Last week, during the Dallas City Council’s Transportation and Environment Committee meeting, chair Linda Koop dropped what appeared to be a bombshell: Fort Worth, she said, was going to return the $25 million Urban Circulator Grant it received in July for its Fort Worth Streetcar Loop, which she said wasn’t…
When we first looked at the Dallas Independent School District’s proposed anti-bullying policy one month ago, it was a brief two-page document intended, as trustee Edwin Flores said at the time, to be more “comprehensive” than the existing student code of conduct. But for some, the so-called “Freedom of Bullying”…
Last month we mentioned: Robert Duvall’s in town Friday night for a Dallas Film Society fund-raiser at the Hall of State, during which he’ll be Q&A’d by Elvis Mitchell. But say you didn’t have the $250 to $25,000 necessary to make the up-close-and-personal. No sweat: The DFS has added to…
We’re but days away from the Grand Opening of the Green Line, which Dallas Area Rapid Transit officials have been sneak-peeking for local politicos and media members. But, really, why not ride it for yourself. Fast. And: Fun! Don’t even have to leave the house, even better…
Does no one want to take over operations at the downtown farmers market? Sure seems like it: On a whim this afternoon I went over to the city’s official bid site to see how plans for privatizing the market were going, only to find that the request for proposals was…
Fort Worth city council member Joel Burns’s “It Gets Better” speech, delivered in front of the city council last month, proved an inspiration to countless picked-on gay kids across the country — Ellen DeGeneres too. Turns out, there was at least one person who didn’t dig it: KLIF’s Chris Krok,…
As you’ll see in this video just posted by Dallas City Hall, a six-point buck got stuck, then put in a truck. At the end, a Texas Parks and Wildlife game warden explains what happened, but long story short: The city was called out after TPWD received reports of two…
In the video below you get a fleeting glimpse of Sean Fitzgerald’s Grand Prize winner in the second annual Trinity River Corridor Project Photo Contest. City Hall spokesman Frank Librio was kind enough to send the real thing.Update at 11:30 a.m.: Librio has posted all 61 winning images to the…
The Dallas City Council doesn’t have the most exciting agenda today — though if you’re interested in the state of sales tax revenue from ’02 to ’09, I’ve got just the PowerPoint for you. But to the more interesting business: First thing this morning, Dave Neumman, chairman of the Trinity…
Back in February there was that story about Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys suing some 10 bidnesses for failing to pay the rent on their sweet suites at Cowboys Stadium. Total rent owed back then: $82.3 million. To that sum add another $37.7 million, per Courthouse News’s news that…
This seemed like a nice way to end the day …A little while ago, I was looking for something completely unrelated on the eBay when I came across this offering: an apparently very rare copy of the original cast recording of Steve Mackenroth and Randy Tallman’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream…
This morning, a reader wondered: Has the state decided if it’s going to renew its contract with Corrections Corporation of America regarding operations of the Jesse R. Dawson State Jail on the Trinity River? When last we looked at the issue, the contract was set to expire January 15, only…
Many thanks to the many Friends of Unfair Park who’ve directed our attention to this announcement: On January 8 and 9, Glee casting director Robert Ulrich will be in Dallas auditioning wannabes for “a new role” to debut during the FOX series’ third season. The location’s yet to be announced,…
Speaking of the mayor pro tem …City Hall just sent word that tomorrow at City Hall, Dwaine Caraway will be joined by SMU associate psychology prof Jasper Smits, clinical psychologist Jay Ashmore of the Cooper Aerobics Center and others to launch a citywide anti-smoking initiative. Its title: “Quit Smoking Dallas.”…
Shortly before the vote on Proposition 1, which allowed for the citywide off-premise sale of beer and wine, we noted: Goody Goody Liquor and Vantex Enterprises, the parent company of Centennial and Big Daddy’s, contributed $30,000 to the anti- campaign under the moniker No Alcohol PAC/Neighborhood For Safety. They were,…
As you may recall, the city sent word last month that it needed to meet with Trinity River property owners to discuss those revised Federal Emergency Management Agency flood maps, due to debut in February before the final ones are drawn up in December 2011 and go into effect in…
A couple of years back we noted that the price-fix was back in, thanks in large part to a 2007 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that eventually put a Flower Mound business out of business. Perhaps you recall that case: Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. v. Kay’s Kloset — or Leegin,…
I had something reasonably newsworthy with which to end the day. But it’ll have to wait till morning — I need one more confirmation. (How’s that for a tease?) So instead I’ll leave you with this just-posted ad for the DART’s Green Line, set to open all the way on…
Two months ago TNT announced that it was indeed planning on a return to Southfork with the Ewing clan in tow. For now, though, the new Dallas is but a hypothetical — a pilot that will more than likely shoot in the spring. Efforts are under way to recruit members…
There’s a restaurant in Fayetteville, Arkansas, called Northern Exposure. Its slogan: “GREAT STEAKS, COLD DRINKS & FREE SCENIC VIEWS.” (Which may be true, according to the barren, surely-that-can’t-be-right Google streetview.) There’s no website at present — the gentleman who answered when I called said it’s down for maintenance.Reason I called…
At the end of August there was that report noting that The Dallas Morning News was about to put much of its staff-written content behind a paywall, leaving only Associated Press pieces and 150-word breaking-news briefs as gratis offerings. Publisher and CEO Jim Moroney told us that wasn’t quite accurate,…
I cannot count the number of stories Observer editor Mark Donald and I have written about Ronald “Buffalo” Chambers, who, on April 10, 1975, kidnapped 22-year-old Texas Tech student Mike McMahan and 20-year-old Deia Sutton, drove them to the Trinity River bottoms and shot both in the head. McMahan died…
