As Mayor Tom Leppert told DMN’er Rudy Bush last night, there will be at least four options for the city council to evaluate at Wednesday’s briefing about the Dallas Love Field Airport concession contracts, two of which contain the mayor’s input. We asked Leppert’s chief of staff, Chris Heinbaugh, for…
While President Obama drops by the Highland Park home of lawyer Russell Budd this evening to raise dough and break bread with local Dems, Republicans are rallying at Franklin Stadium next to Hillcrest High School to … well, to do what? “It’s not just complaining about the Democrats,” says Dallas…
While it’s well-known that Dallas County leads the country with a whopping 22 exonerations since 2001 — 20 of which resulted from the preservation of DNA evidence — there’s been some squabbling among Republicans and Democrats about who deserves the bulk of the credit: former District Attorney Bill Hill or…
We don’t need lawyer Steven Riznyk to tell us that the immigration laws in the United States are complex and convoluted, but in stating the obvious, he’s also offering a road map for those those in need with 50 bucks and five free hours. Riznyk, who splits time between his…
As we outlined in last week’s paper version of Unfair Park, the lenders owed approximately $600 million from the default of HSG Sports Group’s loans tied to the Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars had been pissed that around $75 million of the pre-auction bid by the Greenberg-Ryan group would have…
After the city council on June 23 delayed voting on the Dallas Love Field Airport concession contracts for a second time, food and beverage concessionaire Gilbert Aranza utilized the council’s July recess to commission an analysis of the city staff’s recommendations. Dr. Richard A. Briesch, an associate marketing professor at…
Maybe going bankrupt is the best thing that’s ever happened to the Texas Rangers. On the field, at least, 2010 is shaping up to be the team’s best season since 1999, the last time the Rangers made the playoffs, when they were sent packing in the American League Division Series…
Tuesday’s testimony in the Texas Rangers bankruptcy case from the court-appointed chief restructuring officer and one of the lenders revealed four potential competitors to the ownership group led by Pittsburgh lawyer Chuck Greenberg and Rangers president Nolan Ryan, whose bid for the team is $520 million, according to Chief Restructuring…
While his political future remains unclear, Mayor Tom Leppert raised a combined $243,000 in donations in the first half of this year, according to campaign finance reports filed yesterday. Meanwhile, his officeholder account and two specific-purpose committees — Friends of Tom Leppert and Re-Elect Tom Leppert — netted only $86,000,…
Arizona’s new immigration law has been a polarizing political issue to say the least, with President Obama challenging its constitutionality through the Department of Justice by launching a July 6 lawsuit against Arizona and Governor Janice Brewer. So it was only a matter of time before Republican heavyweights Rick Perry…
Thanks to Mayor Tom Leppert’s push for a lobbyist registration ordinance, we’re now privy to the lobbying efforts of City Hall insiders like the mayor’s top South Dallas consultant, Willis Johnson. And with quarterly reports due by the end of today, we figured it was a good time to see…
Two months ago to the day, we told you about Dallas County Republican Party chair Jonathan Neerman’s public information request for the calendar of Democratic Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins dating back to his first day in office — January 1, 2007. Seemed like a reasonable request — after…
The Texas Rangers could be headed toward their winningest season in franchise history, as they nabbed their 50th win of the season last night and increased their lead to 5 1/2 games over the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in the American League West — the largest division lead in…
Mr. Schedule Maker has been awfully kind to the Rangers this year, and the club’s 10-game home stand heading into the All-Star Game could very well be his most generous gift. After hosting series against the White Sox and Indians, the anemic Orioles come to Arlington for the first game…
As Texas Rangers third baseman Michael Young and others took the field this afternoon for pre-game stretching, the shocking fall of a 25-year-old firefighter from Corinth from the second deck of Rangers Ballpark was clearly on their minds as they pointed and stared at Section 235 — where Tyler Morris…
Majorly strange: Thanks to another delay by the city council, the question of whether to open up bidding for all the food and retail concessions at Love Field won’t be decided until August 11. That’s fine with Buzz. We get to poke around this subject for another month. Who knows…
On Monday, we told you about an e-mail we received from Mayor Tom Leppert’s campaign thanking his city council mates for agreeing to defer the vote on two concession contracts at Dallas Love Field Airport so city staff could cook up some new options to consider at the council’s August…
After Mayor Tom Leppert quashed public comments and instructed city staff to bring more options to the city council in August regarding the Dallas Love Field Airport concession contracts, Schutze declared victory for Angela Hunt, who had told us that she had enough support to defer the item until the…
With my trusty laptop in hand, I prepared to liveblog the heck outta today’s city council meeting — the last one before the council leaves for its July recess and then returns to tackle a $131 million budget shortfall. But I soon realized that the council chambers lack an electrical…
The Dallas City Council’s seven minority council members launched a counterattack this afternoon against Mayor Tom Leppert’s campaign opposing the Love Field concession contract extensions, with Vonciel Hill and others reminding Leppert that City Manager Mary Suhm is in charge. “Twice the citizens of this great city have defeated a…
Ken Carter, a consultant working for Dallas Love Field Airport food and beverage concessionaire Gilbert Aranza, sent us word yesterday afternoon that the city council’s seven minority members are expected to appear at noon today inside City Hall’s lobby along with other community leaders for a press conference supporting contract…
Angela Hunt, revealed in last week’s Observer as the swing vote on the controversial concession contract extensions at Dallas Love Field Airport, has continued to research the issue following her maternity leave, but she hasn’t made up her mind yet and now supports a deferral of the items until August,…
