Friend of Unfair Park BigJonDaniel passes along the video you see above: a Dallas Area Rapid Transit-produced sneak peek at the Cotton Belt Regional Rail Corridor, which would stretch from Wylie to southwest Fort Worth. Of course, right now it’s closer to concept than reality: Last summer, the North Central…
Had the council not canceled all of its committee meetings through mid-September, at which point Mayor Mike Rawlings will reshuffle the deck chairs, yesterday would have been the first Public Safety Committee since June 20. I asked Dallas Police Department spokesman Senior Corporal Gerardo Monreal if he happened to have…
I see our music blog’s celebrating MTV’s 30th today by ticking off a few Dallas-music-related moments featured on the former music network over the years. I have since reminded our music editor: I’m old. So old I recall off the top of my bald head a few that were left…
The man you see at right is Brandon Yerby. He is 22. And he has been missing since Thursday. That is why, moments ago, the Dallas Police Department sent out an endangered-person alert — because the department’s hoping that maybe you’ve seen him.According to the police report, Yerby went missing…
You knew it was coming, and here it is: The Electric Reliability Council of Texas has issued yet another energy conservation heads-up. Read the whole thing here, but pay attention to this quote from Kent Saathoff, vice president of system planning and operations:”We expect to break our all-time peak electricity…
My 8-year-old has himself a new hobby: collecting baseball cards, which now involves semi-regular trips to Nick’s, where, last week, they told him the signed Curtis Wilkerson he found in an old box of Topps commons was real, all right, and worth a good … what … 25 cents? Ah…
One week ago today we noted that the Dallas Country Club, which sits on 118 acres in the heart of Highland Park, is suing the Dallas Central Appraisal District over its valuation — a whole $15 million. Today we brings news of yet another country club taking on DCAD: Lakewood’s…
‘Round the office we spent the last little while debating what we could do with 75 M17AZ gas masks, which Dallas County put up for auction this morning. Fetish club apparel? Food critic disguise? HYDRA Halloween costumes? Right now they’re goin’ for cheap: $5 opening bid for the whole lot,…
The J.L. Turner Legal Association is better known as the African-American bar association in Dallas, and bills itself as “the oldest and largest national association of African-American and minority attorneys, jurists, legal scholars, and law students in the world.” Its leadership consists of attorneys at such firms as Akin Gump…
Per the new collective bargaining agreement, the Cowboys are tweaking their San Antonio schedule. Today’s padded practice ends at 4:15 p.m. instead of 5:30. Off day is moved from Wednesday to tomorrow. Plan accordingly. 9. Defensive coordinator Rob Ryan keeps calling cornerback Orlando Scandrick “special.” As in, “He’s a special player.” Scandrick’s…
Early last month, Leslie dropped by the Landmark Commission’s Fair Park Task Force meeting during which Friends of Fair Park President Craig Holcomb introduced us to the cell-phone tour signs that’ll be planted around Fair Park — 60 of ’em, looks like. That’s from the Landmark Commission’s agenda for today’s…
We’ve got the Mavericks dancers, the Cowboys cheerleaders and now — starting today — tryouts to be one of Texas Motor Speedway’s Great American Sweethearts. Like drivers of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series TMS is on the chase this summer, searching for the newest member of the Great American Sweethearts…
Back in April Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm warned the city council that the state’s $27 billion budget shortfall would end up having significant impact on the city’s coffers. On Wednesday, Assistant City Attorney Larry Casto, the city’s Director of Legislative Affairs, will outline to the council exactly how it…
Your Rangers lost two of three in Toronto over the weekend, and came out of it a distinctly better team. How’s that? Texas was handcuffed by (again) Brett Cecil Friday night and by Brandon Morrow Sunday afternoon. But more importantly, GM Jon Daniels pulled off two trades that instantly have transformed…
Still having a hard time figuring how Mayor Mike or his staff could schedule a dinner with the council tomorrow night — the same night as one of only two gas drilling task force public hearings. A couple of council reps think it’s important enough to mention to their constituents…
For the second time in as many days, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution pits The ATL against The City of Hate — a common occurrence — and rules in favor of Dallas, in part because we have toll roads to help pay for regional light rail projects that run to the suburbs,…
I’ve spent the last couple of hours doing as suggested at the beginning of an excessive heat-warning wave: staying hydrated. With Bacardi Añejo, over ice, a great rum at a nice price. Also: listening to music, as the two often go together. Which reminds me: In the past year-plus spent…
For those who found this morning’s paper particularly dissatisfying, here are some other Sunday stories with that taste particularly local:The Atlanta Journal-Constitution begins its “Atlanta Forward” series this morning by comparing and contrasting that city with ours, a not-uncommon occurrence, and concluding: We win. Since it’s available solely to subscribers,…
When word came down earlier this evening that Nancy Hamon had died at 92, I immediately thought of the unfortunate dust-up three Julys ago, when some folks, among them Joyce Foreman and Carla Ranger, voiced their displeasure with the Dallas ISD’s decision to put Hamon’s name on the side of…
The city council returns to the city’s business on Wednesday … or is that Tuesday? But till mid-September, at the earliest, committee meetings are canceled: Mayor Mike’s asked the chairs to scratch meetings till at least mid-September, when he’ll reshuffle the deck chairs — and we’ll find out whether he’s…
For folks with a direct line to God, the prayer warriors behind Rick Perry’s rapidly approaching Houston prayer rally are some shitty communicators. Calls and emails to the event’s leadership team go unanswered, messages go unreturned. If you do get someone on the phone, they can’t get you off fast…
Judges hate the Dallas Bar Association’s judicial evaluation polls, a semi-semi-tradition dating to 1975 that took a brief pause in ’07, when judges managed to get the thing sidelined by grousing that the methodology was unfair and, besides, it weren’t nothing but a popularity contest, so … harrumph. But two…
