This, in case you have not heard, is the “Summer of Justice.” Which, as far as summers-of goes, ranks somewhere in between the Summer of Love, the “Summer of ’69,” The Summer of George and The Summer of My German Soldier, a sadly forgotten Kristy McNichol vehicle from 1978. The…
The day before Mayor Tom Leppert and the city council deferred voting on contract extensions for the food and retail concessions at Dallas Love Field Airport, the Dallas Black Chamber of Commerce faxed Leppert a letter urging him to direct staff to “return to the drawing board,” according to a…
Angela Hunt has mixed feelings about the June 9 gathering of the city council to sign their names inside the center arch of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge. “I think it’s nice to have great iconic structures in our city, but, at the same time, if we’re going to have…
Gilbert Aranza darts down two flights of stairs from the offices of Star Concessions Ltd. into Dallas Love Field Airport’s main lobby. “It’s my daily exercise,” the 57-year-old explains as he shoots by an elevator on the third floor and then skips an escalator ride on the second, “and a…
One of the arguments presented by Mayor Tom Leppert in his quest to bid out the contracts for the food and retail concessions at Dallas Love Field Airport is that no one’s really interested in the 46 percent of the square footage at the brand-spanking new terminal that’s scheduled for…
With his broad shoulders squeezed in tightly next to Chuck Greenberg, Texas Rangers president Nolan Ryan looked like he’d rather be tossing cow pies at the side of a barn or chasing snow monkeys than sitting in Fort Worth federal bankruptcy court this morning. But that’s exactly were he was,…
As Representative Dan Branch told us yesterday afternoon shortly after addressing the delegation from John Carona’s senate district, what a difference two years has made for state Republicans, whose attitude has changed since 2008’s Republican Party of Texas convention in Houston. “There seems to be a lot more positive feeling…
Former stud catching prospect Taylor Teagarden had all the credentials to be a star in Arlington, but injuries and inconsistency have derailed his ability to fulfill his promise. A whopping 17 strikeouts and only one hit in 27 at-bats this year forced Texas to send him down to Double-A Frisco…
The second meeting of the city council’s Love Field Concessions Committee is underway, and co-chair Ron Natinsky just told Assistant City Manager A.C. Gonzalez, who was giving the committee an “easel presentation,” that his posters were merely larger representations of last week’s briefing that he gave to the committee. As…
A small group of former NFL players scheduled a press conference this morning to question the NFL Players Association leadership and compare talks between the players and owners about a new collective bargaining agreement to the 1982 players’ strike. However, it wasn’t long before Jeff Nixon, an ex-Buffalo Bills defense…
Shortly after the Texas Rangers announced the team’s plans to resolve its ownership situation in federal bankruptcy court, Tom Hicks said he and his lawyers agreed “about a month ago” that this was the best way to handle the current impasse stalling the club’s sale to Rangers Baseball Express –…
It may seem premature for thousands of Jimmy Buffett fans to flood the gates of Frisco’s Pizza Hut Park on the Friday morning before a Saturday night show, but Buffett concert veteran Chuck Roberts knows the payoff is first dibs at primo tailgating spots. We found Roberts, a police officer…
As we told you yesterday, Willis Johnson is lobbying Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway on behalf of Concessions International in an attempt to secure the company lucrative concession contacts at D/FW Airport — at least, according to Johnson and the lobbyist registration form he filed with the city. Johnson, one…
Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Pauline Medrano began this afternoon’s Love Field Concession Committee meeting by letting folks know why the committee was formed — to clear up “perception issues reported by the newspaper” — and what the ground rules would be — “no political grandstanding.” Medrano, who co-chairs the committee…
In case you missed it, the nonprofit folks over at the Trinity Trust and Texas Horse Park, Inc. flew media types and others in a helicopter last week to check out the 600 acres upon which the Texas Horse Park is expected to be built. Invited guests included D’s Glenn…
It was déjà vu at this morning’s Trinity River Corridor Project Committee meeting as Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway preached about revitalizing the Cedar Crest Boulevard bridge and Carolyn Davis pressed city staff for transparency — two themes from the last get-together nearly a month ago. Although Davis has been…
For more than 40 years, Dallas County Constable Jaime Cortes says, he led an exemplary life, rising up through the ranks of law enforcement in the last decade without running into trouble. But over the course of the last nine months, Cortes claims his reputation has been “smeared tremendously” by…
In an attempt to keep Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins’s schedule private, his office has asked for an opinion from the Texas attorney general regarding a public records request for Watkins’s calendar dating to his first day in office. In a May 6 letter to Attorney General Greg Abbott,…
One year after Mayor Tom Leppert and the pro hotel’ers narrow victory at the polls over Harlan Crow and the anti-hotel folks, the Dallas Omni Convention Center Hotel is approximately half its height and construction is “on time and on budget,” according to developer Jack Matthews. “I can’t tell you…
Citing the April 26 murder of longtime Dallas Morning News delivery driver Robert Lawrence in South Oak Cliff, Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway unveiled his “Stop the Violence” program this afternoon aimed at curbing “senseless crimes.” Although he acknowledged that the crime rate has dropped in Dallas, Caraway painted a…
Those not listening to KVTT-1110 AM yesterday around 2:30 p.m. missed Mayor Tom Leppert’s appearance on Point of View, a nationally syndicated Christian conservative talk show based in Dallas. We weren’t tuned in either, but mostly because we didn’t know about it until today’s post by DMN’er Rudy Bush. As…
Ever since Mayor Tom Leppert, City Manager Mary Suhm and Trinity River Corridor Project Committee chair Dave Neumann fired off a missive in which they claimed “public safety and flood control always come first,” we’ve been trying to track down Kevin Craig, director of the Trinity project for the U.S…
