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…
I swear: Every other item today won’t be a redistricting item. Even Anna’s moved on for now: She was out with the Occupy Dallas folks, and her recap of the march to the Dallas Fed is forthcoming. But the Redistricting Commission just made available the map and data packet accompanying…
Below, Anna told you all about how fugly it got ’round the horseshoe Wednesday afternoon and evening before the council finally voted, 9-6, to send a new map of districts to the Department of Justice. But many have asked to see the whole debate — or, at least, what happened…
Yesterday afternoon, around 5:30, as a tiny audience sat in the city council chambers, former Mayor Dwaine Caraway came by and declared to Unfair Park, “I think we got something.” That’s right. A final redistricting map. Finally.Caraway spoke about three hours too soon, though. Last night at 8:30, the city…
Speaking of Fair Park …In the wake of its inclusion on the American Planning Association’s list of Great Public Places, several Friends of Unfair Park have asked: How’s that long-proposed plan to open the fairgrounds year-round(ish) coming? And: What about the pending closure of The Women’s Museum?As far as the…
Brent Jackson posted a note this morning headlined: “City Approves Sylvan | Thirty Zoning Application.” Well … technically, no, that’s not true. Nothing’s been approved for Jackson’s controversial mixed-use development at Sylvan and Fort Worth Avenue where the Cox Farms grocery store’s supposed to take root. City staff has, however,…
