Still watching that Dallas Independent School District trustee meeting; it’s torture, man, torture. (Four hours after kick-off, we still haven’t gotten ’round to the budget or campus consolidations.) Like, here: The board has spent the last 40 minutes talking about next school year’s calendar. Shouldn’t have taken that long. Except…
We began the week with the broadcast version of Your Reigning World Champion Dallas Mavericks’ visit to the White House to deliver President Obama his jersey. Moments ago, I see, the White House posted this nice little look behind the curtain starring Dirk, Jason Terry, Coach Carlisle and a decidedly…
Just returned from a funeral to find the Dallas Independent School District board discussing 21 ways to get better candidates down to 3700 Ross and how to restructure human resources — which, I know, sounds boring on the surface. But this is the so-called Star Employee Commission’s report to the…
From time to time the city will post to Lone Star Auctioneers some of the finer offerings being sold out of the City Store, where there’s always a bargain to be had. This week, I see, Richard Matthews is making available, among other curious (four “SelfCheck Checkout Stations”), an assortment…
At 1 today the Regional Transportation Council will discuss the doc you see below: the 132-page report finished last month as part of the so-called Cotton Belt Corridor Innovative Finance Initiative, which the North Central Texas Council of Governments touts on today’s agenda as “a thorough investigation of potential innovative…
The Dallas Independent School District board has much on its plate at today’s briefing, the first of the new year: that look-see at the coming year’s budget, a report on efforts to close 11 schools to save $11 million, a peek at how that under-construction teacher evaluation system is coming…
If you have but a single can or bottle marked “Dublin Dr Pepper,” don’t open it. It’s a collector’s item as of this very moment. That’s because as of 5 p.m. today there is no more Dublin Dr Pepper: From here on out, per a settlement agreement just announced in…
Below you’ll find one Dallas Area Rapid Transit customer who won’t be so upbeat if he’s ever asked to fill out a rider satisfaction survey. But that’s only because he’s at Lew Sterrett right now, after having been arrested last night for assaulting a public servant, a felony offense. And…
The American Library Association Midwinter Meeting’s set for January 20-24 at the Dallas Convention Center, so you know what that means: Thousands of librarians, publishers and authors will be checking out the city for a few days. Perhaps the city can find someone amongst the bunch to lead the Dallas…
The video’s been making the rounds all morning, first on Busted Coverage, then Deadspin, then everywhere else. Question is: Who owns those beards sitting with the Dallas Mavericks in Detroit last night? The Mavs’ front office said: Dunno, ask Mark Cuban. So I did: “No idea,” he wrote back. But…
On Monday the council’s Transportation and Environment Committee took up the subject of setting up electric vehicle charging stations at several city facilities, including City Hall and the downtown central library. For the most part the committee was on board with the initiative, which includes putting three electric trucks in…
One week ago today, during council’s chat about the coming bond program, the subject of the UNT Dallas College of Law came up: Angela Hunt wanted to know when the university would take over the old Municipal Building, at which point City Manager Mary Suhm reminded the council, “They’re a…
There’s no need to introduce Bill Holston — attorney, KERA contributor, nature-trekker — to longtime Friends of Unfair Park; he’s one of the good ones, and has been for a long, long while. But Bill’s about to disappear from these virtual pages, at least for a little while; he writes,…
In the end, the timing was perfect: The rain, scarce for far too long, had moved off but not before topping off the Trinity River just enough so that it resembled an actual river — roaring, even, almost mighty. The clouds remained, and the glare from an ever-illuminated downtown gave…
Justin Terveen’s already taken his place on the west side of the Continental Avenue Bridge for tonight’s lighting of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, set to begin glowing at 6:15, give or take. He says it’s filling up fast, no joke. I’m about to head that way myself; why not…
That photo you see at right comes from the F.B.I.’s Bandit Tracker website, which we’ve perused in the past. It was snapped June 14 of last year at a State Bank of Texas branch in Garland, off IH-30. The bandit in question: 19-year-old Anthony Blue of Garland. Which we now…
There’s a book on the subject: The Catch: One Play, Two Dynasties, and the Game That Changed the NFL. I refuse to read it. Or even link to it. Five years ago, Chris Berman recalled the moment for ESPN. Won’t watch that either. Al Michaels narrated this piece about how…
Feels like three years since last we hopped into bed with Fellowship Church’s senior pastor and resident sexpert Ed Young, who’s been selling his religious sexperience since giving thanks for network morning talk shows in November 2008. But now, via the miracle of the Associated Baptist Press, we find this:…
Last month the Dallas Independent School District officially dedicated George Herbert Walker Bush Elementary, the Addison campus funded by the 2008 bond program. The affair was populated by pols, Ross Ave. administrators and educators, but at the 3:37 mark of the video just posted by the district the man for…
After a few weeks off, the city’s Gas Drilling Task Force gets back at it today at 2. The agenda’s short and sweet — “Develop Recommendations for Gas Drilling and Production Regulations” — but the process has been anything but; initially, you may recall, the group was to turn in…
Below is the 2011 Customer Satisfaction Survey dispatched this morning by Dallas Area Rapid Transit in advance of today’s board meeting. Long story short: Despite some issues with the transit agency — longtime riders think the buses are getting shabby, passengers don’t feel there’s adequate notice of service disruptions, there’s…
Back on November 30, our cross-the-street neighbors at Heritage Auctions dispatched a celebratory missive headlined: “Apollo 13 checklist brings $388,375 at Heritage Auctions in Dallas.” (Note to self: Time to clean out in-box.) But if you check Heritage’s website, the listing for the historic artifact, kept by Jim Lovell during…
