One of the things you hope you get to see every once in a while in a democracy—at least catch glimpses of—is democracy. Those of us who are over 21 and have attended a county fair or two know better than to expect to find it just lying around on…
Next month, the American Institute of Architects is going to give its Honor Award for Regional and Urban Design to the Dallas Trinity River Corridor Project for its having a “Balanced Vision Plan.” This raises the question whether urban design expert Alex Krieger and transportation planner William Eager should receive…
I just looked at FrontBurner and their take on my column and the Trinity River project. Wow. Wick’s really got the hammer down over there if he’s got even Rod Davis toting the note on this crap. Rod, you are the new Steve Blow. I gather from the breathless quality…
Dear Mexican, Why should Mexican nationals have more of a right to stay in this country than Chinese, Somalis or others who can’t cross an open land border and must thus wait on the bureaucracy like everybody else? —700 Miles Isn’t Long Enough Dear Gabacho, ‘Cause this land once belonged…
It’s true: Nothing brings out the courage or the imagination in this town like the Trinity River project, our gigantic multibillion-dollar plan to build a magnificent park in the center of the city. But there’s also nothing else quite like it for bringing out the groveling, the up-sucking and under-knuckling…
You know, of course, that they don’t let you talk about the really good questions from listeners when you’re on a talk show. I was on Think on KERA-FM (90.1) at noon today with Krys Boyd. She’s real smart. Dave Levinthal of The Dallas Morning News and I were talking…
Robert, as you know, I will be appearing on the KERA-FM (90.1) radio program, Think About It, I believe it’s called, at noon today with Dave Levinthal of The Dallas Morning News to discuss important issues in the mayor’s race. I wanted to tell you and share with our blog…
I just got back from the big annual luncheon put on by Trinity Commons Foundation, the private lobby group pushing for the toll road along the river, where the featured speaker was our mayor, Laura Miller. And…wow! She’s upset. Miller devoted her whole speech to a finger-wagging attack on city…
Dear Readers, Muchas, muchas responses to my March 8 column asking whether I should keep this column’s gold-toothed, mustachioed, sombrero-wearing fat Mexican logo and what should I name him. The overwhelming majority of ustedes support amnesty for the wab, but a few folks also made articulate arguments in favor of…
Ask a Mexican! Naming Debate In no particular order, sense or rhythm… I’ve been around a long time, managed to laugh at Speedy Gonzalez and José Jimenez, could have cared less about the Frito Bandito and couldn’t understand the flap over the Taco Bell chihuahua, even though it was led…
Dear Mexican, I am perplexed. I just saw a middle-aged wab (complete with a bright-red, lipstick-accentuated mustache) wearing tight pink stretch pants with the phrase “Pink Taco” emblazoned across her misshapen buttocks. In my experience, Mexicans of the Mexico-born variety seem to wear a lot of clothes with odd/tacky slogans…
This moment shall not pass. Sorry, but I have to ring the timeout bell right here. The first major public political unraveling of the Trinity River expressway project took place last week in direct response to criticisms raised by Dallas City Council member Angela Hunt. Thanks to Hunt, the Trinity…
Angela Hunt, dressed in her customary red, doesn’t like the Trinity toll road any more than Jim does. That’s why we think they’d make a cute couple. Wow! Angela Hunt and a coalition of citizens groups are calling for an election to get the planned Trinity River toll road out…
All week we thought there was something missing from Unfair Park, then it hit us: Schutze and the Trinity River Project. Then, voila! People think reporters have sources. Maybe some of them do. I don’t work that way. I have anti-sources. The only way I get on to something good…
The voodoo thing is closing in on us. I wrote a well researched and highly readable column about the voodoo pot found recently in Hutchins just south of Dallas. Now two more Palo Mayombe voodoo cauldrons have been discovered in Conowingo, Maryland, with a human skull and human leg-bones in…
Dear Mexican, I have a major crush on a worker with the Mexican Consulate aqu en Tucson. But I fear that, like two star-crossed lovers, we’re destined for doom. I’m a gabacha yaktivist and against governments in general. He represents the PAN or PRD or PRI or whatever Mexican political…
Mullets and rebel flags. Those Dallas Cowboys know their target demographic. Here goes. I am going to write about a sports-related issue. I know better. But I just can’t take any more of this hang-dog, slump-shouldered, foot-scuffling, snot-snuffling agony over the Cotton Bowl game. So the big namesake winter classic…
Last couple days have seen mounting interest in Hillary Clinton’s excruciatingly bad Southern accent since a compendium was posted at ifilm.com. And why should a bad Southern accent be an issue in a presidential race? Because a bad Southern accent is just…it’s major. It’s major major. One actor with a…
Maybe you don’t remember how a 400-square-foot closet in this house tore apart Swiss Ave. But some folks do. Do they ever. I like Mary Poss. She’s smart, and she did much more good than bad on the council. But before we allow this stuff about her role as a…
If nothing else, Tom Leppert’s a front-runner in the mayoral mailings, of which we’ve received more than a few. Sunday saw a major effort by Gromer Jeffers in The Dallas Morning News to slice and dice the very confusing mayoral race in Dallas. Of course, Jeffers neglected to raise the…
Dear Mexican, As a kid, I grew up with Mexicans who stole things just to steal. As an adult, I see much of the same behavior from adult Mexicans and their children. And I don’t mean just the poor Mexicans. Why is it in their nature for Mexicans to steal?…
You just never know. You go to these incredibly boring City Hall meetings in a back room with people mumbling about fill dirt, and you think it is never…ever…EVVVer going to end. And then BAM! The big bomb goes off. Last week I attended a meeting of the Dallas City…
