Last week, Dallas oilman T. Boone Pickens was in Washington, serving as chairman of a 40th anniversary shindig for The American Spectator. On November 6, Pickens apparently said he’d give $1 million to anyone who could disprove a single one of the allegations made by the Swift Boat Veterans for…
Brian Harkin Fox News would like us to suppress our use of this photo of Rudy G. at Wild About Harry’s. But Judith Reagan said it was OK. Courtesy Damon Frazier of Plano-based Frazier Photography & Video, we’ve been invited to the September 8 Rudy Giuliani fund-raising shindig at Lombardo…
Over at Dissident Voice, which is not owned by our parent company, Cindy Sheehan this morning recounts her recent visit to the University of Dallas, where she spoke at the invitation of the chairman of the economics department, Samuel Bostaph. Sounds like a hoot: Surprisingly, my friend Sam, received little…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Recently, when I was handed the assignment of writing a weekly political column for our Web site and blog, I hoped to go as long as possible without writing about the Trinity River vote, since people far smarter than I — and Steve Blow — have explored every corner of…
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 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,…
Brian Harkin Perhaps I missed a mention in Dallas’ Only Daily, but it says here that Rudy Giuliani has a new team of media consultants — and they’re right here, but of course. Giuiliani’s now in business with Scott Howell & Company, the Market Street-based firm teeming with Republican image-makers…
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…
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…
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”…
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…
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…
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…
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…
