Whilst trolling the Dallas ISD’s website last night, I noticed that the district has posted its 2012-2013 District Improvement Plan, a 21-page look at all that ails DISD and offers general fix-its to accommodate its myriad needs. And needs there are: The word appears dozens of time over a handful…
Scanning the city’s inscrutable bids website this morning in the hopes of finding that not-there-yet Dallas Farmers Market RFP, I came across this instead: a 102-page request for proposals from the Dallas Police Department, which is looking to significantly step up its arsenal of video surveillance cameras. As in: Just…
This morning, Pat Boyack asked if I’d heard, if it’s true: Had Tim Schuller died? Then, later, came the confirmation, via Buddy Magazine’s Facebook page: “Sad news as long time friend and Buddy music writer, Tim Schuller has passed on. We want to wish his family and close friends our…
By now you’re no doubt well aware that Monkees lead singer Davy Jones died today at the age of 66 following a heart attack. His bandmates have each posted their goodbyes: Peter Tork, Micky Dolenz and Mike Nesmith, the Monkee with deep Dallas roots.The Thomas Jefferson High School graduate didn’t…
Noticed on PACER this morning something that’s gone unnoticed since its filing at the end of last week: That heated lawsuit pitting Dallas County constables against the Dallas County Commissioners Court — the one involving allegations of retaliation and corruption, the one that dragged everyone in and out of federal…
I called Dallas Independent School District spokesman Jon Dahlander early this morning to see if that lone, anonymous teacher’s call for a leap day of protest went answered by his peers. No, says Dahlander in a statement just dispatched from 3700 Ross. Not at all:The percentage of Dallas ISD teachers…
When the U.S. Attorney’s Office unsealed the indictment yesterday alleging that Dr. Jacques Roy spearheaded the largest healthcare fraud in the nation’s history out of his DeSoto office, they revealed that in 2010, he dispatched recruiters to The Bridge downtown. Their mission: pay homeless Medicaid beneficiaries $50 a pop to…
Daniel opened up DC9 this morning with his thoughts about last night’s intimate Tim DeLaughter-Jon Anderson two-fer at the Kessler, which really was something special — so much so that DeLaughter and Anderson swapped emails by night’s end for a down-the-road collaboration, to which Anderson refers toward the end of…
We began the day on the bridge, we end the day on (OK, near) the bridge — this time with one of Justin’s photos compiled for the Margaret Hunt Hill slide show you’ll find here. It was either this or this: from the Library of Congress’s archives, a 100-year-old photo…
Sunday’s supposed to be my last day ’round here, but I just may stick around till Monday. The reason: The just-posted agenda for Monday’s meeting of the council’s Economic Development Committee promises that Karl Zavitkovsky, head of the city’s Office of Economic Development, will walk council through a PowerPoint titled…
Calvin Beckton, a former band teacher at Boude Storey Middle School, is serving a 10-year stint in the TDCJ’s Fort Stockton Unit for the 2008 sexual assault of a 14-year-old female student to whom he’d often given rides home in the past. He was sentenced in September, after prosecutors proved…
Speaking of the assassination of John F. Kennedy …For a long while now we’ve written about the ongoing fight between the city of Dallas and Jane Bryant, owner of the decaying apartment complex on 600 Elsbeth near Bishop Arts where, in 1962, Lee Harvey Oswald and wife Marina briefly lived…
We received a release this morning from the U.S. Attorney’s Office inviting us to a noon-thirty press conference at the Earle Cabell, at which time U.S. Attorney Sarah Saldaña, Deputy Attorney General James Cole and a host of other federal officials would address “a major health care fraud enforcement action.”…
Had a couple of readers ask late yesterday: Why no mention of tomorrow’s maybe-could-be-probably-not Dallas ISD teacher “sickout,” which a single anonymous teacher’s calling for? To which I responded: Well, I’m not sure it’s going to be much of one, despite lingering resentment over last month’s vote to increase workdays…
Love Field-based Southwest makes it easy to check in early: Pay the carrier an extra $20 for a round-trip flight, and as soon as the early-bird check-in line opens, some 36 hours before take-off, you’ll get a boarding pass in the much-coveted Group A. Which isn’t guaranteed, mind you, but…
Peter Burks, as you can see here, was the very model of The American Hero: a Trinity Christian Academy and Texas A&M graduate (he was also president of Pi Kappa Phi) who, after stints working for, among others, the Dallas Desperados and FC Dallas, decided to join the U.S. Army…
A technical glitch (on my end, I guess — sabotage?) kept me from listening in on Dallas Arboretum president and CEO Mary Brinegar’s presentation to the council’s Quality of Life Committee this morning. Shame too, as her chat this morning was City Hall’s first real chance to hear all about…
At the end of last week we glanced at those surveys conducted during those citywide Complete Streets workshops put on by City Hall beginning last fall, input from which will go toward the manual Sustainable Development’s hoping to put together before year’s end. Some of which, incidentally, will be covered…
Back in the fall of 2010, the city’s garage-sale permit fee, then just a proposal, raised quite the ruckus — so much so, you may recall, Neil Cavuto told Dwaine Caraway during a FOX News appearance that, well, “it just looks desperate” during a segment titled “Garage Sale Gouge.” At…
On the final day of 2011 — “a slow Saturday” — Don Merritt drove from Dallas southwest to Dublin. He used to make the 120-mile trek all the time and figured on this day he’d grab some footage in addition to some sugar-cane Dr Pepper. “We shot tours,” he says…
Been saving this one for today: February 26, the day John R. Cash was born in Kingland, Arkansas in 1932. It’s a keepsake from Cash’s last-ever show in Dallas: March 15, 1997, at the Majestic Theatre, with June Carter Cash by his side. Johnny had hoped to hit the road…
Contained within the stack of memos the City Manager’s Office dispatches to media every Friday night was the one you’ll find below from Assistant City Manager Ryan Evans, who gets an assist from Ed “The” Netzhammer, managing director of the downtown Omni. Say both, no doubt whilst hoisting stiff brown…
