At today’s Dallas Independent School District board briefing, trustees will yet again discuss that “comprehensive” bullying policy about which we wrote last month. Turns out, on the Dallas City Council’s meeting agenda for Wednesday is a related resolution sent to City Manager Mary Suhm last week, signed by, among others,…
Couple of weeks back Patrick spent the day hanging out with the Big Brothers watching the watchers at the American Society for Industrial Security confab at Dallas Convention Center. Turns out, some attendees were also given an all-access pass to the Dallas Police Department’s video surveillance operations center, located at…
Not yet ready to let go of the 2010 season, Your Texas Rangers held that rally Wednesday evening in the Ballpark’s parking lot. We dispatched Intern Conner Howell to cover the wingding, attended by the team’s owners, the about-to-be-contract-extended skipper, much of the starting line-up, Lil’ Wash and a guesstimated…
There are countless studies that show children who get a full day of pre-kindergarten fare better than kids who only get partial-day instruction. Take, for instance, this ’06 National Institute for Early Education Research look-see, Is More Better? The Effects of Full-Day vs. Half-Day Preschool on Early School Achievement. (Spoiler…
There was a time — 12 years ago, say — when I could have named each man in this photo by sight. Even, at the far right in the middle row, PR man Jerry Doggett, ex of WRR and, after his stint in Dallas, the longtime voice of the Brooklyn…
Admit it: You forgot all about Michael Laurence Browne, the gentleman who led police on a slow ride through Dallas — right by Unfair Park HQ, no less — before landing on the Love Field Airport runway a couple of months back. Browne, charged by Dallas Police with a laundry…
As I wrote last night, Dallas County’s new elections website is a marked improvement over versions past — from precinct maps to mail-ins breakdowns, it contains all the details a wonk could want. So, then. After the jump a few of the more relevant color-by-numbers, including looks at the Rick…
This is just in from the Dallas Police Department concerning a home invasion that occurred last night, not far from W.W. Samuell High School. Long story short: Even if you think the bad guys, who’d committed their crime dressed in police uniforms, have returned to the scene of the violent…
Feels like since-forever ago we posted Jun Kang’s extraordinary State Fair of Texas short film. But, no — ain’t even been 24 hours. Shortly after, a good friend of the show suggested we take a look at Jun’s mini-feature on the Greenwood Cemetery, the entrance to which is at McKinney…
And speaking of the city of Dallas’s parks …No doubt you’ve forgotten all about the August 19 save the date sent by the city — an invite to this weekend’s first-ever Dallas Parks Stakeholders’ Summit at the Music Hall at Fair Park. Hence, the just-sent reminder that follows, in which,…
Hadn’t thought of the former Dallas Mavericks center in years — certainly, not since his retirement from the National Basketball Association in 2005. Who knew the way-too-longtime Mav was running for a seat in the Utah House of Representatives? But, sure enough: “I have been fortunate in life to use…
Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm first suggested selling Elgin B. Robertson Park in mid-May, in a document presented to the city council titled “FY 2010-11 Budget: Brainstorming Ideas.” Wrote Suhm and city staff, money raised from dispensing with the 257 acres on Lake Ray Hubbard — a parcel of land…
Watching the real news some nights has its advantages. Like this gift sure to keep on giving, for instance, which was wedged almost unnoticed at 10:23 in between awkward election-result wraps: WFAA-Channel 8 just ran Rebecca Lopez’s story about how city council member Carolyn Davis might well have interfered with…
It was way back in February that Gary Huddleston, the Dallas market’s director of consumer affairs at Kroger, first made it known he was leading yet another effort to get Dallas all wet and make it possible to buy beer and wine wherever citywide. Nine months later, the treasurer of…
My, my, but the county’s come a long way. Used to be, way back when, us media folks just got occasional updates as precincts’ results came in. No more: Now, as evidenced by the Craig Watkins-Danny Clancy count that just came in with 24 out of 737 precincts reporting, those…
On the other side are details for tomorrow’s Rangers Rally, scheduled for 6 p.m. outside the Ballpark in Arlington. Long story short: Chuck Greenberg, Nolan Ryan, Jon Daniels, Ron Washington and a few players will get together for an hour to remember the “magical” season that was. Because, see, that…
On Friday we took a look at the Texas Park and Wildlife Department’s proposed land swap with Dallas’s Rod Sanders, co-founder of Huntington Homes. The states offering to swap the 20,000-acre Devils River State Natural Area in Val Verde County for Sanders’s 17,638 acres further downriver. Sanders would also take…
Few weeks back we noted: TXU’s setting up electric-car charging stations in Dallas and Fort Worth, and Half-Price Books’ Northwest Highway mothership already has one plugged in. That, right there, is thinking ahead. Because, per General Electric and Deloitte, Dallas is Numero Uno on the list of Best Cities for…
I know, I know — the fair folded up its tents a few weeks back, and today’s thunderstruck gloom renders it an even more distant memory. Still. The fine folks at You+Dallas just posted to the site a remarkable look-back assembled by Jun Kang. Among the contributors is our old…
The gov was here yesterday; Bill White’s in town at this very moment — and, why, at noon he’ll be just down the street from Unfair Park HQ with Eddie Bernice Johnson in tow. Photos forthcoming. Like I need to tell you.But speaking of Perry, whilst he spent Monday at…
Don’t let the empty doorway at right fool you — Leonides Gonzalez Cigarroa M.D. Elementary, home of the Fightin’ One-One-One-Seven, was full of voters early this a.m. ‘Round 8 all the booths were occupied, and a short line was forming behind me; hence the brief wait till space cleared. I…
You remember Brian Dean Miller, right? Sure you do. He’s the 43-year-old Northeast Dallas man who, back in March, posted to Craigslist’s “Rants & Raves” section an item titled “Obama must die.” Among its highlights, reminds the U.S. Attorney’s Office today, he wrote: “People the time has come for revolution…
