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…
Yesterday I’m standing out in front of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price’s house by Lake Cliff, and I get a phone call from a radio producer who wonders if I can come on air and talk about “John Wiley Price’s lavish lifestyle and his history of having people roughed…
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. Behind the mixer, he’s warmed up for Tripping Daisy, Bowling For Soup, Satellite Party,…
This was Dwaine Caraway’s last day as temporary unelected mayor of Dallas. He is now the former temporary mayor or FTM. But he thinks he’s prime material for full-time elected mayor at some point in the future. That’s not true. The reason why it is not true may not be…
Sometimes it takes me a couple days to get my mind around Rick Perry. For the last several days I have been pondering the governor’s veto of the Texas no-text bill. As passed by both houses of the Legislature, the measure would have made it illegal to carry out text…
Whether you’ve reached the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Love the Mavs’ draft. Turning the 26th pick into Rudy Fernandez is a big win. Think of Fernandez, 26 and a three-year veteran with the Blazers, as a younger, better Peja Stojakovic. Dallas…
It’s just beginning to dawn on me. I should be in heaven right now. I don’t know why I’m not. The sheer dumbness of the Trinity River toll road is now at long last apparent for all to see. It’s blown sky high and is comin’ down! And none of…
