Schutze Puts on Leather Football Helmet

Speaking of Craig James, here goes a big mistake. I’m going to invade Richie’s territory and offer an opinion on a sports story. I was actually prohibited from writing about sports once when I was a daily newspaper reporter because of my appalling lack of knowledge. Maybe I’m about to…

From the City Auditor, Our First List of 2010

Dallas City Auditor Craig D. Kinton just published his department’s audit of maintenance of city-owned buildings, which makes for some mildly amusing reading this morning. It’s after the jump, but what would you imagine the biggest problem might be, in terms of gauging how well the city maintains its buildings?…

Civility is the Last Thing the DISD Board Needs

The cabal that has always controlled the Dallas school district—and that includes the editorial page of The Dallas Morning News—doesn’t even know what hit it in the recent school board election. I do. One word. Labor. The teachers unions, traditionally fractured and at odds with each other, banded together very…