Two sports items with which to begin your Friday, starting with the news that the NBA’s looking into comments Mark Cuban made earlier this week to CNNMoney’s Poppy Harlow concerning his interest in LeBron James. That’s the interview in question above. But, in short: Was the Mavs man tampering by…
Perhaps you saw the story: At 8 a.m. Monday, a Dallas Area Rapid Transit bus driver noticed a body lying along the Clark Street sidewalk just beneath the overpass where North Central Expressway becomes the Woodall Rodgers Freeway. The body was eventually identified as that of 24-year-old Baxter Odom, whose…
So, speaking — or shouting — of bicycling in Dallas …A couple of weeks back I mentioned that on May 27, the city and the North Central Texas Council of Governments are holding a 2011 Dallas Bike Plan Open House from 5 to 8 p.m. at Dallas City Hall, during…
At this very moment, Sam’s at the inaugural meeting of the Love Field Concessions Committee, and never have so many been so concerned about the selling of food, drink and magazines at an airport. That said, I finally spoke with Sylvia Ross, the vice president of compliance and contracts at…
Right about now Progress Dallas’s peoples are at Dallas City Hall dropping off the petitions it says will most definitely trigger a local option election allowing Dallas residents the opportunity to vote for drenching the dry parts of town in beer and wine. Progress Dallas says it has way more…
Entertainment Weekly has taken a look at the early numbers for last night’s sneak peek at FOX’s shooting-here series about mismatched Dallas police detectives (Bradley Whitford and Colin Hanks) and concluded that so far, so so when it comes to eyeballs. “An inauspicious start” is how Lynette Rice characterizes the…
The Park and Rec board’s meeting at the Dallas Zoo today — appropriate, since the highest-priced item on today’s agenda involves the Dallas Aquarium at Fair Park, scheduled to reopen in September as The Children’s Aquarium at Fair Park under the privately operated auspices of Dallas Zoo Management Inc. per…
This morning’s New York Times wonders: How much longer can Fort Worth-based American Airlines limp along without merging with another airline, a la Delta-Northwest and, more recently, the proposed United-Continental union? AA, which held a “sparsely attended” shareholders meeting in New York yesterday, is in danger of becoming the nation’s…
Everything you need to know about the lawyer-on-lawyer lawsuit pitting former Baron & Budd attorney Gary Cruciani against Russell Budd and his namesake firm you’ll find in this April 21 story in Texas Lawyer by John Council.But, to recap: Cruciani alleged that in 2006, Baron & Budd made “negligent and…
So. Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway just called. Like, just.Said he just sat down to read Unfair Park and noticed that item wherein Mayor Tom Lepperts’s consultant Willis Johnson says he met with Caraway a few weeks ago to discuss concessions at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.Caraway says that most certainly…
Got home from the Rangers-Angels game last night ’round 11ish only to find two Oncor trucks parked on the street behind the house. Seems they’d been called to emergencarily trim trees in the power lines causing sparks to shoot high into the night sky. Which is funny: I’ve been up…
A Friend of Unfair Park asks that we take a long look at this item posted a few days ago to the legal-eagle blog Above the Law: “SMU Will Pay You To Hire Their Graduates.” You read that right: The SMU Dedman School of Law has started a program called…
Shortly after I posted this morning’s item about the Love Field Concessions Committee meeting, I got an e-mail from a Friend of Unfair Park that contained what you’ll see after the jump: an Official City of Dallas Lobbyist Registration Form submitted on April 13 by Willis Johnson — local…
Daniel will be along shortly with notes from an Avi-free meeting last night of Lower Greenvillians, but till then, here’s an update concerning Tuesday’s post about the charred ruins formerly known as Terilli’s, Mick’s, Greenville Bar and Grill and Hurricane Grill. I finally spoke with Robert Miller, the attorney repping…
Late last night, Dallas City Hall finally posted the briefing docs for tomorrow afternoon’s debut performance of the Love Field Concession Committee, formed after Mayor Tom just said no to those no-bid contracts on April 28. And, no wonder it took forever to get online: Sucker’s 72 pages not including…
I’ve known one or two folks who’ve had kind words about Madison Avenue — especially the patio, with its expansive view of downtown. And Friend of Unfair Park LaceyB sends word today that she’s always been fond of Liar’s Den, home of “a fair-priced beer in Uptown.” But all of…
A little while ago, Chris Heinbaugh, Mayor Tom Leppert’s chief of staff, sent word that the mayor won’t be distracted by faraway matters. Far as he’s concerned, what happens in Arizona stays in Arizona. That said, the blog’s all yours, Mr. Mayor:”Through most of its recent history, the Dallas City…
Maybe, maybe not. OK, probably not. But while I was on PACER this afternoon hunting down something unrelated, I thought I’d see if there’d been any resolution in the ongoing legal brouhaha involving Royal Lane-based Institute for Creation Research and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. For those in need…
Mayor Tom had busy morning: At 7:30 a.m. he dropped by the Annual North Dallas Chamber Membership Breakfast at the Hilton Dallas Lincoln Center, where he addressed the looming $131.1-million budget shortfall and said, hey, could be worse: “With all the challenges we have on the budget, there are many…
Just a heads-up: A few minutes ago, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent word and posted this press release noting that tomorrow morning, it’s planning to picket the Dean Foods shareholders meeting at the Dallas Museum of Art — and picket it hard.As in: Sure, they’re bringing signs…
Sam’s at the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee meeting — lucky! (Too bad he don’t liveblog like Andrea.) But whilst on the subject, let’s look ahead to next week’s council meeting, when the city will finally move forward on a project that been years in the making: construction of the…
FOX has been sneak-peeking The Good Guys all over town in recent days — at the Lakewood Theater Sunday, at a cast-and-crew viewing party last night — in advance of its early-look tomorrow night. Early reviews have been good: Entertainment Weekly’s Ken Tucker gives it a B-, but writes “it…
