Whether you’ve reached the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Derek Holland looked unusually sharp from the first pitch last night. Seattle’s woeful offensively. I had a feeling, so I Tweetcalled for a no-hitter in the bottom of the 1st. Holland…
Somehow I’ve taken some heat for this blog post from Monday, in which I admit to being initially skeptical about women’s World Cup soccer but, in the end, apologizing to the sport and thanking the U.S. for the thrills and chills. Guess I should expect it from a blog penned…
First, Casey Anthony. Now, Roger Clemens. The judge in his perjury trial this morning declared a mistrial after prosecuting attorneys showed jurors evidence against his wishes. Isn’t anyone guilty of anything anymore?…
Dear Mexican: Say the immigrant makes a few bucks and goes back to his/her hometown. Think they’ll put up with the shit that prompted them to move in the first place? (How ya’ gonna keep them down on the farm?) —Putting the Red into Redneck Dear Gabacho: Absolutely not. I…
Ever come home from vacation and find spoiled milk in the fridge? When new Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings gets home, he’s going to find the whole cow. It’s not just the FBI raids on his campaign supporters. Last week, while Rawlings and his wife vacationed in Paris, Allynmedia, the local…
Dallas Morning News managing editor George Rodrigue has lambasted me in his most recent “Ask the Editor” column for having lambasted the News in a column here two weeks ago. Now I have to lambaste him back. Whole lotta lambastin’ goin’ on. Anyway, I share with you this open letter…
Gromer Jeffers has a pay-walled column in today’s Dallas Morning News trying to explain community support for embattled Southern Dallas leader John Wiley Price, now the target of a major FBI investigation for money laundering and other crimes. I respect Jeffers for struggling with a very tough issue right at…
Welcome to Local Music’Mericans, where we meet the people in the local music scene that you don’t see on stages. Frank Campagna’s first mural, painted at age 16, was a 9-foot-by-12-foot rendering of a clown wearing a police uniform, sporting a badge that said “pig,” and all in front of…
Thank you, Angela Hunt, for putting the B-word on the table. I could make an argument that fear of the B-word is the main reason we can’t get off the dime about homelessness. Bum! There. I said it, too. Bum bum bum! Some of them are not simply “homeless persons.”…
I need to correct an error and an omission. Yesterday I posted an item identifying the lawyer who defended Dallas County Judge Jim Foster from an intimidation attempt by Commissioner John Wiley Price as Ken Barr. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Ken Barr is a former mayor of Fort Worth and member…
Part of what we do in the reporting biz is look for the anomalous response. I emailed Parkland Hospital earlier this afternoon asking about information I received that the FBI showed up there last night with search warrants related to the Commissioner John Wiley Price investigation.Candace White of the Parkland…
Our coverage of the Inland Port scandal in Dallas may yet produce some new federal law. If it does, I don’t think it’s going to be anything we will be bragging about. Yesterday Wilonsky posted a 2-year-old deposition he found on the website of embattled Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley…
Dear Readers: Ever since the Mexican national soccer team thrashed the American side, 4-2, in last month’s Gold Cup final, Know Nothings have railed about how Mexis in the States root for El Tri against the norteamericanos. They’ve invaded the Mexican’s mailbox with preguntas sobre fútbol, so rather than answer…
Federal agents of both the IRS and FBI persuasion have fanned out across our fair county and state, maybe even traveling to exotic shores, trying to tease truth out of the densely woven fabric of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price’s financial affairs. Lots of luck. As of last week,…
Last week I was talking to a very well-known Dallas television investigative reporter about the Dallas County federal corruption probe. I won’t name him here, because it was a personal call to discuss something else. But he made a point that kept coming back to me all through the long…
Looking to keep your holiday week festive?Then look no further than tomorrow night’s wingding at the Kirkwood Temple CME Church — to our knowledge, the first real “community” event in support of embattled Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, who, of course, is under FBI investigation for money laundering and…
Welcome to Local Music ‘Mericans , where we meet some of the people behind the local music scene — those who aren’t necessarily members of local bands, but more the people who make the scene move. Frank Hill’s story is essentially that of a music scene kid who, gladly, let…
This weekend I have been sitting around ruminating on the last three years of reporting I have done on the Inland Port story, which now seems to an element in the FBI corruption probe of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price. By the way, I happen to know the FBI…
Mayor Mike Rawlings’s chief campaign-runner, Mari Woodlief of Allyn Media, responded this afternoon to questions I had posed about the $270,000 paid by the Rawlings campaign to consultant Kathy Nealy, whose offices were searched by the FBI Monday as part of the federal investigation of County Commissioner John Wiley Price…
Whether you’ve reached the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Rangers return from Houston today to start a series in Arlington against the lowly Florida Marlins. Did anyone go to the airport to see the Silver Boot as Nolan Ryan triumphantly…
If you are a regular reader of The Dallas Morning News, Dallas’s only daily newspaper since 1991, and if you are following the federal corruption investigation of John Wiley Price, the county’s most powerful black politician, then from here on out you need to put on your magnifying specs and…
Dear Mexican: Just suppose that all of the southwestern United States had remained in Mexican hands. Would the Mexicans have done any better with it than they have with the present confines of Mexico? —Reversible Reconquista? Dear Gabacho: The gran parlor game! If we turn back the clock and changed…
