This morning, the council’s Economic Development Committee will take up whether or not to give Dean Foods a $250,000 economic development grant (and $1,673,964 in tax abatements) for that new factory in the southern sector, which Ron Natinsky mentioned last week.At the same time, the committee will consider another grant…
At last week’s budget town hall, Dallas Independent School District trustee Edwin Flores took a thinly veiled shot at U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, who he did not name, over the $830 million in federal Education Jobs Fund money presently sitting in D.C. As Flores told it, Doggett’s blocking the money…
We’ve mentioned in recent months Ralph Isenberg’s efforts to bring Saad Nabeel back to North Texas, where a University of Texas at Arlington electrical engineering scholarship awaits the 20-year-old Frisco Liberty High grad. Nabeel, though, was deported to Bangladesh last year: His family had been denied political asylum a decade…
On our way back from an early-morning Trinity River outing yesterday (more about that tomorrow), we happened past the Trammell Crow Center on Ross. The boy wondered why there was a giant horse in the street; his mother, a former art-history major, explained that’s a sculpture by Antoine Bourdelle, and…
Speaking of Fair Park attractions …Here’s another one: Beginning with the March 26 season-opener — a double-header pitting the Deadly Kennedys against Viva La Revolucion! and the Bombshell Brigade against last year’s champs the Lone Star Assassins — Assassination City Roller Derby moves into the Fair Park Coliseum. Which means…
It’s perhaps the most common request among the Friends of Unfair Park: Where oh where is Peter Frampton’s January Sound Studios sessions, which aired on KZEW back in February of ’75? The complete show too — not just “Do You Feel Like I Do,” the version of which hopped to…
The Texas Rangers just sent word: General manager Jon Daniels, who was only under contract through this season, today signed a four-year extension — the financial terms of which were not announced. Hard to believe, but should Daniels stick around through the 2015 season, that would mark his 10th anniversary…
Austin’s not a “major city”? Hunh. Tried to drive in Austin in the last 15, 20 years? Traffic seems pretty major. And last I looked, there was some big college there — that’s what my diploma says, anyhow. And something about a state capitol? Look, I dunno. I’m always drunk…
Last night, Dallas Independent School District trustee Edwin Flores held court in the E.D. Walker Middle School auditorium, where some 100 district parents bundled up to hear Flores talk about the coming budget cuts thanks to the state’s shortfall. (If the district is serious about saving money, maybe it ought…
More than a year ago we mentioned that Fair Park would be getting a new attraction: the Texas Museum of Automotive History, which would be parked in Grand Place — the very site where the Ford Motor Co. had its exhibit during the Texas Centennial Exposition in 1936. But aside…
As you’re no doubt aware, Lisa Stone disappeared last June — and, still, Dallas Police have no idea what has become of the 52-year-old Mesquite High School graduate, whose friends (Facebook and otherwise) continue to search for answers. Some of those friends appeared on CBS’s The Early Show this morning,…
Late Wednesday, we received in the in-box this list of 25 cities ranked by the average amount of credit-card debt its residents carryin their back pockets. At the top of the pops was San Antonio with $5,177, but, as you can see, Dallas wasn’t far behind at No. 5; says…
To follow up this morning’s item on Project Pegasus, which has been all but left for dead on the side of the Mixmaster …I spoke earlier today with Bill Hale, P.E., the district engineer for the Dallas District of the Texas Department of Transportation, and he said that, yup, “based…
Never could find the time to take that tour of the old LTV Tower today, but as promised in yesterday’s Statler-tour item, Angela Hunt did indeed stroll the future Grand Ricchi yesterday with developer Leobardo Trevino. She just posted a series of photos showing that 1600 Pacific has indeed been…
The city sent word a little while ago: Beginning at 6 a.m. Saturday, the Dallas City Marshal’s Office will conduct yet another warrant roundup of “individuals with outstanding arrest warrants for unpaid traffic and non-traffic citations.” Happens every spring. If you’re so inclined, you can browse the motherlovin’ mammoth list…
The Trammell Crow Center on Ross Avenue already contains the Crow Collection of Asian Art. But that’s an inside attraction. And that, far as the Crows are concerned, just isn’t good enough. Hence, the announcement that just popped up in the in-box for the Crow Asian Sculpture Garden, described in…
The U.S. Attorney’s Office just sent word: This morning, FBI agents arrested John David McAllister, a sergeant with the Mesquite Police Department — and the head of its four-man Narcotics Unit. Says the release, back in December the feds got a tip that McAllister was skimming off the top during…
Good Friend of Unfair Park PeterK directs our rapt attention to yesterday’s installment of Paul Lukas’s UniWatch, which provides a rare glimpse into the inaugural 1960 season of Lamar Hunt’s Dallas Texans. Long story short: Bob Halford, the Texans’ PR man, loaned a longtime UniWatch-er named Billy Quinton his Mayo…
Last week, the Dallas Police Department used its Facebook page to show dash-cam footage from January 27 in which Officer Quaitemes Williams is seen kicking and pepper-spraying Rodarick Lyles, who’d been pulled over by another officer for driving with a suspended license. Williams, as you no doubt recall, was fired…
From time to time, Friends of Unfair Park ask about the status of Project Pegasus, which is — or was — “intended to transform the two major Interstate Highways directly serving Downtown Dallas, by totally redesigning IH 30 from Sylvan Avenue to IH 45, and IH 35E from Eighth Street…
When Sam and I got to Main Street Garden around 2:15 this afternoon for the Statler-sale press conference, there weren’t a lot of people around — just a few folks lingering on benches, and maybe a half dozen diners seated beneath the Lily Pad’s shade. A lectern stamped with the…
At this very moment, something called the 8th Annual Texas ACG Capital Connection is taking place at the Fairmont Hotel; long story short, suits and ties and private equity and Ben Stein as the lunchtime speaker (ah, but will he do this for an hour?). Bill Lively kicked off the…
