It’s probably not the most surprising press release of the week: “Dallas Police Association PAC Unanimously Votes to Support Ron Natinsky For Dallas Mayor.” After all, as we noted way back in September 2004 — two months into David Kunkle’s tenure as Dallas Police Department chief — Kunkle and Glenn…
A certain chief arborist for the city reminds: We’ve yet to mention today’s Official Release of the Texas Legislative Study Group’s annual Texas on the Brink report, which offers a harsh look at the state of the state. Emily Ramshaw sums up (and mentions the House of Representatives’ caucus, of…
A few weeks back we were reminded that the city still has plans to widen César Chávez Boulevard from Live Oak to Commerce downtown. At which point we were also reminded that the plan calls for the purchase and demolition of several historic buildings along Elm Street — chief among…
An old friend of mine was kind enough to forward along the hot-off-the-presses Marcus & Millichap National Retail Report, the must-read amongst real-estaters; insists my pal of the mixed-to-optimistic forecast, it’s “a pretty thorough insight into the retail world.” In which case, by way of introduction: “Caution gradually gave way…
Back to back, the Dallas Police Department sent two videos this morning while wondering: Do you recognize these suspects? The man in the video above — thought to be somewhere between 25 and 30 years old, 5-foot-5 and around 140 to 150 pounds — is actually suspected in 11 robberies…
Aside from those education cuts, there’s also the very real possibility that the state will do away with the Project Reintegration of Offenders and all Homeless Housing and Services Program funding. The former — which, per the Texas Workforce Commission, “provides a link between education, training and employment during incarceration…
Three weeks ago, we took a look at the trailer for You+Dallas’s five-part webdoc about Jared Williams, who was 14 on October 1, 2009, when the Pinkston freshman was paralyzed from the waist down in a varsity football game against North Dallas High. The series, as you may recall, is…
In this morning’s New York Times, James C. McKinley looks at how Texas’s $27-billion budget shortfall is about to devastate districts statewide — while using the same word as Dallas Independent School District Michael Hinojosa only a few days ago to describe the coming cuts: “draconian.” McKinley’s piece comes but…
I’ve tried several times in recent weeks to reach Plano attorney Tom Keen, who reps the Hong Kong consortium that owns the Statler Hilton downtown, but so far, no luck. Not only do Friends of Unfair Park ask, oh, once or twice a week about the place, but Keen has…
This morning we received the same report presented to all members of the Texas Legislature: The Story of ERCOT, prepared by the Texas Coalition for Affordable Power. It’s a mammoth thing — 110 pages based, says TCAP, on “months of research, including a review of journalistic accounts, regulatory documents, academic…
Six long years ago I wrote about the dysfunctional South Dallas/Fair Park Trust Fund, the now-23-year-old program intended to put money into businesses and nonprofits and you-name-its intended to bring new life to the Fair Park area. By ’05 it had doled out more than $6 million — with little…
Dallas Independent School District trustee Eric Cowan’s first blog entry of 2011 is a sobering follow-up to Superintendent Michael Hinojosa’s budget-gutting presentation to the board on Thursday: “The Economics of Public Education.” There’s no easy way to sum it up, as Cowan take a look at how wound up in…
At year’s end, Veletta Lill, former city council member and executive director of the Dallas Arts District, told Unfair Park: “We will have food trucks in the Arts District by the spring,” count on it. After months of working with the city, and experimenting with some Better Block-ing on Flora…
At long last, the city council gets its hands on the Downtown Dallas 360 plan at Wednesday’s briefing — after which Downtown Dallas Inc. will host its own meet-n-greet with MIG’s Daniel Iacofano and Chris Beynon, just one part of the 2011 Annual Meeting & Luncheon & State o’ Downtown…
Exactly two months ago, Angela Hunt spoke to Unfair Park about the work the Friends of the Katy Trail had done to put on paper “a really thoughtful, long-term plan for how to deal with safety needs” along the city’s hike-n-bike trails system following the death of Lauren Huddleston in…
Just found these over on Heritage Auction Galleries’ website — a collection of 7-Eleven-sold football cards of Hank Stram’s Dallas Texans, circa 1960. Says Heritage, which will put them up for sale in April, they’re “among the rarest regionally issued card collectibles known in an genre of the hobby.” For…
Avi Adelman’s just posted over on Barking Dogs that Lower Greenville’s losing its longtime Blockbuster on Richmond Avenue — which probably comes as no surprise, given the state of the bankrupt downtown-based videos-n-such rentalist that could be in the hands of new owners as early as next week. I called…
Bobbie Wygant’s 2011 Coming Soon Film Reel from Atombomb.tv on Vimeo.Our pal Erik Clapp, keeper of the Bobbie Wygant Archive, just sent this most watchable teaser featuring little look-sees at classic interviews he’s in the process of restoring before posting to the site. Good Lord, that’s an estimable roster of…
I’ll be out of pocket this evening, otherwise I’d be at the Texas Theatre for A Very Special Program of short films presently on a statrwide tour courtesy the Texas Independent Film Network, a coalition of Texas film and video orgs intended to spread the gospel about homegrown indie films…
During Dallas ISD Superintendent Michael Hinojosa’s budget-gutting presentation to the school board yesterday, when he warned that the state’s $27-billion budget shortfall could result in as many as 3,900 layoffs and secondary school classrooms filled with at least 35 students per teacher, the district posted to its Facebook page an…
On Wednesday we noticed Tom Hicks’s UK attorney was back in court, trying to convince the judge to lift the order keeping him (and his former Liverpool FC partner George Gillett) from suing over the soccer club’s £300m sale to New England Sports Ventures back in October. Hicks, you’ll recall,…
For those who weren’t fortunate enough to sit through Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa’s budget-gutting presentation this afternoon, what you’ll find below is the complete PowerPoint presentation given to the board of trustees. In it, you’ll find what the super likes to call “the new reality,” which could…
