Waste as opportunity, or waste as the perpetuation of racial and economic inequality? Unfair interference in the trash-hauling free market or the forward-looking future of refuse? Both sides have been hashing it out for a while now, but the Dallas City Council’s black members will get back to you on…
For the past six days, the Dallas Independent School District has been hosting “community meetings” on campuses deemed academically unacceptable by the Texas Education Agency — 33 in all, based, of course, on last school year’s TAKS scores. Tonight’s meeting will be held at North Dallas High School, one of…
Remember, way back in January, when then-Fort Worth Mayor Mike Moncrief and the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport were in a huff — a downright tizzy! — over Rick’s Cabaret’s plans to take off its top but a hop, skip and lap dance away from American Airlines’ HQ on the south…
This morning, the city council got its first formal look at the just-completed redistricting map proposal, Plan 16d, presented by redistricting chair Ruth Morgan and vice chair Billy Ratcliff. And during her presentation, Morgan mentioned something rather interesting: During the final stages of the redistricting process, several private meetings between…
Yesterday afternoon, the city’s gas drilling task force heard presentations (slideshows here) from three experts who explained the impact of drilling on noise levels, geology and real estate values. Which was exciting as it sounds: The meeting was moved from City Hall’s sixth floor to a lower-level auditorium, where the…
Among the 38 let go from the Dallas Morning News yesterday was Lee Hancock, who said her goodbyes on the DMNCuts website: “I am grateful for the fun it’s mostly been. I hope for better, happier days for all who remain.” It wasn’t so long ago that the newspaper ran…
The city-run Stevens Park Golf Course, the crown jewel of Oak Cliff, closed in December for renovations — not just a tiny redo, either, but a wholesale makeover that cost upwards of $8 million (using ’03 and ’06 bond money) and was intended to deal with erosion along Combs Creek,…
As we speak I’m told University of Texas president Bill Powers and athletic director DeLoss Dodds are planning an informal lunch with state power brokers at Barton Creek Country Club in Austin to discuss the feasibility of the Longhorns becoming a football independent. Hello, Notre Dame of the South? The plan goes thusly:…
With the decade anniversary of 9/11 almost here, there’s been a run of stories in every media outlet, major and minor, about both the September 11 attacks and the decade that followed. A few of those pieces, including a recent Associated Press report making the rounds, have focused on September…
No doubt Kenny Rogers is the Rangers’ best all-time left-handed pitcher. But is C.J. Wilson already No. 2? He further helped his cause Tuesday night in Tampa, somehow resisting his stupid, “instinctive” urge to bare-hand comebackers long enough to shut out the Rays in a complete-game, 8-0 victory. Combined with…
Spend this morning learning how to convert carbon dioxide into oxygen — by filtering it through algae, duh. Thanks, Param Jaggi! No, seriously. Thanks. The Plano East Senior High School senior’s a genius. Says so right here, in the latest issue of Popular Science, in which he was named one…
As many Friends of Unfair Park have reminded me in recent days, it’s been well past six weeks since I posted this. Which is why every day I get at least one reminder that reads something like the one that arrived this morning: “Call Rasansky!” All right, settle down.I left…
All day long the emails have come in, each wondering when we’ll note the layoffs currently taking place at The Dallas Morning News. Says here that 38 employees have been given their pink slips and this severance agreement intended to fend off age discrimination lawsuits like the one filed following…
As timing would have it, our 8-year-old entered third grade just as the state’s rolling out the new State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness test, which, of course, replaces the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills test, which also turned 8 this year. That means his mom and I…
For the first time since news broke that 1401 Elm was off the market, the city council got to hear all about the project — one its new owner says could be a “tipping point” for downtown. Turkish investor Mukemmel “Mike” Sarimsakci, who purchased and plans to redevelop the 1.5-million…
Those words come from Clark Hunt, who, on the soccer club’s website, pays homage to the 35-year-old Dallas Burn first-round draft pick who would become as synonymous as soccer in Dallas as Kyle Rote Jr. and Kenny Cooper, junior and senior. Bobby Rhine played for the Burn, then FC Dallas,…
10. We’ve sorta become desensitized to Oregon’s smorgasboard of uniforms with different helmets featuring gray, green, yellow and white and neon-green outlined numbers. Blame Phil Knight and Nike for those. But what about the rest of ya? The opening weekend of college football delivered some great games (see Baylor…
At the end of last week, Plano-based Dr Pepper/Seven Up Inc. filed its response to Dublin Dr Pepper’s response to corporate’s lawsuit filed in June, in which the mothership insists Dublin’s violating a licensing agreement by selling The Imperial Pure Cane Sugar-y Good Stuff outside of a six-county area. The…
When Tony Romo was sacked by the Giants’ Michael Boley last October 25 it broke his collar bone and effectively ended what was already a wobbly Cowboys’ 2010 season. It was also, remember, the result of a missed blocking assignment by a rookie. Chris Gronkowski was part of Saturday’s cuts…
We always suspected that former Dallas Morning News columnist Rod Dreher and Jim Schutze were the same person. For proof, we look no further than the Crunchy Con’s freshly minted post on The American Conservative’s website, in which he explains his pending move to the country (he’s still at the…
Speaking of lawsuits involving the city …It’s been two months since we learned of a likely resolution in the city’s case against the Museum of the American Railroad at Fair Park, which the City Attorney’s Office sued to remove in January 2010 so it could reclaim the land for State…
There are only two division races in baseball. And only one with playoff implications. As we play the regular season’s final month the Tigers, Phillies, Brewers and Braves each have leads of at least 7 games with only 20 remaining. In the AL East the Yankees lead the Red Sox by…
