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As Jim noted last week, disgraced former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is out of the joint and heading to Texas — where, no kiddin’, he has a job interview tomorrow. So reports The Detroit News today, which eliminates one potential employer from the list of would-be bosses: T.D. Jakes and…

According to The Dallas Morning News on January 22, today was the day Arkansas-based Bank of the Ozarks was scheduled to hold a foreclosure sale of more than 50 acres Irving-based JPI is planning to develop along the banks of the Trinity River. But the sale of that property, pictured…

Denny’s manager Ron Ronk accepted an extra delivery of eggs and breakfast meat this morning — one he hadn’t known to expect until late yesterday. As it is, Ronk hopes it’ll help his location — the Denny’s at 4400 N. Central Expressway, near Fitzhugh Avenue — weather a morning rush…

Late last week, I visited the offices of MundayMorning Creative Group, an Addison marketing firm then in the midst of a 24-hour blitz for charity called the CreateAthon. As designers worked on Web sites, logos and brochures for 11 local non-profits, including Central Dallas Ministries and Preservation Dallas, Angelo Antoline…

As we drove past the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts this weekend, the missus wondered what, exactly, the area was supposed to look like once the five-acre Woodall Rogers Park was finished. (Utility work started at the end of the month, though groundbreaking’s a ways off.) This illustration from…

Second in a very sporadic, yet nonetheless fascinating series by Dallas Observer staff writers Merritt Martin/Megan Feldman. Ladies, as always, mi casa es su casa … You’ve been waiting haven’t you? We knew you wanted it, but c’mon, we had to make you yearn. It was a tease, all in…

SMU announced last week that it’s expanding its Education Abroad program, with Rwanda now among the summer destinations. The timing is deliberate: 2009 marks the 15th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide that left some 800,000 Tutsis dead at the hands of the Hutu militia. Not surprisingly, Rick Halperin will lead…

At last, someone’s figured out how to properly use Twitter: by providing a push-by-push account of a baby’s birth. And, how fortunate for us, that special someone’s a high-profile local — none other than Erykah Badu, who yesterday welcomed her third child, a daughter, at 1:30 p.m. on the dot…

Dallas Federal Reserve president and CEO Richard Fisher was on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal this morning warning that the “Buy American” provision in the House’s stimulus bill is bad, bad news. European officials said over the weekend they’re terribly unhappy with what they call “protectionist measures”; said British Prime Minister Gordon…

Another item of interest from this afternoon’s Public Safety Committee get-together: a sneak peek at where the city plans to put its surveillance cameras downtown (not to mention a color-coded map containing the location of every single camera already in place). Says the briefing memo, crime’s down substantially in areas…

Just one month ago we recounted the history of Dallas’s 18-year-old Juvenile Curfew Ordinance, which keeps 17-and-unders off the streets from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. Sunday through Thursday and 12:01 a.m. till 6 a.m. Friday and Saturday. Long story short, it wound up in court on its way to…

A lawsuit filed in Austin on Wednesday has found its way to the Courthouse News Service: Miguel Salazar and Edgar Soria, both of whom live in Dallas County, and Avila Trejo, currently a resident of Denton County, are suing the Texas Department of Public Safety because it refuses to issue…

That picture you see here is from my 1983 Thomas Jefferson High School Document yearbook. It’s of a guy named Tim Watson — or Temo, as most knew him throughout much of his life. Figured I’d share it, since Tim happens to be the subject of Jeff Liles’s Echoes and…