Paper chase: So, Raymond Paredes, Texas’ higher education commissioner, says Governor Rick Perry’s call for a $10,000 bachelor’s degree is “entirely feasible” and wants to see some proposals by 2013. Education experts scoff. Can’t be done, they say, unless you’re talking diploma mills. “I know Texas’ [Higher Education] Coordinating Board…
“Pistol-whipping” dick jokes, littered with chingas and pinches, spill from the glossy lips of an eye-poppingly beautiful woman in a rat-a-tat rhythm that keeps time with her hips as they shake to the beat of a Selena Gomez song. Colored lights above the corner stage whir back and forth, accentuating…
The state Senate Committee on Health and Human Services voted yesterday in favor of a bill that would renew the Women’s Health Program, a Medicaid-funded program that provides basic women’s health care. It was set to expire this year unless the Lege took action, but now that it has the…
One week after turning the front of Dallas City Hall into the Living Plaza, Jason Roberts — who’ll sleep when he’s dead — sends word of yet another project: the 72-Hour Challenge to turn a stretch of Ross Avenue downtown into a complete street. There are some details on the…
Your Texas Rangers play the New York Yankees on Friday night, first pitch at 7:05 p.m. Got tickets? It’d be a lot cooler if you did.Because, see, the Rangers just sent word that Matthew McConaughey will toss out the ceremonial first pitch, right before he heads to Houston to pick…
City council members Angela Hunt and Vonciel Jones Hill are kicking ass at today’s contentious hearing on the city council’s recent unethics reform, which is about to wrap up. (Or not.) The council voted last April 13 to gut its ethics policy and allow political contributions from representatives and employees…
At a campaign forum in far western Oak Cliff’s Mountain Creek neighborhood last night, David Kunkle and Mike Rawlings each said that if elected mayor, they’d push for a moratorium on gas drilling.”As I try to better understand the impact of the gas drilling issue, I believe that I’m becoming…
No, that photo above is not a scene from Morgan Spulock’s latest documentary. Turns out, Dallas County Schools has teamed up with ad agency Alpha Media to stick hundreds of vinyl advertisements on the sides of their buses, generating an expected $1 million this year. As next year’s budget cuts begin…
Yesterday, Friend of Unfair Park PeterK sent me the link to yet another vintage photo with local ties that’s presently up for grabs on eBay: “20s Swallow Airplane, Dallas Spirit, Dole Photo Negative.” Peter also included the note that the “Dallas Spirit was out of Dallas, Texas, flown by William…
Usually about this time of the year, the Cowboys will bring in their new draft class and rookie free agents for a minicamp at Valley Ranch. Workouts for veterans at Valley Ranch would have started back in mid-March. UPDATE: Now we know why Dez says he was absent Tuesday. Instead…
Well, at least this one isn’t about wealthy singles who like to mingle.A&E Network has just announced that coming to a small screen this fall is the local spin-off of its what’s-behind-door-No.-1 hit series in which treasure hunters risk small fortunes in the hopes of digging up big rewards hidden…
No need to recap at this late date the messy process that led to city officials finally looking for new concessionaires at city-owned Love Field Airport, presently undergoing that extreme makeover expected to wrap in 2013. But the bidding process isn’t going too smoothly either: Last month we noted that…
Watched Rangers second baseman Ian Kinsler totally half-ass and boot a grounder Sunday afternoon in Oakland. On Monday Elvis Andrus made his seventh error of the season. Thought to myself, This team is getting lazy. Suddenly the laziness is compounded by the losing. Last night the beleaguered bullpen — this…
Not a secret in media circles that Tony Romo has long planned on marrying fiancee Candice Crawford at historic Arlington Hall in Dallas on May 28. Today TMZ is making a huge deal out of it. Guess it’s a good time to peek at the actual wedding announcement. We know…
I asked Mavericks backup point guard J.J. Barea what he was thinking as the ball left Kobe Bryant’s hand on the potential game-winning 3-pointer in Monday’s Game 1 at Staples Center. “I wasn’t thinking,” Barea said. “I was praying.” Despite playing 44 minutes of superb basketball — the four minutes of…
At last: On Saturday night, CBS will finally air the episode of 48 Hours Mystery devoted entirely to the case of Lisa Stone, who disappeared last June from her Far East Dallas home and hasn’t been seen or heard from since. Dallas Police Department spokesman Sgt. Warren Mitchell tells Unfair…
The city’s having a press conference Thursday morning during which Mayor Dwaine Caraway, Park and Rec officials and others will unveil the city’s new “Happy Trails” campaign designed to make the 104 miles of the city’s Dallas Trail Network jes’ a little bit safer. You recall this campaign: We sneak…
Harmony Public Schools, Texas’ largest chain of charter schools, packed all but the uppermost tier of the Winspear last night for a celebration of its 10th anniversary. The 33-school chain is built on a math, science and engineering curriculum — a popular talking point among a series of lawmakers who,…
So, funny thing. Last week I got calls from two unaffiliated commercial realtors, both of whom said that Trader Joe’s was snooping around Dallas, looking for locations here at long last. So I called the company’s spokesperson, Alison Mochizuki. We exchanged messages for a few days, till finally we spoke…
A Friend of Unfair Park forwards along this certificate of congratulations from the Richardson Independent School District, which has been posted to Lamebook. High five…
If Mike Rawlings is serious, the political consultants running his campaign will have a hard time making a living with him in office. At last night’s GLBT Chamber mayoral forum, candidates David Kunkle and Mike Rawlings agreed that political consultants who run campaigns and raise campaign money should be barred…
Back in late ’08, developer Bryan Foster went to Dallas City Hall to see about getting $475,000 in City Center Tax Increment Financing District reimbursements, which he said were needed to give 1400 Main Street, then a 1954 building in sorry shape, an $4-plus-million extreme makeover. The end result: Plush,…
