In 1978, the city of Dallas and Dallas County signed an agreement concerning the operations at the county jail — an agreement that’s been revised four times, most recently in 1997. Which, as far as City Auditor Craig Kinton is concerned in his latest audit, is far too long to…
First pitch in T-minus two hours … *When I stepped on the field at 9 a.m. it was 39 degrees. Factoring in the northern howl of about 30 mph and it felt, ya know, about 0. *You know it’s a different, bigger day when you get on the press elevator…
Even as the Dallas City Council considers spending half a million on yet another downtown Dallas master plan, it’s worth noting a report released morning by the Brookings Institution that lists Dallas as one of the “Most Decentralized” major cities in the U.S. Which is to say: Sixty-seven percent of…
View Larger MapSpeaking, as we were late last week, of deserted area malls, today comes word that the city council’s trying to figure out what to do with the Shopping Center Formerly Known as Red Bird. Otherwise called Southwest Center Mall, the joint was once a jam-packed jewel upon its…
This morning, A.H. Belo Corporation announced that layoffs at The Dallas Morning News will begin promptly, with “the majority of the actions [taking place] today and tomorrow.” By the time the company’s done with its so-called “cost-cutting measures,” it will have eliminated 14 percent of its total workforce, as A.H…
In December 2007, the Dallas City Council was briefed on the Office of Economic Development’s long-term wish list for the central business district: Revitalizing Downtown: Creating Anchors to Build the Core, the Roadmap 2008-2015. The doc set specific benchmarks to be reached by 2015: create 10,000 residential units, fill 250,000…
No time to dilly-daddle this morning, as I’m headed out to Arlington for Texas Rangers’ Opening Day. Gotta get there in time to beat some traffic, smell the fresh-cut grass and, of course, see former Prez George W. Bush throw out the first pitch. I know it’ll never happen, but wouldn’t…
Friend of the show Danny Hurley was out and about Friday night, snapping photos of the Texas Day celebration that started in Victory Park and ended up at the downtown Neimans. We’ll post a slide show tomorrow, but till then, two favorites. Above, Governor Rick Perry (who’s promised funding Texas…
For two years, the city of Irving’s been turning over to federal officials people it arrests, for various reasons, and suspects of being illegal immigrants. Matter of fact, the so-called “experiment” has been in effect for so long that a once-controversial issue — Hispanics claimed the Irving PD was engaged…
With a great nod of thanks to Friend of Unfair Park “LakeWWWooder,” we conclude this week of broadcasting with the following clip from the 1962 version of State Fair. As our Friend reminds in the comments of yesterday’s item concerning the tragically ignored Fair Park Band Shell, it was indeed…
It’s nice when you can end a long week on just the right note. Thankfully, we have this one: In San Diego, an artist named Glen Tarnowski’s raising a ruckus with a painting titled The Gathering, which, as you can see, is a Looney Tuned-up version of Leonardo da Vinci’s…
Last night at Thomas C. Marsh Middle School, Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa and school board trustee Edwin Flores took their show back on the road and hosted yet another town hall meeting, following last month’s what-up-y’all at W.T. White High School. And, yet again, Hinojosa was affable…
At long last, the LeMaster Group has sent the long-awaited Official Response from Hicks Sports Group concerning the report that the owner of the Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars defaulted earlier this week on $525 million in loans. The upshot: Hicks decided not to pay interest due on HSG’s debts…
At last, you can finally see for yourself at least a little bit of the bit Sacha Baron Cohen shot in Carrollton last summer, as the so awfully NSFW red-band Bruno trailer’s now making the rounds. As mentioned a couple of weeks ago, the local stuff comes from the phony…
Just last week, Judge Ken Tapscott of County Court No. 4 ruled that Dallas County John Wiley Price had every legal right to take Dallas County Judge Jim Foster’s deposition so Price could determine whether he had a lawsuit for defamation on his hands. You know the whole story, right?…
Where were you for Magic vs. Bird 30 years ago? Some of you were just twinkles. Some of us were already hip-deep in bracketology. None of us, however, envisioned Dick Enberg’s career outlasting Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Al McGuire and Billy Packer…
KTVT-Channel 11 ran a piece last night concerning an early-Thursday-morning FBI raid at 2323 Bryan Street downtown, site of an enormous Internet server hub. The shutdown, in fact, led to the temporary disabling of a significant number of Web sites yesterday. The feds specifically seized the computers from Core IP…
Only days before the beginning of baseball season, Tom Hicks is, apparently, already down a strike: Something called FINAlternatives, which serves up hedge fund and private equity news, reports this morning that Hicks Sports Group — the holding company for all of Hicks’s sports-related ventures, including the Texas Rangers and…
Shortly before the bond market went straight to hell, boys, Texas Instruments snapped up $524 million worth of auction rate securities from Citigroup, BNY Capital Markets and Morgan Stanley. TI says, yeah, it knew maybe — pardon, “possibly” — that there was some “fail” potential, but, still, it was promised…
After all, this is The Sportatorium. Right? I grew up watching Saturday Night Wrestling on Channel 11. While the adults played Canasta the kids were banished to the TV room, where we couldn’t wait for Bill Mercer on the black-and-white Zenith. I remember Blackjack Mulligan and Frtiz Von Erich and…
For those willing to fight through the poor video quality, I condensed my footage from yesterday’s city council meeting, where Angela Hunt and Mayor Tom Leppert had different ideas about how the report from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers affects the city’s plans to jam a toll road in…
Long story short: I’m a sucker for old kids’ books for the 5-year-old who lives in my house. Probably buy a handful every month at Half Price Books, and ’bout a month ago, via BoingBoing, I discovered Vintage Kids’ Books My Kid Loves, which became the reason I spent the…
