After months of suspense, and after the other Republican hopefuls hired staff, began campaigning and participated in seven debates, Sarah Palin finally announced last week she wouldn’t be running for president after all. Upon hearing the news, Michelle McCormick and a few of her friends did what you too would…
There’s a curious item posted on the city council’s Economic Development Committee’s agenda for Monday morning: “Project Wall-E.” And that’s all it says, save for the fact it will be discussed entirely behind closed doors in executive session. The reason: “to deliberate the purchase, exchange, lease, or value of real…
Well, we were going to go to Earle Cabell at 10 this morning for The Big Showdown: City of Dallas versus Occupy Dallas for the right to pitch a tent in Pioneer Park, in the shadow of the convention center. Because, as you recall, Occupy Dallas made its case Wednesday…
Speaking of DPD Chief Brown …On October 4, the Dallas Police Department announced that it had arrested 19-year-old Skyler Brandt for selling the ecstasy that led to the August overdose of a 19-year-old from Grandview named Matthew Allen. Police said Brandt sold the drugs to Allen at a dance club…
And now we return to the city’s enforcement of the Lower Greenville Planned Development District Ordinance, which, as you no doubt recall, went into effect at midnight September 24 and says any venue without a specific use permit and a new certificate of occupancy has to close its doors at…
As we noted one month ago, the North Dallas Chamber of Commerce is coordinating efforts to repurpose Valley View Center, which has long been a shadow of a shadow of its former self. Bruce Bradford, the chamber’s interim president, and city council member Linda Koop spoke of plans intended to…
One week ago today we walked alongside the Occupy Dallas-ites as they marched from Pike Park to the Dallas Federal Reserve airing their laundry list of grievances, echoing those who stormed Wall Street almost a month ago and never left as their ranks swelled. But in the week since, the…
Last night we got word that the city is invalidating Occupy Dallas’s permit to stay in Pioneer Park till 5 p.m. Friday, since the group hadn’t secured the million-dollar insurance policy City Hall demanded on Monday. The question was: Would the city kick Occupy Dallas out at 11 p.m., the…
XTO and Trinity East, two of the companies that have paid the city big money and signed leases to drill for gas within the city limits, have agreed to wait 30 months while the city rewrites its gas drilling ordinance. But one company has no such deal with the city:…
Yet again, right in the middle of our Rangers-Tigers liveblog, the city sends a note concerning Occupy Dallas’s occupation of Pioneer Park. Only, one night after giving the group its permit, the city’s yanking it — because, as Jim predicted, Occupy Dallas did not get the million-dollar insurance coverage City…
Robert Jeffress endorsed Rick Perry Friday, but it’s the gift that keeps on giving. As in: The Americans United for Separation of Church and State has sent a letter today to the Internal Revenue Service insisting that the First Baptist Dallas pastor’s endorsement, and subsequent postings of videos to the…
If you’ve received one (or several) of the 125,000 citations issued to those who’ve run red lights under the watchful eye of those cameras perched over 66 intersections, you’ve faced two choices: Pay the $75 fine and avoid further hassle, or keep your money and take comfort in the fact…
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.comKarl Rove was on The O’Reilly Factor last night discussing the impact the First Baptist Dallas pastor’s comments will have on Rick Perry’s campaign, among other things. Alas, Bill O’Reilly was off, and instead Dubya’s right-hand man was on with Laura Ingraham, who feels bad…
Last week we sat through a very long, very ugly city council meeting, which ended with the members narrowly adopting a new redistricting plan. At that time, council member Delia Jasso predicted that Latinos would probably sue over the four Hispanic-majority districts, given that Hispanics now make up 42 percent…
We began the day by discussing Occupy Dallas’s missive to the mayor concerning their encampment at Pioneer Plaza, between Dallas City Hall and the Dallas Convention Center. We end it — not counting our Rangers liveblog, which is now into extra innings — with this: Following a sitdown with the…
And here Anna thought she was done with redistricting. Hah!A Friend of Unfair Park just sent us an invite to wingding Domingo Garcia’s throwing at Tejano Restaurant on West Davis scheduled to kick off at 6:30 p.m. Says the come-one-come-all signed by the redistricting commissioner:”The Dallas city council on Wednesday…
We went to the Mecum car auction Saturday after all, where a ’68 Corvette sold for $565,000, and as we were driving away from the Dallas Convention Center we espied a small encampment of sorts set up next to Robert Summers’s 49 bronze Longhorns in Pioneer Plaza. There was one…
Friday evening, two groups of protesters, Occupy Dallas and Occupy the Federal Reserve, lined opposite side of N. Pearl Street at Woodall Rodgers in front of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. “We got sold out, Feds got bailed out!” Occupy Dallas protesters shouted in unison on the west side…
Condoms, birth control — who needs ’em? Just don’t have sex, Texas says to its horny teens. Just hobble that unbridled desire coupled with a limited understanding of consequences and say ‘No, I’m saving myself for marriage.’ That’s pretty much the message, maybe paired with an infographic demonstrating where the…
First Baptist Dallas’s Robert Jeffress is throwing in with Rick Perry, which is hardly a surprise given Jeffress’s participation in that meeting with Perry and pastors back in June at James Robison’s LIFE Outreach International campus in Euless. (Also: Jeffress would never, ever endorse Mitt Romney. Not ever.) But he…
Unfair Park dropped by the Democratic New Leaders Texas PAC meeting at The Kessler last night. The group is billed as a statewide network of Dems “nurturing and promoting the next generation of principled, capable Texas leaders” — like, for example, the affable and polished state Rep. Rafael Anchia, who…
Doubtless you’ve heard about Occupy Wall Street, the protests against corporate greed and Wall Street bailouts (among other things) that have been going on for the last three weeks in New York. The protesters call themselves “the other 99 percent” or just “The 99,” and this morning in Pike Park…
