Dallas Area Rapid Transit said yesterday that “for the third consecutive year more than nine out of ten Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) customers report overall satisfaction with the agency.” Most riders surveyed believe the trains and buses run on time and as scheduled, are plenty safe and better than…
Last night, Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle explained why, 30 minutes from now, he will hold a press conference to announce his retirement, effective April 30. After the jump you will find his letter to the department, in which he outlines strides made during his five-year tenure — including policy…
Courthouse News has the complaint, in which Everett Clemmer is going after Zhuoye Lighter Manufacturing Co., claiming that a defect in his son William’s lighter led to his death last year. From the suit, the key paragraph and cautionary tale:On or about April 10, 2008, William Clemmer was working at…
George W. Bush has been spotted quite frequently hanging around the SMU campus since his retirement — grabbin’ a Goff’s No. 2, playin’ a little Frisbee golf in front of Dallas Hall, doin’ a little 2 a.m. backstroke at Perkins Natatorium, the usual. But today, he makes it for reals…
Tomorrow morning, at around 10, Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle will hold a press conference during which he will announce that, effective April 30, 2010, he will no longer be Dallas Police Chief. He has known this day was coming for a while. He told Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm…
View Larger MapJust saw this press release from the Dallas Police Department that contains relatively few details about something called Operation Car Wash, which DPD says has resulted in 27 arrests since warrants were first issued back on September 9. The release catalogs the drugs also seized, and DPD spokesman…
Only a few days ago, Tom Merriman was inducted into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame — the great Ron Chapman’s introduction of the local-radio icon can be heard here. Says Chapman of Gordon McLendon’s former music director, who came to Dallas in 1952, Merriman “shaped the sound of thousands…
Many thanks to the Friend of Unfair Park who directed my attention to the Daily Mustang piece about the long-gone Honest Joe’s Pawn Shop in Deep Ellum — must have been something familiar about the “Herschel Wilonsky” briefly quoted therein that caught this particular Friend’s attention. Figured I might as…
Early on during the FY2009-2010 budget process, City Manager Mary Suhm made it clear: She was going to close most of Dallas’s neighborhood pools — which she did, shuttering next summer all but seven of the 21 operated by the city. There was also much talk of cutting in half…
…. tonight’s your lucky night. Mavs man Matt Miller sends word that just in time for tonight’s face-off against the San Antonio Spurs, Your Dallas Mavericks are launching what the team calls a “first-of-its-kind live game companion designed to enhance the television viewing experience for fans.” Which is …? The…
The Dallas Fed head spoke to the Austin Headliners Club yesterday where, yet again, he boiled down “The Current State of the Economy and a Look to the Future” into language easily understood by those of us who were told there would be no math. The man also manages to…
I’ve learned quite a bit about Ed Malouf this morning — like the fact that all nine of his children with wife Marie, and three of their 23 grandchildren, went to Bishop Lynch, where Ed is said to have literally built the field house with his bare hands while Marie…
Turns out, Blockbuster really doesn’t have much to say about its decision to partner with NCR to test-market those digital kiosks that allow users to download movies to SD cards. Randy Hargrove, the company’s spokesman downtown, called back today only to say that “they’ll be in our stores and be…
The Deep End’s extras casting director sure knows how to butter up the Friends of Unfair Park. Tara Di Leva, from 20th Century Fox, sends word that the ABC series, currently shooting at The Studios at Las Colinas and around town (saw signs around Victory Park yesterday), needs extras for…
… a behind-the-scenester was there to capture the whole thing, from pre-game to big finish. Here’s the formal how-do, featuring Voice of the Dallas Mavericks Mark Followill introducing Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert (who has “instituted many policies that have dramatically improved the quality of life in Dallas,” says the play-by-player),…
Yesterday word started circulating that Elm Street-based Blockbuster had found yet another way to combat RedBox: by offering downloads via SD cards, which users can stick into a kiosk that’s loaded with about 1,000 titles from which to choose. It’s the second time in a little more than a year…
At this very moment, Matt Miller, executive director of the Institute for Justice Texas Chapter, is driving from Dallas back to Austin — only after he made a pit stop downtown to file a federal lawsuit against the city of Dallas over last year’s ordinance that prohibits store owners from…
The director of Clerks and Chasing Amy was in town over the weekend, doing one of his evening-withs at the House of Blues. One local in attendance shot a good hunk of the show, including a bit during which Smith addresses, among other things, why he can’t get Red State…
Back in March, I came across a quite hard-to-find, hand-colored page from the American Architect and Building News from November 21, 1896: the “Dallas Flats,” about which we still don’t know much. A Friend of Unfair Park, recalling that historical gem, sends word of another American Architect page for sale,…
The Institute for Justice — which bills itself as the “nation’s only libertarian public interest law firm” — sends word this morning that it’s unhappy with the city of Dallas’s year-old law that prohibits business owners from covering their storefront windows with signs. How unhappy? Federal-lawsuit unhappy. The suit was…
At 10 this morning, the state Senate Committee on Criminal Justice will have a little face time with John Bradley, the newly appointed chair of the Texas Forensic Science Commission, created in 2005 to see whether Texas should have executed Cameron Todd Willingham in 2004. (Probably not, said the August…
A Friend of Unfair Park asked if I wouldn’t mind mentioning Bill Minutaglio’s appearance at Legacy Books in Plano this Saturday, when the ex-DMN’er heads up north to sign copies of Molly Ivins: A Rebel Life, which he co-wrote with W. Michael Smith. Sure; happy to. Which reminds me: The…
