In the midst of all this talk of muni pool closures and family aquatic centers we can’t afford and privatizing parks clean-up and renegade tree-trimmers (oh — and liberating Kidd Springs), I went to look for something about Dallas’s park system. A history-of, some old photos, a little more information…
At this late date there should be no need to explain why Texas Rangers broadcaster Eric Nadel is a local treasure; he’s as much a part of summer ’round these parts as 85-degree lows. I just went back and listened to his final-out call from October 12 — it still…
Got home from the airport last night just in time to see Channel 8’s piece on how Dallas PD and the FBI are prepping for the 10th anniversary of September 11. Would have been home a little sooner, but, ya know, I stopped by a Northwest Highway construction site. Oh…
Turns out, according to this chart just dispatched by the National Weather Service, it’s not the high temps that were awful — though there’s that. It was the low temperatures. If you can call ’em that. Incidentally, NOAA says 95 on Sunday, with “north northeast wind between 5 and 15…
Karen Blumenthal was once a Wall Street Journal bureau chief and continues to write about the money business for the newspaper; and that’s her name on the books Mr. Sam: How Sam Walton Built Walmart and Became America’s Richest Man and Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition…
I know it’s dangerous to knee-jerk in baseball, but suddenly Rangers’ pitcher Alexi Ogando is disappearing faster than Benjamin Button. And from what we’ve seen the last two night I’d lean more toward giving the ball to Scott Feldman than the team’s early-season ace. Thanks to the lowly Mariners’ late rally…
On the way home from Dallas-Fort Worth International last night, around 10, I swung by the site of the former AMC Grand, which the chain adiosed last year after a dispute with the building’s Kansas City-based owners. I was curious to see how build-out was coming on Toby Keith’s joint,…
I’m interested in tonight’s Cowboys-Dolphins pre-season finale in Miami. But just barely. If third-string QB Stephen McGee is in the game, I want him handing off to DeMarco Murray. Deal? With Terence Newman, Tashard Choice, Kyle Kosier and Bradie James not even on the trip and starters like Tony Romo…
A busy D.C. kinda in the DFW this first day of September. Because, recall, Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness convenes in Dallas today, first at Love Field and then at SMU, to chitchat infrastructure in advance of the jobs speech that John Boehner made the president put off by…
Eating words: Perhaps it’s been awhile since you read Governor Rick Perry’s book Fed Up!, in which he chronicles the improbable rise of a D-student. If it has, you may not recall Perry’s take on Social Security, which he called a “Ponzi Scheme” created “at the expense of respect for…
In late July, the untended, bean-shaped swimming pool at Ken Robinson’s Flower Mound home — that is, the house in which he lives — was a stew pot of viscous green slime. On a stifling midsummer evening, when he walked out the back door to vacuum one of many layers…
Adverse possession, the law Ken Robinson cited to move into an abandoned Flower Mound home with the intention to claim the property as his own, was initially meant to settle and prevent property disputes in rural areas, according to Brian Rider, a University of Texas law professor who has been…
Rest easy, Friends of Unfair Park. ICE’s Counterterrorism and Criminal Exploitation Unit is on the job. In the most recent sweep, they rounded up 27 dangerous immigration violators in the Dallas-Fort Worth area — criminals guilty largely of … overstaying their student visas. Not quite the stuff of Bruckheimer actioners…
Environmentalists got their turn at the mic at this week’s gas-drilling-panel meeting, where the industry’s opponents took turns airing its dirty bits. While last week, industry representatives lauded the practice for its production of affordable energy and its boosting of the economy, this week drilling sounded a bit rougher around…
The Zoo Tapes: An interactive serial by John Rody | Episode 1 from John Rody on Vimeo.I just discovered, via the wonders of Vimeo, the “trailer” you see above for something called The Zoo Tapes posted by none other than The Great John Rody — one half of LaBella and…
It’s been five whole weeks since the City Plan Commission denied giving a specific use permit to the proposed bowling alley next to Good Records. But fear not: It will resurface in two weeks, when the city council considers its last-ditch appeal. Before then, though, the CPC will once again…
You want the good news or the bad news? Oh, hell, let me just give you the good stuff first: The enforcement of proposed legislation that would have required Texas women to look at a sonogram, have it described to them “in detail” by their doctor and listen to a fetal heartbeat…
I miss basketball. But the kind played with rules and defense and meaning. Not that And1 bullshit that ESPN is hyping today. There was a summer pro-am game Tuesday night at Morgan State in Baltimore. Approximately 4,500 fans packed the Talmadge L. Hill Field House to watch Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul, LeBron James…
By cutting funding to libraries, eliminating raises (or just paychecks) for City Hall workers, raising taxes, closing pools, deferring maintenance on pothole-ridden streets and privatizing parks clean-up? I kid. Only, I don’t. Anyway. This just in from Dallas City Hall: Angela Hunt, a 2008 recipient of the Marshall Memorial Fellowship,…
This just in from the Department of Justice: No way, no how does it want downtown-based AT&T from getting its hands on T-Mobile. So much so it’s just filed a civil antitrust lawsuit in D.C. federal court to block the sale, insisting that …… the proposed $39 billion transaction would…
If you have a moment, take the time to read this just-released report from the Texas Court Records Preservation Task Force, formed in November 2009 by the Supreme Court of Texas to see just how at-risk the state’s historical docs are. Because most of the most important docs in Texas…
You probably noticed: It’s been quite the last few days for the Dallas Independent School District’s board of trustees, what with the board president Lew Blackburn being compared to Idi Amin by a speaker at the last boarding meeting, and trustee Carla Ranger resigning and then, a few days later,…
