I paid a visit today to the Margaret Hunt Hill suspension bridge construction site on the Trinity River because a frequent correspondent had expressed concern about the effects of recent heavy rains. His worry was about the two big pier footings right by the river’s edge: When viewed from the…
And then one day, just to keep his readers on their toes, the demented blogger stood Whitt’s End on its head … *For those inclined toward auditory masochism, I’ll again be the analyst for Time Warner Cable/Metro Sports Channel 185’s upcoming telecasts of the Texas Brahmas minor-league hockey playoff games. Game…
Seems like just yesterday we hatched this lil’ corner of the blogosphere as a Dallasy, sporty catch-all spiced with news, opinions and snarky assholeism. After 365 days, 755 items and 7,735 comments, how we doin’? President Obama just got graded on his first 100 days. Knowing full well the risk, today I’m soliciting your…
Got a call over the weekend from Charmane Jackson, who lost her legal fight against golf manufacturing giant U.S. Kids Friday in Sherman. After a week of testimony the jury deliberated only 90 minutes before failing to find U.S. Kids responsible for the death of 12-year-old Chandler Jackson. Asked if…
Check out more photos in our slideshow from the mini-camp. It’s rare I don’t have time to check out the hotties, especially the athletic ones. But with the NFL Draft and Mavericks-Spurs this weekend, I dispatched the lovely and talented Kelly to do what she does oh so good: Lingerie…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Barring a trade, the Cowboys won’t make their first pick (51st overall) in tomorrow’s NFL Draft until around 9:30 p.m., a good six hours after the thing kicks off. But it’s…
Dear Mexican: First of all, please don’t think that I’m a self-loathing Mexican; I was born in the United States to northern Mexican parents. As far as I know, my ancestry is just Indian, Spanish and a little French. For some strange reason, I have developed an intense fascination and,…
With help from Michael Morris, transportation director of the North Central Texas Council of Governments, The Dallas Morning News has been painting the developer of the city’s inland port shipping and warehousing center as a racist. In a story in the paper on April 12, Morris was quoted as saying…
At 2:30 p.m. today 14th Civil District Judge Eric Moye put the Planet Earth back where it belongs, much to the relief of people clinging to its surface in one East Dallas neighborhood. In the infamous “dirt skirts” case, a zoning dispute over building heights, Moye ruled that city of…
Maybe Hopefully you remember Chandler Jackson. Quick refresher: Gifted 12-year-old Frisco boy tragically killed in a 2005 freak accident by a broken golf club in tiny-town Kentucky. After almost four years of misery and mystery, Chandler’s parents – Rick and Charmane – may this week get some closure. At the very least,…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *If I were I am a betting man, and I am plunking down $1 that 105.3 The Fan and the Dallas Cowboys officially announce their flagship radio station partnership next week. Trust…
Dear Mexican: In an earlier column, you mentioned that conservatives can’t have an argument against illegal immigration without it degenerating into a diatribe against culture. Here’s an argument that has nothing to do with culture: In California, we now have a severe water shortage. I work for a municipal water…
Angela Hunt has delivered a sound thwacking to fellow city council member Ron Natinsky and Assistant City Manager A.C. Gonzalez over some loose-lipped claims Natinsky and Gonzalez have been making about our upcoming referendum on a city-owned hotel downtown.She says Natinsky and Gonzalez, in their eagerness to get people to…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *What’s more obtuse: That Iowa is now a more progressively liberal state than California, or that the Texas Rangers woke up this morning as the only undefeated team in the American…
Yesterday Dallas Morning News managing editor George Rodrigue took issue with my April 1 column in which I took issue with his attack on the Dallas Observer last month. At this point, I’m sure it would be better for everybody if George and I were locked in a sound-proofed room…
Dear Mexican: For as long as I can remember, Mexicans have been known for doing three things: Drinking lots of cerveza, having lots of niños and saying “¡Ay, caramba!” While I can vouch for the first two, I’ve never, ever personally heard a Mexican utter those famous two words. Is…
The crisis over the Dallas levee system represents a total failure of the traditional leadership class in this city. We can and will argue for years about why this happened, but the important thing now is that it did. The mayor lied. City council members, with the exception of Angela…
Well, I think I got some interesting stuff here.The city keeps telling people they’re going to “fix” the Trinity River levees. Don’t much think so. Looks to me like a whole lot of the existing levee system along the Trinity is going to have be torn out and replaced.My column…
I’m already getting calls from my Republican friends (I have some! Swear!) who have seen the Todd Gillman story that just went up on The Dallas Morning News’s site. In it, former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk tells Gillman he’s really pissed that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is bringing…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Seems Highland Park-ex and potential No. 1 overall NFL Draft pick Matthew Stafford isn’t comfortable talking with teams – specifically a psychologist for the San Francisco 49ers – about his parents’…
Astute Friend of Unfair Park “Wylie H.” drilled into the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ report on the Trinity River levees yesterday evening and found the real horror story that goes almost unmentioned in this morning’s Dallas Morning News account of the report: the story of the day we almost…
Dear Mexican: Why are Mexicans so proud of the brutality of their police force? They seem to glamorize it in all their music and telenovelas. —Batons Are Bats, Or Super Oracles Dear BABOSO: I’ll let you know when Dirty Harry, Detective Sipowicz, Chief Wiggum and the producers of COPS get…
