As Unfair Park already noted earlier this morning, The Dallas Morning News has a hell of a story this morning about the Dallas Police Department and the feeling of some experts and involved citizens that it has been cooking the books on violent crime. It’s a journalistic triumph for reporters…
Now, it’s on to that community gardens and neighborhood farmers market briefing. Follow along at home. Try to keep up.A city staff guy, Eric Griffin, is talking to the city council about community gardens. I interviewed Griffin for my story about how City Hall does everything it can to screw…
Linda Koop, chair of the city council’s Transportation and Environment Committee, and Gary Thomas, president of Dallas Area Rapid Transit, are having a mutual smooch-fest today at this afternoon’s committee briefing, congratulating each other on what a terrific job DART did carrying passengers on the day of the Texas-OU game…
I owe an apology to the members of the Dallas County Commissioners Court for remarks in my column this week. I write that they sat idly by and did nothing during a recent outburst by Commissioner John Wiley Price, during which he gave the impression he was about to hit…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *You heard it here first back in October as a sorta be-on-the-lookout rumor. Now it’s more solid, as in, Michael Irvin’s days on 103.3 FM ESPN are numbered. Radio industry sources…
Dear Mexican: As a Chicano/Mexican, I have lost my faith in God. While Mexicans take pride in their country like everyone else, and like to make frequent jokes, they are generally very humble (poor) people. Isn’t God supposed to be on the side of the poor and humble? Why is…
Here’s the question. Who’s ever going to finally kick John Wiley Price’s ass? Here’s the answer: Me. I have made up my mind. John Wiley, you better run. I just can’t take any more of his shit. One day soon—let’s keep it a surprise—I’m going to go down there to…
[Editor’s note at 4:27 p.m.: Jim has opted to turn this item into a live blog concerning the afternoon’s doings at Dallas City Hall. The Simon David debate has wrapped with a vote in favor of the store’s expansion, so the council has moved on to the University of North…
Well, looks like Randall’s Food & Drugs, which owns the Simon David at 7117 Inwood Road, thinks they’ve got next week’s zoning vote at city council in the bag.I wrote to Connie Yates, their PR person, earlier this week, asking questions about their plan to demolish houses and re-route a…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Ho hum, another month of Arbitron PPM ratings and another month of dominance by 1310 AM The Ticket. In the November ratings for the precious Men 25-54 demographic, The Ticket is…
Earlier today on The Ticket, Hardline host Mike Rhyner brought up two of our favorite subjects: Dallas’s demolition of what little history it has left (especially downtown) and our “well-known city muckraker,” who, last week, wrote about the Dallas Independent School District’s plans to tear down Adamson High School and…
Dear Mexican: I used to frequent a cantina in Chicago where half of the bar was Polack, the other half beaner. The Polacks would speak in their native tongue and either start or finish all of their sentences with the word kurwa. I understand this to mean “whore” in their…
I love plaintiff’s lawyers. I wish they were way richer. I hate “tort reform.” Plaintiff’s lawyers are cool, because they sue the socks off bullies. That’s what this column is about. I would urge any plaintiff’s lawyer who might be reading this column to snip it out of the paper…
Pins and needles here.At 2:30 pm the Corps of Engineers releases its report on the city’s proposed fix for the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge. They’re doing it not at any public venue but at the Oak Lawn offices of The Trinity Trust, the private lobby group for the Trinity River…
For his role, Dale Hansen got death threats, extortion ploys and, um, a dead bird. “It was a black crow delivered right to our office,” recalls Hansen, WFAA-Channel 8’s sports anchor upon the events surrounding his uncovering the SMU football scandal of 1986. “It had a note pinned through its body:…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *This year’s Super Bowl halftime entertainment is The Who. What the what? Springsteen. The Who. Next year at SB XLV in Arlington: Lawrence Welk? Maybe I’m just bothered that 1) The…
Dear Mexican: I live in a little village in England in a house that’s 200 years old, just down the hill from a tiny church that’s so old that it was actually built before God said “Let there be light,” thus proving that Stephen Hawking is a blowhard. The only…
I have been a reporter all my working life, half of that time for daily newspapers, so who knows what volume of fish-wrap I must have ground out over the years, how many tens of thousands of interviews I’ve done. Yet in all that volume of chat, a very few…
After the jump, you’ll find a letter Angela Hunt sent today to the Fort Worth District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in which she begs Troy D. Collins, the deputy district engineer, not to hurry up the approval process for the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge. She wants the…
Sunday was the 46th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas. A couple questions …..
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Screw me. I’ve been inside Cowboys Stadium a dozen times now and never noticed there wasn’t an American flag hanging somewhere. JumboJerry will do that for you. When during the National…
As I write in this week’s Dallas Observer column, SMU picked a bad year to have a good year. And now – on the verge of his school’s first bowl bid in 25 years – Mustangs’ head coach June Jones is picking a strange time to get homesick. Behind freshman quarterback…
