Curtis Lockey and Craig MacKenzie, erstwhile developers of the LTV Tower 1600 Pacific Building and subjects of my column in the current edition of the paper, have sent to Dallas City Council members and city staffers a letter alleging deliberate discrimination against low-income persons and families on the part of…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Newy Scruggs is on vacation next week from 105.3 The Fan, which means two things: 1. I’ll miss my pawdnuh. 2. At least one of the days I’ll be joined by a…
Dear Readers: All together, now: A LA CHINGADA WITH ARIZONA’S SB1070! For those of ustedes too occupied with your Drinko por Cinco hangover, the initiative I mentioned (signed a couple of weeks ago into law by Arizona’s governor) gives immigration powers to the state’s police officers and sheriff’s deputies and…
Don Hill, the Dallas City Council member recently sent to federal prison for 18 years for bribery and corruption, didn’t use a baseball bat on people. He was a lawyer. He used parliamentary procedure. The table, I call it. Hill knew developers always have a clock ticking—money sifting away like…
If this Spring is any indication of where things are headed, SMU basketball’s March Madness drought is likely to hit 18 years next season. That’s because star point guard Paul McCoy – once thought of as the Mustangs’ light at the end of the tunnel – is transferring from SMU. In…
The contractor on the new headquarters of Dallas Black Dance Theatre is suing DBDT founder and artistic director Ann Williams and her daughter for 10 million bucks for “tortious interference” (messing with his money) and defamation. If it doesn’t settle early, this could be an intriguing window on DBDT, a…
Wow. Amazing discovery! I, Jim Schutze, have discovered how to resolve the whole battle over scrap metal yards and rendering plants in Oak Cliff near Cadillac heights. I have the answer! For the last several weeks I have been battling with the Texas Historical Commission and U.S Army Corps of…
I got a theory. Been working on it for a while, nurturing it from a fleeting thought to a flimsy premise all the way up to a working, rational theory. Here it is: There are no more aggressive, dangerous drivers on Metroplex highways than those in white pickups. I know,…
Just came back from an interesting chat with Wade Emmert, the 40-year-old lawyer who is the Republican candidate for Dallas County Judge in the November election. I asked him how a Republican can win in what everybody is now calling a Democratic county.”I don’t think it’s such a Democratic county,”…
I’m like you, I didn’t know if this thing would make it two weeks. But, whatdya know, all the sudden it’s been two years. Seems like just yesterday we launched this lil’ corner of the blogosphere. After 730 days, 1,370 items and more than 20,500 comments we’ve survived to our second…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Dearly beloved, we have gathered here today to pay our last respects to the 2010 Dallas Mavericks. In life, they were an entertaining bunch. Fun. Fast. Full of energy and entertainment. But…
Dear Mexican: I live in a Northeastern city, and a game I play with myself during the cold, wintry months is counting how many Mexicans I see without a heavy coat or appropriate outer-garment. Believe me, I’m not prejudiced (I, too, am a minority, and this game is lightweight compared…
Sometimes I am accused of thinking everything at City Hall is a big conspiracy. But that’s not true. I am willing to concede that some things are just big idiocies. Take, for example, whatever in God’s name is going on in the Cadillac Heights/Cedar Crest area of Oak Cliff right…
Sometimes I feel that life is unfair. I have way too much fun. On occasion I think I should share some of it with others. In that spirit, I offer the following: In tomorrow’s paper version of Unfair Park I will have a column dealing with efforts by Dallas city…
Okay, not that one. But still. Weird…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Cowboys fans rejoice. First of all you have Dez Bryant. Secondly, you’re not the Denver Broncos. The same team that traded for Brady Quinn has now traded up to draft Tim…
Dwaine Caraway has come seriously unglued in recent months, behaving less like a Dallas city council member and more and more like Huey Long. My God. I can’t believe some of this stuff. More on this in my column in the paper next week. But I can’t wait that long…
What happened to Snapple soda?
Dear Mexican: I have a friend who frequently wears a T-shirt that boldly states in big, bad-ass, Old English letters, “Hecho en México.” Five facts follow: He was born 23 years ago in the United States, in Bellflower, California. His truly Mexican parents were nowhere near Mexico when he was…
Ireland, South Africa and Sierra Leone have all committed to “truth and reconciliation” as a process for healing wounds of history. Even Canada. So why not us? Dallas’ grand obsession with a star-crossed and now collapsing public works project has finally brought the city to what may be a truth-and-reconciliation…
Couple weeks ago I wrote a column about the sudden anomalous enthusiasm of The Dallas Morning News editorial page for getting rid of scrap yards and a dead animal transfer station on Pontiac Street at Cedar Crest, next to the Cadillac Heights neighborhood. The News said they wanted to do…
Editing memo to Steve Blow: Thank you for getting around to writing the column I directed you to write on the Trinity River. It was a good effort, in the main. I hate to quibble with you, but I do need to point out a few errors and omissions. If…
