First, the good news. The Dallas Fed’s most recent economic numbers show that Texas’ economy is growing. That growth is moderate, 2.4 percent for the year, but it’s better than in the country as a whole. Energy is booming; so is construction. Even the government sector is expanding slightly, in…
Even as the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System (DPFP) tries to deflect media attention from its shiny, shiny Museum Tower project, Courthouse News reports that it’s also fighting to avoid releasing information on a different luxury developer, one that it wholly owns. The pension system filed a lawsuit in…
Every year, the wealth fetishists over at Forbes compile an exhaustive list of the 400 richest Americans. It’s a rarefied club, whose admittance requires an aggregate worth in the billions. Not surprisingly, a number of Dallasites made the cut — 16 in fact. They range from oldies-but-goodies like Ross Perot,…
Patriot Tower, the I.M. Pei & Associates-designed skyscraper at St. Paul and Bryan Street that opened in 1979, has not been well loved of late. The property changed hands several times before it was sold at a foreclosure auction last year. There are 30 stories of office space that are…
If you’ve driven south on I-35 — or if you’ve ever turned onto Lawther from Northwest Highway — you’ve seen the Bucee’s billboards. The ones with the buck-toothed beaver in a red cap hawking some mysterious concoction called beaver nuggets. It’s an obnoxious marketing campaign, but it gets your attention…
Earlier this week we told you about John Jay Myers, the Libertarian Senate candidate who believes he’ll be unfairly excluded from WFAA’s planned October 2 debate. He promised to bring protesters to the station’s headquarters on Young Street, which he did today around 11. When we got there, there were…
As odious a human being as Glenn Beck is, the man is brilliant in his way. His decision a year ago to break with Fox News, move from New York to North Texas, and launch an Internet-only TV station seemed a dubious bet. The cable network is, after all, the…
The Dallas Observer: You built that. Or you can, anyway, if one of the following opportunities suits you. Clubs Editor The clubs editor researches, reports, writes and maintains the Observer’s clubs and concert listings, helping ensure that our newspaper and web site offer the city’s most comprehensive, liveliest and most…
John Jay Myers owns the Free Man, a Cajun joint in Deep Ellum. He also runs a wholesale embroidery business, has a “deep, deep mistrust of the government,” would like to legalize medical marijuana, and thinks we should bring all the U.S. troops home. And he believes Texans are being…
When Jeff Medici was a financial advisor for Fidelity in Boston, he took his corporate team to a place called F1 Boston, a sort of racing-themed conference center where they learned to work together and trust each other by doing things like changing tires on Formula 1 race cars. When…
When Debbie Denmon parted ways with WFAA last month, it wasn’t on the best of terms. The anchor/reporter had sued the station for discrimination after being passed over for a promotion in favor Shelly Slater, a thinner, white reporter. A few months after she lost, the station opted not to…
The Nasher Sculpture Center has been feuding with Museum Tower, its shiny new neighbor in the Arts District, over light, heat and reflectivity for going on six months now. At the end of July, we published a story showing that the tower isn’t the only risky real estate project the…
The Dallas Morning News’ Tumblr page is “hand-picked from among our most fascinating, interesting news and photography.” I’ll say. The photo you see here was posted there this morning, twice, along with the original poster’s description: “beautiful and classy.” The photo was reblogged from a Tumblr user named “washrangers,” whose…
It didn’t take long after the news came out for Stonelake Capital Partners to abandon an attempt to transform the short stub of La Vista Drive between Skillman and Live Oak in Lakewood into a pedestrian mall. Neighbors, it turns out, were none too happy with the proposal. Pat Carr,…
Wendy Donahue’s Chicago Tribune dispatch from her recent trip to Dallas begins with her family driving their rental car across the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, the “symbolic hub of Texas-sized ambitions.” She notes the breeze passing over the grasses along the Trinity and that the bridge is otherwise empty. “Here,”…
The folks over at the Morning News’ City Hall blog alerted the world yesterday to County Commissioner John Wiley Price’s Youtube channel, namely a video in which he calls out the “mainstream media” for running a “character assassination on our Black elected officials.” He’s not talking about the reporting many…
Last month, the Advocate quietly reported on Lincoln Property Co.’s plans for the intersection of Garland Road and Gaston Avenue. Starbucks, Freebird’s and a grocery store all look to be in the cards. Also — and this might rile some certain neighbors — the developer wants to change the name…
Nowadays every Monday morning at 7 am I’m on KNON Radio 89.3 doing a radio version of “Get Off My Lawn,” pretty much the same thing you see here except that I’m naked. If like a lot of people you find that the effect of “Get Off My Lawn” doesn’t…
Our cover story this week deals with the Dallas Police & Fire Pension System, the owners of the much-argued-about Museum Tower project in the Arts District. In researching the story, we obtained a draft of the fund’s 2011 annual report, which hasn’t been released yet. It shows that although the…
The Dallas Morning News recently took some time from its very important schedule to film this slick little video declaring that “Journalism Lives.” But not just any journalism. In fact, not any other journalism. Just the journalism of the Dallas Morning News, which is “the most important news source in…
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There was never much to Bankersmith, Texas — little more than a post office and general store at its peak — but it wasn’t a ghost town. Maggie Montgomery made sure of that. Maggie — she promptly disabused me of the notion that I would call her Mrs. Montgomery when…
