Holy Trinity

Our Man With Nothing Better to Do on a Tuesday Night, Matt Pulle, will be blogging live from election headquarters tonight, bringing the results of the all-important hides and animal inspector prop vote as they come in, starting around 7 p.m. He may even have something to say about the…

Give Peace a Chance

Trinity River Expedition’s Charles Allen was Julia Barton’s guide for her Weekend America story over the weekend. Ten years ago, former Dallas Observer contributor Julia Barton wrote on Salon about the giant ball of flaming space rock that destroyed Dallas — c’mon, you don’t remember NBC’s Asteroid? On Saturday, on…

TrinityVote’s Clever New “Old” Ad

On the YouTubes, TrinityVote has posted three “Vote Yes” ads, in addition to Justin Spence’s Mac-PC parody that Angela Hunt had redone for use on local TV (though why they didn’t completely excise the bleeped-out “fuckin'” is a bit of a head-scratcher, since WFAA-Channel 8 won’t run the thing till…

What’s Wrong With This Picture?

Yes, we know — this picture’s out-of-focus. Thanks. Not our fault. Neither is the defacing, by the way. Swear. Jim Schutze can’t account for his whereabouts 30 minutes ago, which is interesting, because right around that time, someone vandalized some Vote No! Save the Trinity signs at two early voting…

Get to Know Cappy McGarr!

Dallas’ powerful Democratic fund-raiser Cappy McGarr, at left, with a couple of other dudes Amazing the things you learn on the Interwebs. Like, before I read this Fortune story this morning, I don’t know if I’d ever heard the name Cappy McGarr — sounds like an Irish pirate, y’ask me…

Who Paid for Your Politics?

Our friends over at Austin-based Texans for Public Justice sent word this a.m. they’ve just unleashed to the Interwebs an online report titled, bwah-haw-haw, Money in PoliTex, which, they promise, “analyzes the $158 million in campaign funds raised by 378 candidates for major statewide offices and the Texas Legislature.” (I…

On the Road Again, Leppert Stumbles

Tom Leppert does better when he’s surrounded by pro-toll road pals, like at last week’s “Vote No!” press conference. The questions don’t bug him, just the answers. So far, the Trinity toll road referendum has foiled Mayor Tom Leppert, slashing his honeymoon by about six months and miring him in…

Fight! Fight! Fight! Tonight!

Where you will find Jim Schutze starting at 6:30 this evening: at Rosemont Primary School, off N. Hampton Road and W. Davis Street, not far from the Stevens Park Gold Course. He’s attending — what else? — a League of Women Voters of Dallas-sponsored Trinity toll road debate that’ll pit…

Tom Leppert: Same As He Ever Was

After Tom Leppert coasted into the mayor’s office in June, I decided he and I needed to take a little break. It wasn’t an easy decision. In the spring of 2007, I learned so much about him, from how his single mother inspired his heartland values to how he never…

Kinky for Governor? Again?

Kinky Friedman, Texas Jewboy and former gubernatorial candidate, is about to have himself a new book in stores: You Can Lead a Politician to Water, But You Can’t Make Him Think: Ten Commandments for Texas Politics, and how do they fit all them words on one book cover anyway? Yesterday,…

Spoiling for a Fight

Peter Schulte: He passed the state law enforcement test on the first try! Last month I talked to Peter Schulte about his nascent campaign to unseat incumbent Sheriff Lupe Valdez in next year’s Democratic primary. He seemed smart and nice, but a little too timid for the game, as though…

Counting Money

This morning USA Today surveys which ZIP codes are giving the most to presidential wannabes, and coming in at No. 31 on the list of top-contributing ZIP codes is 75205 — which, in case you’re new ’round these here parts, resides “north of downtown, including Highland Park and the Dallas…

Meet Unfair Park’s Newest Contributor: Craig Watkins

Mark Graham Craig Watkins would like a word with the Friends of Unfair Park. Wow, it must be Guest Contributor Day around Unfair Park. Because next up to the virtual podium is none other than Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins, who sent Unfair Park this morning an “opinion editorial”…

WhoTube Debate? WhyTube Debate?

Great question, Andrew Matheny of Dallas, Texas. Really, well done. Maybe the Republicans will answer it some day. Wouldn’t hold my breath though. –Robert Wilonsky…

Rudy, A Message To You

Brian Harkin Because we’ll be damned if this picture, which goes with this item, isn’t the first thing you see all weekend. We’ve already awarded it a Pulitzer Prize, a Nobel Peace Prize, the Humanitas Prize and, of course, four Katie Awards. See ya tomorrow, or whenever the city secretary…

A Fate Worse Than Dubya, Live at Wild About Harry’s!

Brian Harkin “My only indulgence, I guess, would be that I eat a lot of frozen yogurt. But it’s non-fat.” While out shopping for a new office chair (speaking of, if you have $900 to spend on a chair, the ones at Design Within Reach feel like you’re sitting on…

Job Seeker

Pete Schulte is running against Lupe Valdez — a fellow Democrat. Whuh-oh. Well, we just got off the phone with Pete Schulte, who plans to run against Sheriff Lupe Valdez in the Democratic primary next March. Only 29, Schulte works as a prosecutor in the District Attorney’s Office and is…

Start Your Engines

We need a hero. Well, it looks like embattled (should that be her first name now?) Sheriff Lupe Valdez may have an opponent in the Democratic primary. We don’t know much about the guy yet, other than he’s relatively young and works in the District Attorney’s Office, but we’ll fill…