There was a time in the 1980s when Bill Maher was little more than a modestly successful comedian for whom small roles on big television shows were considered the mark of having Made It. His early résumé reads like a Nick at Nite who’s-who, with roles on Alice; Murder, She…
[Update at 7:34 a.m. Saturday: Okpa has been invited, per a letter Villalba sent to “friends and members” at 10:52 p.m. yesterday. You can read the whole letter after the jump.] [Update at 5:50 p.m.: We just heard from Kunkle, who says our item was the first he’d heard of…
Dallas County Commissioner Clay Jenkins rounded up reporters this morning to help spread the good word about the county’s plan to help owners get reunited with cars impounded at Dowdy Ferry Auto Services. The county had an auction planned this week for the 1,400 cars still sitting in the lot,…
She spoke at former Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle’s retirement press conference. She appointed Mike Rawlings to be the city’s homeless czar. She was mayor when Ron Natinsky replaced Sandy Greyson on the city council and served with him for two years. Edward Okpa finished third on the ballot the…
Over on Bike Friendly Oak Cliff, council member Delia Jasso’s recapping her spring break trip to Spain, where she and Pauline Medrano want to ride their bicycles, want to ride their bikes, want to ride their bicycles, want to ride them where they like — Seville, specifically. That’s where the…
Below, in the comments accompanying Sam’s recap of Tuesday night’s mayoral debate at the Fairmont Hotel, several readers wanted — nay, demanded — a fuller accounting of who said what. To that end, one Friend of Unfair Park pointed out that the debate’s sponsor, The Real Estate Council, did indeed…
Above is a few minutes’ worth of the lengthy back-and-forth that took place down in Austin yesterday (and last night), as D’s and R’s fought over SB 14 — which, of course, demands that a voter present photo identification before being allowed to cast a ballot. Among the most vocal…
Over the last five, six years, Southern Methodist University has slowly, surely expanded its presence along N. Central Expressway — beginning with the purchase of Expressway Tower, once the home of the Dallas Cowboys corporate offices; 6200 N. Central Expressway, which now houses Development and External Affairs’ administrative offices; and…
Former Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle came out swinging at Tuesday evening’s mayoral debate at the Fairmont Hotel, with most of his barbs aimed at ex-Pizza Hut CEO Mike Rawlings. The two candidates have collectively engaged in what has become a clear battle of public- versus private-sector experience. “This may…
Below, of course, you can listen to Mayor Dwaine Caraway’s account of what happened between him and his wife on the night of January 2, per a recording made by Dallas Police after Chief David Brown sent officers — including Deputy Chief Craig Miller — to his and state Rep…
The same police recording that Mayor Dwaine Caraway fought bitterly to suppress actually makes him sound like a concerned husband — calm, cool and collected — trying to protect the good name of his wife, state Rep. Barbara Mallory Caraway. On the recording — which follows, along with the police…
Arthur and Archie did it. At 8 p.m., after a marathon hearing, Judge Teresa Guerra Snelson shot down Dallas Mayor Dwaine Caraway’s request for an injunction barring the release of an audio recording Dallas Police officers made at his home on January 2, when cops showed up to to investigate…
We’ve already gotten former Dallas Police Chief-turned-Dallas mayoral candidate David Kunkle’s response to Mike Rawlings’s latest campaign mailer. Now, it’s Ron Natinsky’s turn to respond to the flier, which says — without naming him — that Natinsky served as chair of the city council’s Economic Development Committee “while the tax…
[Update at 8:09 p.m.: Jim sends word from the courthouse that Judge Snelson has denied that request for an injunction, leaving the temporary restraining order to dissolve at midnight — and the records will be released after all. Tomorrow, maybe, no word yet on when.] Jim’s at the George Allen…
Thanks to the Facebook page Where’s Neumann, we learned this morning that council member Dave Neumann has been a no-show at several candidate forums held this month. The page’s unknown author named recent forums sponsored by LULAC, the NAACP and both the West Kessler and Cedar Vista neighborhood associations, claiming…
A couple of weeks back we got Mike Rawlings’s first big-money mailer — a slick meet-the-candidate flier highlighted by quite the ’70s ‘stache — accompanied by the first of what’s proved to be a series of good-looking short films starring the mayoral candidate. (The most recent follows.) The latest four-pager…
[Update at 3:52 p.m.: Jim sends word that Mayor Dwaine Caraway has just taken the stand during the evidentiary hearing now expected to stretch into the evening. More to come.][Update at 1:41 p.m.: Jim reports that Judge Teresa Guerra Snelson has denied Caraway’s request to extend the temporary restraining order…
If nothing else, Mayor Dwaine Caraway’s letters to and from Sendai following the earthquake and tsunami served to remind us of the long, deep connection shared between the International Friendship Cities. So too does a video posted on the other side that comes from the Dallas Independent School District, which…
At this very moment, President Obama’s chief of staff, William Daley, is looking for someone to replace Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, who Obama tapped on March 9 to become the next ambassador to China. An afternoon Wall Street Journal item reminds: “Ron Kirk, the U.S. trade representative, is widely considered…
Since he quit being nonpartisan mayor to run as a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, Tom Leppert has certainly made his politics very clear: He’s for drilling in the Arctic Wildlife National Refuge and a balanced-budget amendment, and against National Public Radio and gay marriage and cap-and-trade. Brian Bolduc, a…
If you read our story about the ballot drawing Friday morning for mayoral and city council candidates, you might have noticed the omission of a certain someone from the District 14 race. Chad Lasseter — the guy who slammed Angela Hunt for bailing on Tom Leppert’s adios and aimed to…
Once or twice a week for the past couple of months, an e-mail will pop up in the in-box about a proposal to put a gas station and convenience store in the Lowe’s parking lot on Inwood Road just off of Forest Lane. It’s no small development, either: According to…
