Seems like we were just here, hashing over the city’s budget. But as you may have read — and may have guessed — FY2009-10 is already shaping up to be a) lousy, b) godawful, c) yech or d) all of the above. Which is why, at this morning’s Dallas City…
A short while ago, Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle concluded a press conference, carried in its entirety on KDFW-Channel 4, concerning the death of Senior Corporal Norman Smith, pictured at right. Smith was an 18-year veteran of the department — his anniversary would have been tomorrow — who was killed…
We began the day with Angela Hunt; might as well end the day with Angela Hunt. Because only an hour ago, she Twittered some interesting news, as you can see from the photo at right. She offered further enlightenment when reached by Unfair Park this evening: Yes, indeed, the National…
Ever wondered what the abandoned vault beneath the old Federal Reserve Bank on 400 S. Akard Street looked like? Swell. Because HTML pioneer and blog-advice guru John Pozadzides took some folks from GeekBrief.tv on a tour, and, in return, they offer this video worth a look-see. –Robert Wilonsky GeekBrief.TV #486…
In June 2007, Jim Keyes took over as chairman and CEO of Dallas-based Blockbuster Inc. — after having been president and CEO of 7-Eleven Inc., for which he’d worked for years. And now, the circle is complete. Because last summer, Blockbuster announced that it would be installing in its stores…
Dunno, maybe I shoulda gone into the burger biz — still time, I guess. Because while there’s a Carl’s Jr. on damned near every block in Los Angeles, there are only three in the Dallas area — and just one in Dallas proper, at 8800 S. Polk Street. But today…
Twice today I’ve been asked about several posts on The Latest Word, one of our sister blogs out of Denver, referring to layoffs and pay cuts taking place throughout the Village Voice Media chain. The Dallas Observer, of course, is among the 15 papers in the chain, formerly known as…
Speaking, as we were yesterday, of Ole Miss-Texas Tech (sorta), David Sanderson was kind enough to provide us with this panoramic farewell snapped during the final Cotton Bowl Classic ever to be played at Fair Park. A much larger version can be found here. –Robert Wilonsky…
Speaking of road work, this morning the city council’s Trinity River Corridor Project Committee is discussing, among myriad other items of interest, finally fixing the N. Beckley Avenue-W. Commerce Street intersection, which is narrow, pedestrian-unfriendly and “has a drainage system that is near full capacity,” eeew. Won’t be cheap –…
This morning down in Austin, Texas Department of Transportation Executive Director Amadeo Saenz officially killed the Trans-Texas Corridor. And its place? Say hello to … Innovative Connectivity in Texas|Vision 2009. Which is? Well, let Saenz explain. Projects that had been developed under the heading of the Trans-Texas Corridor will now…
Griffin Bell, Jimmy Carter’s U.S. Attorney General, died yesterday at the age of 90; he’d been suffering from pancreatic cancer in an Atlanta hospital. News of his death has resurrected an old Dallas story — that of Santos Rodríguez, the 12-year-old boy who, in July 1973, was shot in the…
On her blog this morning, city council member Angela Hunt responds to The Dallas Morning News’s New Year’s Eve editorial “Texans to Watch in 2009,” in which it was suggested that Hunt start playing well with others if she wants “a more prized seat at the horseshoe.” She appreciates the…
With a tip of the yarmulke to Deadspin, it says here that last week, Ole Miss fans camped out at the Hyatt Regency Dallas and gulped down three nights’ worth of records at the hotel’s atrium bar. As in: They dropped $26,000 on New Year’s Eve; $27,000 the night after…
To recap: Dallas’s malls are going to hell, and our offices are empty. So, ah, how’s the apartment-rental business in the DFW? Either awful or godawful, depends who you ask.Says here Dallas has slipped three spots, to the No. 26 position, on a major index that charts national markets’ rentals…
Guess the City of Irving didn’t think much of the Dallas Cowboys’ adios to Texas Stadium. Because, according to this notice sent by a Friend of Unfair Park, Irving’s reserved the joint for yet another farewell: Mayor Herb Gears’s State of the City Address, which’ll take place January 15. And…
After the jump, SMU professor of economics and prophet Ravi Batra’s five-point plan for fixing the U.S.’s busted economy. No doubt, the sixth point of that plan involves writing books about the busted economy, then sending out press releases promoting one of those books exactly two years after its publication…
There’s some kind of football contest on the television tonight. But for those not in a Longhorn state of mind, this programming option courtesy KERA-Channel 13: Tonight’s Frame of Mind, which airs at 10 p.m., will feature a series of shorts about Deep Ellum, among them Alan Govenar’s Deep Ellum…
Guess we’d best get used to it — probably gonna need to come up with a “The Bush is Back” category or somesuch. Till then, though, this sneak peek at the soon-to-be-ex-president’s plans for his return to Dallas at the end of the month:President George W. Bush’s “after-life,” as Laura…
Friend of Unfair Park “Peterk” forwards along this item from this morning’s National Review Online, which excerpts a Friday story from the Financial Times concerning the “law of unintended consequences” created by smoking bans — like, ya know, the one the Dallas City Council passed two weeks before Christmas. Writes…
Malls are lacking tenants; so too are offices. And, says this morning’s New York Times, it’s going to get worse — even in a market like Dallas, “which had been shielded from the economic downturn until recently by skyrocketing oil prices and expanding energy businesses.” One real-estater quoted in the…
Some days I worry about Avi Adelman’s safety. This video, shot at 2:30 a.m. yesterday on the mean streets of Lower Greenville (ya think?), shows why. NSFW, as always. Incidentally, there’s some exciting cop-on-drunk action in this video Avi also shot over the weekend. Side note: Avi, why have you…
See what I did there? “Appealing”? As in, the City of Dallas, still trying to get its hands on the Neches River water, is sending attorneys to New Orleans this week — luckies. Specifically, the barristers will be setting up shop in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (there ya…
