I won’t horn in on the music blog’s review of last night’s Wilco-Nick Lowe show in the Music Hall at Fair Park. Seems about right to me, though the first-timer can’t appreciate the giddy shock of hearing A.M. standard “Passenger Side” slid into that short, sharp, shard-filled set list that…
This morning’s News carries a paywall-less story about yesterday’s meeting of the minds between Rick Perry and Phoenix-area sheriff Joe Arpaio. (No wall on an immigration story? Liberal media!) It was the move of a desperate candidate, and it came on the same day Perry forgot both the legal voting…
Over the course of the day a few items have rolled in related to American Airlines and AMR’s Chapter 11 filing this morning. Among them: A Q&A from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport about how the bankruptcy might but probably won’t affect the airport (it follows in full); and a statement…
Late yesterday I got a call back from Dallas Water Utilities Director Jody Puckett, for whom I’d left a message about Irving and the North Texas Municipal Water District’s need to buy water from the city. We set up a time to chat this morning, and just got through visiting…
The city’s spent the last month or so piloting some Complete Streets projects all ’round town, among them the Grand Avenue Better Block-ing that transformed the four lanes and land in front of R.L. Griffin’s Blues Palace near Fair Park the Saturday before Thanksgiving. Sustainable Development and Construction is this…
Speaking of Dallas’s water supply …I was on US 380 yesterday, headed to Cattleman’s Cafe in Blue Ridge for chicken-fried steak, when, driving toward Farmersville, I espied what’s left of Lake Lavon, down some 13 feet due to the drought. “It’s stunning,” in the words of North Texas Municipal Water…
Yesterday we gave you the heads-up: Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has brought in former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement to try to throw out what they claim are the federal court’s “unlawful redistricting maps.” And, right on cue, they’ve filed their emergency stays with the U.S. Supreme Court: All…
A couple of weeks back, during those water conservation and watering restriction briefings, council member Scott Griggs had a few questions for Dallas Water Utilities Director Jody Puckett that she wasn’t prepared to answer, among them: Is the city presently selling water to gas drillers, and, be honest, how much…
On Wednesday we got our first look at the new-look Texas maps drawn by the court, which is attempting to rectify the U.S. Department of Justice’s concerns that the state Legislature is attempting to keep Hispanics from voting for Hispanic candidates, especially in Dallas-Fort Worth. To which Texas Attorney General…
The U.S. Department of Energy has coughed up $115 million for something called The EV Project, rolled out in October 2009 with the intention of spending the next 36 months analyzing how and how much folks actually charge their electric cars. A report’s due in 2015, and Dallas is among…
Last night, Mayor Mike Rawlings hosted a community forum at Cedar Crest Golf Course, billed in the invitation as an “update on the City of Dallas.” Backed by council members Dwaine Caraway and Tennell Atkins and a large supporting cast of other city officials, he tried to reassure the crowd:…
View more videos at: http://nbcdfw.com.For whatever reason Ken Kalthoff got a little distracted whilst reporting the piece you see above about the city experimenting with solar-powered parking meters that take credit cards (all together now: finally). Ken spends most of the piece trying to get his cash key re-upped. First…
Yesterday we met the three finalists for the Dallas Public Library System director’s position, one of whom’s the current interim, Corinne Hill. The other two candidates presented to city officials by a DeSoto-based search firm (??) are out-of-towners: Juliet Machie, who actually remains the deputy director of the Detroit Public…
If you happen to own or rent a house and you enjoy exploiting the elderly and the mentally ill, the city of Dallas has a legal loophole made just for you. A representative from Mental Health America of Greater Dallas warned the city’s Senior Affairs Commission yesterday that despite years…
Nicola Longford, executive director of the Sixth Floor Museum, won’t talk to Schutze, no fan of the museum’s plans to take over Dealey Plaza two years from today. But she will visit with the Los Angeles Times about those plans, not to mention that Dealey Plaza redo the city’s splitting…
Back in late August we mentioned that the city had hired a search firm to find a permanent (well, you know what I mean) director of the Dallas Public Library System. Corinne Hill’s been serving as interim director since Laurie Evans retired in June 2010, and by all accounts she’s…
It didn’t come up last Wednesday, when the council talked about saving and selling Dallas’s water. But there was a brief mention made ago, during that chitchat concerning the city’s long-range water-supply plan, the most recent of which was done six years ago. Says right there on Slide No. 41:…
When I had Willis Winters on the phone the other day, I mentioned in passing that I just driven pastthe new pavilion at Royal Park, off Royal and Cromwell in Northwest Dallas. At which point Park and Rec’s second-in-command directed my attention to this freshly minted guide to those architect-designed…
Saw this one coming; so too did the city council. After all, in mid-September the council met behind closed doors with city attorneys to review “legal issues regarding proposed resource flow control ordinance” — which, as I am sure you recall, is the ordinance directing all solid waste collected in…
Longtime Friends of Unfair Park will recognize the name Steve Houser: He’s the former chair of the Dallas Urban Forest Advisory Committee honored by George W. Bush in ’08 for his volunteer work saving the city’s trees. Reason I mention him today: The arborist sends word that he and other…
I was in the middle of watching the city council briefings on water conservation and the Stage 1 watering restrictions yesterday when I got pulled away — and just when it was getting interesting too. So this morning I started going back to review the tape, beginning just as Sandy…
A little past 11 last night, one of the protesters camped out behind Dallas City Hall was walking from tent to tent, shouting: “Anybody in there? Anybody in there?” From one emerged a groggy, irritated “What?” He was told: “You gotta go, you gotta go. Police are coming.” And they…
