Speaking of traffic … Megan McArdle, former Economist now at The Atlantic, is the latest to take up the issue of a hypothetical high-speed rail line between Dallas and Houston, which ain’t on the government’s to-do list but oh well it’s fun to argue anyway. This morning she more or…

Interesting-ish note from the latest U.S. traffic travel-time study, this one released this morning by something called INRIX: Dallas-Fort Worth, the fourth-most populous metro area in the country, ranks as the fifth-most congested — and despite the slight uptick in travel time, the DFW still dropped one slot from last…

On August 10, when the Dallas City Council met to discuss City Manager Mary Suhm’s budget proposal that gut services and employees to make room for a $190-million budget shortfall, the city’s chief financial officer, Dave Cook, warned that next year’s process will be even more painful. He said that…

I’d never get anything done if I got Dallas City Channel 16, where it’s always must-see TV. Take this week’s programming schedule: Dallas Executive Airport: You Are Cleared to Land!, Dallas’ Sustainable Skylines and Budget, Finance and Audit Committee Replay. And, of course, there’s this week’s fall-season premiere: a Very…

Here’s another early peek at the Dallas City Council’s briefing agenda — this one concerning the list of projects, major and minor, the City Manager’s Office is proposing to pay for out of the bond sale scheduled for May 2010. While we pore over the details for future Unfair Park…

On Friday, Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm informed Mayor Tom Leppert and the Dallas City Council, via memo, that the city’s getting around $3 million in Clean Cities stimulus money to, among other things, “enhance fueling infrastructure, retrofit city vehicles and assist in the provision of training for alternative fueling.”…

And not tomorrow. Or next month. But soon. You see, back in June, several Friends of Unfair Park were awfully tickled by the city’s proposed efforts to lure retailers to downtown — if only because the wish list included H&M, which gets as close as St. Louis or Las Vegas,…

Couldn’t make it out to the West Dallas “dreaming session” Saturday, but someone else did: Angela Hunt, who brought along her camera for these photos of what looked (and sounded) like an interesting-ish meet-n-greet. Hunt’s cutline commentary is worth a peek too — like here, where she writes of the…

On Wednesday, the Dallas City Council will consider a proposal from the Code Compliance Department that would force owners of single-family rental properties to register with the city. Far as the city sees it, there are myriad benefits to such a stipulation — chief among them the guesstimated $2 million…

Those with blank walls and no Saturday night plans had best take note: Kettle Art down in Deep Ellum’s the site of The Whole Show tomorrow, a silent auction during which … lessee if I counted this right … 47 artists will be selling off their works to the highest…

I had Karl Zavitkovsky, head of the city’s Office of Economic Development, on the phone this afternoon, so I asked him for a couple of updates per several Friends of Unfair Park’s requests piling up in the comment box. After the jump, a word from developer Larry Hamilton as well…

Long story short: Since March 2008, the Texas Attorney General’s Office has been investigating precisely how well the city of Dallas is taking care of the park properties and money left to the city by physician and philanthropist W.W. Samuell. In March of ’09, we first caught wind of the…

Three months ago we were introduced to Brad Oldham and Brandon Oldenburg’s Traveling Man sculptures, which will greet Dallas Area Rapid Transit light-rail riders as they enter Deep Ellum in coming days — Green Line media ridealong is Tuesday, as a matter of fact, in advance of the “Super Saturday”…