This morning’s USA Today visits cities “revisiting immigration laws” for various reasons: exorbitant legal bills, the high price of implementation measures and “the barrage of publicity and accusations of racism that come with such laws.” Up in Denton County, Oak Point city council member Judith Camp says she voted against…

Terrell Bolton’s gone — to DeKalb County, Georgia, where, for now, he’s still police chief — but he’s definitely not forgotten. For that matter, he isn’t really gone: Bolton’s family still lives in Dallas, and here’s where Dallas’s ex-top cop spends all of his off time. Which is one reason…

According to the city of Dallas’s Office of Emergency Management’s Web site, “The City’s outdoor weather warning system has 94 sirens that alert people who are outdoors to seek shelter in the event of a tornado.” Had to double-check this morning, following two rounds of siren songs last night: at…

It’s got to be the ultimate celebrity time-waste: Forbes has compiled and just posted a list of more than 1,400 “working actors” ranked according to their “Star Currency.” And this was no easy task: Notes the magazine, a survey …… was sent to entertainment industry members globally asking them to…

View Larger MapBeen a loooong time since we’ve written about Derrick Mitchem and his proposed Motorsports Museum across from Fair Park, in the old Bama Pie building. Been no reason to: Last I looked, oh, three weeks ago, the place looked just as it has for years and as you…

Mayor Tom’s got plans at 7 tonight: He’ll be at Zubar on Lower Greenville spinning stacks of wax on the wheels of steel under his DJ name MCEO (that’s Patrick “Buzz” Williams’s joke, for better or worse). That, or he’ll be meeting with the Dallas County Young Democrats to discuss…

Wrote Schutze in last week’s paper version of Unfair Park: “A petition drive under way right now in Dallas calls for a citywide election on tax subsidies from City Hall to developers. I’m amazed I’m not for it. … I’m getting a really bad odor.” Also against it: Mayor Tom…

[Update: At 2:14, Angela Hunt sent word that the council will likely postpone voting on this one more time. She’s about to meet with developer Craig Hall to discuss “how we’ll ensure the building is integrated into the Arts District.]At the end of January, the Dallas City Council was scheduled…

Mentioned a couple of months back that Elvis Mitchell was in town interviewing T.D. Jakes for his talkumentary The Black List: Volume Two, a sequel to last year’s star-studded Volume One that aired on HBO following its Sundance bow. Volume Two debuts on February 26 — and it’ll actually contain…

As noted here several times in the past, Richard Fisher, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, gives mighty good speech — full of literary references, song lyrics and the assorted accumulated detritus collected in a bright mind. He was down in Houston last night, talking about…

Last night, Mark Cuban posted to BlogMaverick his own version of a stimulus plan: “open-source funding.” Which means? You post a potential business idea to his blog, and if it’s good enough, folks will comment on the idea, build upon it or even steal it — and, just maybe, he’ll…

A good Friend of Unfair Park said we’d be in for a proper scolding if we didn’t mention before day’s end the weekend tree-carving out in the woods of Oak Cliff. Viva La Reunion, but of course, and apologies for getting to this later rather than sooner. Tanya Meurer has…

Winona’s about an hour and a half east of Dallas on a good day — just out I-20, little north of Tyler. Out thataways you’ll find what remains of Camp Fannin, so named for James Walker Fannin and, from 1943 till ’46, an Army infantry training center. Ever since then,…

Word of a would-be CBS-TV series titled Big D has been circulating since last October, when creators Jeff and Jackie Filgo got the high sign from the network. At the time, no further details were available — but as Tim Rogers pointed out over the weekend, The Hollywood Reporter has…

How appropriate: On the very day the Dallas City Council’s Quality of Life Committee will discuss the Arts District Master Plan — or, more specifically, the Dallas Arts District Strategic Assessment and Action Plan — Architectural Record weighs in with an overview of the project due to be finished come…

This morning the Associated Press catches up with Dallas attorney Bill Brewer, who’s leading the legal charge against Farmers Branch’s efforts to keep illegal immigrants from renting apartments and houses in the suburb. Says Brewer, who was recruited into the battle in November 2006 by Adelfa Callejo, “Generating an antagonism…

In 2005, the City of Dallas assembled a list of hot spots (14 major highways, expressways and freeways) to which emergency wreckers were to provide “rapid response” in case of an accident (Page 41, if you must). And since at least 2007, Dallas Police and the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department…