At its meeting two weeks ago, the Dallas City Council passed a resolution urging the state Legislature to crackdown on payday lenders and “to pass any necessary legislation to protect the citizens of the State of Texas who may find themselves with no alternative but to seek the type of…
It’s been a long while since Dallas Independent School District District 6 trustee served up a hot sports opinion on her blog. But given the looming “new reality” that has led to trustees being asked to consider giving teachers $10 million to scoot before they’re fired, Ranger can hold her…
About an hour ago, Rudy posted a piece saying Mayor Tom Leppert’s announcing his resignation tomorrow, during the city council meeting. But that doesn’t mean he’s ending his term tomorrow.A little while ago I asked the mayor’s chief of staff, Chris Heinbaugh, for further details. All he would say is:…
There is no shortage of Walmarts in and around Dallas. But City Hall sends word this afternoon: More are a-coming — “more than a dozen new projects in the city of Dallas,” per the release that follows, including three in the southern sector and one across the street from Bachman…
When last I looked at the Dallas Independent School District board’s meeting agenda for Thursday, there was no item offering to pay some 1,000 teachers up to $10,000 to take early retirement under the so-called “new reality.” But, sure enough, it’s there now, as Tawnell Hobbs noted this morning: “Consider…
Back on July 15, 2009, Ross Perot Jr.’s Hillwood Center Partners sued Mark Cuban (and the Dallas Mavericks) over money made from the American Airlines Center, with Perot insisting that the AAC’s profits weren’t going to partners (including Perot, who still owns a 5-percent stake in the NBA team) but…
Moments ago, the Dallas Police Department sent the video you see above, in which two men took by storm the Metro PCS store at 2247 Buckner Boulevard on February 6 at around 7:33 p.m. According to the police report, the two men got away with $12,900 when they gained entry…
Last week, Ron Natinsky made it official, taking the missus down to City Hall on Valentine’s Day to file his petition to run for Dallas mayor. This morning at 10 a.m., David Kunkle will follow in his footsteps, filing his paperwork with the city secretary after gathering enough signatures to…
The Dallas Area Rapid Transit board is meeting today, with the board once more set to award HDR Engineering, Inc. the $351,536 Dallas Streetcar System Planning Study Consultant contract. (Last month’s scheduled vote was deferred following a disagreement over minority- and women-business enterprise participation, as outlined in the January 25…
WFAA-Channel 8 ran an “exclusive” last night recapping some of the potential staffing cuts on Dallas ISD campuses, should the super’s worst-case scenario become reality. Of course, those are the same grim numbers Dallas Friends of Public Education had already posted to its website — cuts ranging from a possible…
So we didn’t need to wait till Thursday’s press conference to get a few more sneak peeks at the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park scheduled to open early next year. The good folks at the foundation were kind enough to share several more glimpses into the future, following January’s early look-see…
Inside Track February 2011 from Dallas Independent School Dist on Vimeo.What you see above is a video the Dallas Independent School District just posted to Vimeo in which district spokesman Jon Dahlander asks Michael Hinojosa to discuss the “staggering” worst-case scenario outlined at the board meeting two weeks ago. I…
Blockbuster, which went into voluntary Chapter 11 in September, said in a statement released moments ago that it has agreed to sell to a group of noteholders — one of whom happened to be named Monarch Alternative Capital, the very same creditors to whom Tom Hicks owed all those hundreds…
About four years back, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor John D. Kasarda ID’d Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport as the city center of the future — the so-called aerotropolis. Well, Kasarda’s turned his article into a full-blown tome that just landed in the mailbox: Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll…
Before taking that mandated four-day break, Mayor Tom’s chief of staff, Chris Heinbaugh, sent to media a copy of the mayor’s coming-week schedule. And, on February 24, was this note: “2:00 PM — News Conference (Not what you think).” Meaning, of course, Leppert won’t be announcing that he’s stepping down…
Texas Trib’s editor Evan Smith just posted his lengthy chitchat with three state House first-termers — all Republicans, all from ’round these parts (Dallas’s Stefani Carter, Mesquite’s Cindy Burkett and Grand Prairie’s Rodney Anderson). The full sitdown runs a little more than 37 minutes, but Smith has trimmed out a…
Back when those eight council members called for that tax hike intended to keep rec centers open and library shelves stocked and parks mowed and so on, we asked Angela Hunt: Yes, but how will we know that’s where the money’s actually going? To which she replied that she’d spoken…
The McCord Theatre Museum on the SMU campus closed some 20 years back; says here that since then, the thousands of odds and sods collected by its curator, Edyth Renshaw, have been in cold storage. Five years ago, though, theater student Emily Grubbs decided to sift through the stuff –…
At some point this morning I happened onto the Dallas Fort Worth Urban Forum — specifically, the most recent Urban Development page related to the Statler Hilton downtown. And there I espied this posting from yesterday: “A deal has been made, a design team and contractor has already been hired…
I see the Dallas Independent School District board has pulled from its Thursday meeting to-do list the following consent agenda item: “Consider and Take Possible Action to Approve the 2011-12 Campus Staffing Formulas, Non-Position Campus Formulas, and Non-Campus Staffing Guidelines.” Which, for those who need a refresher, the Dallas Friends…
There are two stories in The Times-Picayune this morning about New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton’s move back to the DFW — or, more specifically, the 525 acres of “protected enclave” known as Vaquero nestled within Westlake. One looks at how Saints fans are taking the news of Payton’s…
I see here I can buy back my misplaced Rolling Stones-at-the-Cotton Bowl concert tee for $139; quite the … bargain? Better still: You can relive the show absolutely gratis — at least, the Halloween ’81 gully washer that gave way to the next day’s bright-n-shiny seen in this blinding clip.Given…
