Earlier today, Jennifer Emily noted that Jonathan Bruce Reed was found guilty of the 1978 murder of Braniff Airlines flight attendant Wanda Jean Wadle — the third time he’s been convicted of raping and strangling her in her Northeast Dallas apartment. (Prior convictions — based upon the testimony of eyewitnesses,…
Moments ago, a Friend of Unfair Park directed my attention to the State Fair of Texas’s Facebook page, where 18 old photos from fairs past were just posted. All are worth a look-see; remember the fun we had browsing Nick DeWolf’s stash of pics from the ’77 State Fair? But…
Brett Shipp was among those who attended Jerry Haynes’s funeral Saturday afternoon. The WFAA newsman was accompanied by his father, Bert, who was a familiar face on local television long before his son stepped out of his shadow. Bert and Jerry went way back — they were among the first…
I swear: Every other item today won’t be a redistricting item. Even Anna’s moved on for now: She was out with the Occupy Dallas folks, and her recap of the march to the Dallas Fed is forthcoming. But the Redistricting Commission just made available the map and data packet accompanying…
Don’t know how we missed this scientific breakthrough making the rounds in the last couple of days. Perhaps it was hiding behind sheets of heated-up carbon nanotubes?Those are how you make things appear invisible, according to the work done over the last five years by Ali Aliev, Yuri Gartstein and…
Below, Anna told you all about how fugly it got ’round the horseshoe Wednesday afternoon and evening before the council finally voted, 9-6, to send a new map of districts to the Department of Justice. But many have asked to see the whole debate — or, at least, what happened…
Back in May, at the request of a City Hall worker who’s been staring at the carnage next door for far too long, we peaked into 500 South Ervay and discovered the old Butler Brothers furniture warehouse wasn’t just a 500,000-square foot mess, but also one tied up in litigation…
We had hoped to end the day by telling you which redistricting map the city council’s going to send to the Department of Justice. That will not happen, at least not in the next little while: After Mayor Mike Rawlings took council members Tennell Atkins and Delia Jasso into a…
Speaking of Fair Park …In the wake of its inclusion on the American Planning Association’s list of Great Public Places, several Friends of Unfair Park have asked: How’s that long-proposed plan to open the fairgrounds year-round(ish) coming? And: What about the pending closure of The Women’s Museum?As far as the…
Speaking of President Obama’s visit to Dallas yesterday …Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins was among the D’s who got to briefly meet with the president Tuesday. Which prompted an email sent out moments ago by Dallas County Public Information Officer Maria Arita, in which the attorney-turned-county judge insists not only…
Brent Jackson posted a note this morning headlined: “City Approves Sylvan | Thirty Zoning Application.” Well … technically, no, that’s not true. Nothing’s been approved for Jackson’s controversial mixed-use development at Sylvan and Fort Worth Avenue where the Cox Farms grocery store’s supposed to take root. City staff has, however,…
A Friend of Unfair Park asked this morning: “What’s going on over at Cityplace? Looks like they’re sinking a giant drill bit.” Funny he should ask: Moments ago we got word that today’s doings are related to the installation of three pieces of public art that begin at 7:30 this…
An interesting case, originally filed a few weeks ago in Dallas County District Court, showed up at the federal courthouse yesterday: Victory Park UST Joint Venture I, L.P., v RED Development, LLC, which involves “the development of certain commercial property located near the American Airlines Center.” The plaintiffs are the…
Talk about your good timing: Last night, Dallas City Hall sent word that the American Planning Association yesterday released its list of the Great Places in America, which is divvied into three categories — Great Neighborhoods, Great Streets and Great Public Spaces. It’s the latter with which we’re concerned today,…
Anna, of course, is at today’s council briefing, where, Mayor Mike just said, they’re going to spend the next 90 minutes or so fighting over the three council-submitted redistricting maps. She’ll recap later today — the mayor said they oughta wrap the chat at 11:30, though it could go longer…
Our Sara Kerens was on the Love Field tarmac when President Obama arrived yesterday; revisit that moment via this slide show. Then hop on over to the White House website, where all three of the president’s Tuesday speeches are preserved — not only his Eastfield College American Jobs Act remarks,…
In case you forgot: Faced with a walloping $131-million budget shortfall one year ago, Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm asked police officers and firefighters to take a 2 percent cut in pay. As part of that agreement, known as meet and confer, city officials rewrote the Special Events Ordinance to…
On August 13, a 19-year-old from Grandview named Matthew Allen came to Dallas to go dancing at the Northwest Highway club, off Spangler, called Afterlife. He left there with friendsin an ambulance, and was pronounced dead shortly thereafter — the result, said police, of an ecstasy overdose. Moments ago, the…
Back, by popular demand, is today’s ALDS Game 4 open thread as the Rangers try to finish out the Rays following last night’s epic nail-biter — so nerve-wracking even Nolan Ryan said it was “as stressful a game as I’ve sat through.” Before we get to first pitch, once more…
George Gimarc called the other day, said he’d just been rustling through stacks of paperwork left behind by Brent Stein — better known as Stoney Burns, father of Dallas’s underground press. Stein died in April, and in recent days those trusted to dispose of his estate have been offloading what…
Actually, you probably just want better streets — most of Dallas does. But a Complete Streets PowerPoint prepared for tomorrow’s council briefing, during which redistricting will probably eat up most of the morning, reveals the findings of a Collective Strength survey conducted in August by Promark Research, during which 518…
I’ve yet to make the transition to Kindle; I was reminded of yet another reason why over the weekend, which I’ll explain later. But when a colleague, peeking over my shoulder, saw the news release in the in-box late yesterday — the one from the city titled “Kindle e-book downloads…
