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…
David Stanley When you think Penn State football, it’s Joe Paterno. Texas? Gotta go with Earl Campbell. Boise State? Blue astroturf. Boston College? Doug Flutie’s Hail Mary in the Orange Bowl. SMU? Hmmm. Can I phone a friend? In a confusing-yet-intriguing promo, CBS College Sports TV is somehow, I think,…
Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway has been sort of on my case ever since I wrote an article this article in the paper version of Unfair Park in March. He says I made him out to be a grandstander and a flim-flam man,…
Just came back from the “streetcar workshop” in the basement of City Hall. A bunch of trolley experts from around the country talked to a small crowd of downtown policy wonks, wonkettes and wonkerinas about building a trolley system in downtown. And guess what? It looks like the best idea…
The Top 5 things I command, okay request, you to do over the Memorial Day Weekend. Yes, there will be a pop quiz Tuesday morning. 1. Fly this. 2. Drink this. 3. Eat these. 4. Try to tell this guy from this guy. No wonder the Cowboys landed Super Bowl…
class=”blogImageCaption”>Longest road trip in Mustangs’ history? If ZZ Top can appear on American Idol, I guess anything’s possible. Even SMU’s basketball team embarking on an African Tour. The squad, led by head coach Matt Doherty, leaves Sunday for a 12-day trip to Senegal and South Africa. Why? Good will. Recruiting…
Let’s see, that’s $15, another $15, another $15 … oh, screw it. In the dumbest move since your Texas Rangers decided to fix their first base problems with a guy who has never played the position, American Airlines is announcing it will skip the nickel-and-diming of customers and go right…
Dear Mexican: Why did the Mexican comedian Cantinflas never catch on in Hollywood? I thought he was supposed to usher in the Mexican wave of actors and movies that would help transform Hollywood. Instead, that movement ended up flat as a tortilla. —El Curioso Dear Curious Gabacho: Do people even…
Johns Hopkins University Well, thank goodness for Morgan Lyons, that’s all I can say. A little birdie called to alert me to a very important meeting taking place Friday at City Hall to discuss building a trolley line through downtown and also to talk about the second downtown light-rail alignment…
The NCAA might wipe off the SMU dust and fire up ol’ Sparky one more time. Since the NCAA sentenced SMU’s football program to the death penalty 22 years ago, the organization has admitted its error by pardoning more than 30 schools that committed similarly egregious violations. Thanks to Division…
Yet another conceptual drawing of a far-off project pushed further back on the calendar. Last night at 10, WFAA-Channel 8 ran a good story on the growing delays in the Trinity River toll road timeline. According to Mayor Tom Leppert’s own metric for the cost of delays, the toll road…
Don’t worry, even if Tony dumps Jessica I’ll still find some excuse to run her pics. Tony Romo and Jessica Simpson are officially broken up. Tony Romo and Jessica Simpson are officially still together. But really, as long as he limits his jumping on stage with Metal Skool and curtails…
Vonciel Jones Hill If it weren’t for two members of the city council yesterday, I don’t think the public would ever have known what just happened on that convention hotel deal. It wasn’t the price of the land. It wasn’t the location of the hotel. Those were red herrings. The…
Wow. This is starting to feel like a real city. Now we’ve got real estate mogul Harlan Crow hurling brickbats at media mogul Robert Decherd’s plan for a city-owned downtown convention hotel. We’ve got the rich people behind the Dallas Summer Musicals throwing rocks at the rich people behind the…
Dear readers: My recent column regarding the dissimilarities between Scots and Mexicans provoked a surprising amount of angry responses—by real Scotsmen furious that letter writer Great Scot could be so pendejo. Here’s the best reader carta: Having just read Great Scot’s question and your response, I can’t help but think…
A better, smoother day of transportation. And lower gas prices. Let’s pretend for a moment that I like NASCAR. I did, since I know you forgot, once write about it. So there. There’s the flimsy sports connection to this rant. It involves the ridiculous 14-mile stretch of HOV lane on…
Erle Nye, former chairman of the board at TXU The dynamic this morning at city council, as they debate that city-owned convention center hotel, kind of tells the whole story about how things work in Dallas. Speaking in favor of the hotel was an all-star line-up of business and political…
Dorit Rabinovitch Living in Detroit, and having black friends who cared enough to speak candidly to me, I learned a long time ago that all white people of a certain age are racist. That includes me. It includes Steve Blow. Growing up white in a racist society distorts your perception…
