Santa came to my desk a day early. I have been papering City Hall with public-records requests for several weeks, and today, just in time, I finally got the one document I was hoping for: the written proposal to developer Richard Allen from three businessmen who wanted to be his Southern Dallas consultants.It's an eye-opener. And the whole thing's after the jump. A little history, though, before you make the leap.In last week's paper version of Unfair Park I explained how three African-American
Last night, after that town hall meeting, I spotted Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price standing alone outside the Harold Wendell Lang Middle School. I approached him, because the commissioner had been ducking my calls and e-mails for a couple months, and I had some business to transact with him.As soon as I got up in his face, the commissioner started shouting, "Skunk! Skunk!" and holding his nose.My good buddy, school board member Ron Price, standing a few feet away, called to a Dalla
