I know we had some fun earlier in the week with Dallas County’s stash of for-sale gas masks, which has climbed to $50 since last we checked. But I see the county’s also auctioning off quite a few donkeys, mules and horses — all of which, says Dallas County Sheriff’s…
Speaking of downtown fun …I see on the City Plan Commission’s agenda for tomorrow that downtown ultra-lounge Plush is hoping to get its specific use permit reupped — and that the CPC, at the moment, is recommending denial. Long story short: Its two-year SUP expired in September of last year…
Behind closed doors this afternoon, the back-to-work Dallas City Council will be briefed by city attorneys on a handful of lawsuits, all of which we’re quite familiar with: City of Dallas v. Museum of the American Railroad (which, last we looked, is close to being settled); Marcus Wood, et al…
Redistricting Commissioners Elizabeth Jones and Domingo Garcia, who have tough and thankless jobs for which they aren’t paid a penny, are displeased with me at the moment for nay-saying their incomplete maps. Garcia chided me in the comments, writing that it appears I’ve graduated from “the Rupert Murdock school of…
Yesterday Bloomberg noted that high-end American hotels are being sold to buyers from Hong King, Singapore and China in the hopes of catering to “a growing number of affluent Asians traveling abroad.” Among those sold: the Rosewood Crescent Hotel and the Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek, now in the possession…
Reason I missed Sanitation Services head Mary Nix last week was because she was on a plane bound for California — Roseville, specifically, site of a “resource recovery” facility that converts trash into renewable energy. Which means … get ready … we’re about to talk about flow control, the proposed…
A Friend of Unfair Park directs our attention to Boing Boing, which yesterday pointed out that you can buy a replica of the Texas School Book Depository made of pewter courtesy something called InFocusTech. (Which prompted this comment: “It’s a riddle, wrapped in an enigma, and handsomely electroplated in antique…
One month ago, Jim broke down exactly how Kathy Nealy spent the $270,000 paid her by Mike Rawlings’s campaign: $50,000 to phone-bank workers, $15,000 on “religious outreach,” $65,000 on the so-called “walk program” and so on. A few days later it was revealed that Rawlings, whose campaign offices were visited…
Friend of Unfair Park BigJonDaniel passes along the video you see above: a Dallas Area Rapid Transit-produced sneak peek at the Cotton Belt Regional Rail Corridor, which would stretch from Wylie to southwest Fort Worth. Of course, right now it’s closer to concept than reality: Last summer, the North Central…
Had the council not canceled all of its committee meetings through mid-September, at which point Mayor Mike Rawlings will reshuffle the deck chairs, yesterday would have been the first Public Safety Committee since June 20. I asked Dallas Police Department spokesman Senior Corporal Gerardo Monreal if he happened to have…
I see our music blog’s celebrating MTV’s 30th today by ticking off a few Dallas-music-related moments featured on the former music network over the years. I have since reminded our music editor: I’m old. So old I recall off the top of my bald head a few that were left…
The man you see at right is Brandon Yerby. He is 22. And he has been missing since Thursday. That is why, moments ago, the Dallas Police Department sent out an endangered-person alert — because the department’s hoping that maybe you’ve seen him.According to the police report, Yerby went missing…
You knew it was coming, and here it is: The Electric Reliability Council of Texas has issued yet another energy conservation heads-up. Read the whole thing here, but pay attention to this quote from Kent Saathoff, vice president of system planning and operations:”We expect to break our all-time peak electricity…
My 8-year-old has himself a new hobby: collecting baseball cards, which now involves semi-regular trips to Nick’s, where, last week, they told him the signed Curtis Wilkerson he found in an old box of Topps commons was real, all right, and worth a good … what … 25 cents? Ah…
One week ago today we noted that the Dallas Country Club, which sits on 118 acres in the heart of Highland Park, is suing the Dallas Central Appraisal District over its valuation — a whole $15 million. Today we brings news of yet another country club taking on DCAD: Lakewood’s…
‘Round the office we spent the last little while debating what we could do with 75 M17AZ gas masks, which Dallas County put up for auction this morning. Fetish club apparel? Food critic disguise? HYDRA Halloween costumes? Right now they’re goin’ for cheap: $5 opening bid for the whole lot,…
The J.L. Turner Legal Association is better known as the African-American bar association in Dallas, and bills itself as “the oldest and largest national association of African-American and minority attorneys, jurists, legal scholars, and law students in the world.” Its leadership consists of attorneys at such firms as Akin Gump…
Early last month, Leslie dropped by the Landmark Commission’s Fair Park Task Force meeting during which Friends of Fair Park President Craig Holcomb introduced us to the cell-phone tour signs that’ll be planted around Fair Park — 60 of ’em, looks like. That’s from the Landmark Commission’s agenda for today’s…
Back in April Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm warned the city council that the state’s $27 billion budget shortfall would end up having significant impact on the city’s coffers. On Wednesday, Assistant City Attorney Larry Casto, the city’s Director of Legislative Affairs, will outline to the council exactly how it…
Still having a hard time figuring how Mayor Mike or his staff could schedule a dinner with the council tomorrow night — the same night as one of only two gas drilling task force public hearings. A couple of council reps think it’s important enough to mention to their constituents…
For the second time in as many days, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution pits The ATL against The City of Hate — a common occurrence — and rules in favor of Dallas, in part because we have toll roads to help pay for regional light rail projects that run to the suburbs,…
I’ve spent the last couple of hours doing as suggested at the beginning of an excessive heat-warning wave: staying hydrated. With Bacardi Añejo, over ice, a great rum at a nice price. Also: listening to music, as the two often go together. Which reminds me: In the past year-plus spent…
