As he prepared to board an airplane bound for Austin at approximately 6 p.m. on Wednesday night, Dallas County Judge Jim Foster received a flurry of phone calls related to the now-infamous meeting that Dallas County Constable Jaime Cortes had with approximately 30 of his deputies. With Dallas County Sheriff…
A few of the Friends of Unfair Park have asked in the past if we could post the memo package sent to the mayor and council at week’s end. Sure, when they’re interesting. Take, for instance, this week’s package, which deals, in part, with Angela Hunt and Pauline Medrano’s attempt…
For whatever reason I read every single city council briefing package and memo — man’s got to have hobbies. But till today, I’d never seen one generated by a single citizen’s appearance in front of the council, maybe because most who sign up to speak at the horseshoe are usually…
It looks like Dallas Independent School District’s plans to demolish Oak Cliff Christian Church to make way for new tennis courts — maybe as soon as tomorrow — will have to wait at least two more weeks.This morning, Judge Martin Hoffman denied DISD’s motion to dismiss the temporary restraining order,…
Late last week, during all the hubbub over the city’s decision to sue the Museum of the American Railroad in order to get it out of Fair Park by August 1, no one ever bothered to ask Frisco officials where they stood on the time line without end. So I…
If you’re among those who dial up 103.3 on your FM dial every morning at 11 a.m. expecting to hear Michael Irvin, do not be surprised when you hear Ben Rogers and Jeff Wade — otherwise known as Ben and Skin — instead today. ESPN spokesman Josh Krulewitz tells Unfair…
At Wednesday’s meeting of the Dallas City Council, Pauline Medrano and Angela Hunt will ask their colleagues to do downtown denizens a solid and expand the parking-lot booting ordinance immediately. No doubt you recall: After months of back-and-forthing with parking-lot owners, the council finally decided last August that lot operators…
So says the latest issue of Men’s Health, which surveys the nation’s 100 largest “Drunkest Cities” based upon how many die annually from booze-soaked livers and alcohol-fueled car crashes, the reported binge-drinking rates (yes, but reported by whom?), the number of under-the-influence arrests reported by police and the severity of…
Reaction to Terri Hodge’s plea deal with the feds continues to trickle in, with Angela Hunt telling us this afternoon that she has withdrawn her support of Hodge “for obvious reasons” and now supports Eric Johnson in the March 2 Democratic primary. (Update: Hunt, Craig Watkins, Royce West, Rafael Anchia…
Yes, yes it is Sportsy Thursday. So, then, from arena football to actual football …Late last night I was futzing around on eBay looking for something related to something else I’m working on when I came across this odd collectible: the contract allowing the Dallas Cowboys to hold their very…
Looks like it’s Sportsy Thursday ’round here. So, then, from puck to ball …Back in December we broke the news that the Dallas Desperados were on the comeback trail, along with the rest of an Arena Football League sidelined during the ’09 season. Turns out, the team that’s scheduled to…
It took a while, but Lisa LeMaster just sent a statement addressing The Hockey News’s report that Tom Hicks, fresh off closing a deal to sell the Texas Rangers, is also looking for someone to either invest in the team or take the Dallas Stars off his hands altogether. In…
No Cowboys? No problem. We’re still watching Sunday’s Super Bowl, right? Still ingesting chips, dips, beer, bets on the coin flip and, of course, commercials. The ads had better be good. At $3 million per 30-second spot, you’d think they’d be great. That’s right, three friggin’ million. Bailout? Layoffs? Madoff? No worries, apparently…
The pre-lunch portion of yesterday morning’s Dallas City Council briefing offered up at least one heartwarming, non-yawn-inducing moment as one of Dallas’s homeless was recognized, if at least for a day, as the record-setting track-and-field star he once was for the city. After a string of other awards and recognitions…
So reports The New York Post, which says one Shawn Corey Carter filed a $3.7 million suit in New York on Wednesday concerning a hotel he was trying to get off the ground in Chelsea. The two defendants are Highland Capital Management and NexBank, both HQ’d here and both of…
[jump] Three thumbs up from me. Why? No cowboy hats … or spurs … or horses … or rope … …
I just returned from an out-of-the-office interview to find in the in-box the logo for next year’s Super Bowl in Arlington. I asked Super Bowl XLV communications director Tony Fay who designed this. He responded: the National Football League. Coulda sworn Jerry did it…
Democratic precinct chair and former City Plan Commissioner Neil Emmons was certainly not alone in his support of Terri Hodge in her bid for an eighth term in Texas House District 100, as Hodge’s endorsements included several of the city’s most notable politicos. But even after Hodge pleaded guilty in…
Tom Hicks has twice denied reports that he’s selling the Dallas Stars — in May of last year, when he first acknowledged that he was considering putting the Texas Rangers on the market, then again in October, when a report surfaced in the Globe and Main that lenders wanted him…
It’s a no-brainer that Dallas Cowboys running back Emmitt Smith will get voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame this weekend at Super Bowl XLIV in Miami. The question is, will he enter Canton as the NFL’s all-time best running back or simply the running back with the most…
Way back in ’97, and again last June, we told you the story of Sue Pope — a Midlothian rancher who became legendary for taking on pollution-spewing TXI — and the genesis of the fund named in her honor, which doles out green to groups cleaning up the air in…
We’re screwed: Interesting story inside The Dallas Morning News on Tuesday about cuts in the federal budget for the Dallas Trinity River levee project. We’re not saying the Morning News story is any kind of propaganda. Just saying there’s more there than meets the eye. Here is what is sort…
