A couple of weeks ago, MoneyGram announced it was moving its HQ from Minnesota to Dallas — you remember that, right? And at the time, City Hall said the move involved “a public incentive package” that the city council had to approve — oh, like it wouldn’t. Anyway. Some Friends…
Well, well, well. I just found this interesting clip posted to YouTube this morning: H. Ross Perot giving some Dell Services associates a guided tour of his office — specifically, the myriad pieces of memorabilia he keeps in the hallway outside his santuary. And on the wall, right next to…
“When you are a leader and you make hard decisions, you piss some people off.”–Rick Perry to Politico…
Courtesy Chris Heinbaugh, who’s at far rightNo idea what Jack E. Jett means when he says Leppert’s the “most photographed Mayor in the history of the WORLD!”Right now, you’re probably wondering to yourself: Hey, how’s Mayor Tom enjoying his European vacationtrade mission to Spain and France? Well, from the looks…
The so-called Google Heat MapAt month’s end, researchers from SMU’s Geothermal Laboratory — among ’em, David Blackwell, Hamilton Professor of Geophysics and director of the SMU Geothermal Laboratory — will go to Sacramento for the 2010 Geothermal Resources Council annual meeting. There, the trio will present a much more detailed…
A lengthy list of city officials and stakeholders have been invited to tonight’s meeting in West Dallas called to discuss plans to shut down the Sylvan Avenue bridge for a year to make way for its out-of-the-floodway replacement. No doubt today’s tragic news will be added to the discussion topics:…
Flickr user: sevargmtA Friend of Unfair Park who’s fond of our regular week-ending classic-rock-and-roll-and adios suggests this more recent show for consideration: Rush at The Amphitheater Formerly Known as Starplex on September 26. Fine by me — we’re waiting for some phone calls, so we’ve got a few minutes to…
Sara KerensScott and Mariana Griggs at the “West Dallas Country Club,” otherwise known as their community gardenYou probably forgot all about City Hall’s efforts to regulate community gardens — after all, it’s been about two months since the topic came up at the council’s Transportation and Environment Committee meeting on…
As mentioned yesterday, several of the Dallas County exonerees appeared on CNN’s Larry King Live last night, where they were joined by the stars of the movie Conviction, The Innocence Project’s Barry Sheck and Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins. On the other side you’ll find King’s interviews with several…
Back in November, WFAA-Channel 8’s Byron Harris went down to the Margaret Hunt Hill construction site and discovered it was being constructified by Italians who were brought to the U.S. and A. by Italian steel provider Cimolai without the proper work visas. Nobody, including TxDOT, seemed to mind till Harris…
Before we go any further, click here. You’ll find a picture taken on May 29, 1972, in Arlington, during a Texas Rangers-Oakland Athletics game at what had only months before been Turnpike Stadium. The photo features then-Rangers skipper Ted Williams arguing with home-plate ump Jim Odom over a strike-out call…
Deborah LusterThomas McGowan, who served 23 years for a burglary and sexual assault in Richardson he did not commitTheir names are, or should be, familiar by now, among them: Thomas McGowan, Entre Nax Karage, Johnnie Lindsey, James Giles, Eugene Henton and Stephen Brodie. Certainly, by now, you know their stories:…
The Dallas Police Department sends word: At around 4 this morning, officers got the call that the alarm was going off at Modes Inc., a longtime wholesale jeweler at 2629 Stemmons Freeway. Around the same time, says the DPD, someone walking to and from a nearby 7-Eleven called 911 to…
Pardon this blurry screengrab from one of Heinbaugh’s iPhone videos. Next time I should just go with.(Note to self: Stop. Watching. Baseball.)OK, then. Just received the latest postcard from Chris Heinbaugh, who’s tagging along on Mayor Tom & Co.’s trade mission to Europe. It follows. But long story short: Back…
If you don’t want to miss The Razor, DISH-watchers, might wanna switch services now.Speaking of FOX …By now even non-Dish Network-ers are aware of the ongoing spat between FOX and Dish over carriage fees, which resulted in FOX’s yanking off the Dish its 19 regional sports nets on October 1,…
On Monday, FOX News’s Gretchen “Still on MySpace” Carlson — a former KXAS’er, for those who’ve forgotten and how could you? — reported that the Los Angeles Police Department has ordered 10,000 jetpacks, which sounds totally … what’s the opposite of reasonable? Problem is, as Raw Story and Gawker have…
An hour ago, the Dallas Police Department sent word: Lee McLane, the East Dallas man who’d gone missing three days after his 77th birthday, has been found, and he’s OK. But yet another Silver Alert has just been issued for a 79-year-old man who hasn’t been seen since 5:45 yesterday…
An old Friend of Unfair Park will be skipping work this afternoon to watch Rangers Playoff Baseball — he’s got the note from Chuck Greenberg to prove he, like John Reed, has come down with Red Fever. (It’s after the jump for those likewise inflicted. It’s cute enough.) We were…
Courthouse News has the suit, filed in Delaware Superior Court last week: Five women who worked in Texas Instruments’ Dallas and Santa Cruz, California, facilities allege that exposure to “hazardous chemicals and substances” used to manufacture semiconductors resulted in their children suffering birth defects. Among the mothers’ allegations: There was…
Lee McLaneHis name is Lee McLane, and, according to the Dallas Police Department’s “Endangered Missing Person” bulletin sent to media outlets a short time ago, he was last seen 25 hours ago at his home on the 4900 block of Terry Street, near the S. Fitzhugh Avenue intersection. Says the…
U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Tyler CaswellChief Gunner’s Mate Keith McGinley now has the best Christmas card ever.Been a long time since we’ve posted a word about Jessica Simpson, but first thing this morning, Friend of Unfair Park PeterK sent me the link to a Navy-approved…
There’s no need to recap the recent history of the Oak Cliff Christian Church — that’s all been well-documented here, beginning with the initial December ’09 post warning of its inevitable demise. At this late date I’ll say only this: Last weekend, I was out with the 7-year-old who lives…
