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Wholeness in Dallas Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Healthiness

By Robert WilonskyOctober 22, 2007
If you need Schutze today, he'll be with Mayor Tom at the Adam's Mark Hotel, where the Williams Institute is holding its third annual conference. Jim's moderating a crime panel this afternoon -- and, says the latest Wholeness Index, crime in Dallas is the worst in northwest Dallas, "mostly west...
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Skirting The Zoning Laws

By Jim SchutzeJanuary 10, 2008
Dirt skirts. Understand dirt skirts, and you understand the Earth. Some weeks ago I received e-mails from an esteemed neighbor warning me of an important City Hall issue having to do with "dirt skirts." I wrongly assumed we were talking about our perennial East Dallas problem with prostitutes. Dirt skirts,...
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Finger Fight

By Robert WilonskySeptember 11, 2007
New York Giants safety and Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Terrell Owens are, like, what? Twelve-year-olds? Millionaire middle-schoolers? Because in case you haven't been following this "story," seems the two men are fighting over a finger -- as in, did T.O. shoot Wilson the bird during Sunday night's game at Texas...
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Schutze’s Index

By Robert WilonskyAugust 1, 2007
Flood, Karen Kunc (2002) Cheat Sheet on Petition Signatures Total number of signatures collected by TrinityVote: 91,000 Of those, total number certified by City Secretary Deborah Watkins as valid: 52,500 Total number required by law to call a referendum on the Trinity Toll Road: 48,000 Surplus of certified signatures: 4,500...
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Sweet/Sour Grapes on Trinity Referendum Results

By Jim SchutzeNovember 8, 2007
This is one of the worst deadline pickles I think I have ever encountered in my 200 years as a newspaper writer. I am writing this at the end of the week before the Trinity toll road election. The results from the election will come in about an hour after...
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Digging for Toll Road Facts

By Jim SchutzeNovember 1, 2007
Wait a minute. Think about this. The main argument for keeping the toll road inside the park downtown is that it can't go anywhere else because of the cost. I just looked at files in the offices of the people who would build the road. It's flat-out untrue. This is...
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And Your Mom Too

By Robert WilonskyAugust 15, 2007
Good Records’ C.J. Davis has sung the praises of Denton duo Mom for some time now (they’re on his label, Pancakes for Mattie, after all). And when we finally caught them a couple months back, we were impressed, to say the least. By running acoustic instruments into a variety of...
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Crazy Fish May Redefine Computer Industry

By Glenna WhitleyNovember 15, 2007
The North Dallas apartment is tiny and as dim as a titty bar at noon. Only one light bulb burns in the ceiling fan fixture, so for the sake of a visitor, Russell Hamilton Fish III screws in the other three bulbs. "My parents said they bought a house with...
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Schutze Tickles Everything But the Ivories

By Robert WilonskyJune 12, 2007
Seriously, wasn't Jack Pierce the name of a popular local band in the early 1990s? Three people get that joke. If you happen to hear the new anti-Ed Oakley ad on the radio, featuring the guy I wrote about a couple weeks go whose land was almost zoned out from...
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No Graduation Day for You

By Alice LaussadeMay 31, 2007
I'm perfect gang material. I mean, I love the matching jackets, and I'm super great at tying bandanas. I could be front row in any gang versus gang dance-off, any day. But, last time I went to gang tryouts, things looked way less like West Side Story and Grease than...
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Don’t Mound If You Do

By Robert WilonskyMay 24, 2007
Business Week's been showcasing the "best affordable suburbs" to which its readers might wanna move, and this week it saves the best for last: the South, notable for its "strong job markets and low living costs." And, naturally, there is a Dallas-Ft. Worth suburb included on the list: Flower Mound,...
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Lunch With the Trinity Muckety-Mucks

By Robert WilonskyJune 7, 2007
Yesterday I was all worried about being shut out of a closed city council meeting that turned out to be a luncheon for officials from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. So today I got to go. And it was … odd. The guest of honor was John Paul Woodley...
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Night About Town

By Alice LaussadeMay 3, 2007
Although the song in Wonderful Town titled "100 Easy Ways (to Lose a Man)" does talk about a bunch of different ways you could lose a guy, I was surprised it never mentioned these surefire ways you can lose your man: do his grandpa, ask him to do a chore,...
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Family Shattered After Oscar Sanchez’s Murder

By Megan Feldman and OthersOctober 4, 2007
Laura Sanchez glances at the gold watch on her wrist. She looks up and smiles stiffly. She only has an hour, she says, fidgeting with the pearl ring on her finger. And then she has to catch a flight to Monterrey, Mexico. She needs to escape; she needs to stop...
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The Money, Money, Money Men

By Robert WilonskyMarch 30, 2007
In recent months, the Dallas-based father-and-son investment team of Craig and Don Hodges -- better known as the $650-mil Hodges Fund -- has gotten plenty o' pub in such pubs as Kiplinger's and USA Today. The former celebrated the duo as "a rare, old-fashioned fund" that's making more on its...
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Geekology 101

By Scott FoundasJune 7, 2007
There is a moment early on in "Dead Dogs and Gym Teachers," the 14th episode of the brilliant but canceled television series Freaks and Geeks, in which gangly, bespectacled, picked-last-in-gym-class high school freshman Bill Haverchuck (Martin Starr) arrives home from school, makes himself a grilled cheese sandwich, and sits down...
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You Don’t Know Jack

By Patrick WilliamsFebruary 8, 2007
We, members of the NAAGP, hereby protest Casa Mañana's Children's Playhouse's premiere of a new musical, Jack & the Beanstalk, on Friday and encourage all largish people and NBA players to join us for a protest at 7 p.m. outside the theater, 3101 W. Lancaster Ave. in Fort Worth. (We'll...
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Zac’s Tracks o’ Wax, This Time With Sound

By Robert WilonskyJanuary 2, 2007
Zac Crain may or not become mayor, but he does know the good rock from the bad. Gary Griffith, not s'much. A Friend of Unfair Park sends word today that he's been listening to advance tracks from the double-disc comp due out shortly to raise some campaign dough for our...
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News Hard on Preston Hollow. Finally.

By Robert WilonskyNovember 27, 2006
A federal judge recently found the principal of a North Dallas elementary school guilty of 1940s-style racial and ethnic segregation. In a civil suit, Judge Sam Lindsay ruled that Preston Hollow Principal Teresa Parker had systematically herded black and Latino kids into segregated classrooms to appease affluent white parents. At...
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Will Linux for Food

By Robert WilonskyDecember 11, 2006
Good news for folks who're good with computers and stuff: If you're not working today -- which is to say, you're out of work and not just taking the day off to download current theatrical releases or browse for porn -- just wait till the beginning of 2007. You just...
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Slow News Day

By Robert WilonskyNovember 17, 2006
It took about five minutes for this much of The Dallas Morning News' crap Web site to load. Seriously. Five minutes. Sure, ours ain't the best either, but at least it loads...most of the time. I have been trying to focus my thoughts on why the new Dallas Morning News...