Here’s an afterthought on the galactic response to WFAA sportscaster Dale Hansen’s anti-homophobia commentary last week about football player Michael Sam. It puts him in a weird position, old-white-guy-wise. My own comments on it at the time were typical — making a big deal out the fact that Hansen is…
There he was again yesterday commenting on my thing here about the convention center hotel, Wylie H., the city’s smartest, best informed and most mysterious commenter, and all I could think of was how badly I want to see him exposed. Wait. Why would I want to see Wylie H…
When the Omni Dallas Hotel opened next to the convention center in downtown Dallas in 2011, the story was that it would dig the convention center out of its financial hole. That was a big part of the pitch in 2008 when then-Mayor Tom Leppert was selling voters on bonds…
Last Tuesday evening The Dallas Morning News sponsored a conference in the Arts District called “Come Together,” which was so much more than just a great name for a gentleman’s club. Billed as a celebrity panel to talk about “economic development, education and opportunity,” it was really about culluh. Yeah,…
OK, I guess I need to come out on this. I have kind of a crush on WFAA Channel 8 sports-casting dean Dale Hansen. No, not that kind. I don’t really do those anymore anyway. No, I’m stuck on Hansen because I think he’s a role model for us old…
White Rock Lake, just for grins, is 1,015 acres. Based on what I heard yesterday, the Trinity River lakes we voted for in downtown in 1998, when finally built, will be one lake, 20 acres, 10 feet deep. Shit. Oh, and the money for it is mostly gone. Even to…
Most of the City Council’s housing committee ho-hummed or twiddled their fingers at a February 3 briefing on a big city-bankrolled development deal called “Patriots Crossing,” but a few expressed dismay. They said the city had paid way too much money for land on Lancaster Road across from the Veterans…
Last Tuesday evening The Dallas Morning News sponsored a conference in the arts district called “Come Together,” supposedly to talk about “economic development, education and opportunity” but really to talk about culluh. Yeah, skin color, that topic that pretty much the whole rest of the world is bored to death…
Got a story in the newspaper newspaper this week I’d like you to see if you have a minute. It’s about the Nasher Sculpture Center and Museum Tower, the condo building accused by the Nasher of reflecting too much light on it. I spoke with officers of the city’s police…
We have come to a point of crisis in the matter of the sunburned sculpture garden and the pension fund. The clear appearance is that the mayor is injecting politics into the management of the Dallas Police and Fire Pension Fund. It’s not exactly how the mayor of Detroit and…
Last Friday we talked here about the new voter ID law and the difficulty everybody seems to be having with the lack of difficulty. I told you that, after the first election under the new law, I, as a lifelong libtard, was extremely distressed by the lack of distress. I…
We should be doing what we can to keep up with news about our sister community, Westchester County in New York. It’s the other local government entity in the nation, along with the city of Dallas, formally accused by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development of practicing deliberate…
My fellow libtards, I am trying to hang with you on the voter ID issue, and I want to hang with you, and I will hang with you if I can, but I have to admit that It’s getting hard to hang with you. Yesterday The Dallas Morning News had…
Yes, I have campaigned here ceaselessly over the years to get Dallas to be more like my hometown, Detroit, but I was talking about stuff like the farmers market. Not the pension fund, for God’s sake! Yesterday The Dallas Morning News editorial page called for the Dallas Police and Fire…
Robert Abtahi, a lawyer who ran unsuccessfully for the District 14 City Council seat in East Dallas last time around, had an interesting essay last week on the opinion pages of The Dallas Morning News. He castigated critics of City Hall, whom he lumped together as a new and burgeoning…
Yikes. My Invasion of the Body Snatchers dreams are back. Need to stock up on Benadryl. But, wait: did you notice a story in The Dallas Morning News a couple weeks ago saying barely half of Dallas school system employees think the school district is headed in the right direction…
CORRECTION: This item is wrong. The city did respond to my request for information. I did not see their response. I sent my initial request on December 4, 2013. The city did not respond within the 10 day time limit set by state law, but on December 26 a city…
With the passage of a few days, my take on the election of A.C. Gonzalez as the new Dallas city manager has come into sharper focus. I have a column in this week’s paper saying he was the wrong choice, and I’m sticking by that. But maybe I was a…
Bobby Abtahi, the guy who ran against Philip Kingston for the District 14 city council seat in East Dallas last time around, had an essay yesterday on the opinion pages of The Dallas Morning News castigating critics of City Hall. He lumped us all together as a new and burgeoning…
Here in the city where Republican swiftboating was invented, we have good reason to wonder what’s really at the heart of it. In 2004 when the character assassins went after John Kerry, I assumed their motivation was straight-up cynicism. Muddy him up so Bush will look better. But this new…
I like Mike Rawlings. I think our mayor is a good guy. He strikes me as basically honest, with the best of intentions. But his failure to head off the selection of an insider as the next city manager will be the single most important thing to remember about Rawlings’…
Based on the City Council meeting yesterday where they appointed A.C. Gonzalez city manager, I now have a new least favorite word in the whole English language. Transparency. They kept saying it over and over like a weird chant. I’ve got something else for them to work on, way before…
