Late last night council member Angela Hunt posted to her blog a note concerning the vote in favor of the convention center hotel. Therein, she extends the olive branch and vows to make ‘er work, because, well, that’s what 43,382 people demanded:The voters of Dallas have spoken and settled the…
With 510 of 534 precincts reporting, and the convention center hotel now looking more like a sure thing — it’s 42,433 for, 40,484 against — Pulle reports that it’s all hugs and fist bumps at The Loft at Gilley’s. Says Matt, Mayor Tom Leppert was just spotted giving Mayor Pro…
Waiting for the boys to call in, as no doubt the mood’s shifted at both The Loft at Gilley’s and Tucker on Ross Avenue just a bit. Because, with 427 of 534 precincts reporting, the margin’s grown wider in the pro-hotel faction’s favor: 39,506 (51.28 percent) who voted for the…
With 252 of 534 precincts reporting, Mayor Tom Leppert’s got to be breathing a little easier — at least, for the moment. Dallas County Elections is reporting that the Vote No side has 30,056 votes, for 50.44 percent of the vote. CATOH can count thus far 29,535 votes. Which means…
Perhaps Carol Reed was right about closing strong: With 79 of 534 precincts reporting, the Proposition 1 race is only getting tighter — separated by a mere 207 votes now. At the moment, the pro-hotel faction has taken the teensy-weensy lead with 22,481 votes, or 50.23 percent of the vote…
Contrary to what’s been reported elsewhere, the Citizens Against the Taxpayer-Owned Hotel party at Tucker on Ross Avenue is, in fact, open to the press and public. Matter of fact, not only is Merten on hand for the gathering, but so too are KXAS-Channel 5’s Ken Kalthoff and Trey Garrison…
Merten and Pulle are out; Schutze is about. They’ll offer their reports from hotel shindigs pro and con — and, just maybe, some council member throwdowns — later in the night, as Dallas County Elections begins kicking out returns from the day’s vote. But till then, the early-voting results are…
In mid-April, Larry North filed suit against Henry S. Miller Interests, which is looking to sell Highland Park Village, and Charter Holdings CEO Ray Washburne, who’s looking to buy the National Historic Landmark. As we noted back then, the complaint stems from a dispute over a lease extension: North, whose…
After pestering would-be voters in the West End last week for their opinions on Proposition 1, Megan and Patrick headed over to Fair Park yesterday to see how folks were feeling about the city getting into the convention center hotel business. Patrick’s video’s here; Megan’s wrap-up follows. If nothing else,…
So, the powers-that-be at Levinson & Hill took note of the fact we done run out of Star Trek tees and sent over more — specifically, 73 smalls, 34 mediums and 20 larges. So, yeah, you’re in luck, especially those of you who yesterday requested the Spock hair shirt after…
Unfair Park had two visitors this morning: Enrique Hubbard Urrea, consul general for the Mexican Consulate on Stemmons Freeway, and Jesus Contreras Cantu, the consul of media affairs. They stopped by to address the lawsuit we mentioned yesterday in which the consulate is referred to as “a ‘lawless’ world where…
Edwin “Bud” Shrake, the Fort Worth native and former Dallas Times Herald and Dallas Morning News sportswriter, died this morning in Austin at the age of 77. He wrote a lot of essential books, including the best-selling sports tome of all time, but longtime fans will fondly recall his Willie…
Since November, a Dallas attorney with a familiar last name has been at odds with Facebook over its decision to allow Holocaust-denial groups to post to the service. The story’s generated some heat in recent days, culminating today with this CNN story in which Brian “Brother of Mark” Cuban, who…
Dallas Observer art director Alexander Flores was out and about last night — at the Target on Northwest Highway and Skillman Street, if you must know — and spotted this message scribbled on the window of a Land Rover Discovery. (Which reminds me: Time to wash off the “Seniors ’86!”…
Several good Friends of Unfair Park have big plans to attend Tuesday’s real-estate confab at the Hilton Dallas Lincoln Centre: the first-ever North Texas Realty Symposium. The schedule seems to cover all comers, with bold-faced panels planned for residential, retail, lending, commercial and apartments — and Schutze’ll take particular interest…
Clint Barlow got to Dallas City Hall way too early today — 10:30 a.m., hours before he was set to plead his case to the City Plan Commission. Still, though it may have taken a while before Barlow spoke to the commissioners about his efforts to re-open Trees, the wait…
Maybe you saw something in the paper last week about two Starck Club docs in the works — the one we mentioned that sneak-peeked at the USA Film Fest, and another being cooked up by AFI Dallas International Film Fest artistic director Michael Cain with club founder Blake Woodall. Turns…
Far as you know, I will not be at DFW TrekFest this evening, which beams up ’round 6 in Grand Prairie. But, come Saturday morning, you may well find me at the recently rebranded Cinemark West Plano (formerly the Tinseltown), where they’ve gone … extreme! Which is to say, Star…
Couple of days back, the National Football League announced that 16 so-called “legacy games” would be played this season in honor of the American Football League’s 50th anniversary. One of those games takes place in Kansas City on October 11, when the Dallas Cowboys play … the Dallas Texans. In…
Friend of the show Leslie Halleck is a horticulturist of some renown who chronicles her “Adventures in Urban Organic Gardening…” on her blog GrowLively. She’s also general manager at North Haven Gardens and a veggie test-gardener for Organic Gardening magazine. Add all that together, and that’s how she wound up…
If nothing else, attorney Larry Friedman’s petition filed yesterday in Dallas County County District Court — a class action lawsuit in which four Dallas County residents and one living in Monterrey, Mexico, allege “corruption and greed” at the Mexican Consulate on Stemmons Freeway — is a great read. Dig it:…
A couple of weeks back we learned that United League Baseball would be setting up shop on the shores of the Trinity River, in the very same 60-acre spot where Irving-based JPI abandoned its own ambitious plans. So happens that at 3:30 p.m. today, ULB co-founders John Bryant and Byron…
