So if this guy launches a punt and a bunch of weird things happen, what’s the net yardage? A guy wants to know. Guy named my dad. If you pin-pointed cornerback Quincy Butler, punter Jay Ottovegio, receiver Daniel Polk or quarterback Jeff Terrell as a Cinderella to make the Dallas…
Sam Merten snapped this photo yesterday in front of Chapman Motors, located at 4312 Ross Avenue near the Peak Street intersection. Said the Friend of Unfair Park who tipped us to its existence: “The whole Ross Avenue renaming controversy seemed a little, ya know, abstract until I saw the sign.”…
How many dollars are currently in your wallet, Don Hill? No wonder you can’t pay Ray Jackson, then. Don Hill’s tried all kind of ways to get out from under the feds’ indictments in the City Hall low-income-housing bribery and extortion case, including last month’s claim that federal prosecutors are…
I guess we’re supposed to feel better about the Mavs because of him. Somehow, we don’t. So our Dallas Mavericks officially re-signed Devean George yesterday. That goes in the positive category. I think? Two years ago the Mavs were an elite team coming off an NBA Finals appearance with the…
Two notes this a.m. concerning the Texas delegation’s afterthought treatment at the Democratic National Convention. First, from KERA-FM (90.1) via Capital News Connection, this report in which Dallas City Plan Commissioner and Cesar Chavez Tollway fan Neil Emmons explains why the Texans are stuck 45 minutes away from the convention…
Dallas Power & Light At this very moment, Commercial Property News is hosting the Dallas-Fort Worth Property Opportunities Conference at the Westin Galleria Dallas. So it’s no coincidence that CPN is on top of the shindig, reporting this morning about this morning’s keynote address, which was delivered by Ted Hamilton…
A troubling lead from this morning’s back-to-school report on KERA-FM (90.1): “About 30,000 students were no-shows in classrooms in the Dallas school district yesterday, the first day of the new school year.” And one mother of an H. Grady Spruce High School junior told B.J. Austin that her daughter, who’s…
Caption-writing contest time, if you don’t mind. Lance doesn’t. He’s tough. Every year, The Washingtonian surveys some 1,700 top aides on Capitol Hill — “the administrative assistants, press secretaries, legislative directors, and chiefs of committee staffs” — for its Best & Worst of Congress issue. And, turns out, U.S. Senator…
Big Rig Jig Parking a big rig in a Dallas neighborhood’s against the law — gets you a $25 ticket and, more than likely, a tow to a city pound — unless it’s being loaded or unloaded. Only, seems some folks are finding more and more commercial vehicles and one-and-a-half-tonners…
Big, big science news this morning: Neanderthals weren’t as dumb as they looked. It’s in all the U.K. papers today, as one member of the team that made the discovery that stupidity was not the Neanderthals’ cause of extinction hails from the University of Exeter; the discovery also turns up…
On the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Barack Obama’s campaign is busying itself with the handiwork of Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons, who, as we noted yesterday, financed an ad linking the Democratic presidential candidate with former Weather Underground-er William Ayers. As Time noted late this afternoon,…
The Marcus House, as it looked during construction in 1938 On this slow news day, more blasts from the past — only, this is history heretofore unwritten. Two weeks ago, Unfair Park broke the news that Marc and Patty Lovvorn were going to tear down the house Stanley Marcus built…
The star of the June 1944 Woodrow Wilson Senior Class production of And Came the Spring, in which he played Jeffrey Hartman If you know Nicky de Larios — Woodrow Wilson High School, Class of ’44 — please let the former cheerleader know I have her yearbook. Seems to be…
The city’s decision to strike a deal with Cimolai, an Italian steel manufacturer, to save a few bucks while building the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge is what led to a possible 10-month delay in the project. Apparently, the deal was so sweet that Cimolai is having “difficultly finding the financial…
It’s been mentioned a couple of times on FrontBurner, including today: Folks wake up in the morning, only to find their car or SUV is missing all four wheels. The D boys have mentioned a few locations — Preston Hollow, University Park, Abrams Road and Northwest Highway, Lovers Lane and…
Not much about this afternoon’s meeting of the city’s Commission on Productivity and Innovation seems out of the ordinary — save for the tiny note at the end of the agenda concerning a new item being introduced at meeting’s end. It’s but three simple words: “Property Tax Holiday.” Which seemed…
The above photo was taken at 10:49 this morning, from the City of Dallas’s Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge Construction Web cam. We peek at it every so often; Schutze can spend hours on the thing, eyes glued and slightly glazed. (At least, I think that’s what he’s looking at.) Only,…
In a April 2004 review of the Dallas Convention Center, the City Auditor’s Office determined that the Department of Convention and Event Services wasn’t using software — called Convention Center Resource Information and Control System — purchased in 2001 that was intended to “enhance event scheduling and processing” at the…
Apologies for the delay this a.m., but there was a good reason: The boy’s first day as a Dallas Independent School District student. Heck of a moment: He was cool, calm, excited but not nervous. His father, slapped in the face by the familiar smell of DISD hallways on the…
That’s it, the bandwagon is over-booked. Sent the kid back to school this morning. The Olympics are over. Josh Hamilton’s Triple Crown bid – remember that? – is just a fading, fuzzy summer memory. In other words: Are you ready for some football?! High school and colleges kick it off…
Harold Simmons, a vision in white Lots of Harold Simmons mentions in the news today; it started last night, actually and one can’t imagine why, judging from the ad after the jump, which links Barack Obama with former Weather Underground-er William Ayers, a subject discussed and more or less dismissed…
Rest in peace, No. 68. Sobering news this afternoon as former Dallas Cowboy Frank Cornish was found dead last night in his Southlake home of an apparent heart attack. Cornish, who would’ve been 41 next month, was just yesterday talking to former Cowboys about an upcoming mini-reunion. Players like Larry…
