Back in December, we mentioned that Kansas-based Ash Grove Cement Company — which operates a cement-manufacturing plant in Midlothian — filed a massive lawsuit against Dallas, Plano, Fort Worth and Arlington, among others, in which the company claimed that those cities’ decision to purchase cleaner, “greener” cement would cost Ash…
Yesterday, Uncle Barky couldn’t get anyone at KDFW-Channel 4 to confirm that the Dallas Fox affiliate had chosen a new co-host for Good Day — one Lauren Przybyl, currently at the NBC affiliate in Boston. But moments ago, the Boston Globe got the official word from the vice president and…
Word is the Dallas Museum of Art still has overflow-simulcast tickets left for tonight’s appearance by Julie Powell, the former blogger-turned-book author whose moniker makes up one half of the movie title Julie & Julia, starring Meryl Streep as Julia Child and Amy Adams as the Austin native who spent…
Kwaku Twumasi had been out of work for seven months when he decided to try a new approach to job hunting — right, the very one you see above. The 34-year-old SMU Cox School of Business graduate had exhausted the more traditional routes of job scouting, like mailing resumes and…
Current Dallas Morning News photographer David Woo and former Dallas Morning News photographer Richard Pruitt have been moonlighting on a side project: a coffee-table book titled Top Dogs and Their Pets, proceeds from which toward rescuing, rehabbing and re-housing abused puppies. The book’s not out till November, but I discovered…
In recent days, Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s been awfully busy posting videos to its YouTube page — most of ’em having to do with the Green Line, which is scheduled to open September 14. I’ve put four of them after the jump: Two feature interviews with Brad Oldham and Reel…
Well, after yesterday’s signing of 3-point shooting specialist Tim Thomas I think the Dallas Mavericks are finished with their significant off-season moves. Of course, at points during the summer I also thought Marcin Gortat was coming, Brandon Bass was staying and Mark Cuban was losing to the SEC. And, come…
Via Swing State Project, we find a link to Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison’s interview with WBAP-AM’s Mark Davis this morning, in which the senator said she’ll officially launch her gubernatorial campaign in August and then step down from the Senate “sometime October, November — that time frame.” According to the…
In his latest Business Week column, KLIF’s Ed Wallace documents the case of “Judi, a news assignments manager for a Dallas TV news operation,” who went to see several docs and specialists as she began experiencing “creeping numbness across her upper right abdomen.” She was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis –…
This is probably what happened: Angela Hunt got a phone call yesterday afternoon from Rudy Bush at The News, who wanted to know why the council person was one of seven to sign a letter telling Jerry Allen and the mayor, that, look, they’ll cut their own budgets, thanks very…
The Courthouse News Service this morning has this lawsuit outta Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport — specifically, the Vanguard Car Rental locations at the airport (Vanguard operates National and Alamo). The regional director of the National Labor Relations Board’s Fort Worth office has filed suit against the car rental company in…
So, driving while texting is 23 times more dangerous than just, ya know, driving; 88 percent of Texas teens do it anyhow; with the growed-ups, the number’s probably closer to 104 percent; and some states are proposing legislation outlawing the practice altogether. To which an Irving-based company says: Have we…
This? Just hours before the first practice of training camp here at The Alamodome, I decided to doodle up what the Cowboys’ final roster will look like come the Sept. 13th opener at Tampa Bay. It starts here. And ends up below. Clip ‘n save, woncha? OFFENSE: QB: Tony Romo/…
You guys tell me what you want to know about a certain player, coach, mascot, etc. during training camp. I’ll go to practice and come back with some tasty morsels. Or perhaps some disgustingly petrified crumbs. Whatever. Just got back from the State of the Union kick-off address over at The Alamodome…
Ah, and speaking of local nostalgia … An old Friend of Unfair Park just sent me a link to Michael Pyeatt’s YouTube page, to which he’s been posting in recent days clips from the likes of Funland, Bedhead, UFOFU, Tripping Daisy, Tablet and Rumble performing at such late, great local…
Regarding yesterday’s item concerning the Dallas City Council’s retreat to Paradise tomorrow, Jaynie Schultz, vice president of the Garrett Creek Ranch Conference Center, sends this reply about her family’s Very Special Gift to our elected officials:After learning that the Dallas City Council was potentially not going to hold their retreat,…
At a press conference at Dallas City Hall this morning, Dr. Bob Sanborn, president and CEO of the Houston-based Children at Risk, ticked off the tragic statistics: Of the reported cases of human trafficking in the U.S., 25 percent of victims were from Texas. During the final few months 2007…
I was looking for something unrelated on YouTube earlier this afternoon and noticed that Lifetime just posted the home-tour videos for this season’s Project Runway contestants, among them local Louise Black. (We posted the Dallas resident’s video back on July 9.) One thing led to another, and suddenly Merritt Martin…
Maybe you saw Janet St. James’s story last Thursday on WFAA-Channel 8, when she visited that Tarrant-Parker Counties bordertown known as Azle to find out what-the-what was up with that “Hispanics Keep Out” sign. The folks over at Guanabee followed up with a weekend item, including a video you’ll find…
Vice President Joe Biden and Attorney General Eric Holder held a press conference this morning during which they doled out $1 billion in federal money to back the blue. And from the look of the list of cities due to receive Community Oriented Policing Services grants, Dallas fared pretty, pretty…
Out old pal the Red Oak Kid has been posting to his Flickr page a bunch of photos of downtown Dallas from the late ’70s and early ’80s, including this one of the old Dallas Public Library on Commerce Street (attached to the Statler Hilton, natch). For some reason, they…
A little vamping while I toodle down to San Antonio if you don’t mind. Usually I reserve my Video of the Week until Friday, but this one couldn’t wait. In last Saturday’s WNBA All-Star – wait, it gets funnier – Sylvia Fowles wanted to dunk. So the players cleared a lane. The refs…
