During nearly 20 years in the news business, Buzz has had to ask otherwise innocent people all sorts of nosy personal questions. But never, until this week, had we ever asked anyone the following: “So, how are your nuts?” This might have been embarrassing, except that the person we asked…

The Dallas Observer spent the better part of a week calling state District Judge Margaret Keliher to ask her why she hadn’t resigned from the bench five months ago when she started running for county judge. The state “judicial canon of ethics” says judges have to quit if they run…

Why does downtown Fort Worth suck way less than Dallas? Still the investigative reporter at heart, Mayor Laura Miller wagon-trained west last week to find out, and Buzz suspects she may not have liked at least part of the answer: because the people there are willing to pay for it…

Buzz, admittedly, is at times a bit naïve–naïve in this case being a polite word for “dumb.” For instance, we naïvely thought that to be a cheerleader required only that you support the home team, know how to say “rah!” and don’t look like Buzz. We were wrong about that…

In one of the greatest movies ever made, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, King Arthur confronts the enchanted Black Knight, an indestructible character who challenges Arthur to a sword fight. Arthur begins lopping off the knight’s limbs one at a time, but he refuses to quit. Finally reduced to…

All of you staunch Laura Miller supporters who think that changing Dallas to a “strong mayor” form of government is a good idea now that she’s in the hot seat, please repeat after Buzz: “Ron Kirk, strong mayor.” Doesn’t sound quite so appealing now, does it? Well, it could be…

There’s an old maxim in the reporting business that states, “If your grandmother says she loves you, check it out.” This rule was tattooed on Buzz’s soul by our college newspaper adviser, a cranky old nicotine-stained newsman who, rumor had it, would hurl typewriters at student reporters who got sloppy…

From our two or three forced visits to Sunday school, Buzz knows that if you do something good for the poor, you’re not supposed to “sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets.” Of course, that doesn’t mean we can’t brag about…

First it was her identity; now it’s her status as a victim that has been stolen. In December 2000 we told you how thieves stole Ronnie Wilson’s wallet, which she accidentally left at a Tom Thumb store, then used her identification to rack up some $10,000 worth of goods–everything from…

Lucano Transports, the Oak Cliff bus company that stirred up such a fuss for Mayor Laura Miller last summer, is gone. Neighborhood homeowners, whose complaints about congestion and the stink of bus fumes prompted then-City Councilwoman Miller to try to shut down the Davis Street bus depot, should be happy…

It’s time for another Buzz pop quiz. The topic this week is citizenship. Suppose some shady character offers to sell you a brand-new 40-inch television for 100 bucks as long as you aren’t too particular about where it came from. Do you: A) Ask him if he’ll take a check;…

Now that Laura Miller has climbed to the top of Dallas’ greasy political pole, what, Buzz wonders, will happen to some of the little people who helped hoist her up there? Specifically, what will become of Web masters such as Sharon Boyd (www.dallasarena.com) and Avi Adelman (www.barkingdogs.org), who turned their…

They’re the Gentle Musers–said so right on Laura Miller’s T-shirt. But on Tuesday morning, George Dunham and Craig Miller, the morning-show hosts on sports-talk station KTCK-AM (1310), played gatekeepers of local politics. The highly rated Dunham and Miller show gave way to the–oh, dear God, no–“Dunning and Miller Show” as…

Buzz has always prided itself on being able to laugh at pretty much anything. So we expected to guffaw ourselves into incontinence when we heard that Tom Dunning’s mayoral campaign was going “urban” and had produced a rap ad being aired on KKDA-FM. Then we heard the ad. We didn’t…

Buzz has been a bit afraid to go to sleep lately. For decades we’ve been a proud, left-leaning, pro-choice, social-program-supporting, anti-drug-war liberal, but apparently there’s something in the water in Dallas that takes perfectly normal people of the Democratic stripe and turns them into (shudder) Republicans. It’s happened with mayoral…

Naim Alasaad would like Buzz to deliver the following message to mayoral candidate Laura Miller and anyone else with bright ideas about breathing life into downtown: This is Texas. It gets hot in the summer. That’s obvious, you say? You suspect she already knows that? Then why, oh why does…

Maybe you’ve seen them, the billboards selling “Erma Bombeck for Dallas mayor” and “Cesar Romero for Dallas mayor.” You have? You don’t get it? Neither did Buzz. Was this some sort of hip, postmodern commentary on the mayoral election? A dig at mayoral candidate Laura Miller’s new happy homemaker persona…

The Belo empire is too preoccupied with pumping up its favorite candidate to report this, so we’ll let you in on a little secret. Former Dallas Observer columnist Laura Miller is kicking fanny in the mayoral race. So maybe that wasn’t such a secret, at least to anyone who judges…