Hard to believe — we’re only seven months away from our first look at next fiscal year’s budget. Which is why, on Wednesday, the city council’s holding a FY 2010-2011 budget workshop, during which City Manager Mary Suhm will provide the council with a win-some-lose-some revenue outlook that suggests further…
No need to mourn the demise of Elm Place, set to shutter for good on January 29 — not when someone’s already figured out what to do with the former First National Bank of Dallas, among George Dahl’s myriad local icons. That someone: Colliers International, which is handling the sale…
Like I said, we’re a wee bit shorthanded at the moment, and I couldn’t find anyone willing to spend a damp afternoon at the Omni construction site with Mayor Tom Leppert and U.S. Treasurer Rosie Rios. Which doesn’t mean we can’t share this group photo provided by Chris Heinbaugh; Merten’s…
Even though tickets go on sale Tuesday, there’s been no official announcement concerning the famous faces suiting up for the 2010 NBA All-Star Celebrity Game, which will take place February 12 at the Dallas Convention Center during the three-day Jam Session to be held in advance of the February 14…
Turns out, reports of Michael Faulkner’s death were highly exaggerated. Special Agent Mark White, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Dallas spokesman, tells Unfair Park today that the Southlake resident — who was among the 19 indicted by a federal grand jury last week for a “massive cybercrime conspiracy” — was…
In recent weeks, whenever we’ve attempted to get information out of the Dallas Independent School District concerning its plans for the Adamson High School expansion, we’ve been met with the same response: Can’t comment due to ongoing negotiations with property owners. DISD board president Adam Medrano did speak to Unfair…
Back in June, Wired directed our attention to SMU’s efforts to create a powerful paper-thin camera that uses low-resolution sensors to create a hi-res image — otherwise known as “Panoptes,” which stands for “Processing Arrays of Nyquist-limited Observations to Produce a Thin Electro-optic Sensor.” The camera’s being developed on behalf…
As promised (um … Wednesday, my bad), Steve Dirkx sent along a copy of the that long-forgotten ’83 classic anthem “Dallas,” written by Mimi Guten and Toni Mazzola and performed by the great (far as you know) Mark Franklin.But far be it from me to deprive you of the keepsake,…
Elm Place’s closure, announced this morning, comes as no surprise: A section of George Dahl’s 52-story office tower, at Elm and Akard Streets, fell into foreclosure in the early part of ’09, and the former First National Bank of Dallas and Bank of America building been shedding tenants for years…
More than two years ago, Kevin Colquitt filed a lawsuit in Dallas federal court in which he alleges “the makers of stents approved to treat digestive tract cancers had illegally marketed them for years to treat blocked blood vessels in other parts of the body,” as The New York Times…
No doubt you recall the October ruling from Judge Tena Callahan of Dallas County’s 302nd Family District Court, who said there was no good reason for the courts not to consider allowing two men married in Massachusetts to divorce in Texas. To which Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said, Oh…
Among the myriad reasons I like posting vintage photos of bygone Dallas: You never know who’ll show up in the comments to provide details previously thought lost to history. So, great thanks to Jerome Weeks and Bud Kennedy; courtesy their comments here, I’ve learned a great deal about Dallas’s hockey…
Earlier today, Irving Mayor Herb Gears e-mailed The Dallas Morning News to let them know that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid “just called to inform me that pressing government business in our nation’s Capitol requiring his presence necessitates his having to postpone tomorrow’s planned events in the DFW area including…
When the shooting occurred in June, it merited but a few paragraphs in a crime brief headlined, “19-year-old fires on gang officers, Dallas police say.” Today, though, the U.S. Attorney sends word that a federal jury found Rene Salazar, a member of the East Side Homeboys, guilty of two counts…
Took, oh, ’bout four months, but I see the city finally got around to posting The Official Convention Center Hotel Groundbreaking Video, which I’ve embedded after the jump. Good timing, though: Chris Heinbaugh, Mayor Tom Leppert’s chief of staff, sends word that at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow, the mayor will pay…
It’s no secret Tony Romo grew up in Wisconsin idolizing Brett Favre. The fact that they’re facing off Sunday in the NFC Playoffs is as delicious as it is ironic. Since his three-interception game in the Cowboys Stadium opener against the Giants back in September, Romo’s been almost flawless. He’s…
But, don’t worry, there won’t be too many of these left: Michael Amonett, president of the Old Oak Cliff Conservation League, sends word (and pictures) today that Ponce Construction Co. is yanking out the windows and hustling up with the teardown. “Won’t be long now, I guess,” writes Amonett, who’s…
That’s right. Wanna know why Johnny Gomez thinks he’s got a shot against incumbent Gary Fitzsimmons? Or why lawyer Clay Jenkins has been anointed by nearly every Dallas politico (including Fitzsimmons) as Jim Foster’s replacement? If so, the Preston Hollow Democrats (which are in desperate need of a Web site…
Back in August of ’08, Sam wrote about the case of the Dallas Police Department’s Roosevelt Holiday, who claimed at the time that he’d been pushed out of his job as a crime scene detective by higher-ups who didn’t like the color of his skin. Holiday, who’s black, initially filed…
T. Boone Pickens’s latest ad for his Pickens Plan begins airing today; that’s it above. A story on the front page of today’s The New York Times’s business section wonders what the Dallas billionaire’s up to with the spot, in which he underscores national security concerns in an effort to…
Just a quick follow-up about Code 58, the FOX buddy-cop series set to shoot here beginning January 26 with Bradley Whitford and Colin Hanks. Yes, yes, as the great Ed Bark noted yesterday on something called LocateTV.com, some of the series will be shot at Fair Park (the historic locale…
I was there in February 1999 in Seattle for rookie Dirk Nowitzki’s first points as a Dallas Maverick. Still can’t believe I was at American Airlines Center last night for his 20,000th. Shortly after then-general manager Don Nelson acquired Dirk in a draft-day trade for Robert “Tractor” Traylor in ’98, the German…
