What you see above comes from teeny-tiny type on Page 13 of the proposal we posted below for Mukemmel “Mike” Sarimsacki’s plans for 1401 Elm Street, where he says he intends to build residential, retail and office space where there’s presently 1.3 million square feet of empty. Far as the…
Earlier this afternoon City Hall sent out the video you’ll find after the jump, in which City Manager Mary Suhm walks you though the proposed FY2011-12 budget presented to media last week and council on Monday. And it reminded me: One of the smaller but more controversial items contained therein…
It’s a done deal: Come Saturday, Rick Perry will announce he’s running for president, which isn’t nearly as shocking as the fact we may not hit 100 degrees today. (I mean, it’s nice out.) Look, the governor of Texas says so right there in his interview with Mark Halperin that’s…
The video below, in which Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price explains the hard way to WFAA’s Brett Shipp that his office isn’t public property, has been updated; it’s the piece that ran on Channel 8 last night at 10, in which you do hear Price tell Shipp, in a…
As I pulled onto LBJ at Marsh around 8:30 this morning, heading to the airport, I noticed that construction on the LBJ Express redo has yet to take its toll on traffic, save for the westbound HOV lane shutdown that had some traffic slowed to a fast-paced crawl. Then I…
Just came across this video on Vimeo, posted yesterday by Texas A&M environmental-design grad Katie Ogden, who’s spending the summer interning at the LBJ offices of architectural firm Gensler. It begins as a history of Deep Ellum, then rolls out current stats — as in, how much of the neighborhood’s…
Came across a press release from The City-Owned Hotel celebrating its 250,000th room booking — and, hey, the joint don’t even open till 11/11/11, at which point Tom Leppert will emerge from the Presidential Suite, stroking a white Persian, to cut the ribbon using only his laser-like stare. The press…
Back to the Dr Pepper-on-Dr Pepper lawsuit …Early this morning we posted Dublin Dr Pepper’s response to the lawsuit filed in June by Plano-based Dr Pepper Snapple Group, which is trying to limit Dublin’s real-deal Imperial Sugar-spiked soda pop to a six-county area and alleges the oldest Dr Pepper bottler…
Turned in to the council meeting to watch the The Crown and Harp, Zubar and The Libertine get their specific use permits renewed; I know — quite the life, no? Reason I wanted to watch was sooner than later that proposed Lowest Greenville bowling alley’s going to come before the…
And here we thought we’d have to wait till 5. Not hardly. Let’s take a look. At some point, surely, Maurine Dickey regretted not getting back into the barbecue business sooner.Update at 3:59 p.m.: KTVT’s Bud Gillett piggybacked on Shipp’s story and was also there for this morning’s altercation and…
While I was writing the item below, which I am sure you’re all reading at this very moment, several Friends of Unfair Park asked if we were going to follow up on Brett Shipp’s tweet concerning allegations that Dallas County Commission John Wiley Price assaulted him and threatened to “split…
On Friday we brought you the news that the Dallas Independent School District has been hit with a $40-million breach of contract suit filed by Delcom Group. Long story short: The Lewisville-based tech company was initially awarded a mammoth deal to convert schoolrooms into digital classrooms. But the district tossed…
Took the boy to the ballpark last night, where, Chuck Morgan told us, we were joined by a little more than 25,000 others — not bad for a 193-degree start-timer against the lowly Mariners, but not great either. Not now, not this late in a season more thrilling than last…
Council just wrapped discussing that police helicopter sale; Sandy Greyson, concerned about terrorist what-ifs, wanted it pulled from the consent agenda for further discussion, but the sale sailed through. This item’s about something a little further down the agenda. As in: Last week, in the comments of this item about…
Back in June, you no doubt recall, Plano-based Dr Pepper/Seven Up Inc. decided, for whatever reason, to sue Dublin Dr Pepper, which makes the only soda worth drinking — original-formula Imperial Pure Cane Sugar Dr Pepper. Corporate HQ claims in court docs that Dublin Dr Pepper, which ships all over…
Last we checked there were around 800 teachers vying for 700 vacancies scattered throughout the Dallas Independent School District. Which, sure, sounds a little odd, given that only a few months ago the district was considering thousands of layoffs due to the state’s decision to gut public education. But truth…
When the Dallas Police Department isn’t using its Facebook page to post breaking news about missing persons or arrested officers, it’s sharing quite a bit of departmental history via old photos. Already we’ve peeked at an illustrated history of the department’s sweet rides, and been treated to a gallery featuring…
I said it the other day: The fact we can now trim down and embed City Hall videos will come in mighty handy on days when Dwaine Caraway goes off on self-proclaimed “tirades,” in this case yesterday’s 35-minute harangue involving the decision to shutter five city pools, two in his…
I listen to something from this recording of Merle Haggard at the Longhorn Ballroom back in 1982, oh, probably once a week; never do get tired of “Mama Tried” or “Tulare Dust.” And I still have that whole series of “That’s the Way Baseball Go” T-shirts dating back to the…
Last month we broke the news that Dallas Area Rapid Transit would begin charging for parking at the Parker Road and North Carrollton/Frankford stations, an experiment (or “demonstration,” in DART parlance) intended to boost flagging revenues. DART’s been eying this for a long while; public hearings on the subject were…
A Reuters story from last month tells you everything you need to know about Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, heretofore “a little-known institution in Reston, Virginia.” Says the story, it’s a 16-year-old entity created in 1995 by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and other Big Banks intended to “speed up the recording…
Bank of America’s got plenty to worry about right now, between tumbling share prices, threats of a $10-billion A.I.G. suit and renewed concerns over its long-term viability. So a lawsuit filed late last week in Dallas County District Court by Robert Long may not top the pops ’round Charlotte, North…
