Until the feed goes down, you can watch the DISD board of trustees meeting, which just began. Superintendent Michael Hinojosa has just begun discussing “the process” whereby the district will find its missing millions. “It’s not quite finished,” he said, but that “brings us to the end.” Recommendations are forthcoming…
Hurricane Ike has decimated the Gulf Coast’s seafood industry, which will come as no surprise to anyone who’s tried to order an oyster in recent days. Fisherman have been left jobless; distributors have been left without stock; and restaurants are stuck trying to find seafood from faraway places. And it…
But, seriously, who’ll be his running mate? Randy Galloway? The BBC News blog Talking America today has an interview with James Meredith, the first black student ever to enroll in the University of Mississippi back in 1962. The reason for the interview is that Ole Miss is located in Oxford,…
In case you missed the tale of the woman thrown from a moving car on the Dallas North Tollway over the weekend, it’s right here. And Dallas police have released the surveillance video, because they consider the driver “a person of interest in the case” — really? — and hope…
Moments ago on The Dallas Morning News’ DALLAS ISD Blog, Kent Fischer asked the question, “Can the district borrow to fill the budget hole?” He answered it, as well: Yes, as what’s another million in interest, and just think of the goodwill it’ll buy. Alas, “Trustee Garza told me yesterday…
After the jump, Mark Cuban answers, among other questions posed by Fox New Channel’s Greta Van Susteren, “Is this a good time to buy a baseball team?” In case you were wondering given the state of the economy, about which the Dallas Mavericks’ owner has much to say. –Robert Wilonsky…
The Dallas Independent School District board of trustees will meet twice today: at their 3 p.m. “financial workshop,” then again for their regularly scheduled 5:30 p.m. meeting. It is the former, of course, that’s of most concern today, as on the agenda is Item No. 3, which reads, “Consideration and…
Yesterday, Ed Bark had big news for those who continue to wonder what in the hell KXAS-Channel 5 was thinking when the NBC affiliate opted not to renew meteorologist Rebecca Miller’s contract back in March: She’s going to sub on KDAF-Channel 33’s 9 p.m. newscasts Thursdays and Fridays, beginning tonight…
There’s a whole lotta fucking going on in Choke, Clark Gregg’s adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s first-person novel about a sex addict named Victor Mancini with severe Mommy issues—fucking in a cramped airplane bathroom, on a barnyard’s itchy haystack, in a grimy toilet stall, in a hospital chapel even. There are…
DFW CEO Jeff Fegan Wuh-oh, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport CEO Jeff Fegan. Looks like Mayor Tom wants … an investigation! So says KTVT-Channel 11, which yesterday brought us news of DFW execs and board members’ big-ticket travel, which the airport has defended with this memo. Notes the breaking-news sounder, with…
Judge Harold Barefoot Sanders, being interviewed a few years ago by KERA’s Sam Baker The Big Boss is on his way to Northaven United Methodist Church for the 4 p.m. funeral of Judge Harold Barefoot Sanders, who died Sunday at 83 and whose obituary makes The New York Times today…
In other movie news, the long-in-the-making Christmas on Mars — otherwise known as the Flaming Lips freakout Wayne Coyne’s been working on since 2001 — finally makes its Dallas debut October 17 and 18 at the Inwood Theatre, with two midnight showings. No doubt, this is due in part to…
USA Today has a lengthy interview with Oliver Stone today in advance of the October 17 opening of a little something called W. Clearly, the writer’s seen W, which has yet to screen for critics, and describes it thusly: “The movie portrays Bush as charming, spiritually devout and well-intentioned but…
Jeff Pearlman’s book ain’t got nothing on Thomas “Hollywood” Henderson’s 1987 autobiography Out of Control: Confessions of an NFL Casualty, in which he detailed how, during Super Bowl XIII, he kept that infamous inhaler of liquefied cocaine stashed in his uniform. But much has changed since Tom Landry cut Hollywood…
The Dallas Women’s Foundation today released a study that says, in short, “Women in the Dallas-Fort Worth region are more likely to live in poverty, less likely to own a home, more likely to earn less and less likely to get as far in their careers with equal education than…
Tom Casey, Dallas-based Blockbuster’s chief financial officer, was in New York City yesterday to lay out the company’s fiscal future during the two-day-long Thomas Weisel Partners’ Annual Consumer Conference. And Casey made the case that Blockbuster’s stores, of which there are several hundred fewer today than there were a year…
Speaking of budgets, the Dallas city council will give an okey-doke to Mary Suhm’s $2.7 billion budget today, during its busy council session. And right after the council pushes through its plan to spend money in the coming fiscal year, it’ll OK some plans to increase revenue — among them,…
Sometime in the last couple of days, the Dallas Independent School District added to its Web site a “Dallas ISD Finances” page, where it lays out those pesky frequently asked questions (as in, “How did the figure rise from $64 million to $84 million?”) and offers answers, more or less,…
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport CEO Jeff Fegan, pictured in the back row About a month ago, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport CEO Jeff Fegan acknowledged that the airport’s going through tough economic times like everyone else, thus necessitating a budget freeze and a halt on future expansion plans for the time…
Well, Merten called it yesterday, when he pointed out that Mayor Tom and Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau reps would be making their case for that convention center hotel during a press conference tomorrow that’s unfurling in the City Hall Flag Room smack in the middle of the city council’s…
Last night, I caught a little bit of T. Boone Pickens’ Q&A in front of the National Press Club yesterday. C-SPAN’s got the whole thing, for those with an hour to spare. If not, here’s a highlight, during which the Dallas oil billionaire with The Plan talks about how Democratic…
Kirk Bloodsworth Kirk Bloodsworth was convicted, twice, of raping and killing a Maryland 9-year-old girl in 1984 — a crime for which he was to be put to death. But in the early 1990s, he was released from prison and became, as CNN put it in 2000, the “first prison…
