Below, of course, is the tale of Senior Corporal Theadora Ross — the 26-year veteran of the Dallas Police Department indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly depositing at least $250,000 in North Texas Crime Commission’s Crime Stoppers cash in her own bank account. The feds say that the…
A Friend of Unfair Park writes: He’s heard whispers of a protest planned for 3:30 tomorrow at the Dallas County Administration Building, where the County Election Commission will meet for the first time in more than two decades. The reason, of course, is the departure of Dallas County Elections Administrator…
After Chris Heinbaugh’s heads-up yesterday about the city repairing its broken seal, Intern Jesse stopped by Dallas City Hall toward Wednesday’s end to check that “S” out. I showed the photo to the boy this morning before he left for school. He grinned and demanded a high-five. “We fixed the…
I know, I know. I promised — no more about the city’s spending at least $12 million in 2006 bond funds to two-way and widen César Chávez Boulevard downtown. But that was before Patrick “Car-Free” Kennedy, the best-of blogger trying like hell to restore Dallas to walkability, chimed in today…
That photo you see at top is Dallas Police Department Senior Corporal Theadora Ross, in the middle, being escorted out of DPD HQ yesterday by FBI agents. Andrea was out there Wednesday morning, but at the time, DPD and the feds refused to comment on Ross’s arrest. They promised all…
The redo of the once-deteriorating Embarcadero Building at Fair Park was among the recipients of Preservation Dallas’s 2006 Preservation Achievement Awards; so too were The Big Thicket at White Rock Lake, the Belmont Hotel, the restoration of SMU’s Dallas Hall Dome and Rotunda and ARCHITEXAS’s job well done restoring the…
This just in from the Dallas Police Department (the all-caps are the department’s):AN ON-SITE BOMB-SNIFFING DOG HIT ON A FED-EX PACKAGE IN THE BASEMENT OF ONE MAIN PLACE LOCATED AT 1201 MAIN ST. THE AREA IS BEING BLOCKED OFF AND THE BUILDING IS CURRENTLY BEING EVACUATED. EXPLOSIVE ORDINANCE SQUAD IS…
On the other side is a release that just arrived from City Hall announcing the Office of Cultural Affairs and Dallas Arts District’s decision to take part in D.C.-based nonprofit Americans for the Arts’s economic-impact study. The city didn’t take part in the ’05 study, the most recent conducted, which…
A couple of days back, a Friend of Unfair Park asked, via e-mail: “Have you noticed the number of cabs in Dallas recently? We drove home last night from Cole and Armstrong to the Lakewood area and counted 20 cabs. It looked like NYC. Super Bowl-related influx?” Not sure about…
I caught the tail end of former Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle’s chitchat with The Ticket’s Hardline, which aired a little past the 6 p.m. hour yesterday. During it, Kunkle talked, of course, about his maybe-sorta-more-n-likely run for Dallas mayor, which he said he’ll nail down publicly once the Super…
Last night, WFAA reported that some 300 Dallas Independent School District employees will not return next year — not because of the state’s $25-billion shortfall, but because the $104 million in federal stimulus money that funded their positions beginning in 2009 has gone away. As DISD spokesman Jon Dahlander tells…
No doubt you’re aware that KISS’s Gene Simmons and Shannon Tweed (who I wouldn’t Google Image search from the office too hard, if I were you) are among the myriad celebs hosting Super Bowl shindigs next week. Theirs is the Aces & Angels Salute to the Troops at Fair Park,…
Chris Heinbaugh, the mayor’s chief of staff, e-mailed this morning with the good news: “I am told the seal in front of City Hall should be fixed today.” He wanted me to pass along that info to the Friends of Unfair Park — and the 7-year-old who lives in my…
[Update: For reasons explained in the piece below, Bruce Sherbet tells Unfair Park he has resigned, effective March 1. He says when he spoke to Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price today, he told him he would work through the May mayoral election — or he’d leave earlier, if Price…
At the beginning of the week, former Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle had no intention of running for Dallas mayor. Today, he tells Unfair Park, that has changed.While the 60-year-old Kunkle says he remains unsure of what he will do, chances are “greater that I will run than I won’t…
Ashley Burton, an Oncor spokesperson, just called with the news: “All of those lights on the Commerce Street viaduct have been repaired and turned on. I just spoke with someone who was out there to check last night, and they’re energized and turned on.”Me too, Ashley. After all, many of…
In the fall of ’09, the Dallas Area Rapid Transit board inched toward spending hundreds of millions of dollars on new buses that would be powered by compressed natural gas — as opposed to the liquefied natural gas and clean diesel presently fueling the current fleet. Mayor Tom Leppert, who…
Jim’s on vacation this week. So I’ll use that opportunity to highlight a short film starring his boy Will, the Woodrow Wildcat presently residing in Los Angeles, where, between acting jobs, he’s busking on Venice Beach, in Santa Monica and in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard. I…
Speaking of Angela Hunt …The maybe-mayoral candidate who presently reps that stretch of downtown due to be widened says that, yes, she’s all for it. She was back in January 2009, you may recall, when she asked for a time-out so she could confer with DowntownDallas president and CEO John…
The gentleman you see above in the Dallas Police Department uniform is DPD Sergeant Donald McMillion. Next to him, in the Austin PD uniform, is Sergeant Ronald McMillion. In case you hadn’t noticed — and, really, I like to take nothing for granted — they are identical twins, who, for…
KDMX-FM (102.9, The Mix) hasn’t been on my radar since … well … um, ever? Till about 24 minutes ago I didn’t even know its format. Oh, I see: “Variety From The 90’s ‘Til Now,” meaning Lady Gaga, Kelly Clarkson, Snow Patrol, Bruno Mars, Katy Perry, Colbie Caillat … and…
While the Plano Independent School District is already preparing for a worst-case scenario and eliminating top-tier administrative positions, the Dallas Independent School District’s board of trustees is not scheduled to address the state’s $25-billion shortfall at its meeting on Thursday — save for that resolution to which we directed your…
