Vince Young the Latest Longhorn to Get Hooked

We’re not surprised that Vince Young was in a Dallas strip club (Onyx) at 3:30 a.m. Sunday morning. We’re not surprised that he was slapped with a citation by police after getting involved in a scuffle. And, considering the kukoos that have played at the University of Texas, we’re not…

DISD Trustee Vows to “Challenge” Super About Number of People Working in Central Office

There are a couple of comments worth pulling out frrom yesterday’s item about Dallas Independent School District’s $23 million budget surplus. Among ’em: Mike MacNaughton, founding member of Dallas Friends of Public Education, recaps yesterday’s budget briefing at Albert Sidney Johnston Elementary School. Following Chief Financial Officer Larry Throm’s PowerPoint,…

DISD Says It’s Finishing the Year Up $23 Mil?

The Dallas Independent School District’s board of trustees will receive yet another briefing on the 2010-’11 budget Thursday — here’s that PowerPoint for those who like to get head starts on such things. But today, the district sends word that this year’s budget wraps up with a … this can’t…

Burton Gilliam, A Proud Woodrow Wildcat

Friend of Unfair Park Kyle Rains was kind enough to send us this photo he took of the great Burton Gilliam last night at the Woodrow Wilson High School Senior Dinner, which was held at the Lakewood Theater. The co-star of, among others, Blazing Saddles, Back to the Future III,…