mitchell Daniels and why Brooks thinks he should run for president. It's a catalog of small miracles ... More >>
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January 10, 2011
Watch: The September Tornadoes Land A Direct Hit And Total Bonedome's Parked Band Van
The above fairly harrowing footage comes to us straight from the surveillance cameras mounted outside of Allan Hayslip's day job in West Dallas and focused on the warehouse's parking lot, where his Bonedome band van was parked as tornadoes ripped through the area in the early evening of September 8, ... More >>
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November 25, 2010
Send us Your Earmark: Could Congress Turn off the Tap on Trinity Money?
The above fairly harrowing footage comes to us straight from the surveillance cameras mounted outside of Allan Hayslip's day job in West Dallas and focused on the warehouse's parking lot, where his Bonedome band van was parked as tornadoes ripped through the area in the early evening of September 8, ... More >>
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November 20, 2010
What Two Sentences in The WSJ Suggest About the Future of the Trinity River Project
U.S. Army Corps of EngineersFrom the Dallas Floodway Extension Project Description, this 1989 photo: "US175 blocked by water backed up into White Rock Creek. Normally, this is a busy traffic artery leading to the central business district."Wilonsky sent me an interesting Wall Street Journal artic ... More >>
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November 16, 2010
North Texas Food Bank's Text Donation Program Falters
Mobile giving, which was touted in the wake of the Haiti earthquake earlier this year as a high-tech way of invigorating philanthropy, hasn't panned out for the North Texas Food Bank. The hunger relief organization rolled out its text-to-give program this month, and has thus far collected on ... More >>
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November 15, 2010
The Daily Fail: Kanye West
It seemed like the biggest hindrance to Kanye West -- or "Conway" as Dubya calls him -- earning a wide-ranging pop music acceptance was his ego. Turns out a persecution complex may have trumped the producer/rapper/auto-tune aficionado's legendary ego, though.
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October 21, 2010
What This Town Needs is Some Good Ward Heelers.
It seemed like the biggest hindrance to Kanye West -- or "Conway" as Dubya calls him -- earning a wide-ranging pop music acceptance was his ego. Turns out a persecution complex may have trumped the producer/rapper/auto-tune aficionado's legendary ego, though.
News
September 23, 2010
Is It Finally Curtains for the Trinity River Project?
It seemed like the biggest hindrance to Kanye West -- or "Conway" as Dubya calls him -- earning a wide-ranging pop music acceptance was his ego. Turns out a persecution complex may have trumped the producer/rapper/auto-tune aficionado's legendary ego, though.
News
July 1, 2010
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison Took A Meat-axe To Federal Law To Get The Mayor His Toll Road. But Did She Even Think About The Consequences?
It seemed like the biggest hindrance to Kanye West -- or "Conway" as Dubya calls him -- earning a wide-ranging pop music acceptance was his ego. Turns out a persecution complex may have trumped the producer/rapper/auto-tune aficionado's legendary ego, though.
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April 1, 2010
Regarding Those Levees, Let Me Break Out My Tin-Foil Hat And My Crystal Ball
In the weeks ahead I'm going to be tied up with some stories that will demand a lot of my time, so, I'm sorry, I'm just not going to have time to do my regularly predictable clockwork swat-down reaction pieces to Dallas Morning News stories on the Trinity River project. I wondered if it would be ... More >>
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January 28, 2010
Keep Your Eye On The Sky
In the weeks ahead I'm going to be tied up with some stories that will demand a lot of my time, so, I'm sorry, I'm just not going to have time to do my regularly predictable clockwork swat-down reaction pieces to Dallas Morning News stories on the Trinity River project. I wondered if it would be ... More >>
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June 12, 2009
Bryan Floodway
Web MayfieldWe're under a tornado watch till 11 p.m., and Oncor's still working to get power to some 80,000 homes still in the hot, sticky dark. So, fittingly, we'll end this long, wet week with an image provided by Web Mayfield, taken yesterday on Bryan Parkway just east of Beacon Street. "Limbs, g ... More >>
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June 9, 2009
S'ump, Y'all?
Click to expand the image from the council's 2008 briefing concerning the Able Pump StationSeveral Friends of Unfair Park have asked where the city's getting the $29 million needed to cover the costs of further Trinity River floodway study, which, as we noted last week, pushes back the construction ... More >>
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June 3, 2009
Wanna See Dallas Destroyed By an F5 Tornado? Then You're in Luck Tomorrow.
Back in April, Tom Korosec wrote for the paper version of Unfair Park a story that asked, Just how prepared is Dallas for an F5 tornado? Short answer: Not very. But only because "it would be too big for a simple quick response," wrote city of Dallas emergency management director Kenny Shaw in the co ... More >>
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May 21, 2009
Get Hosed
Back in April, Tom Korosec wrote for the paper version of Unfair Park a story that asked, Just how prepared is Dallas for an F5 tornado? Short answer: Not very. But only because "it would be too big for a simple quick response," wrote city of Dallas emergency management director Kenny Shaw in the co ... More >>
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September 25, 2008
Courtesy Hurricane Ike, Now You Seafood, Now You Don't
Back in April, Tom Korosec wrote for the paper version of Unfair Park a story that asked, Just how prepared is Dallas for an F5 tornado? Short answer: Not very. But only because "it would be too big for a simple quick response," wrote city of Dallas emergency management director Kenny Shaw in the co ... More >>
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August 28, 2008
Courtesy Gustav, Dallas Might Feel a Little More Crowded This Weekend
Back in April, Tom Korosec wrote for the paper version of Unfair Park a story that asked, Just how prepared is Dallas for an F5 tornado? Short answer: Not very. But only because "it would be too big for a simple quick response," wrote city of Dallas emergency management director Kenny Shaw in the co ... More >>
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March 27, 2008
The Colors of Katrina
Burkholder shows the blues...and other hues
Blogs
February 4, 2008
Spike Lee's School Daze at UTA
Burkholder shows the blues...and other hues
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January 28, 2008
Kids' Katrina Documentary to Open the Texas Black Film Festival This Week
Burkholder shows the blues...and other hues
Blogs
August 28, 2007
You Can't Go Home Again
Burkholder shows the blues...and other hues
Calendar
August 23, 2007
Singing Samaritan
Burkholder shows the blues...and other hues
Blogs
July 11, 2007
The Blame Game
Burkholder shows the blues...and other hues
Blogs
January 4, 2007
Schutze Defends Kunkle, and That's No Crime
Burkholder shows the blues...and other hues
Home Entertainment
January 4, 2007
Weird and Wonderful
Burkholder shows the blues...and other hues
Home Entertainment
December 21, 2006
A True Horror Classic
Burkholder shows the blues...and other hues
News
September 7, 2006
The Rip
When does an evacuee cease to be a guest and become a pain?
Blogs
August 22, 2006
When Evacuees Become Residents, Part 3
When does an evacuee cease to be a guest and become a pain?
Blogs
July 25, 2006
Who'll Pay the Rent?
When does an evacuee cease to be a guest and become a pain?
Blogs
May 15, 2006
Katrina: Bad for People, Good for Business
When does an evacuee cease to be a guest and become a pain?
News
March 23, 2006
CBS v. Belo v. Katrina
When does an evacuee cease to be a guest and become a pain?
Blogs
March 1, 2006
You Can Run...
When does an evacuee cease to be a guest and become a pain?
Calendar
January 26, 2006
Hot Links
Hit the mini-greens downtown
News
December 1, 2005
Hotel Katrina
While the feds fumble, hurricane survivors find relief thanks to a Dallas hotel owner and friends
Music
November 24, 2005
Big Not-Easy
Thought the RIAA was bad when they sued downloaders? You ain't heard nothin'.
News
November 24, 2005
Dr. Disaster
When the world is falling to pieces, emergency doctor Paul Pepe makes order from chaos
Music
August 18, 2005
Shawn Sahm, Flaco Jimenez and Augie Meyers
Friday, August 19th, at Sons of Hermann Hall
News
January 20, 2005
Union Suit
Plus: The Next Wave; Strand of Evidence
News
December 10, 1998
Bait and switch
The Trinity Project hits some expensive setbacks, but leave it to the News to look on the bright side
News
July 23, 1998
Getting dumped
Despite shoddy science, bad economics, and catastrophic health risks, a West Texas border community may become the nation's nuclear dumping ground
Film
May 16, 1996
And your little dog, too
Putting the audience in harm's way gives Twister its punch
News
May 2, 1996
Storm warning
When a tornado ripped through Lancaster, it also laid bare the city's racial wounds
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