Two more things about the Dallas City Hall corruption trial. Then I’m done. I almost promise. I’m having trouble with something. Many people I talk to who know Don Hill, our former mayor pro tem recently convicted on seven of nine corruption counts in federal court, feel sorry for him…
Gonna spend my Friday night ogling two of my favorites: Football ‘n Females. Been meaning to catch a Dallas Desire game this season, but lo and behold they only play two home games. The last one is Friday at 9 p.m. against the Los Angeles Temptation at Grand Prairie’s QuickTrip…
Angela Hunt is putting the bite on the mayor today on the issue of ethics reform.The council is being briefed on possible new ethics rules growing out of the City Hall corruption case. Council member Hunt and four other members signed a letter a couple weeks ago asking City Attorney…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *According to my very unscientific research conducted on this very blog over the last two years, the most sensitive, whiny, irrational folks on Earth are: 1. Ticket P1s; 2. Right-wing Republicans;…
Dear Mexican: An uninsured wetback just hit my car and totaled his. He had no insurance and no license, but he did have a nice cell phone. I asked him if he was OK in my limited Spanish, but he did not ask about me or my children. He was…
This terrible City Hall corruption trial we just went through—11 people either found guilty of federal crimes or pleading guilty to them—wasn’t about black Dallas. It was about Dallas. To see the real story, try to focus on this one small chapter. This little play within the play, about events…
Grudgingly, I have to say that the two Dallas City Council members who asked the best questions at today’s council briefing on downtown trolleys were Ron Natinsky and Dave Neumann. Both of them wanted to know why the proposed governing body for a downtown trolley system would put the City…
Dear Readers: Since the Mexican’s sister is getting married to a good man from Zacatecas this weekend, I must ignore my research archives to slaughter a pig and hire a banda sinaloense. So indulge yourselves in some piratería questions I ripped off from my book, and await my return next…
What am I doing here with a notebook, waiting for DART trains and being abused by people? I’ve been out here trainspotting for the last few days, and it’s not much fun. They made a movie about trainspotting, I know, but I think all the people in that movie were…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Ho hum, The Ticket’s dynasty rolls on as one of the most dominant entities in sports. In September’s Arbitron PPM ratings – I hear, by the way, that only 1,400 meters…
See that? Over there. To your right? That’s not the money you could be saving with GEICO. It’s the money you lost last year betting with Richie Whitt. But, alas, in the spirit of persistence, stubborness and doubling down, we’re back at it again in 2009. I owe it to…
Lots of speculation going on around town about whether the next shoe to fall in Dallas’s ongoing City Hall corruption woes may be a Gucci to the head of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price. Today, matter of fact, Kevin Krause has posted a tidbit on The News’s City hall…
At a mid-afternoon press conference dealing with the blizzard of guilty verdicts earlier today for five defendants in the Dallas City Hall corruption case, U.S. Attorney Jim Jacks of the Northern District of Texas seemed to wag a cautionary finger in the direction of Dallas voters: “At the end of…
So, it turns out Patrick “Buzz” Williams was right. No matter how you do the accounting, how you structure the contracts, how you interpret arcane campaign finance laws and city ethics policies, getting caught on camera accepting 10 grand in cash out back of a church is still like getting…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Former Carter High School star Michael Crabtree may not be a bad guy, but he’s following some horrible advice. Friend of a friend of Crabtree tells me that he and the 49ers…
Dear Mexican: As a Mexican-American, I’ve lived in St. Louis for about 17 years and have seen a substantial influx of my brethren. Nevertheless, I’m for border security—against the no-good, godless Canadians. I hate Canadians! Funny accents and cold weather—ha! Why is America not closing the Canadian border? Those bunch…
See that? Over there. To your right? That’s not the money you could be saving with GEICO. It’s the money you lost last year betting with Richie Whitt. But, alas, in the spirit of persistence, stubborness and doubling down, we’re back at it again in 2009. I owe it to…
This year’s Best of Dallas sports section kicks off with a story on the Dallas Desire, our local squad in the new Lingerie Football League. Its first season began a few weeks ago, and the Desire played their first home game at QuikTrip park last Friday night (yes, we’ve got…
Stays in Comes all the way back to Dallas. I didn’t wake up with a tooth missing or a tiger in my hotel bathroom. But only one – that’s right, one – of the following did not happen during my 4-day excursion to Las Vegas. Venture a guess?…
Dear Mexican: In Garfield strips in the funny pages that appeared earlier this year, Garfield is wearing a sombrero and taking siestas. While cute and all, isn’t that the sort of thing that we have been striving to stop? What was Jim Davis thinking? Maybe he needs a refresher course…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Just because I’m off to Vega$, I won’t deprive you guys of the only two things you really appreciate on this blog …..
Dallas pot-stirrer, education activist and computer inventor Russell Fish — the subject of a Dallas Observer cover story a couple years ago — is making trouble Down Under. One of Fish’s many diverse and unpredictable hats is as an activist on sexual predation issues, apparently on a world-wide basis. Fish…
