Wow. A Dallas Morning News two-fer today. On both the front page and the Metro front, stories about the Trinity toll road issue that represent more or less the exact opposite of the truth. Those boys are workin’ overtime on this. The really bad one was Bruce Tomaso’s story on…
Thomas Linehan This visual of the Trinity River project was done for the Trinity Trust using materials that were, like, only four years out of date. Which is awesome. As it turns out, the “flyover” animation Mayor Tom Leppert used on September 18 to show how small the toll road…
Michael Morris, Director of Transportation for the NCTCOG, lives in Arlington — so, like, what does he care if Dallas paves the Trinity, anyway? At the last Trinity debate I attended, I picked up a definite grumbling and uneasiness among the toll road backers after the event was over. A…
Dear Mexican: I’m a minority, and I know we can be overly sensitive sometimes, but I just can’t stand Carlos Mencia. Not only are his jokes asinine but I feel they are actually racist. Whereas Dave Chappelle tried to make fun of society’s racist thoughts, Mencia seems to promote them…
Black racial treason. That is the underlying theme in this week’s federal indictments at Dallas City Hall. It’s the same theme that ran through the indictment and prosecution of former city council member Al Lipscomb eight years ago. Selling the black community down the river. In that case the white…
I opened my front door this morning and found my monthly copy of the Lakewood/East Dallas Advocate magazine hanging on the doorknob. On the cover is a really genius story about the Trinity toll road showdown, which you can go see online. It’s exactly the kind of smart but objective…
Dear Mexican: After the great migration of Jews to this nation, a question was posed: “How long does it take a Jew to go from being a street sweeper to becoming a corporate attorney?” The answer given was, “One generation.” Not so for Mexicans. Most Mexicans seem to recoil from…
I knew I went to last night’s Trinity toll road debate for a reason — just didn’t think it’d be this one. See, on FrontBurner today, we are given the following information in a post by Tim Rogers, writing about last night’s Pave the Trinity wingding: One guy who did…
TrinityVote is putting up its first billboards, inlcuding one on the Dallas North Tollway. Needless to say, I love the message. It’s a haiku on the end of a baseball bat. See for yourself. –Jim Schutze…
The kid was home for the weekend. Someone asked him about Austin, and I heard him say, “Yeah, it’s really cool, but I’ll always love Dallas the best.” I thought, “Really?” I asked him about it. He was talking about the inner city, where he grew up. He feels like…
Eddie Bernice Johnson has joined the “Vote No!” faction. Or perhaps she’s a saboteur? The “Vote No! Save the Trinity” coalition of the shilling had another git-together this a.m., this time at the Belmont Hotel in Oak Cliff, where Mayor Tom, ex-Mayor Ron and the rest of the Unholy Trinity…
Nice enough guy from The Dallas Morning News came over yesterday to interview me for the profile they say they’re doing of me. Sort of like having someone come in to paint a bull’s-eye on your forehead. One wants to ask, “But what’s it for?” Oh, golly. I guess I…
Dear Readers: I asked half-breeds a couple of weeks ago to write in with nicknames that describe their mixed Mexican heritage. Many, muchos responses continue to trickle in—gracias for the submissions. Following is a handy glossary that ustedes wrote, with occasional commentary from the Mexican. Enjoy! If you’re half-Mexican and:…
Here’s what happens. A blogger kicks up some legitimate interest in the way school district employees use their school district credit cards. The city’s only daily newspaper piles on, trying to rip off the blogger’s story and turn it into its own investigative exposé. The superintendent of schools panics. He…
North Texas Tollway Authority Dave Levinthal’s story in The Dallas Morning News today about the big launch of “Vote No!” the anti-Trinity referendum campaign was basic good work — solid journeyman reporting. It was hugely better than what we got from The News back in the very bad old days,…
Mayor Tom Leppert, pictured here, spoke today at a media briefing concerning the Trinity toll road. Jim Schutze is in the car and on the phone, heading north — to Oklahoma, most likely, where he likes to gamble with the missus’ paycheck. Stuck in traffic, he phones in with this…
D’s Eric Celeste, who’s worked for more publications than you’ve read I had my close-up with D yesterday. The story is being written by Eric Celeste. It’s not actually totally about moi. In fact, now that I’ve made an ass of myself pledging how they shall not crucify me on…
Jim Schutze, at right, doesn’t need to be marginalized. He just needs a shinier tie, like Wick Allison’s. The Trinity River toll road thing has the downtown old boys so rattled they don’t even bother to cover their traces. Two weeks ago I heard from my snitches that the boys…
In the real world, more people want the Trinity toll road referendum than they want Ron Natinsky on the city council. Check your numbers, holmes. The Dallas Morning News today offers one of its typical Trinity River toll road stories in which the paper reports one side of the issue…
Dear Mexican: I am addressing this to both “¡Ask a Mexican!” and “Savage Love” hoping one of you will have an answer to this: Why do Mexican chicks yell for their papi during sex? —Daddy del Diablo Dear Readers: Daddy del Diablo sent the above query to both the Mexican…
Mitchell Rasansky, Dallas City Council member, is somebody I like. I just do. When you like somebody, you typically can’t say just why. I can’t. I just do. Which is what makes this so hard. Rasansky, a gentleman, philanthropist and self-made success in the real estate business, made his bones…
There was an a-ha! moment when Mayor Tom Leppert’s city council committee assignments came out — for council members, anyway. The most notable feature of the assignment list was the freeze-out of council member and Trinity toll road foe Angela Hunt, who was kept from a leadership position on any…
