On June 26, 2005, on a Sunday morning after church, attorney John Barr called 80 of his firm’s lawyers to a meeting at his office in Oak Cliff. Everyone was invited except Don Hill, who was unaware his colleagues were gathering to discuss his future. A few years earlier, Barr…
The guys who line up at the Garland Day Labor Center usually get a day or two of work when a contractor pulls up to the curb. Sometimes a job stretches to a few weeks or, if they’re lucky, months. So when a man named Victor Varela drove up in…
Late last week, lawmakers in Austin briefly considered seven bills relating to stem cell research, which could result in treatments for diseases such as Parkinson’s or juvenile diabetes—and voted to table all but one of them. The one bill that could still find its way to the House floor this…
Cheesy: Cheese is coming, and it’s going to eat your children. Don’t believe us? Then ask The Dallas Morning News, which this past Sunday declared a “growing crisis” over cheese in Dallas. Gouda God, whatever will we do? Wait. Wrong cheese. And wrong crisis. Calm yourself, but just a bit…
The Hangin’ Judge Arbitrary: As a practicing attorney in Dallas and a victim of one of Judge Knize’s arbitrary rulings (“Bully on the Bench,” by Glenna Whitley, April 12), I can wholeheartedly empathize with Finn, his client and all others who have had the opportunity to practice before Knize. It…
Jim Schutze looks just like this, more or less. That’s what he keeps telling us. I see there’s a little discussion taking place about who people might wanna vote for in next month’s mayoral election. (No votes for Jennifer Gale yet, shame.) But let’s say you want — you need…
I know we just posted Sam Coats’ anti-Trinity River toll road spot, but we just found another one of the mayoral candidate’s ads, and it kinda tickles us — intentionally, we suppose. The guy’s just so aw-shucksy, so down-homey, so old…sorry, meant to say old-fashioned. We just have one question:…
Illustration by Brian Stauffer So, it’s official: All 53 illegal immigrants charged with fraud after the December raid at Swift & Co.’s Cactus meatpacking plant have pled guilty in federal court in Amarillo. They face five to 10 years in prison and fines of up to $250,000 for using the…
…in a new TV spot in which, once more, Coats tells us he’s against the Trinity River toll road — or at least all for a toll road referendum. Dig the folksy music. Dig it hard. Then head over to Sharon Boyd’s Web site to see Max Wells’ latest flier,…
The Lufkin Daily News weighs in this morning with a piece about the Neches River in East Texas receiving most-endangered status from American Rivers. No surprise, of course: There are those fer the Fastrill Reservoir and Dallas getting its grubby mitts on the precious agua, and there are those agin’…
We were perusing the Arcade Fire’s North American tour dates — no Dallas gig yet, at least through June 2 — and noticed something interesting: Dallas’ own Annie Clark, better known as Unfair Park fave St. Vincent, is opening for the indie kids’ favorite Neon Bible-thumpers at two spots along…
With all due apologies to Marty Turco, we now blame someone else for the Stars’ 3-1 hole. This is why hockey sucks: Take away the names and numbers from the sweaters — sweaters, yeah, that’s another reason — and Mike Modano looks like a non-impact scrub against the Vancouver Canucks…
If you don’t own a BlackBerry, well, you probably don’t care that some 8 million users worldwide are having big problems with their devices, oh, right about now — with no fix in the foreseeable future. (Update: Service is back up. Whew.) To me, frankly, the most interesting thing about…
TXU this morning issued a statement that the company’s done shopping for takers: “No proposal was received that could reasonably be expected to result in a proposal superior to the definitive merger agreement announced February 26, 2007 with an investor group led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and Texas…
In Dubai, they ski inside. Which seems totally natural. You can Ski Dubai. Might as well be able to ski Fort Worth. About a year ago, we mentioned that Jeff Green, the chief executive of Bearfire Group, was looking to build somewhere in Dallas the mammoth CoolZone Winterplex, where it’d…
All your comments from the past 14 months are being restored as you read this. Turns out we lost, oh, about a thousand of them during yesterday’s transition. That means that for the next few hours, as we rebuild the Midway, you will not be able to access any Unfair…
Low on dough, Don Hill’s finally talking about that danged ol’ FBI investigation. Yeah, right — what FBI investigation? Well, he brought it up. This afternoon, at a mayoral forum hosted by the Stemmons Corridor Business Association, Don Hill mentioned that he has been the subject of an FBI investigation…
Apparently, you might have missed Lil’ Wayne’s auditions — yeah, like Lil’ Wayne even knows he has a TV show. Did you miss the Lil’ Wayne reality show auditions on Saturday, for Lil’s new show Making the Next Hit? Have you spent your days cursing your misfortune, sure that you’re…
Brian Harkin Coulda sworn he said this yesterday, but Sam Coats is gonna say it again, dagnabit: He wants The People to vote on the Trinity River toll road. See, he loves the Trinity River Project (says Coats, “I’m a strong supporter of the Trinity River Project”), and he’s all…
Stan Richards Well, both AdAge and AdWeek have confirmed that Hyundai Motor America has found itself a new national creative agency — and it’s San Francisco-based Goodby, Silverstein & Partners. Now, why should you care? Well, you probably don’t, unless you work at The Richards Group, which lost the account…
For the Mavs, tonight it’s — yawn — game No. 81. For the Golden State Warriors, it’s the most important event in 13 years. In other words: Psst, hey, buddy, wanna buy a watch? No? OK then, how about I sell you a tip. After watching the Stars sleepwalk against…
This morning, the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit American Rivers released its list of “America’s Most Endangered Rivers of 2007,” and sitting at No. 6 on the list is the Neches River in East Texas. Why? Well, you probably know the answer, but says the American Rivers press release in its long…
