Back to the animal shelter for a second …One other thing interim assistant city manager Joey Zapata and I touched on briefly yesterday was an item on the council’s agenda for next week involving the lowering of adoption fees at Dallas Animal Services. Because right now, it’s kinda pricey for…
A few days ago I was offered at a rather reasonable price a small but estimable stash of local relics, dating as far back as a thick, musty scrapbook of 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition newspaper clippings that belonged to Otto Herald, its general manager. (We’ll get to that, oh, next…
For now, at least, you can forget about the city spending an additional five figures to study the Dallas Wave, which Schutze calls in this week’s paper version of Unfair Park “the unbelievably screwed-up man-made kayaking rapids” in the Trinity River. No doubt you recall: A few weeks ago the…
The following is an excerpt from the Beat poetry of Michael Woolman of Lincoln, Nebraska, available in a complaint filed in Dallas federal court yesterday. He claims he checked in to Baylor for tonsil and sinus surgery, and left with an unexpected gift. Punctuation and spelling remain unchanged.I was in…
When first we noted in March that Wendy Russell Reves’s only child, Arnold Leon Schroeder Jr., was suing the Dallas Museum of Art and former UT Southwestern president Kern Wildenthal, it was, for a moment, Big News — big enough, even, for The New York Times. Schroeder, of course, is…
Straight off, City Hall spokesman Frank Librio would like us to clarify something he told Anna yesterday: It’s not that new Dallas Animal Services director Jody Jones isn’t ready to handle media requests, as we noted, it’s just that she’s “focusing on operations at the moment and not handling media…
A good Friend of Unfair Park who knows of my fondness for Johnny Cash and the old Big “D” Jamboree — and those magical moments when they meet on a piece of paper — was kind enough to send along this Columbia/Legacy press release issued yesterday, which says that come…
Several Friends of Unfair Park, including a grumpy one below, have asked if we’ll make mention of Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fisher’s speech given in Midland yesterday. Sure, absolutely, happy to. Because, first, I’m a big fan of Fisher’s — anyone who mentions…
Of the myriad lawsuits involving the city, Doug Moore v. City of Dallas et al is among the most expensive — and getting a little more pricey all the time. This case, for those not keeping score at home, has already cost the city $2.5 million, paid to the state…
No doubt you heard the radio spots in which they promised to “settle your credit card debt for pennies on the dollar without filing for bankruptcy”; no doubt you saw the TV ads in which they claimed you would “truly be debt free in less than 36 months.” From 2005…
What do you need to know about this video sent out by the Dallas Police Department? Well, let’s see. The stick-em-up in question took place yesterday at around 5:25 in the morning at the Exxon TigerMart at 2503 Lemmon, which is right off of N. Central Expressway. And, per the…
Couple of days back, in this poorly written item, we looked at LBJ Infrastructure Group’s proposed change to the design for the LBJ Express — at least the section of sunken managed toll lanes originally designed to run beneath the Dallas North Tollway. Spokesman Andy Rittler also noted a new…
Got an email this morning from City Hall that Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson would be stopping by for a “a special ‘thank you’ event for her many years of service on behalf of the City and citizens of Dallas.” Alas, we couldn’t make it; too busy filling out scholarship applications…
Anna’s gotten to know the city awfully well in a very short amount of time — that’s what sitting through every single redistricting meeting will do to and for you. And she was there for four hours last night, even though she’s got a cover story due, like, now. And…
Speaking of flow control …On the other side you’ll find a letter that Juanita Wallace, president of the Dallas branch of the NAACP, sent to Environmental Protection Agency Region 6 chief Al Armendariz in which she decries the city’s proposal that would force all solid-waste collectors to dump their trash…
Not so very long ago it looked as though Paul Quinn College on Simpson Stuart Road might not be long for this world, following the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools’ decision to yank its accreditation. Appeals were made; lawsuits, filed. And the entire time, president Michael Sorrell stood firm,…
Went to look for something on the Dallas Independent School District’s website … only to discover that the DISD has a new website. Trustees got a sneak peek Thursday; it went live moments ago, turns out. It’s certainly a nicer shade of blue than its predecessor. And, I see the…
Three months ago we looked at a plan to bail out Denton’s beleaguered Golden Triangle Mall, which just last year fell into foreclosure and went up for auction. That plan: Give The MGHerring Group (developer of The Village at Fairview and The Village at Allen) and Cencor Realty Services (an…
In November of ’09 we were introduced to St. Louis-based housing developer McCormack Baron Salazar, which was hired by The Real Estate Council to take a long, hard look at potential for development along the DART Green Line in Fair Park-South Dallas and the piece of the Blue Line that…
What you see above is the second part of a Dallas Mavericks history-of posted on RetroMavs, the team’s official throwback site, only yesterday. Hunh. Don’t recall Reunion Arena ever being that empty … but I also don’t recall Ollie Mack possessing “NBA-class moves.” Anyway. That reminds me: In about an…
Anna’s out working on a piece about horrific animal cruelty involving dead livestock found just south of downtown; how … lucky? But back to yesterday’s piece about that mutilated kitty. Here’s what Dallas Police Department spokesman Sgt. Warren Mitchell has to say about those legs found in the yard of…
Not so long ago we looked at Noah Jeppson’s plan to map out the downtown tunnels — which he did get funded, with $30 to spare. But Jeppson, a designer and downtown denizen, has found yet another way to brighten up downtown — by turning 20 metered parking parking spaces…
