Herrman, Herrman & Guido In the past, Buzz has wondered at a recent advertising trend that cleverly equates lawyers with stupid, vicious animals and destructive machines–you know, sharks, attack dogs, Sherman tanks. (We should point out that these violent and inane ads aren’t diatribes against lawyers–they’re promotional messages paid for…
Convoluted legal questions surrounding who is allowed to know–or talk about–what is contained on the notorious Peavy Tapes could open the door to criminal investigations of former school trustee Dan Peavy and long-time DISD critic Richard Finlan. A federal prosecutor has told a judge that Peavy and Finlan may be…
After Dallas police concluded last month that Cowboys Erik Williams and Michael Irvin had been falsely accused of rape, Williams’ attorney asked investigators to give back some of the personal items police seized during their investigation. In response, police boxed up and returned some sex toys, a video camera, and…
Bouquets, and one brickbat I would like to wish Laura Miller the best as she embarks on her year-long sabbatical to spend some time with her family [“Mommie dearest,” January 23]. She will be missed. I will be looking forward to the return of her razor-edged investigative reporting. Enjoy, Ms…
Last summer, Pat Stone phoned her daughter, T.J., and told her she had something very important to talk about. Pat and her husband, Dan, were planning to visit T.J. in Virginia, and Pat wanted to make sure her daughter could carve out some time for them to be alone–no easy…
Back when the Dallas Cowboys were winning Super Bowls–instead of leading the league in the number of players suspended for drug infractions–corporate heavyweights like Nike and Pepsi were eager to court America’s Team. But this year it’s a little different. Sunday’s Super Bowl passed with no Cowboys, and the team’s…
Dan Peavy, the former Dallas Independent School District board member who was acquitted last November on bribery charges, has begun taking steps to prepare himself–and his wallet–to battle another potential criminal charge. As the Dallas Observer first reported last week, U.S. Attorney Paul Coggins has asked federal judge Jorge Solis,…
Dana “Isis” Brantley believes in the orderly design of things. You can see it in the intricate braid creations she designs in the hair of African-American women from across Dallas. So it is no accident that, for more than a year, Brantley has been fighting with state regulators to preserve…
Dan’s party line Unnoticed amid the ongoing DISD school board ruckus, former trustee Dan Peavy has moved from his far East Dallas home at 2440 Peavy Road to what he must hope is a more peaceful abode in Plano. Peavy, you may recall, resigned from the board after a racist,…
Mari-Lena Ochoa had it all figured out. “I want to be a teacher,” the 19-year-old explained earnestly, leaning over the empty seat between us to talk. “I really want to make a difference. White, Hispanic, Oriental, black–I want to help.” Nice sentiments. Wrong venue. What better place to squash one’s…
We really, really apologize Clearly, your reference to me in the recent edition of the Dallas Observer as a “lawyer” is beyond the pale [“It’s all a matter of power,” January 23]. You have referred to me as a Government Watch Dog and as a “Killer Gadfly” in the past,…
On a mid-February afternoon in 1995, the nine members of the Dallas Independent School District board were holding a work session, one of their regular informal gatherings to hash out the particulars of pending business. Among other things that day, the board faced the question of establishing permanent committees–small groups…
Dallas attorney Brian Loncar vows in his hard-to-miss TV commercials, “I’ll fight for you.” Of course, that presumes he’ll show up when the judge calls your case, and not send some coffee-fetching flunky who doesn’t know a pleading from a Post-it note. That’s a presumption you might not want to…
Is this some kind of hoax? Buzz loves it when The Dallas Morning News gets all fuss and feathers over something. And, hot damn! the editorial board–or whoever writes those unsigned opinions representing the codger’s voice of the paper–had her/his/its knickers in a bunch about the Cowboys-topless dancer hullabaloo. You…
Dallas Observer investigative reporter Laura Miller will be taking an extended break from column writing so that she can devote more time to her family. Miller, 38, will remain a member of the Observer staff and will continue to work with other writers and editors. Her weekly column will return…
Looking back, that briefcase episode should have been the first sign of trouble. It was October 1995, and I was slated to return to my job at the Dallas Observer after a 10-week maternity leave. I wasn’t anywhere near ready. As only the Secret Society of New Mothers knows, the…
More kudos for Benji I’ve been a reader of the Dallas Observer for quite a while, and I’ve come to expect quality articles that are truthful and sincere. I have felt that your articles are well thought out and researched. However, I was very disappointed in your recent article, “The…
In a small pocket of Oak Cliff, the twin steeples of Sunshine Elizabeth Chapel once rose above a neighborhood unlike any other in Dallas, signaling passersby that they had entered an area known collectively as Tenth Street. The street which gives the neighborhood its name still winds up hills, upon…
How ’bout the “Greyhound?” As any expectant couple can tell you, it’s a big, big decision: What to name the new baby. Dallas Area Rapid Transit Authority apparently didn’t realize just how big a decision. When DART’s bouncing baby, the gleaming train service between Dallas and Irving, was belatedly born…
Like their counterparts in the Dallas area, Preston Hollow Elementary School educators were excited to be selected in 1995 as a model site for the new, much-ballyhooed Voyager Expanded Learning Inc. after-school program. Instead of going home to empty houses when the regular school day ended, or killing time in…
The college football faithful may finally rest easy. The Texas Attorney General’s office has spoken, and an Aggie cannot read the Longhorn playbook. The University of Texas football team’s playbook is exempt from the state’s open records law, according to a recent ruling made by Assistant Attorney General Kay Guajardo…
If there’s one theme that emerged from the cast of characters who graced this page last year, it was cluelessness. At least that seemed to be the defense of choice for everyone from the mayor to that role model in the floor-length fur coat: ignorance, confusion, denial–and when that didn’t…
