For the last year, the Park Cities YMCA, which lies at the social heart of ultra-competitive, affluent, sports- and youth-minded Highland Park and University Park, has been engaged in a bitter battle for its soul. That’s a lot of battling over what may turn out to have been a small…
Here’s a difficult public relations puzzle: Let’s say you are the downtown Dallas business establishment, and you are very unhappy about the new ethics code under consideration by the city council. Why are you unhappy? Because you already control the city council through juice. Cash. The money. At least eight…
The so-called “fraud audit” of the Dallas Public Schools is headed straight to hell. It will never produce significant results or catch any big fish. So far the feds have caught minimum-wage janitors fudging on their overtime, roofing supervisors taking kickbacks, and a former superintendent stealing money to buy bad…
In the three months Waldemar Rojas has been superintendent of schools in Dallas, two things have become plain: The only goal he cares about is delivering a fat contract to Edison Schools, Inc., and he’ll resort to any level of political thuggery to make the Edison deal happen no matter…
Ben Click, our recently departed police chief, had it down: If you want to make it as chief in Dallas, just go to all of the neighborhood meetings, nod with astonishment and concern every time somebody tells you the amazing news about his garage being burglarized, and stay far away…
Here is the quiz: A city employee sees something crooked going on. He reports it. His claims are investigated and found to be completely true. What does it mean — what do you suppose is going on — if the reaction of the Dallas City Council is to defend vigorously…
