If you care at all about the fate of the Dallas Independent School District, carve out an hour over the weekend. Then, jump to the other side of this item, where I’ve posted the entirety of the school board budget discussion to which I referred yesterday (down below too). Now,…
Only yesterday I watched as my son’s school’s librarian begged the Dallas ISD school board to reinstate 42 librarians likely to be let go next school year. Trustees who agreed were told: Fine, but we’ll have to fire 42 teachers to make room. Trustees who disagreed insisted: Why do we…
If you liked The Association’s Game Four mini-movie, you’ll love the Game Five short film, which was just posted. Come for the in-game footage; stay for the behind-the-scenes stuff. “They’re in the way of our championship,” says LeBron James. Oh, really?…
Wednesday afternoon photo intern Taryn Walker stopped by the Living Plaza, which made its return to Dallas City Hall … and not for the final time, as organizers within OCP headquarters now expect it to become a monthly event, at least. Yet again, bcWORKSHOP’s shipping-container-turned-food-commissary was parked on the plaza,…
This morning, Courthouse News directs our attention to a legal dispute playing out in Judge Carlos Cortez’s courtroom: Country Music Television v. Time Warner Cable, filed by McKinney Ave. attorney Michael Raiff. The original complaint itself isn’t available: All of the available filings in the Dallas County District Clerk’s jacket…
This morning we find two items of local interest contained within the virtual pages of IndieWire. First: Long-ago Observer-er Dana Harris sends word that the extremely authorized Sarah Palin propaganda filmdocumentary The Undefeated has found a collaboratorexhibitor, the AMC chain of theaters. As a result its producers and distributors say…
It’s been three long months since Arnold Leon Schroeder Jr. filed his federal suit, so perhaps you’ve forgotten the details. Long story short: Schroeder — the sole son of Marshall, Texas’s own Wendy Russell Reves — claims the Dallas Museum of Art charmed and flattered and conspired to swindle his…
With The Finals tied 2-2, Mayor-For-Now Dwaine Caraway finally made a sports bet with a Miami politician — not Mayor Tomás Regalado, but Miami-Dade County Commissioner Chairman Joe A. Martinez, who extended the wager. The note came from City Hall late yesterday:Caraway added a twist to the traditional bet: the…
The man seen at right is Thomas Michael Roberts, a 35-year-old Dallas Police say was among the parade of motorcyclists responsible for shutting down and spray-painting Central Expressway on Memorial Day. No doubt you’ve seen the video, which went from YouTube to Channel 5 Monday night — and led DPD…
Speaking of Fair Park …The very week we — and only we, for whatever reason — commemorate the June 6, 1936, opening of the Texas Centennial Exposition at Fair Park, more photos from The Baltimore Sun’s archives have appeared on eBay. You may recall only a few weeks ago I…
Seems like only four and a half years ago that Terri Moore joined the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office as Craig Watkins’s first assistant. But Moore, once a perennial candidate for the Tarrant County District Attorney’s job, is out effective July 1. So too is Mike Ware, head of the…
We went over this last year: Despite the fact the Dallas Independent School District board was just given a presentation on preliminary TAKS scores for the school year that just wrapped, the Texas Education Agency won’t formally release its 2011 Accountability Ratings till July 29. That said, there are some…
The Dallas Independent School District board was just told it’s “still in limbo” when it comes to the exact dollar figure it can expect in cuts from the state Legislature, though something could land on Gov. Rick Perry’s desk as early as late next week. Right now, Senate Bill 1…
School’s out, but not for the Dallas Independent School District’s trustees, who’re meeting at this very moment (behind closed doors) before they look at two versions of the 2011-’12 budget — what they’re calling versions 5.1 and 6.0, which follow the iteration presented to the board on May 26 that…
On the way out to the ballpark a couple of weeks ago, as we drove down 30 over Belt Line, the boy noticed for the first time how close the Trinity River runs next the freeway. I told him that’s known as the West Fork of the Trinity, which merges…
In the midst of all the chaos, clutter and claptrap that is a FOX4 news broadcast, the station found time last night to devote close to eight entire minutes to the fight amongst the Dallas County Commissioners over the redistricting map unveiled at Tuesday’s meeting, which caused Maurine Dickey to…
The photo you see above was taken and sent our way today by, who else, Jason Roberts, for whom I happened to have many questions. So, good timing. As always.First thing’s first: That’s Three Sheets’s double-decker, which will be rolled out at the end of the month as part of…
Oak Cliff Metals’ move, which was on the council’s to-do list last month, returned this afternoon, with Mayor-For-Now Dwaine Caraway once again squaring off against Vonciel Jones Hill over the site that’s in her district near S. Central Expressway and Loop 12 and across the train tracks from his. This,…
That headline comes from the request for proposals mentioned yesterday — the one where the city’s looking for marketing pros to “generate additional income for the City through naming, sponsorship, advertisement, and marketing partnerships with private corporations.” And if you’re a marketing professional interested in the gig, well, you’d best…
The morning after every game of The Finals, The Association posts a slow-mo, Bruckheimer-esque recap. Last night’s short just became available. And it’s worth a look-see. Or several. Especially that part at the 3:14 mark…
At some point this morning, the city council will vote to pay something called 11900 Marsh Lane, L.P. out of Houston a little more than $800,000 for a piece of land currently on the tax rolls for around $458,000. That’s a piece of property near Marsh and Forest where once…
The city council’s last big day before going on summer vacation is June 22, when the agenda will be action-packed. On the hefty to-do list: voting on the makeup of the gas drilling task force in advance of its first meeting some time in July, as task force head Lois…
