This morning, The New York Times’ editorial page insists the tale of Ernestina Mondragon, the first of 39 drivers ticketed by Dallas police for not speaking English to speak up, is merely a symptom of a larger issue: “how local police departments should deal with recent immigrants.” (And, no, the…
I remember watching Mark Aguirre go off on the Denver Nuggets in March of 1984. In scoring 24 points in a quarter, the ball just seem to magically, directly commute from hand to hoop. He launched a wing jumper and you knew it was going in. Measured. Smooth. Beautiful. Nothing,…
This’ll most likely be our one and only item about the race for the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees — because, judging by the early-voting numbers, well, not too many folks seem to be all that interested. Take the hotly contested District 1 race, for instance: Incumbent Edwin…
Speaking of the Dallas Independent School District and grant money …I was poking around the briefing agenda for this week’s meeting of the board of trustees and noticed this intriguing item: NASA — yes, that NASA, not this NASA — is giving the DISD, via the Foundation for Community Empowerment,…
It’s a common scenario: an “A” elementary school student suddenly becomes a “C” middle-schooler. What happened? According to local brain health researchers, your child is suffering from information overload. “He was so overwhelmed by the amount of information he was trying to stuff in,” says Dr. Sandra Bond Chapman, chief…
Apparently, somebody — make that quite a few somebodies — wants VH1 talking head and master of the bizarre tweet, Paul F. Tompkins, to come to Dallas. So much so there’s a Facebook group specifically for that purpose. Just today I’ve gotten three e-mails and two suggestions to join the…
Like the BCS, style points count. So do geeky, black-and-white stats such as touchdowns and quarterback rating. Wins and losses? Definitely. Leadership? Uh-huh. When it comes to my weekly NFL Quarterback Rankings – if I had one of those little encircled R’s to signify a trademarked idea, it’d go here – the…
Yesterday, just after Angela Hunt posted her lengthy essay titled “Ethics Reform at City Hall,” Jim wrote that “we can thank council members Hunt, Ann Margolin and Linda Koop for adding the only real teeth in this poor gum-smacker.” So happens that on Monday, Margolin also weighed on the subject…
Dallas has developed a growing reputation as one of the few cities in the country to treat prostitutes as victims, whether through unique programs for under-age targets of human trafficking or specialty courts that help convicted sex workers create new lives. And so, two years after the Dallas Police Department…
When A.H. Belo Corporation released its third-quarter financials on Friday, included high in the press release was this note: “As part of the Company’s ongoing efforts to realign its business and reduce expenses, The Dallas Morning News will close the packaging facility as it consolidates production operations into a single…
Perhaps you recall Lee Hancock’s multiple-part series in The Dallas Morning News in 2006 concerning The Battle for 4949 Swiss; a riveting read for those in need of a refresher. On Friday, the local story goes national: ABC’s 20/20 has prepped a piece on Mary Ellen Bendtsen and asks, as…
Roy Williams is the Dallas Cowboys’ third-highest paid player. And their fourth-leading receiver. So I ask you, what the hell is going on here? It may sound like nitpicking on a team that’s won three in a row heading into Sunday night’s showdown against the Eagles, but to win in Philly…
Speaking of the Trinity River …Bad news for those expecting to fish the river this week for cash and prizes: We got word from Dallas City Hall late last night that the Trinity Commons Foundation has canceled the Carpe Diem Classic Fishing Tournament and Fun River Paddle, which was on…
The city wasn’t kidding around about fast-tracking the Trinity Standing Wave whitewater-maker: Less than two months after the $3-million project resurfaced in a Trinity River Corridor Project Committee presentation, the city council’s gearing up to award the construction contract. That’ll happen on November 9, according to this morning’s sneak peak…
If your name is Newy Scruggs, Laura Dean-Mooney or Jesus H. Christ, you have permission to stop reading. The rest of you, I’d like you to think back to the last time you were driving while drunk, schnockered, intoxicated, tipsy, under the influence or, if you prefer, merely buzzed. Last…
This is Anfield, devoted to all things Liverpool FC, posted today a rather lengthy laundry list of all the things Tom Hicks has done wrong, far as Reds fans are concerned, since he bought the club with George Gillett more than two years ago. The sum-up — headlined “Hicks &…
Apparently, there was some miscommunication at the offices of A. Larry Ross Communications, the firm that handles publicity for Get Motivated Seminars, Inc. Last week, as you will recall, Ross’s office sent out a press release announcing that Tamara Lowe, co-founder of Get Motivated, wasn’t at all happy with some…
You are aware that are there elections tomorrow, right? Probably not, unless you’re in a district of the Dallas Independent School District with a seat on the board of trustees that’s ripe for the takin’. (What constitutional amendments?) Hence Bruce Sherbet’s prediction that no more than 3 percent of Dallas…
A few weeks ago, a good Friend of Unfair Park asked to borrow my copy of Dallas Rediscovered: A Photographic Chronicle of Urban Expansion 1870-1925. Needed it for a research project. Half-Price didn’t have a copy; dunno ’bout the library. But, sure, I said. Go ahead; just don’t lose it…
On Friday, Karl Zavitkovsky, head of the city’s Office of Economic Development, mentioned to Unfair Park that The Real Estate Council had hired St. Louis-based housing developer McCormack Baron Salazar to evaluate the potential for development along the DART Green Line in Fair Park-South Dallas and the section of the…
After attending last Tuesday’s sluggish opener at American Airlines Center, I didn’t exactly think the Dallas Mavericks were a hideous outfit that would miss the playoffs. But I certainly didn’t see them beating the Los Angeles Lakers. Maybe: 1) The Washington Wizards don’t suck. 2) The Mavs don’t either. Hung…
No doubt you’ve already heard (and just pretended you didn’t): Daughtry’s landed the halftime gig at Cowboys Stadium on Thanksgiving Day, the annual kickoff for the Salvation Army’s Red Kettle campaign. Which prompted this locker-room meeting of the musical minds on Friday: Free Reign, meet Daughtry — which, apparently, is…
