Speaking of stealing Christmas …Two days after First Baptist Church of Dallas pastor Robert Jeffress debuted his Grinch Alert website — because he will “not bow to the strident voices of a minority who object to the holiday” — he went on CNN’s American Morning to discuss the naughty-or-nice list…
When we spoke to Mike Modano about his will-he-won’t-he-retirement-that-wasn’t in April, he had this to say about a certain teammate: “Lehtinen was a real treat to play with, obviously, and what he brought. He played hard and sacrificed his body, and I don’t know how much more he has left.”Even…
Texas Comptroller Susan Combs was at the University of Texas at Dallas today, where she unveiled the state’s Financial Allocation Study for Texas website, which measures how well the state’s school district’s spend their dough. Dallas ISD only got two stars out of a possible five on the overall chart,…
On the other side you’ll find a lawsuit I came across this morning while looking for something completely unrelated: United States of America v. PrimeLending. The residential mortgage lender, HQ’d in Victory Park, is a subsidiary of PlainsCapital, which, maybe you remember, took $87.6 mil in TARP funds two years…
A couple of weeks back we posted that photo of the borrowed streetcar parked in downtown Fort Worth, which city officials said they’d put there to get folks excited about spending that $25 million Urban Circulator Grant. At which point, several Fort Worth-l-i-v-i-n Friends of Unfair Park cautioned: It’s just…
Council elections are in May, and this morning we learn that District 3 rep Dave Neumann will square off against a political newcomer (of sorts): Scott Griggs, with whom you’re probably familiar by now. The attorney is, after all, among the more outspoken and visible of the North Oak Cliff…
Richie hinted at this earlier, but the Texas Rangers just made it official: Beginning next season, Eric Nadel and Dave Barnett will be heard on ESPN’s local radio affiliate, which I believe is located at 103.3 on your FM dial. The official release follows, but note: Some games will actually…
And his name is Alan King. My mom’ll be thrilled — she’s a big fan of the late comic. Ah, wait. Wrong one, of course. No, this is the current deputy superintendent of the Lewisville Independent School District, who replaces the headin’-back-to-Austin Larry Throm. Before he was up in Lewisville,…
I see Paste’s blog has given an awful nice shout-out to local artist Chet Phillips, whose military monkeys graced Unfair Park back in May 2009. (And one of his Lucky Monkey magnets stares at me all day every day.) Turns out, the Art Pets highlighted today date back to September…
In case you’d forgotten all about City of Dallas v. Museum of the American Railroad, rest assured: It’s alive and well in Dallas County District Court, where, in recent days, there have been myriad filings and hearings in advance of a January 25 court date that comes almost one year…
In a few minutes the council’s Public Safety Committee will begin wrapping up 2010 with a few items of interest — among them, the latest crime report you see at top that more or less speaks for itself.Also on the agenda: the so-called 10-70-20 Crime Reduction Program, which refers to…
Couple of months back we noted that Mark Cuban and Jim Crane were trying to get back a few mil after unsuccessfully bidding on the Texas Rangers during the August auction. Cuban wanted $1.121 million; Crane, $1.527 million. The reason? The men behind Radical Pitch LLC figured that since they…
First Baptist Church of Dallas sends word that this morning on KCBI-FM (90.9), Robert Jeffress announced the launch of a website — Grinch Alert — “dedicated to showcasing businesses that do not show outward signs of supporting Christmas.” In other words: He’s declaring war on those who’ve declared war on…
Grimes and I went to the convention center last night for the unveiling of the Downtown Dallas 360 plan — which is to say, the 164-page PowerPoint thumbed through in advance of the final plan that’ll be presented to the city council next month. (Council’s scheduled to approve the plan…
Before the first bell rings this morning, this inspirational moment … Perhaps you recall: Back in October, 16-year-old Amy Chyao, a junior at Plano’s Williams High School, was among the whiz kids invited to the White House to show-and-tell their science projects to President Obama. Chyao’s science project involved eradicating…
Back in October, after so much breath-holding and finger-crossing by those in desperate need of hip-n-affordable togs, H&M finally announced it would be opening its first Texas outpost at NorthPark Center in “the second half of 2011” — second half meaning October 2011, per NorthPark’s coming-soon website. But a curious…
Speaking of demolitions …Back in September we wondered whether 807 Elm Street’s days were numbered. Park Cities Bank, which owns the building, had been trying to sell it for years but could find no takers. Said attorney Steve Metzger, repping PCB Properties, that was for one very good reason: “That…
Even though the city council ultimately added half a mil back to the Dallas Public Library’s new-materials budget back in September, seems the grand total of more than a million wasn’t enough to keep up with the demand for new titles. Hence the e-mail that just arrived from City Hall…
Many thanks to the Friend of Unfair Park kind enough to send our way this afternoon Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington’s bipartisan list of 2010 Most Embarrassing Re-elects (and a Governor to Watch). The headline kinda says it all: Rep. Joe Barton, a hard R with a thing…
This morning in D.C., Attorney General Eric Holder met with the media to discuss Operation Broken Trust, a wide-ranging crime-bustin’ effort conducted by an alphabet soup’s worth of agencies intended to “protect American investors, to ensure the strength of our markets, and to prevent financial fraud schemes.” Following Holder’s opening…
Over the weekend, on his Facebook page, Big Bucks Burnett debuted the new logo for his Eight Track Museum in Deep Ellum — that’s it at right. And on Wednesday come even more details — as in, where, exactly, that sucker’s being planted. But until then, let’s revisit Burnett’s record…
Back in October, NBC made the rather surprising announcement that it was picking up the locally shot Chase for an entire season — 22 episodes, boom. It was surprising given that ratings for the Monday-night procedural weren’t terribly good — it was averaging around 6.5 million viewers early during its…
