On the other side is a memo from Mayor Mike Rawlings that just arrived in the in-box in which he tells the council members who’ll serve on which committee. And, no, Angela Hunt did not get the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee chair — that went to Vonciel Jones Hill…
First off, the Dallas Police Department just sent word: “Thanks to multiple viewer tips,” writes Senior Corporal Kevin Janse, officers today detained the man they believe may be the one seen holding up the Exxon Tigermart on Lemmon Ave. with underwear on his head. His last name is Underwood. (Update…
Speaking of the DISD board of trustees’ meeting agenda for Thursday night …Here’s an item of interest: Consider and Take Possible Action to Approve Amendment to Board Policy BJCG (Local) Superintendent Retirement or Resignation (First Reading), which was initially on the consent agenda but has since been pulled for a…
Found this on Vimeo: a nice Nike ad starring a chatty Dirk Nowitzki shot in Würzberg, Germany, his hometown. Hence, perhaps, the stroll down Memory Lane … to the tennis courts, scene of his earliest victories. Ah — this is the same spot Jeff Caplan mentioned this morning on ESPNDallas,…
Drove by Davy Crockett two weeks ago and espied the still-up sign noting that the Dallas ISD was taking bids on the city-designated historic landmark, which turns 108 this year and was the oldest school in use when the district shuttered it in January 1989. We’ve written about the property…
Back in June, the city sent word that it had agreed to hand over to the feds $2.5 million — without acknowledging that, ya know, maybe it did violate the civil False Claims Act and Texas Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act by overcharging Medicare and Medicaid for ambulance rides. Could have…
1402 Rowan Avenue, located just a few blocks from O.M. Roberts Elementary near Fair Park, is on the tax rolls at around $18,000. But that didn’t stop two men — Blaise Hancock of Arlington and Clint Allen of Lewisville — from taking out insurance policies on the property worth a…
A couple of weeks back, City Hall asked residential and commercial customers to voluntarily cut back on watering landscapes — twice a week, at most, if that’s OK with you, thanks. A few days later, Assistant City Manager Forest Turner told the council that we’re actually quite a ways off…
After taking a few weeks off, the city’s Gas Drilling Task Force reconvenes at City Hall at 2 today; lucky Leslie will recap by day’s end. Should be an interesting one: After weeks of tours and overviews and regulation reviews and a public hearing, today the industry will make its…
First, the city of Dallas said it would begin exploring the possibility of selling naming rights to … well, you name it, from city-owned facilities to its vehicles; first on the to-sell list, the Elm Fork Athletic Complex off Walnut Hill. A few weeks later, Dallas Independent School District trustee…
When City Manager Mary Suhm proposed dumping all of the city’s trash at the McCommas Bluff Landfill as a revenue-generating brainstorm last summer, few imagined it would become such a hot-button issue this summer. Because in 2010, the idea came and went nowhere, along with that suggested transportation user fee…
I like that camo draping those wooden picnic tables on the site of the former Alamo Plaza Hotel Courts at Sylvan and Fort Worth Avenue — very M*A*S*H. In recent months, of course, that’s been the site of the Cox Farms outdoor market, a sorta sneak peek at what’s to…
Shortly before 1 p.m., the city council dove into that plan to dry up the city’s 17 pools and replace them with those family aquatic centers — a plan that’s “just the beginning of a plan,” as Park and Rec head Paul Dyer cautioned the council. It’s still going on,…
A little past 7 Saturday evening we stopped by to say our farewells to the Joe Ratcliff Pedestrian Walkway over LBJ Freeway, between Marsh and Webb Chapel, which will be demolished in coming weeks to make way for the extreme managed toll-road makeover. As with the Forest Lane cruisin’ reunion,…
Must be the season for new websites — first Dallas Independent School District, now Dallas Area Rapid Transit. Morgan Lyons, spokesman for the transit agency, sends word this morning: The old URL directs you to a spiffed-up site, where, he writes, “We’ve tried to open the look and put a…
Tags: Gay Video & Lesbian Movies, Logo: Fierce TVBack in April, Logo sent word that come fall it would expand its A-List franchise to include Dallas — but one of several realty series set ’round town, including that Bravo show that airs tonight, which Hunter Hauk is watching over on…
Some time after lunch is when today’s budget briefing ought to get interesting: Not only will the city council take a dip in Paul Dyer’s Aquatics Facilities Master Plan, but it’ll ride shotgun as Assistant City Manager Forest Turner looks at how much it’ll cost to rescue Dallas’s roads from…
The poor Dallas Pedestrian Network, otherwise known as Vincent Ponte’s downtown tunnels and skyways. So unloved, so unwanted — and if you believe the Downtown Dallas 360 plan (not to mention Laura Miller and Mary Suhm and Jack Gosnell), the leading cause of the death of downtown. Hence the closed-door…
After Dwaine Caraway got done excoriating Paul Dyer over the city’s decision to close five pools in the coming fiscal year, two in Caraway’s district, the head of Park and Rec told the former mayor to get used to the idea. Because, look, said Dyer: The city owning and operating…
If you’ve got little to do this morning, and you missed it the first time ’round in the fall of ’09, might I suggest you spend a little time with “The Consummation of Dirk,” penned by Jonathan Callahan, an American living in Japan. “Batshit insane,” declared Deadspin upon its mysterious…
A few days ago an old friend asked: When did Dallas’s reign as country-music comer officially end? Hard to say, officially, though I’ve always pinpointed it ’round May 3, 1956 — when producer Jim Beck died, after he’d been poisoned by the carbon tetrachloride he was using to clean his…
Driving through downtown earlier this week I couldn’t help but notice: First Baptist Dallas is erecting its new downtown campus with remarkable speed. Seems like only yesterday Tom Leppert, Mark Lovvorn and Robert Jeffress were pressin’ The Big Red Button. But according to this nicely done look-see just posted to…
