SEEDless: Conventional wisdom says that if something isn’t broken, don’t fix it. Sadly, conventional wisdom isn’t so conventional at Dallas Independent School District headquarters, and a good, working program will soon be broke. The new DISD budget likely will slash funding for Project SEED, an 18-year-old program that brings top…

Surprise, surprise: So former Dallas NAACP President Lee Alcorn developed a taste for his foot last week regarding the nomination of “Jew person” (Alcorn’s phrase) Joe Lieberman as the Democratic vice presidential candidate. Someone tell Buzz, What exactly was so surprising? Was it that Alcorn might harbor anti-Semitic feelings in…

Cold embrace How confusing it must be for old-school, pro-family, Christian-right Republicans now, watching the GOP lurch toward the center, toward inclusiveness, toward sodomy. Some longtime GOP faithful must be feeling like the devoted wife suddenly cast aside for a younger woman — or man, as the case may be.For…

Why wait? Dallas school board member Jose Plata, a two-term trustee and staunch supporter of now-booted Superintendent Waldemar Rojas, says he’s throwing in the towel. Slowly. Plata won’t seek re-election when his term expires next May, and he’s advising his fellow trustees to do the same. He says he can…

Very personal injury Dennis Rodman has settled a lawsuit filed in Dallas County by a woman who alleged he infected her with herpes. Stacie Shobe claimed in her 1998 case that she had unprotected sex with the former Dallas Maverick after he told her he did not have any sexually…

Buzz supposes it was progress of a sort.

What’s in a name So Gordon Keith, KTCK-AM radio jock and sometime contributor to this paper, agreed to change his name to Dallasmaverick for one year and have the team’s logo tattooed on his body in exchange for $125,000 from Mavs owner Mark Cuban–half the money going to Keith, the…

Isn’t it ironic Being one of the few Dallas Morning News subscribers under the age of 85 to read the paper religiously, Buzz thought we had a pretty good notion of who the daily’s friends were. We were wrong. When the city council recently designated the newspaper the city’s official…

Feel a draft? From the start, it wasn’t exactly a marriage made in heaven. Now it appears that Belo Corp. and the Dallas Mavericks are headed for an amicable, if lucrative, separation. Belo revealed this week that it has reached an “oral agreement” to sell its minority share of the…

Daddy got his gun So, how much time do you plan to spend picking out your dad’s Father’s Day present this week? Two minutes? Five? Let’s be honest: When it comes to filial affection, Dad gets the short end of the stick giftwise. Still, you have to get the old…

Elijah, please shut up The last time we heard from Elijah McGrew, the Oak Cliff activist and erstwhile city council candidate, he was making his third forlorn attempt to win the District 4 council seat. McGrew, a gadfly who gained recognition in the early ’90s by crusading against topless clubs…

Not yet begun to fight The 5th Court of Appeals ruled last week in Rick Finlan and company’s long-running legal battle with the Dallas school district, and things did not go well for Finlan et al. Or, as lawyer Lawrence Friedman, one of 11,000 or so appellees, appellants, cross-appellants, repellents,…

Bullish on Belo Now comes a time of year that Buzz truly hates. Once again someone has sent us the annual report for Belo Corp., our favorite monolithic media conglomerate, and our job is to make sense of it. Let us reiterate. If Buzz knew anything about business, we wouldn’t…

Schoonerville Trolley Buzz, hypocritical middle-class leftist that we are, wholeheartedly supports public transportation. That is to say, we feel guilty about not taking buses ourselves, and we definitely think you should ride them. (That would leave us more room to park our truck.) In fact, if you people would get…

Taking sides We suppose it might be wrong, ethically speaking, for a newspaper person to help raise money for one side in a heated political issue. But when the issue is raising money to help keep public swimming pools open for poor kids, who in their right minds could be…

All he wants to do is sue OK, let’s be up-front. Buzz is not what you would call a fan of The Eagles. In our cosmology, hell’s radio station plays only two songs: “Hotel California” and “Lyin’ Eyes.” Given a choice between hearing them perform a reunion concert or getting…

The shallow end Imagine how bitter the taste of defeat must be for Laura Miller on her wading pool deal, especially since it looked like she had the thing won. Miller, trying to keep two city wading pools open in poor neighborhoods in southern Dallas, persuaded the ExxonMobil Foundation to…

Silence is not golden The last time Buzz took a potshot at Dallas Park and Recreation Board member Ralph Isenberg — for painting over graffiti on an Arcadia Park house without the owner’s permission — he was not happy. So unhappy was he that he sent us a 5-gallon bucket…

Caught napping How many tranquilizers would it take to put an entire lake of fish asleep? One, Buzz figures, if it was the same brand of sleeping pill used by the staff of The Dallas Morning News, who let a fishy tale slip into print last week. On March 30,…

Location, location, location For two years, Amelia Core Jenkins, proprietor of a bed-and-breakfast at the corner of Young and St. Paul streets downtown, dutifully paid her dues to the Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau. The money earned her inn, in a converted abandoned warehouse, the right to be listed in…

Bark, don’t bite So, how is KTVT-Channel 11’s newscast now that popular anchorman Tracy Rowlett has joined the team? Has Rowlett’s former station, WFAA-Channel 8, suffered noticeably? If you have an opinion, please feel free to voice it, unless you’re Dallas Morning News TV critic Ed Bark. The word from…

The new Mod Squad Last week, a group of cops went to the city council to ask whether it would please pay Dallas police officers wages competitive with such crime-ridden hot spots as Plano. This week, the cops aren’t playing quite as nice. The Dallas Police Patrolman’s Union has posted…