OK, so after the jump you’ll find all the appendices from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Trinity River Floodway Report — including all the photos and maps and cost breakdowns (“breakdown” being the operative word) you’ll ever need. But below is the letter the Corps sent to the city…
Schutze and Merten are at Dallas City Hall at this very moment, where the city council has been briefed in private concerning the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Periodic Inspection Report of the Trinity River floodway. It’s a massive document consisting of not only the 66-page report, but also 21…
The Collin Central Appraisal District still lists Memphis, Tennessee-based Belz Factory Outlet Mall as the owner of some 43 acres on Shelby Road in Allen, near the intersection of State Highway 121 and U.S. 75. So too do county deed records and the county’s latest tax assessment. The only one…
Before touting today’s AFI Dallas International Film Festival line-up, this heads-up: The Dallas Film Society just sent along the guest list for Friday’s daylong Texas Day event, which kicks off with the free Texasville screening and Peter Bogdanovich Q&A at the Magnolia. Says the schedule we just received, Victory Park…
On Tuesday, Dallas police officer Robert Powell went on KTVT-Channel 11 to apologize to Ryan and Tamisha Moats for detaining them in a Plano hospital parking lot for 13 excrutiating minutes. Powell, placed on administrative leave last week pending a DPD investigation, also insisted he wanted nothing more in the…
Back in June, the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees voted not to name the district’s Ross Ave. HQ for former school board president Kathlyn Gilliam, despite the protesters at their front door. The polarizing Gilliam, who served on the school board from 1974 till she was replaced by…
I saw this mash-up the day it popped up on YouTube a couple of weeks back, but discarded it because, truthfully, every other day it seems like some genius reaches into the pop-culture dustbin to retrofit the Dallas title sequence. But if it’s good enogh for BoingBoing, well, it’s good…
Today down in Austin, more than a dozen former Texas prisoners freed using DNA testing made their case in front of Texas legislators concerning myriad related bills sitting before lawmakers, among them fixing the way victims ID would-be offenders using photos of a live lineup, about which we wrote at…
So, before getting to today’s AFI Dallas International Film Festival quick picks, this locally related film note: Former Dallas Observer film critic and all-round good egg Matt Zoller Seitz sends word that he’s been commissioned by the Museum of the Moving Image to do a five-part online video series breaking…
On Wednesday, the Dallas city council will meet behind closed doors to discuss a host of subjects — among them, pending lawsuits involving the city and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ floodway report. On the briefing agenda, you will also find an item that has been making cameo appearances…
This morning, the Environmental Protection Agency released a list of 62 schools around the country set to have their air quality studied as part of what the agency calls “a new air toxics monitoring initiative.” And there’s a Dallas Independent School District elementary on the list: N.W. Harllee, so named…
Dallas-based Retail Connection has more mixed-use, retail and restaurant properties around the DFW and Texas than you can shake a stick at, if that’s your idea of fun. Which is why GlobeSt.com had its brokerage managing director, Steve Zimmerman, write a piece about the latest trend in real estate: business…
Waaaaaay back in June, Jon Stewart first got the WTF giggles over that Central Kia spot in which a Barack Obama impersonator sells cars at low, low prices. You’ve probably seen the ad plenty since then; in fact, Central Kia — which has locations in Plano, Irving, Carrollton and Lewisville…
Out of 25 U.S. major metropolises surveyed for the just-released America’s Least Wasteful Cities study, Dallas ranks … 24th, ahead of only Atlanta. Some 4,000 folks nationwide participated in the survey, in which they were asked such things as: How long do you shower? How much trash do you create?…
Ryan and Tamisha Moats started off Monday with a Good Morning America exclusive in which Tamisha said she’d forgive Dallas police officer Robert Powell for those excruciating 13 minutes in a Plano hospital parking lot. Then Powell ended Monday with a KTVT-Channel 11 exclusive in which he apologized and said,…
From GMA to NPR, the Ryan Moats-Robert Powell run-in remains the talk of the nation — by which I mean the story’s the subject of this 11-minute Tell Me More story airing on National Public Radio affiliates today. Host Michael Martin interviews at great length Dallas Assistant Police Chief Floyd…
I am none too pleased about how my AFI Dallas International Film Festival schedule worked out for today: Instead of attending the Very Special Screening of Frederick Wiseman’s Neiman Marcus documentary The Store, scheduled for the AMC NorthPark at 4:15 p.m., I’ll be moderating a 5:30 panel about the state…
He’s trying to hold on to his job as top cop in DeKalb County, Georgia — which isn’t stopping Terrell Bolton from also pursuing his wrongful termination claim filed against the city of Dallas. But you know who is putting a stop to it? The Supreme Court of the United…
Dallas Independent School District school board trustee Carla Ranger returned from the superintendent’s weekend “retreat” to post the rules concerning how the board fills a trustee’s seat (i.e., special election or appointment) should he or she leave before a term is up. Among the procedures: “If less than nine (9)…
Earth Hour Dallas from Charlie McRae on Vimeo.Down below you’ll find Justin Terveen’s photos from Saturday night, otherwise known as The Night the Lights Went Out in Dallas … Kinda. Charlie McRae captured the video — very Koyaanisqatsi. McRae too was underwhelmed…
A couple of weeks back we mentioned the findings of The City of Dallas Citizen Survey, recently posted to the city of Dallas’s Web site. The city council will finally get around to hashing over the findings at its Wednesday council briefing session, where the council will also get a…
The Ryan Moats-Robert Powell run-in keeps on running — this time to Good Morning America, where Moats and his wife Tamisha sit down for an exclusive with Robin Roberts, though not before a lengthy recap that includes the dash-cam footage and Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle’s apology. During the course…
