Six paragraphs into this Burnt Orange Report item this morning, which deals with the dwindling number of reporters covering State Capitol doings, there’s this intriguing nugget:Sources say publishers and editors have ratcheted up their efforts to come up with news while cutting staff. Additionally, word that Austin investment guru and…
Back in April, GlobeSt.com crunched the Dallas apartment-rental numbers and found that vacancies were on the rise; said one analyst at the time, “Dallas is likely to see the most decrease in occupancy, due to the large number of units under construction.” Three months later, GlobeSt.com follows up and finds…
Those who haven’t been following the latest iteration of the Texas-Oklahoma rivalry will find a good primer here this morning, three days after Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson asked a federal judge to toss the Tarrant Regional Water District’s 2-year-old lawsuit concerning Texas’s alleged right to buy water from Oklahoma…
After the jump you’ll find KXAS-Channel 5’s video tribute to Brett Johnson, the 13-year station veteran who died Sunday at the age of 48. The NBC affiliate reports that Johnson — whose affinity for Texcentric tales made him the station’s down-home-style version of Bob Phillps — died of pancreatitis, for…
Couple of weeks back, Patrick Michels was down at DART’s West End Station when sculptor Erik Blome parked his bronze Rosa Parks in advance of tomorrow’s opening. But on Saturday, Patrick was down in the West End for Taste of Dallas and noticed that Parks was covered by a tarp…
I did not know Travel Channel host Samantha Brown was born in Dallas. And I did not know she’d filmed an episode here till this evening, when, while killing a few minutes with a World Poker Tour rerun, I spied a promo for tonight’s visit to the DFW scheduled to…
Karen Rayzer, director of the city of Dallas’s Environmental and Health Services, called this afternoon to offer further details concerning the $7.2 million in federal stimulus money the city’s set to receive sometime in the fall. Says Rayzer, 14 local organizations submitted to the city proposals that had to fall…
Schutze is out of the office, no doubt freshening up his deep, dark tan for his forthcoming television appearance, about which we were just notified by Meg Fullwood at KERA. As she does every week, Meg sent along the programming schedule for next week’s Thinks, both the radio and teevee…
At least, it’s looking that way. On Monday, the Landmark Commission will discuss the installation of a scoreboard opposite the towering HD screen that looms over the south end zone. It’s all but a done deal: In the few weeks since the proposal of a 17′-by-29′ scoreboard in the north…
A Friend of Unfair Park wondered earlier this week what had become of the Institute for Creation Research’s federal lawsuit filed in April against the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, in which the Dallas-based organization claimed the THECB violated its constitutional rights when it refused to grant the ICR’s request…
Yesterday, U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan announced that HUD would be doling out $1.2 billion in stimulus funds to some 400 cities, who’ll use the money to “to rapidly re-house families who fall into homelessness, or prevent them from becoming homeless in the first place.” Of that…
That Cheap Trick eight-track cartridge Stephen Colbert was holding up last week? Made in Arlington. Hand to God. By mom-and-pop’s KTS Productions, to be specific — though you’d never know it from reading recent stories concerning Cheap Trick’s expensive gimmick, which’ll set you back $30 should you pre-order a copy…
The latest issue of The Economist contains a special section about Texas — six stories in all to down with your morning coffee: “Lone Star rising,” “Tex-mix,” “Work hard. Be nice,” “Beyond oil,” “The red and the blue” and “The new face of America.” (Guess which of the handful leads…
Ah, and speaking of bad drivers …Dallas residents go 7.2 years between car wrecks, not counting high-speed chases. Says so right here, in the Allstate America’s Best Drivers Report™, on which Dallas doesn’t fare terribly well when it comes to smash-’em-ups. Out of the 200 cities ranked, Dallas comes in…
After the jump you’ll find dash-cam footage provided by Dallas County constables from the June 29 car chase through Dallas, Richardson and Garland, during which Shane Michel captivated a nation for a good 90 minutes. KDFW-Channel 4 got hold of the video and ran some highlights; one can only imagine…
A few hours from now, Dallas Video Festival co-founder and UT-Arlington film prof Bart Weiss will get on a plane for Pakistan — Karachi and Lahore, to be more specific. He will do there what he’s done here for more than two decades: show movies and teach anyone willing to…
How anxious are Dallas, Fort Worth, Irving and Arlington about attracting conventions this year? Anxious enough to band together to create a coalition, in conjunction with the Hotel Association of North Texas and American Airlines, to offer deep hotel and transportation discounts to groups willing to travel and meet here…
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the Iran student protests, which is why the Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran and the Iran Society plan to rally outside the Earle Cabell Federal Building on Commerce Street. What time? Not sure. They only told the Associated Press “midday.”MoveOn.org is…
The University of Texas at Dallas sends word this morning that researchers there, working in conjunction with a Plano-based call center support company called Working Solutions, there have come up with software previously believed to be unattainable: “a tool that could sense your anger in a customer service call and…
Those who keep up with the educational journal Entertainment Weekly are well aware of the drama surrounding the sixth season of Project Runway — mostly, how litigation between the Weinstein Co. (which produces the show and was taking the series to Lifetime) and NBC Universal (which owns Bravo and didn’t…
The thunderstorm that just passed over Unfair Park HQ left behind what’ll be known as the most-photographed rainbow in office history. No doubt a co-worker with a camera better than mine (first-gen iPhone, so sad) captured a more spectacular photo than this stitched-together panoramic taken from the publisher’s office. Till…
Pete’s got the details concerning Paul McCartney’s just-announced August 19 performance at Jerry Jones’s EnormoDome in Arlington, I think it is? But, really, if you know anything about me, you had to know this was coming: the Beatles’ interview with WFAA’s Bert Shipp during the band’s September ’64 visit to…
