The Texas Rangers just confirmed what everybody already knew: Eric Nadel is a bad ass.The team announced at a press conference this afternoon that the longtime radio broadcaster, the voice that has narrated, if not propelled, its climb into Major League Baseball’s upper ranks, is the 2012 inductee into the…
The Washington Blade, D.C.’s main LGBT news outlet, is reporting that Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson has placed Chief of Staff Murat Gokcigdem on leave following questions about a 2010 e-mail.According to the piece, staffer Chris Crowe was seeking a letter of recommendation from Johnson for a position in Obama’s Treasury Department…
With early voting for the May 29 primary election already underway, and with the federal government’s tet-a-tet with Texas over its 2011 voter ID law far from settled, the ACLU of Texas wants to remind you that no, you don’t need to show an ID to vote and if a…
Police rolled into the roundabout encircling Kelly Gordon Rogers’ fountain at his sprawling estate in Frisco recently, with warrants charging him with money laundering, securities fraud and aggravated theft in a $2.8 million oil and gas rip-off. The indictments, issued by a Collin County grand jury, provide a laundry list…
Four years have passed since Trinity East signed on as the largest gas lease-holder with the city of Dallas, and the company still doesn’t know when it will be allowed to drill its first well — if ever. As the company’s name suggests, Trinity East wants to drill for natural…
We know a lot more about the string of recent armed robberies at the Katy Trail since the Dallas Police Department initially released some details on the incidents yesterday. We know, for example, that police think all were committed by a pair of black men in their 20s who were…
You’re probably still recovering from this weekend’s news that GCB, the all-cartoon character depiction of Dallas’s blonde and faithful, has been canceled. One Million Moms couldn’t be more pleased. They’re the American Family Association-backed protest group who’s been calling for the big-haired heads of the show’s cast since it first…
At some point, the vacant triangle of land running along the west side of Central Expressway just north of Lemmon — the plot where the McKinney Avenue Trolley recently laid down its new turntable — will house tall buildings, mostly offices, 30 and 40 stories high.That’s the idea at least,…
The brief but magisterial career of Josh Hamilton’s magic baseball bat came to a tragic end when the slugger cracked it during his final plate appearance against the Los Angeles Angels on Sunday.Hamilton used the bat to pound four home runs into the stands of Camden Yards in Baltimore during…
Question: Is Jim Schutze a prophet, or does does the city just go to him for its marching orders? Just a few short hours ago, he was grousing about the piddling response by the Dallas Police Department to a string of armed robberies on the Katy Trail.Immediately DPD officers, who…
Congressman Ralph Hall, the near-nonagenarian, oldest serving member of Congress, who was elected to things five years after World War II ended, just turned 89 years old. What do you give the man who has everything — a powerful committee chair; a devilish sense of humor (he loves Mormons!); and…
Oh. Right. That. After all the candidate forums and the radio debates and the mayor-izen endorsements, it turned out that the roughly 117 people who care about the politics of Dallas Independent School District were just extras in the occasional stage play put on by the North Dallas elite, who…
NorthPark mall can suck my ass w/ this 6 o’clock curfew bullshit!!#wtfisthis— ♥0V0♥X’0♥ (@_OptimisticSwag) May 10, 2012 Last week NorthPark Center, the fanciest mall outside of Vegas, announced it would institute a new curfew for teenagers: If you’re 17 and younger, no food court-ing or Forever 21-ing without a parent…
If you build it dump $82 million into it, they will come. Mayor Mike Rawlings sends word today that it’s a lock: The annual, traffic-snarling blood feud between the University of Texas and Oklahoma University known as the Red River Shootout will be played in the Cotton Bowl at least…
If you are one of the 18 million or so Texans who have health insurance, you may find something unusual in your mailbox this summer: an envelope from your insurance company stuffed with cash or, more likely, a check. That’s when the provision of the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare)…
Last summer — the state’s hottest and driest on record — brought Texas ranchers to their knees. Rains have revived parts of the state, especially the east. But 50 miles west of Fort Worth and further, the drought varies from severe to exceptional. So, what’s in store for us this…
Prime Prep Academy, the charter school co-founded by former Cowboy Deion Sanders, recently accepted more than 1,100 students for its inaugural school year, and hundreds of those students are slated to attend its campus in Oak Cliff. The question is whether that campus will even be available to the school…
While his vision might not be as far-reaching as Deltron’s, incoming DISD chief Mike Miles outlined his vision for the future Thursday in “Destination 2020,” his first presentation to the board. The main job of the district, Miles said, is to “prepare students for college or for a Year 2020…
This week’s feature tells the story of Debbie Jones, a Richardson woman who was raped and robbed at knifepoint in 1985, when she was 19. Soon after the crime, Jones picked Thomas McGowan out of a photo lineup. He was convicted of burglary and sexual assault and sentenced to two…
Stephen Benavides, the Occupy Dallas protester arrested on suspicion of assaulting a police officer during a scuffle at the November Bank of America protest, has signed a plea deal that reduces the felony to a misdemeanor resisting-arrest charge and keeps him out of jail. Benavides pleaded no contest to the…
In two days, DISD school board trustee elections will be upon us, and we of Unfair Park are way more stoked than we have any right to be. Obviously, we’re particularly excited about the District 9 race between the incumbent Bernadette Nutall and her 20-year-old challenger, Damarcus Offord. You can…
Nothing says Dallas quite an unbroken line of cars inching down a four-lane freeway from far-flung suburbs, wrapping themselves and the rest of the city in a shroud of exhaust. We live for this stuff. Why else would Dallasites spend 58 hours per year in traffic? Apparently, though, our love…
