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…
Author, author Chris Beamon, the Ponder seventh-grader who landed in the pokey in Denton County last fall after writing a Halloween essay that described shooting a teacher and students, has moved beyond Big Chief notebooks to having his work appear in a tonier rag, Harper’s magazine. (True quote from a…
By-buyout D magazine got at least this much right about columnist John Anders’ split from The Dallas Morning News: He left behind a high salary from the daily, and he’s moving with his wife, News columnist Helen Bryant, to Austin. The question, which D purports to answer in its March…
Mission improbable OK, class, here’s another Buzz pop quiz: Give us three words that best describe The Dallas Morning News’ editorial content without using a synonym for “boring.” Time’s up. The correct answer, according to the daily’s recent in-house editorial newsletter News news — kindly faxed to us from an…
Slip up Buzz was just a boy when the great Sears catalog penis scandal rocked the nation. Maybe you remember. A model for a pair of men’s boxer shorts had a vague shadow on his inner thigh that might have been the man’s dangling johnson peeking out — if you…
Image is everything We’re sure resting easier now that The Dallas Morning News assures us that folks in, say, New Jersey aren’t troubled by the stink of corruption rising from City Councilman Al Lipscomb’s conviction for taking bribes from Yellow Cab. At least we think that was the point of…
Breaching the stonewall There’s a saying newspeople like to toss out whenever we’re feeling particularly macho: “Don’t pick fights with people who buy ink by the barrel.” It’s probably not a good idea to start battles with people who buy videotape by the mile, either, but apparently word hasn’t reached…
With friends like this… Representatives of seven historically black Texas colleges have a message for the anonymous author who is circulating an e-mail that claims Gov. George W. Bush is responsible for the schools’ imminent closings: Knock it off. The e-mail says that Bush, who once served on the board…
