Back in December, Business Resources Corp. filed suit against Dallas County claiming officials hired Virginia-based GTSI to preserve county docs (birth records, death certificates, etc.) at a cost of $17.5 million over seven years — even though the county didn’t take bids on the contract and GTSI doesn’t do the…
Rudy Bush directs our attention back to the musings of Patrick “Car Free” Kennedy, whose “perfectly happy workout” we interrupted on Monday when Kim returned from Dallas City Hall with the news that Ron Natinsky, head of the Economic Development Committee, wanted to make sure the new downtown Dallas plan…
The in-box is filling up with NBA All-Star Weekend party announcements — no actual invites, though, which is just as well, as that’s the weekend I’m planning a spiritual retreat or a lost weekend of drinking, either/or. The most recent: a three-day “epic extravaganza” spread out at the Ghostbar and…
I’ve asked Dallas Area Rapid Transit spokesman Morgan Lyons if he wants to rethink this idea:Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) is inviting its customers to show off their love connection this Valentines and “give us a kiss” by e-mailing a photo of themselves and a loved one kissing onboard a…
Perhaps you recall the recent tale of Inequa Rushing and Waylon McDonald, who, late last month, robbed a bank at East R.L. Thornton Freeway and Grand Avenue — and left a baby in the backseat, not to mention ID in the parking lot. It merited a brief mention in the…
The indictment against Terri Hodge has always looked much more damning than the evidence facing the rest of the gang involved in the City Hall corruption case, and it turns out that, well, it’s all true. Hodge admitted as much in her factual résumé, which she signed Monday as part…
For the second time in a little over two years, Movie Gallery — the parent company of Hollywood Video, which still has a couple of locations left locally but not for long — filed for bankruptcy this morning and plans to shutter 805 “poorly performing” stores out of 2,415. It’s…
The story’s circulating this morning that Terri Hodge is this close to pleading guilty in her involvement in the Dallas City Hall federal corruption case and is stepping down from the Texas House of Representatives. Unfair Park has been unable to reach anyone in the U.S. Attorney’s Office handling the…
Stay tuned later today for my interfacing with new Texas Rangers owner Chuck Greenberg and details of a romantic moment that went horribly wrong. (And no, smartass, those are two separate stories.) But for now, in recent losses Dirk Nowitzki has taken one and zero shots in the fourth quarter…
Word out of Major League Baseball HQ is that yesterday’s meeting among the creditors concerned about Tom Hicks’s deal to sell the Texas Rangers to Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan yielded little of note. In short: “no deal killer,” says here, which means the $530-$570 million transaction is still on…
When last we linked to one of Brother Bill Holston’s KERA-FM essays, he was giving gratitude for the things he takes for granted in the days before Thanksgiving. This morning, the attorney and good Friend of Unfair Park is honoring his heroes, among them two familiar names seldom recognized on…
Food-relief agencies across the country spent the better part of today poring over documents that tell them what they already know and have known for months, if not longer: There are more people going hungry in this country than there were in 2006, the last time Feeding America commissioned a…
DeSoto resident Pamela Bradley, who once worked for the city of Dallas, feels cheated by the education system. She was raised to believe that education leads to better jobs, so she got a master’s degree and started a Ph.D. program. But now Bradley finds herself in this disheartening position: Her annual…
An old friend stopped by Keller’s Cactus Jack’s on Lemmon Avenue and discovered that the longtime burger joint is closing this week; SaturdayFriday’s the last day after 28 years, so stop on by and say hi or bye, says Jon Keller. After that, he’s leasing the property to a California-based…
Rumor ’round town is that another TV show’s setting up production offices in Dallas — this one, from the man responsible for everything from Armageddon and Top Gun to the C.S.I. franchise, among his myriad hit teevee shows. And, yes, that’s one Jerry Bruckheinmer, the man who once told me…
The Dallas Mavericks fell apart in the fourth quarter last night in Utah. In the last 12 minutes they had more turnovers (7) than baskets (5). Not good. A lead vanished into a four-point deficit and, ultimately, a blowout loss to a Jazz team playing without Carlos Boozer. Yikes. That’s…
As promised last week, here’s the latest “virtual fly-through” of the Woodall Rodgers deck park — which was playing on a screen outside yesterday’s press conference announcing Chase’s $3-million donation for The Promenade. Our thanks to Kristen Gray and Joanna Singleton at The Park for shooting it our way. They…
Mavs man Matt Miller sent word this morning: Tomorrow at the American Airlines Center, before Mavs-Warriors, the team will debut a “a one-of-a-kind, life-size Dirk Nowitzki bobblehead.” And it can be yours: The Dallas Mavericks are raffling off the sucker at five bucks a pop; tickets go on sale beginning…
After the jump you’ll find the entirety of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s 2010-2011 season schedule — including everything from Marvin Hamlisch’s debut as pops conductor in August to the Classical Series’ bow in early September to Liza Minnelli in October to the Masters of Film Music series sked. The list…
I saw early this morning that Michael Lindenberger was teasing potentially big news for Dallas via U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood pending announcement concerning FY2011 budget expenditures. Which I thought odd, given that the budget, already posted online, said Dallas was simply getting $86 million in Section 5309 New Starts…
Jay Novacek was always a unique dude. Okay, I’ll say it, he was a little weird. During my time covering the Dallas Cowboys for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram he was always friendly, yet sorta edgy. For example, one year on the eve of training camp at St. Edward’s University in Austin Novacek…
Tomorrow, the city council will take a long, hard look at how federal community development block grants are spent — or, in this case, not. According to the briefing document, there are 109 already approved projects and programs still sitting on $7 million in federal money that was supposed to…
