Those in need of a little light reading this Saturday morning will find on the other side the stack of heads-ups sent to the city council last night, the highlight of which will probably the proposed budget amendments offered by council members before Monday morning’s briefing and straw vote. And…
Just got off the phone with the great Bud Buschardt, for whom I had a question about something I never knew existed, which we’ll get to tomorrow. At which point Bud, a longtime WFAA man teaching RTVF at UNT, told me a few other things. Then, he said: “You know,…
Last week the LBJ Express folks were kind enough to provide us with this crude but nevertheless edutaining look at how traffic patterns were going to be shifted in advance of the pedestrian walkway boom that wasn’t, not yet. But this weekend, they insist the Monfort bridge demolition will take…
Forget what I just wrote below about council members turning in their redistricting amendments by 5 p.m. today. I just got a call from someone at City Hall informing me that, no, that deadline was just changed — at the request of the mayor’s office. The Redistricting Commission office confirms:…
A curious tale involving Highland Park Middle School, two UT Southwestern docs, a 362-page novel and a whole bunch of underage kids allegedly depicted as doing things they shouldn’t oughta just hit Courthouse News. Read it for yourself. Long story short: The mother of an unnamed HPMS student (identified only…
Turns out, Mayor Mike Rawlings isn’t the only council member considering submitting an amendment to the final redistricting map sent to council. Last night I was told at least five other council members are planning on offering their own suggested alterations by today’s 5 p.m. deadline, among them Vonciel Jones…
A Friend of Unfair Park asks this morning if we’ve gotten our hands on the Dallas Stars bankruptcy docs, which were filed, as expected, in a Delaware court at the end of the day yesterday. Why, as a matter of fact: On the other side you’ll find a Tom Wolfe…
In May, you no doubt recall, longtime Washington Post education columnist Jay Mathews put the Dallas Independent School District’s School of Science and Engineering at Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Magnet Center at the very top of his list of the best public high schools in the country. In the video…
What you see here, courtesy his Twitter account, is Jonah Hill throwing out the first pitch at yesterday’s Chicago White Sox game at US Cellular Field. When we spoke a little while ago at his Uptown hotel, he insisted: The stands were empty because it was a day game, and…
Thanks to Anna’s unswerving dedication to documenting the entirety of the redistricting process, I’ve become addicted to the proposed maps that may or may not decide council districts for the next decade. So too has Mayor Mike, who may turn in his own amended map tomorrow by 5, the deadline…
The Dallas Video Festival, now in its 24th year, makes it bow September 21 with a screening of Jean-Luc Godard’s Film Socialisme at the Texas Theatre, which will be immediately followed by a sequel of sorts to Richard Linklater’s Slacker. The full schedule’s here, and, of course, we’ll have more…
The high-rise standing at 1607 Main Street looks nothing like the one built on that very spot in 1909, when it was known as the Praetorian Building — “the West’s first ‘skyscraper.'” Architect Clarence C. Bulger’s 15-story building, once an ornate, golden-hued tourist attraction, was gutted and stripped bare in…
Last night, Dallas County spokesperson Maria Arita sent word: Toni Pippins-Poole has been named Dallas County Elections Administrator, thus removing the word “interim” from her title. No doubt, longtime observers of county politics aren’t stunned by this news. They will say, well, sure, it was inevitable, even after County Judge…
Perhaps you recall: On the night of December 22, 2009, American Airlines Flight 331 crash-landed in Kingston, Jamaica. The Boeing 737-800, inbound from Miami during a storm, overshot the runaway and came within feet of sinking in the Caribbean. The feds told Channel 8 that “the plane may have been…
Got a cryptic email yesterday that said someone from Dallas Fire-Rescue would speak to the council today (“if he is allowed”) about changes to DFR mentioned in the city manager’s budget. Those should ring a bell: A couple of months back we looked at concerns over plans to shuffle some…
Many of those Lower Greenville specific use permits approved by the City Plan Commission came before the city council today, which is why Bruce Richardson, repping a coalition of neighborhood associations, was perched at the podium for the better part of the last hour, saying nice things about some applicants…
No doubt you recall where you were at the exact moment Leon Lett cost the Dallas Cowboys a Thanksgiving Day victory over the Miami Dolphins in 1993. Me? I was icebound in Farmersville, cooped up with out-of-town family convinced it would be just fine to drive up to Collin County…
A little while ago, in this item below, Mike MacNaughton posted a link to this freshly minted release from the Texas Education Agency, which leads with the good news: “Texas has experienced a huge increase in the number of college-bound minority students who take the SAT college admissions test.” At…
Brantley espied that giant check you see at right during his tour of the Dublin Dr Pepper bottling plant a few weeks ago; turns out, it was just seed money. We just received word that in order to keep pace with Plano-based Dr Pepper Snapple Group, which is suing the…
Come Friday downtown Dallas will be short around 30 parking spaces. They’ll be spending the day instead as tea gardens and 50-foot-long “trails” and public reading “rooms” and teensy-tiny soccer fields and bocce ball courts and other community spaces — think park, not parking. There will be music too, spread…
At some point this morning, Anna will be along with her account of last night’s Sylvan Thirty town hall, which, by all accounts, was civil enough. After that, you probably won’t read much about the proposed mixed-use development catty-corner from the Belmont, where the old Alamo Plaza Hotel Courts once…
Earlier today, when word broke that Donna Micheaux was out the door as the Dallas Independent School District’s chief of schools, I asked Jon Dahlander if there was Official Comment concerning the surprising departure. Because it is surprising, at least on the surface: Micheaux, who was appointed chief administrative officer…
