A Friend of Unfair Park passes along The Wall Street Journal’s latest look-see at how well the big carriers handle passengers and their luggage, and per the annual Middle Seat survey the two locally based airlines don’t do so well when it comes to getting your bags to your destination…
A couple of months back we noted that as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s $115-million EV Project, which will spend a few years analyzing if and how much folks actually charge their rides, San Francisco-based ECOtality will be plugging in electric vehicle charging stations at a handful of…
On Tuesday Mike Byrd provided us with his high-speed, first-hand account of how, along a rural stretch of Mississippi highway, the sheriff there used his .40-cal Sig Sauer to shoot out the tire of a fleeing Steven Milam, the Tyler casket salesmen better known as the “Handsome Guy” Bandit who…
Seems like only three weeks ago Sam Hurd was just another former wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys who was on his road to journeyman status, which, in his case, ran through Soldier Field. Then it was revealed: Even before his acquisition by the Chicago Bears, the San Antonio native…
For the last several months we’ve watched construction crews buzzing up and down the scaffolding erected in Webb Chapel Park, on Cromwell between Royal and Marsh. We knew what was coming: the latest “art” pavilion, one of many funded with ’03 and ’06 bond money (speaking of). Per the recently…
City Manager Mary Suhm reminded the council, again and again, by way of introduction: Today’s presentation on the 2012 bond program is very, very, very, very preliminary. There will be many more meetings, including February confabs in every district. The numbers are rough, very rough — guesstimates of guesstimates. The…
Before the city council comes back from lunch-time recess for some Bond, 2012 Bond talk — a belated Christmas miracle! — allow me to direct you to City Hall’s annual post-holiday gift: the 2012 calendar, so I won’t be the only one who knows when Quality of Life Committee meetings…
We ended the year by lamenting City Hall’s inability to implement the new Bike Plan due to two speed bumps — the need for public hearings and the lack of money. But we begin the new year with word that for at least one stretch of concrete, money has been…
Below we noted that after his dismal showing in Iowa last night, Governor Rick Perry went back to Austin to pray and fast — so sad. But minutes ago he tweeted this magnificent photo, accompanied by the note: “And the next leg of the marathon is the Palmetto State…Here we…
Word began to spread late last night: Gale Hess, said friends, died two days ago. Cancer is to blame, say those who’ve been close in recent years. Gale was young — young enough to have been first violinist in the W.T. White Symphony Orchestra in 1973, at least. And she…
We were reminded just last week: First Presbyterian Church plans not only to install a recording studio inside 508 Park Avenue, a nod to the building’s storied history as one of only two spots where bluesman and myth Robert Johnson recorded the music that serves as rock-and-roll’s backbone, but to…
We’re about four hours away from finding out who won those long, hard-fought caucuses in Iowa, which Rick Perry is trying like holy hell to win based on the newly minted video you’ll find on the other side. It’s quite the stars-and-stripes-and-church-cross spectacular — like something Jerry Bruckheimer might have…
By now you’re probably aware that the so-called “Handsome Guy” Bandit wanted in connection with close to a dozen bank robberies in and around Dallas is actually one Steven Milam, according to authorities — a Tyler casket salesman, no less. And at this very moment, he’s in Jackson County, Mississippi,…
It was something we heard an awful lot from City Hall in 2011: We expect that to be funded in the 2012 bond program. City officials said it about the Elm Fork Soccer Complex, expanding the Cotton Bowl to keep Texas-OU in Dallas past 2015, implementing Complete Streets and addressing…
Reports out of Japan this morning had Yu Darvish visiting Arlington today — why, they do not say. ESPN Dallas’s Richard Durrett reports the pitcher and his pops and their peeps are here “to take a look at the area and get a better sense of the Texas Rangers organization.”…
I met Friend of Unfair Park Noah Jeppson for breakfast this morning and traded him a bagel for a stack of his maps to the downtown tunnels; I got the far better deal. Way back in June, you may recall, we noted that Jeppson was attempting to kickstart efforts to…
Radioactive-waste-burying, Rick Perry-money-giving, Swift-Boating Harold Simmons begins his new year with a federal lawsuit brought by a shareholder in LBJ Freeway-HQ’d Titanium Metals Corporation, where Simmons serves as chairman of the board — the same board also named as defendants in the suit dropped off Friday at the Earle Cabell…
Channel 11 had a piece last night about the breastfeeding mom and the party of 12 greeted by a New Year’s Eve stray bullet coming through their bedroom ceiling. That footnote, as you’ll no doubt recall, was part of DPD’s crime-stats round-up yesterday. Today we get the DWI numbers, which…
Speaking of the Dallas County Commissioners Court (or at least I was, to myself, since you’re probably doing something far better with your last holiday-break day off) …Late last night Cecile Fernandez sent word that she wants to replace back-to-BBQ Maurine Dickey as the commissioner for the new-look District 1…
Twice in November the Dallas County Commissioners Court approved requests from reality-TV crews to film inside the county jail — first from Brits bearing 3D cams, then from the National Geographic Channel. But tomorrow, Dallas comes to Dallas County: Per the commissioners court agenda Warner Horizon Television, which is behind…
We all knew it when we saw it, with 14 seconds to go in the first half and the Dallas Cowboys down 21-0 to the New York Giants: That Sunday Night Football shot of owner and general manager Jerry Jones, his head buried in his hands, would become the defining…
The Dallas Police Department sends word this morning: It guesstimates 30,000 turned out for last night’s Big D NYE in Victory Plaza, otherwise known as the Dallas Stars’ post-game party that filled a few hours of Channel 8 airtime in between all that Dick Clarking. And while DWI numbers aren’t…
