This just in from City Hall, a reminder: In exactly one month, drivers stopped for traffic violations who can’t prove they have insurance will find their rides getting a free trip to the Dallas Auto Pound. (The return trip will, of course, cost ya. And them some.) Right now, the…
Tomorrow, don’t be surprised if you start hearing radio ads advocating an open-carry policy for handgun owners with the proper permits. The folks behind OpenCarry.org are attempting to get some spots on the Dallas-Fort Worth airwaves in which they demand the Texas Legislature allow folks to wear their pistols in…
Friend of Unfair Park “Peterk,” who two weeks back brought to Life these old photos of Dallas, sends word of the latest and greatest in confusing time-killers: Boundaries. (Click the image above to enlarge Dallas’s boundaries.) It’s the brainchild of English Web developer Tom Taylor, who’s dipped Flickr’s geotags into…
Schutze has already mentioned what a big fan he is of the Raptor scanner recently installed at Dallas Independent School District HQ on Ross Ave., along with a handful of other district campuses. The point of the device, which scans a person’s driver’s license before they’re allowed in the building,…
Things haven’t been good in the fast-casual dining business for a long while, as the slowdown in the semi-fancy burger biz started well before The Artist Formerly Known as the Economy went into the crapper — right, Bennigan’s? Today, CFO magazine looks to see what’s on the menu in coming…
In today’s breaking news about the scarcity of kosher beef around the country, this local connection: Dallas-based A.D. Rosenblatt Kosher Meats, run by COO Yaakov Rosenblatt, has had to up its production to meet the meat demand, going from three days a week to five. Also contained within the piece…
The day before Thanksgiving, Kansas-based Ash Grove Cement Company filed a suit against, among others, the City of Dallas, claiming that the city’s desire to go green will take the green right out of Ash Grove’s wallet. The lawsuit, which also names Plano and Fort Worth and Arlington and Tarrant…
The bleakest of Black Fridays at a New York Wal-Mart, where a temporary employee was trampled to death by bargain-hunters who didn’t so much as slow down while rescue workers tried to save the man’s life. Not so savage a scene at a Dallas Best Buy, where the Associated Press…
What you see at top is the apartment structure at 104 S. Edgefield in Oak Cliff — or what remains of it, following a fire in 2005. Twice the city has tried to demo the building, for obvious reasons; it’s the very definition of what staff calls “an imminent threat…
Two weeks ago Plano-based Dr Pepper Snapple Group reported a third-quarter drop; right, who didn’t? Said Sgt. Pepper Larry Young on November 13, “Without a doubt, this is one of the toughest environments the beverage industry has faced in many years. With disposable incomes falling, consumers are thinking harder about…
On Wednesday, the same day it was reported that H. Ross Perot lost a bundle in a real-estate assets hedge fund now absent its assets and funds, Stephen J. Dubner put out the call: Who’s got questions for Ross Perot? The co-author of Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden…
For a brief moment, we considered getting up early to check out the Black Friday scene — and Steely Dan’s as far as we got. (And, for those in actual need of actual information, this compendium of online sales, sales, sales!) But former Observer-er Ann Zimmerman, now at The Wall…
As I mentioned earlier, Ed Bark has retreived from the Wayback Machine this Thanksgiving must-see, which comes courtesy some YouTuber named “turkeybowler,” who rolled this strike back in June. As we’re trying to hustle out most of next week’s issue in advance of some holiday tomorrow, seems only fitting that,…
The missus reports this afternoon that the Preston Royal Shopping Center is getting a new tenant, according to the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission private-club permit application hanging in the window of the former Gap Kids in the Border’s parking lot. The name on the handwritten application: “Taco Mundo,” which surely…
Uncle Barky breaks the bad news: The great Brad Hawkins, long a favorite of ours, is leaving WFAA-Channel 8 on Christmas Eve. Why come? He’s taking a public relations gig at Southwest Airlines. Really? Really: “I’m at a crossroads in terms of opening myself to new challenges and new skills,”…
Kristen Hayes at the Houston Chronicle writes today that there’s something eerily familiar about Dallas-based Blockbuster’s, um, blockbuster (?) announcement yesterday concerning its new $100 box that allows for on-demand rentals. Has to do with a turn-of-the-millennium deal between Blockbuster and Enron — yes, that Enron — which held hands…
Just to see what’s open and what ain’t these days, Texas Watchdog’s Jennifer Peebles sifted through a stack of November 12 rulings handed down by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott’s office concerning open records requests. Today, she posts the results.About half of the opinions concern requests generated from the Dallas-Fort…
Gather the kiddies ’round the warm glow of the computer monitor: The Jonas Brothers were on CNN this morning! And they were sitting on the field at Texas Stadium, where, tomorrow, they’ll perform during halftime of Cowboys-Seahawks to kick off the Salvation Army’s Red Kettle Christmas charity campaign. Incidentally, this…
Wonkette this morning ran an e-mail from a Texan who wants to secede from the Union — what else is new, right? The reason for the missive, which lays out the ways in which the great state will survive all by its lonesome, thanks very much? Writes the mysterious Hotmailer:…
DISD school board trustee Carla Ranger Took her a few days for her to respond, but, at last, Dallas Independent School District trustee Carla Ranger has posted a lengthy essay concerning the school board’s Thursday-night vote to extend the trustees’ terms from three to four years. Ranger, who’s already called…
Stories like this are why we’ve opted for the Termibot. Hell of a way to kill bugs. Courtesy Courthouse News Service this morning comes this story out of Plano: Laura Grant is suing Terminex in a McKinney courthouse, claiming that in March of this year a termite inspector named Mark…
Yup, says so right here on CQ Press’ 2008 City Crime Rate Rankings: The fine, fair city of Allen’s a Top 10’er when it comes to safety among 385 cities in the country — and not far below, why, you’ll find the likes of Frisco (at No. 16) and Plano…
