Well, that was certainly fortuitous timing: On Sunday the 7-year-old who lives in my house and I went for our weekly trip to the Scotty’sTop Golf batting cages, after which we took a little drive in search of a nice afternoon hike. At which point we found ourselves in the…
Thirteen long months ago the city of Dallas finally began replacing those street signs downtown — out went South Central Expressway, up went Cesar Chavez Boulevard. It only took two years’ worth of rancorous debates as city officials and activists went ’round and ’round over which street to rename –…
In a few weeks, Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm will present to the city council some revenue-generating brainstorms she hopes could offset some of this year’s $60-million-and-maybe-more budget shortfall. Among her proposals, she tells Unfair Park, will be one familiar to anyone paying attention last year: flow control, which involves…
If anything, the results of an already outdated University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll posted this morning — outdated in that it features three would-be GOP presidential candidates who’ve said they aren’t running — more than likely reveal that at least 800 registered-to-vote Texans take Governor Rick Perry at his word…
Schutze went to that Dealey Plaza chitchat at City Hall this afternoon. Only, the Quality of Life Committee didn’t have quorum, so, per council rules, all the council got was a read-through of architect Jonathan Rollins’s PowerPoint, which we sneaked previewed yesterday. But never fear: We asked the questions council…
By the time we got to Dallas Comic Con Saturday ’round 2:30, there was still a line snaking around the Irving Convention Center. Ben Stevens, the show’s co-organizer, guesstimated that some 8,000 attendees had walked through the door — enough to cause the con to run out of badges with…
10. Regrettably, I didn’t go to the Oklahoma City National Museum, but apparently Jason Kidd did. Can’t believe that tragedy was 16 years ago all the sudden. 9. Stayed in a hip, happening part of OKC called “Bricktown.” Think of it as Dallas’ West End, with a canal running through…
Remember how offended everyone got when Los Angeles-based photographer Donald Barnat penned his dispatch from Dealey Plaza back in March? Sure you do. Wrote Barnat, who’d been here during the Super Bowl, “The place is in such a miserable state of disrepair that it amounts to a disgrace for the…
One week from today, Goodluck Jonathan — who won election last month after receiving more than 60 percent of the vote during mostly peaceful elections — will be sworn in as president of Nigeria, the most populated country in Africa. Analysts are mixed on what Jonathan’s presidency will mean for…
Contained in the stack of City Hall memos distributed to media last night was one from Assistant City Manage Forest Turner to the mayor and council members. In it, Turner announced that at long last, the city has chosen the new manager for Animal Services: Jody Jones.Jones, who is expected…
After Mike Rawlings wrapped Ron Natinsky’s endorsement this morning at the Adolphus, he joined fellow Dallas mayoral hopeful David Kunkle for lunch with the Dallas Regional Chamber and paying guests from Texas Instruments, DART, Oncor and Southwest Airlines. After finishing their chicken, the race’s two remaining contenders took the stage…
Just spent 20 minutes getting an earful from Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm and City Attorney Tom Perkins, who insisted, over and over, that the city’s lawsuit over those Trinity River records has nothing whatsoever to do with our request to see “all the individual invoices paid in relation to…
Patrick’s at the Adolphus Hotel for the noontime showdown between David Kunkle and Mike Rawlings, their first debate since Saturday’s elections results sent the two into the June runoff. But before the fireworks, or whatever, Ron Natinsky (who received 17,430 votes on Saturday) pulled the assembled media aside to make…
As we noted a couple of weeks back, Dallas City Hall’s taking applications for the gas-drilling task force Angela Hunt demanded after Dave Neumann failed to make good on his promise to do … well, anything, really. Linda Koop’s chairing the thing. And Mayor-For-Now Dwaine Caraway — the same man…
Mitt Romney, who’s polling well amongst would-be GOP presidential contenders, stopped in Arlington today to grab a bite of Rudy’s barbecue — and take a bite out of President Obama, specifically his Middle East policy speech, which Romney said “threw Israel under the bus,” a sound bite making the national…
Backed by a new group of law-enforcing backers calling themselves “Crime Fighters for Kunkle,” former Dallas police chief and mayoral hopeful David Kunkle took a minute this morning to cast himself as a force for sunshine and justice at City Hall. Introduced by David Dean, chairman of board of the…
Earlier this month, city officials — among them For-Now Mayor Dwaine Caraway, City Manager Mary Suhm, about-to-be-out Trinity River Corridor Project Committee chair Dave Neumann and others — schlepped to D.C. to beg for more money for the Trinity River Corridor Project. Specifically, the city wants federal earmarks for three…
There hasn’t been much action in the city’s case against the Museum of the American Railroad at Fair Park, which city attorneys took to court at the end of January 2010 after the museum failed to choo-choo to Frisco as it had long promised to do. Long story short, the…
So, yes, former candidate for Dallas County Judge Wade Emmert is the new head of the Dallas County Republican Party, having been elected by a vote of 140-95 at last night’s special election. Upon his victory, Emmert tweeted, “I’m honored to have your trust as the new Dallas Co. GOP…
At the end of last year we spent quite a bit of time following Nuke Free Texas’ efforts to stop Governor Rick Perry’s appointees on the Texas Low Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission from giving Waste Control Specialists the thumbs-up to bury nuclear waste out in West Texas that…
At more or less the exact same moment, two items of note hit the Unfair Park inbox: a statement from Governor Rick Perry concerning Texas Comptroller Susan Combs’ guesstimated billion-dollar bump in state revenues, and a Real Clear Politics piece headlined “Rick Perry Presidential Push Quietly Gains Steam.” Let’s go…
Yesterday, we sneak-peeked a couple of the big-ticket items on the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee’s agenda. Question is: How’d they sit with council members? First up, let’s visit that Belleview Connector, the estimated $9.5- to $11-million hike-n-bike bridge described by HALFF Associates designer Francois de Kock this morning as…
