Ed Wallace Drives Into Health Care Debate

In his latest Business Week column, KLIF’s Ed Wallace documents the case of “Judi, a news assignments manager for a Dallas TV news operation,” who went to see several docs and specialists as she began experiencing “creeping numbness across her upper right abdomen.” She was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis –…

I Remember, Way Back in ’96 …

Ah, and speaking of local nostalgia … An old Friend of Unfair Park just sent me a link to Michael Pyeatt’s YouTube page, to which he’s been posting in recent days clips from the likes of Funland, Bedhead, UFOFU, Tripping Daisy, Tablet and Rumble performing at such late, great local…

Back to Azle, Where the Nachos Grow Cold

Maybe you saw Janet St. James’s story last Thursday on WFAA-Channel 8, when she visited that Tarrant-Parker Counties bordertown known as Azle to find out what-the-what was up with that “Hispanics Keep Out” sign. The folks over at Guanabee followed up with a weekend item, including a video you’ll find…

I Remember, Way Back in ’81 …

Out old pal the Red Oak Kid has been posting to his Flickr page a bunch of photos of downtown Dallas from the late ’70s and early ’80s, including this one of the old Dallas Public Library on Commerce Street (attached to the Statler Hilton, natch). For some reason, they…

Who Would You Cast as Tom Landry?

I ask only because this morning, Variety reports that ESPN and the National Football League are collaborating on a biopic called Lombardi — you’ll never guess who it’s about. Notes the trade, the film about the Green Bay Packers coach will be released in theaters the weekend before the 2011…

KTVT’s Got Itself a New UHF Signal

Last week came word that KTVT-Channel 11 had gone to the Federal Communications Commission to get a new frequency following the digital transition. And why was such an emergency petition necessary? Because, according to KTVT docs on file with the FCC, the local CBS affiliate “has received thousands of complaints…