Back in September, we said the race to replace District 13 council member Mitchell Rasansky (who’s leaving because of term limits) was all but over as Ann Margolin announced a jaw-dropping list of endorsements to go along with her experience on the Dallas City Planning and Zoning Commission, Parkland Hospital…
You’d think with A.H. Belo’s ongoing fiscal woes that Robert Decherd hisself would make every effort to get The Dallas Morning News to folks who actually want home delivery. Alas, not so much, says Laura Bush in an interview set to air this evening on ABC’s World News with Charles…
At the end of January, state Sen. Bob Deuell of Greenville introduced S.B.No. 605, which would dramatically alter the Texas Moving Image Industry Incentive Program — by, well, actually offering incentives. Right now, the state has but $22 million to give to folks looking to shoot their movies or TV…
Enjoyed lunch today rubbing elbows with Pro Football Hall of Famers and pretending to be all casual and comfortable at the well-to-do Fort Worth Club. Reason? Don’t know if you’ve heard, but Super Bowl XLV is coming to North Texas. According to the countown clock I was given, in fact, it arrives in 709…
Pick-Up Poker, Inc. is a Dallas-based company incorporated last December that plans on leasing players “furnished poker rooms … at very inexpensive rates” (a dollar per every 15 minutes) and on “a pseudo-nonprofit basis,” whatever that means. At least, that’s what Pick-Up Poker says in its lawsuit against the state…
The Texas Department of Transportation announced this morning that LBJ Development Partners will be responsible for the so-called New LBJ Freeway — which, as we pointed out in September, will feature among its renovations six managed toll lanes sunk smack in the middle. TxDOT spokesman Tony Hartzel, the former Dallas…
Spring has sprung. Look out your window. And turn on your radio. Not only is it supposed to hit 80 degrees here today, but the Texas Rangers make their Spring Training debut on new weekday home 105.3 The Fan in, oh, about three hours. I know yesterday was the unofficial official opener…
On Monday, Schutze mentioned Mayor Tom’s town hall meeting tonight at Harold Wendell Lang Sr. Middle School. A Friend of Unfair Park sends along the poster for tonight’s event, where you can also pick up a half-sleeve tee, 2008-’09 “Hands Across America” headbands and official bootlegs from Tianjin…
While his colleagues assembled at City Hall, council member and Build the Hotel’er Ron Natinsky spent yesterday morning at the Farmers Branch Recreation Center selling the convention center hotel to approximately 40 members of the Preston West Republican Women’s Club. Several of the audience members aren’t Dallas residents and can’t…
Did not see that coming. Yesterday, first thing, I pointed out Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway’s call to arms — meaning, of course, his call for folks to part with their firearms in exchange for 50 bucks’ worth of Kroger groceries Saturday morning at Reunion. Shortly after that, on…
All right, I’m off to a fancy schmancy brunch in Fort Worth this morning – more on that this afternoon – so I gotta make this snappy. Too bad, because I could spend all day trying to dissect your Dallas Mavericks. Down. Up. Down. Up. You follow? Just when you’re ready…
“Getting to No,” by Jim Schutze, February 12 Blame Uncle Sammy As a native and resident of New Orleans who lost everything in Hurricane Katrina, I was mortified to see comments by your columnist Jim Schutze. He made disparaging, false comments about New Orleans while discussing a project which is…
The soldiers move through the wheat field, scanning the windswept plain for signs of trouble. There are six of them, dressed in fatigues and body armor, wearing the sunglasses and bushy beards popular among the Special Forces. The only thing they can hear is the rustling of wheat stalks. They…
Sex=death: The good news, for all you Texas parents out there, is that the state’s public schools are not teaching your kids that babies are delivered by water fowl or that “touching yourself down there” leads to blindness. At least as far as we know they aren’t. Though, to judge…
Perhaps you read Schutze’s column “Democratic County Judge Jim Foster May be the Latest Target in the Inland Port Battle” in last week’s paper version of Unfair Park. An excerpt, for those who did not:Foster took a tough stance against [state Sen. Royce] West and [Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley]…
I know, I’m asking for it. But Dallas Independent School District spokesman Jon Dahlander just sent over a few photos of George and Laura Bush making “a surprise visit this morning to their neighborhood school, Dallas ISD’s John J. Pershing Elementary,” where he hung out for more than an hour…
Okay, let’s stop the belittling and the praising and the story-telling and get down to it. With his reign turning 20 today, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is coming under intense scrutiny. As in, will his legacy be positive or negative? There are, of course, pros and cons … Positives…
Kenneth Hughes said Good Morning, America this morning, because, well, that’s what happens to guys from Garland whose wife and daughter hire a hitman to off dear ol’ Dad. Says Hughes, sure, he could believe his 31-year-old daughter would want to kill him. But his 56-year-old wife? “No way.” Why…
That’s the council member’s assessment, at least, in the wake of yesterday’s news that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has rated “unacceptable” 34 of 170 areas in the Trinity River levees. An excerpt from the piece she just posted to her Web site:The fact is, this toll road project…
Late last night, ’round 11:45, I was finishing some work and decided to check out Quake Live, id’s browser version of its 13-year-old first-person shoot-’em-up franchise. Local company aside, I used to dig Quake back in June of ’96. Took but a second to register, but, as you can see,…
A friend of Unfair Park looking to own a summer home (for no more than a few thou, cheapskate) sends word that she’s camping out this weekend at the Hyatt Regency. That’s because a few hundred foreclosed properties are being auctioned off starting Saturday, and our Friend’s itching to snag…
On this bittersweet crappy day of mourning – the 20th anniversary of Tom Landry’s firing – thought I’d rummage through my junk and find some old Cowboys’ stuff. Stuff from a happier time. Stuff weaved around Super Bowl trophies. Stuff involving Hall of Fame heroes. Stuff from an era when…
