Moments ago on The Dallas Morning News’ DALLAS ISD Blog, Kent Fischer asked the question, “Can the district borrow to fill the budget hole?” He answered it, as well: Yes, as what’s another million in interest, and just think of the goodwill it’ll buy. Alas, “Trustee Garza told me yesterday…
After the jump, Mark Cuban answers, among other questions posed by Fox New Channel’s Greta Van Susteren, “Is this a good time to buy a baseball team?” In case you were wondering given the state of the economy, about which the Dallas Mavericks’ owner has much to say. –Robert Wilonsky…
The Dallas Independent School District board of trustees will meet twice today: at their 3 p.m. “financial workshop,” then again for their regularly scheduled 5:30 p.m. meeting. It is the former, of course, that’s of most concern today, as on the agenda is Item No. 3, which reads, “Consideration and…
Josh Howard can’t be all bad. Nor Hummer owners. Right? So I’m at the Rangers’ game yesterday afternoon and there’s a smattering of fans. The die-hards, let’s call them. One, in particular, caught my eye. He was sitting down the first-base line, front row in shallow right field. With a…
Yesterday, Ed Bark had big news for those who continue to wonder what in the hell KXAS-Channel 5 was thinking when the NBC affiliate opted not to renew meteorologist Rebecca Miller’s contract back in March: She’s going to sub on KDAF-Channel 33’s 9 p.m. newscasts Thursdays and Fridays, beginning tonight…
“Swingtown,” by Mike Fisher, September 18 Here to Serve I’ve seen the self-serving claim by proponents of “the lifestyle” that American combat pilots “serviced” each other’s wives to keep them “faithful” during World War II and find it doubtful as well as abhorrent. Human beings are not animals bound by…
Never thought I’d feel sorry for a Hummer owner. Never thought I’d start a Josh Howard column with this word: Victim. But because being a racist trumps being unpatriotic and because Mark Cuban is as ballsy as he is brilliant, the Dallas Mavericks’ forward’s recent verbal flag-burning isn’t the most…
Irrational discourse: In 2004, when Iraqi terrorists beheaded American Nick Berg and posted a horrific video of the murder online, we watched it. One time. Not out of morbid curiosity, we like to think, but to get better informed about the barbarians Americans are up against. Were we wrong to…
As plans by Mayor Tom Leppert and the Dallas City Council to build a convention center hotel move forward, a petition drive that could kill the project is gathering momentum with five hoteliers leading the way, three council members opposing the city’s plans and a convention center expert accusing city…
DFW CEO Jeff Fegan Wuh-oh, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport CEO Jeff Fegan. Looks like Mayor Tom wants … an investigation! So says KTVT-Channel 11, which yesterday brought us news of DFW execs and board members’ big-ticket travel, which the airport has defended with this memo. Notes the breaking-news sounder, with…
Sam Merten Said Mayor Tom today, “If we turn our back on the convention center hotel, we’re turning our back on the City of Dallas and the future of this city.” As I awaited the beginning of today’s Build the Hotel press conference, council member Dave Neumann approached me. After…
Judge Harold Barefoot Sanders, being interviewed a few years ago by KERA’s Sam Baker The Big Boss is on his way to Northaven United Methodist Church for the 4 p.m. funeral of Judge Harold Barefoot Sanders, who died Sunday at 83 and whose obituary makes The New York Times today…
Gorgeous day. Let’s play two! On second thought, let’s just play one and call it a season. There are 16 people in the right-field upper deck here in Arlington. Counted ’em myself. That was after, of course, I spent some quality time in the Rangers’ clubhouse before today’s home finale…
Sam Merten If you don’t support the hotel, Mayor Tom will destroy you. Just got back from the big Build the Hotel pep rally in the Flag Room at City Hall, where Mayor Tom and friends announced they’ll be doing some signature gathering of their own. Apparently, they are asking…
In other movie news, the long-in-the-making Christmas on Mars — otherwise known as the Flaming Lips freakout Wayne Coyne’s been working on since 2001 — finally makes its Dallas debut October 17 and 18 at the Inwood Theatre, with two midnight showings. No doubt, this is due in part to…
Not just because his free-wheelin’, pirate-lovin’, pass-happy Texas Tech Red Raiders are up to 10th in the nation this year. I’ve always loved Leach. Way I remember it, I once even endorsed him to be Bill Parcells’ replacement as head coach of the Dallas Cowboys. “Conversate … ”? “Watch her…
USA Today has a lengthy interview with Oliver Stone today in advance of the October 17 opening of a little something called W. Clearly, the writer’s seen W, which has yet to screen for critics, and describes it thusly: “The movie portrays Bush as charming, spiritually devout and well-intentioned but…
Jeff Pearlman’s book ain’t got nothing on Thomas “Hollywood” Henderson’s 1987 autobiography Out of Control: Confessions of an NFL Casualty, in which he detailed how, during Super Bowl XIII, he kept that infamous inhaler of liquefied cocaine stashed in his uniform. But much has changed since Tom Landry cut Hollywood…
The Dallas Women’s Foundation today released a study that says, in short, “Women in the Dallas-Fort Worth region are more likely to live in poverty, less likely to own a home, more likely to earn less and less likely to get as far in their careers with equal education than…
Tom Casey, Dallas-based Blockbuster’s chief financial officer, was in New York City yesterday to lay out the company’s fiscal future during the two-day-long Thomas Weisel Partners’ Annual Consumer Conference. And Casey made the case that Blockbuster’s stores, of which there are several hundred fewer today than there were a year…
Speaking of budgets, the Dallas city council will give an okey-doke to Mary Suhm’s $2.7 billion budget today, during its busy council session. And right after the council pushes through its plan to spend money in the coming fiscal year, it’ll OK some plans to increase revenue — among them,…
He’ll be back next year. Will you? I’m headed out to Arlington today to soak up some afternoon sun, take in the Rangers’ home finale and try – yet again – to decipher what went wrong with another baseball season. (Insert jealousy here.) News – courtesy the Fort Worth Star-Telegram…
