A page from the city’s study concerning redevelopment in the Tenth Street Bottoms I wasn’t going to write about this, because City Manager Mary Suhm assured me it was nonsense. I think she may have implied that I was nonsense too. But the church fire on Sparks Street yesterday has…
Mayor Tom, reading to the kids earlier today at the opening of Bookmarks. But, surely, you have a better caption than this one. So, this afternoon I go over to City Hall to pick up some stuff — a thick file of personal e-mails that will go off like an…
Enjoy. FRIDAY: Check your calendars, triskadecaphobians. Don’t walk under ladders. Don’t screw with masked dudes named Jason. And, whatever you do, don’t work around cranes. SATURDAY: Still six weeks until the Cowboys depart for Oxnard, Calif., but that isn’t stopping Terrell Owens and Marcus Spears from throwing a “Back to…
Sorry, but every once in a while life just hits you over the head. Dallas Area Rapid Transit finds out it’s short a billion dollars on its construction budget. No big deal. Don’t sweat it. But let DART owe a few bucks to some humble taxpayer, and, wow, it’s a…
Dear Readers: The Mexican has previously published only one Best Of column in his nearly four years living under his cousin’s identity in this country, but I must pull this week’s first pregunta out of the archives because ustedes keep asking it—obviously, not enough of you bought my paperback since…
I know people accuse Unfair Park of being the Angela Hunt Fan Club on occasion, but of late I have decided it’s The Dallas Morning News that is Anglea Hunt-obsessed. Last November, on the day after the big defeat of the Trinity River toll road referendum, Rudy Bush did a…
SMU’s basketball team is back safely and successfully from its summer camp in Africa. If you’re interested, head coach Matt Doherty will provide details tonight at 8 on KRLD 1080 AM. I don’t expect an explanation of the above video, which seems to be SMU football players dancing. But I’d…
Sorry TMS, two wheels are better than four. FRIDAY: Convicted steroids dealer-turned-NFL informant David Jacobs was shot to death along with his body-building girlfriend in Plano yesterday. Like it did me, did this send a cold-blooded shiver down your spine? With the way he imported raw powder from China, manufactured…
This caption is flat-out stupid. Debris? Exposed bolts? Flats? I believe this falls under the category of “Toldja.” — Richie Whitt…
Ron Springs: One of the saddest columns I’ve ever written. I like to remember Ron Springs as Tony Dorsett’s capable backup. A guy with soft hands and nifty feet. Dangerous on the middle screen. A sneaky player who would sometimes rare back and fling a lefty halfback pass toward Drew…
Peter Lesser, the lawyer, does this abbreviated history of Dallas’ image in the world. It goes something like this: “Bump on a log, assassination. Bump on a log, Dallas Cowboys. Bump on a log, TV show. Bump on a log, Dallas Cowboys again.” Now we can add, “Bump on a…
Dear Mexican: First, it was the Native Americans, then it was the blacks, then the Japanese. For a while, Muslims. Now, I fear that American prejudice will soon overwhelm Mexicans. It’s one thing to get called a dirty Jap or border hopper, but tell me: Is it possible that America…
Ever wonder why Dallas gets screwed on things like mass transit but the suburbs always make out? Could it have anything to do with the fact that the leadership in Dallas has a basically suburban mentality? When I came here 100 years ago, the mayors of Dallas were major suburban…
Hey, take a close look at the ridiculous grand-standing going on over Reunion Arena, and then ask yourself the key question about our city council: Would I buy a used car from these guys? Led by Ron Natinsky, who’s calling for a special meeting next week, and Dwaine Caraway, the…
Businessman, former mayoral candidate and very brief candidate for the Dallas Area Rapid Transit board Edward Okpa complained last week that former city council member Al Lipscomb might have scotched his chances for a board seat by bad-mouthing him at last week’s city council meeting. Okpa said Lipscomb, who was…
Wonder if SMU AD Steve Orsini has an extra $400k laying around. Just in case. SMU football coach June Jones is going back to Hawaii. Relax. It’s just so he can avoid re-paying his former employer a cool $400,000. The University of Hawaii thinks Jones owes it the cash –…
Sometimes, despite having no punch line or manufacturing no local angle, I stumble upon stories just too good not to share. Like, say, this one. — Richie Whitt…
After the jump, a very interesting communication from former mayoral candidate Edward Okpa, which just arrived in my e-box. Okpa, as the Friends know, is one of the people who got slimed in the whole Dallas Area Rapid Transit board appointment process. –Jim Schutze…
Wait a minute. Can we just talk here? I don’t get the thing about how the city has a $50 million budget shortfall, but we can afford to build a $500 million hotel. Can we be so poor that we can’t fix our streets, but we can still afford to…
Dear Mexican: I’m a Mexican-American, but I always lie and tell people my ancestors were from Spain and immigrated to the United States in the 1920s. My whole family says this. We feel embarrassed if we tell people that our heritage is Mexican because Mexicans in the USA are so…
Your city council today appointed Dr. Claude R. Williams Jr. to the Dallas Area Rapid Transit board — which means, of course, no Joyce Foreman, the woman Mayor Tom Leppert and Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway got kicked off the board when this mess all started. Council member Mitchell…
Talk about a long and winding road. Tomorrow the city council finally votes to fill the seat on the Dallas Area Rapid Transit board left vacant when the late Lynn Flint Shaw resigned under a cloud last January 30. Shaw and her husband, writer Rufus Shaw, died March 11 in…
