Truth told I wasn’t aware the state’s vehicle registration sticker was so hideous and hard-to-read. But it is. It is! Hence the new-and-improved version just debuted in Arlington at the Tarrant County tax office, where Texas Department of Motor Vehicles higher-ups gathered to birth with much pride and pomp the…
Early this morning ALDI sent word:ALDI, a leader in grocery quality and value will be dropping its prices on all varieties of its Friendly Farms milk beginning this Sat. (Sept. 18). For the next several weeks Metroplex Area shoppers may purchase one-gallon varieties of milk for only $.99. (Limit 4…
In May 2008 the Landmark Commission’s Designation Committee first took up the topic of W.H. Adamson High School, once known as Oak Cliff High. At the time it was expected that the Dallas Independent School District might have some issues with designation — not only because the district has only…
This morning, the U.S. Census Bureau released its latest Income, Poverty and Health Insurance in the United States report. And while some take issue with how the bureau calculates the poverty rate, the headline are more or less the same: “U.S. Poverty Rate Jumps To 14.3 Percent.” The median national…
Dallas Independent School District’s Facebook pageThat photo above? Comes from DISD’s Facebook page, from Saturday’s launch of “Operation Comeback,” during which Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert and Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa went out looking dropouts. The twosome will reteam this morning at Townview for the launch of “a…
I was on the phone with a Dallas Independent School Board trustee just seconds ago — a trustee, mind you, who had not heard there were reports and a yeah-sure-maybe? that DISD Superintendent Michael Hinjosa’s outta here, possibly as early as tomorrow, to take the Las Vegas gig — when…
Bobbie Wygant Interviews Robert Duvall for Tender Mercies from Atombomb.tv on Vimeo.I could read to you from this stack of press releases for big-deal Thursday happenings (“Boone Pickens, Mayor Leppert, Chief Brown unveil New Jubilee Park Buildings” and “Mayor Leppert, Dr. Hinojosa to launch first-of-its-kind nutrition education program tomorrow at…
Nancy Nichols did a bang-up piece in the August issue of D chronicling the myriad reasons mobile restaurateurs have had issues parking their burgeoning parade of food trucks in and around downtown (parking meters and the need to acquire a seemingly endless laundry list of permits from Dallas City Hall,…
McCarthy Building Company has built plenty of projects around town in recent years — everything from the Wyly Theatre to the W Hotel to the Dallas County Detention Center South Tower to the under-construction Dallas City Performance Hall. To that estimable list add another landmark project: the Woodall Rodgers Deck…
Portland-based urban planner John Fregonese’s name should ring a bell — he’s the guy behind the Forward Dallas comprehensive plan, now in effect four years last June. Saw his name again today in the USA Today: Waco’s done hired him too to create a plan “that includes mixed retail and…
Club Zone… now’s your chance. I was browsing LoopNet this afternoon and noticed that Holliday Fenoglio Fowler is shopping 2200 N. Lamar Steet, which is where Dan Aykroyd helped plant the Dallas House of Blues outpost back in ’07. Asking price is awful steep: $19,120,000 for 61,876 square feet that…
Last month we took a long, hard look at FOX’s The Good Guys, with Friend of Unfair Park Howard Wen offering a few suggestions how Matt Nix might improve the hour-long set-here-shot-here cop comedy starring Bradley Whitford and Colin Hanks. It returns a week from Friday in its new time…
Jose AyalaLate last week the Dallas Police Department sent word that a passerby had discovered decomposed human remains in a field in the 10000 block of Van Dyke Road, near White Rock Lake. Early this morning, the department said it had identified the body as that of Javier’s popular general…
Last October we got our first look at the new-look Dallas Police Department black-and-whites. And while some Friends of Unfair Park didn’t much care for ’em, the department’s fleet manager said: Tough, everyone else does.One Friend of Unfair Park with a good, strong memory points out this morning that, hey,…
Two months ago, TXI made a big deal out of shutting down four wet-process cement kilns in Midlothian — a move hailed by Jim Schermbeck, head of Dallas-based Downwinders at Risk, as “the culmination of a 21-year fight that began in 1989 by a group of residents who found that…
Click to embiggen for a look-see at what the Garland Road Vision visionaries envision, per today’s council briefingGoing on four years now, residents and stakeholders along and near Garland Road — at least, the stretch of Texas State Highway 78 between Interstate 635 and where it splits into Gaston and…
Tom CaseyIf that Los Angeles Times piece at the end of August is to be believed, Elm Street-based Blockbuster should be filing a prepackaged bankruptcy, oh, any day now. Question is: Does the latest bit of big news outta Renaissance Tower suggest Chapter 11’s forthcoming sooner than later? In a…
SMU and the Department of Defense are already partners on that paper-thin camera straight outta 1984 by way of Minority Report. Now the Hilltop sends word of its latest DOD partnership — a $5.6-mil Neurophotonics Research Center that’ll be run by Marc Christensen, electrical engineering chair in SMU’s Lyle School…
So, back on Wednesday, when it was, ya know, raining, more than a few Friends of Unfair Park wondered: Why, whenever it rains, does the city’s Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge construction-cam revert to a dry, sunny day — in this instance, August 29? I asked Frank Librio at Dallas City…
Below, Andrea’s still liveblogging today’s tax-hike showdown at City Hall — and Dwaine Caraway just wrapped up his prolonged, passionate north-vs.-south speech, which was accompanied by a video presentation filled with boarded-up, burned-down houses and trash-and-weed-strewn lawns in the southern sector. At some point today the council members will also…
Barry KoodaAs I was otherwise occupied yesterday, my wife and the 7-year-old who lives in our house made it over to Oak Cliff for the Blues, Bandits and Barbeque wingding, from which our own Kevin Todora returned with this slide show. But the weekend’s event also marked the return of…
Some killer filler this early a.m. before the showdown at City Hall: Speaking of: Ann Margolin has posted to her website “10 Reasons Why a Tax Increase is a Terrible Idea.” (And by “terrible,” I assume she means terrrrrrible. Anyway.) Margolin, of course, is among the handful of council members…
