Speaking of Uplift Education and its planned expansion into Deep Ellum …There’s an intriguing item that just appeared on the Dallas City Council’s consent addendum for next week’s meeting, posted here. According to the doc, the city wants to create a nonprofit called the City of Dallas Education Finance Corporation…
Several Friends of Unfair Park have asked: Why nothing about Josh Hamilton’s alleged “relapse”? Well, because for now, we don’t know much, just that the recovering (and re-recovering) addict may have had something alcoholic (not sure what or how much) at Sherlock’s (no shit) on Monday and that Ian Kinsler…
Amidst all the ruckus, resignations and double-talking over Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s politically charged move to pull its breast-cancer screening funding from Planned Parenthood, you should also be aware: Dallas-based Komen’s actually the subject of a documentary that opens in Canada today that takes a very dim view…
One week ago tonight I was at Thomas C. Marsh Middle School for my son’s elementary-school talent show; those kids play the big room. We’re in the Matadors’ feeder pattern, and plenty of neighbors and friends send their kids to Marsh, which has made significant strides in recent years –…
Below is a missive just dispatched to Unfair Park: Dallas Independent School District trustee Edwin Flores’s “Open Letter of Apology” — to Central Elementary fourth-grade bilingual teacher Joseph Drake, who was put on leave after he sent Flores a fist-shaking letter concerning 45 minutes added to teachers’ workdays, and to…
I don’t recall Dallas PD ever sending out a series of videos, but below is a brief trilogy dispatched by Senior Corporal Kevin Janse moments ago. Says DPD, the man seen in the first video is merely posing as a student at West Coast University’s Dallas campus on Stemmons. He…
Spent a few hours today with Phil Romano, Stuart Fitts and Larry “Butch” MacGregor at their Singleton Boulevard HQ at the foot of the Calatrava bridge. It’s the brick building painted red — one of three on that side of the bridge now decorated with Shepard Fairey’s handiwork. When I…
I’ve driven past this house countless times; it’s not far from the office, after all, more or less just behind Maple and Motor on Maple Springs Boulevard. But till I saw the agenda for Monday’s meeting of the Landmark Commission, I had no idea that it was designed by one…
A few moments ago, Jason Roberts tweeted: “Exploring a run for Congress. With redistricting up in the air, it’s going to be an incredibly short campaign for the primary.” As long as we’ve been covering his doings, I’ve never known the Better Block-er to be … silly, let’s say. Nevertheless,…
As you know by now, locally based Susan G. Komen for the Cure has cut off its funding to Planned Parenthood, meaning it’ll no longer help pay for mammograms for women who can’t afford them; why, there’s Nancy Brinker herself above, attempting to explain Komen’s “new granting strategies” concerning its…
With the release of its latest map this morning, the U.S. Drought Monitor made it official: A few weeks’ worth of heavy rain have officially removed Dallas-Fort Worth from the historic drought that has most of the state bone-dry. (Watch the 12-week animation here.) And per the AP’s breaking-news sounder:…
When The Ambrose and DART’s Baylor University Medical Center Station on the Green Line finally, formally married three short years ago, Dallas Area Rapid Transit hailed it as the “consummate example of the new transit-oriented lifestyle.” After all, the complex at Indiana and Malcolm X consisted of 325 apartments and…
Speaking of Walmart (told you) …In the end, turns out, I didn’t need Mitchell Rasansky to tell me what everyone already knew — or guessed, anyhow. Because, as I discovered this morning, the permits were filed with the city two months ago and approved December 29. So, yes, brace yourself,…
We began the new year by rehashing an ancient topic: the proposed Texas Horse Park that’s been around since the mid-1990s and was part of the $246-million capital bond program for the Trinity River Corridor Project approved by voters in 1998. Reason it never happened: The folks charged with partnering…
Word of warning: This won’t be the sole Unfair Park item of the day to feature the word “Walmart.” Patience, patience. But, to begin: Remember that Walmart going in at Ledbetter and R.L. Thornton? Right, that one. Gave us the phrase “Trees do not vote” during the contentious discussion about…
We told you Friday: Very, very, very, very early guesstimates at City Hall have the city short anywhere from $49 million to $87 million when it comes to putting together the FY2012-13 budget. City Manager Mary Suhm repeated that this morning: “We’re very early in the process.” The city’s chief…
Only yesterday we were wondering during a staff meeting whatever became of Roslyn Carter, the principal at Tom Field Elementary who, as The Dallas Morning News reported in November, phonied up science and social studies grades for her third-graders because, well, they never actually had science or social studies classes…
Google the phrase “SponsorMonsters,” and the first thing that pops up is an item from the Mothers Against Drunk Driving website touting the John Carpenter Freeway-based organization’s partnership with it. As in: “For 2011, Sponsor Monsters donated their lead sponsorship position to MADD and will represent MADD National in order…
But a few hours ago, Rena Honea, president of AFT-Alliance, held a press conference and posted this petition demanding the Dallas Independent School District reinstate fourth-grade Central Elementary bilingual teacher Joseph Drake, who was put on leave late last week after he sent trustee Edwin Flores an angry email regarding…
It’s been a couple of weeks since lawyers hired by the city and the National Solid Waste Management Association squared off in U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor’s over the flow control ordinance that would have dumped all the city’s solid waste at the McCommas Bluff Landfill. I say “would have”…
A few years back Dallas City Hall made a big push for folks to sign up for its Reverse 911 Emergency Notification System, which called you when danger was near. Or, at least, that was the idea. But this morning the city sent a heads-up: Reverse 911 is dead, long…
When Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm first told the council it was time, at long last, to enact twice-a-week watering restrictions, Dallas’s six water-supply reservoirs were about 25 percent depleted. But last week’s record rainfall, in addition to other recent wet-weather events, have helped fill area lakes as evidenced by…
