The Fall Guy | Stage Fright | Attitude Adjustment | Crazier in Love

“The Fall Guy,” by Jim Schutze, February 26 Start making sense Jim Schutze highlights what was a blatantly ridiculous stance by The Dallas Morning News editorial board. This is, of course, the same board that had a problem with Farmers Branch holding landlords accountable to renting to illegal aliens. Irrational,…

Oy Candy: Trying Not To Say, “Toldyaso.”

In reading the latest news about flood dangers downtown and the Trinity River Project, it’s important to know that this is an 11-year-old story that Dallas officials and The Dallas Morning News are just now being forced to acknowledge. And even at that, the acknowledgment is grudging and slow to…

Death Metal | Getting to No

“Death, Metal,” by Pete Freedman, February 26 RIP, Abb My best weekends were spent in that club [Joe’s Garage]. Every weekend, no matter who was playing, my future wife, three or four friends, and I would overload my little Nissan car and make the long trek to Joe’s from McKinney…

Low-Rent Landlord Alex Stolarski is City Hall’s Fall Guy

Wow. Have I got a story for you! Headline: Ancient riddle solved! Dallas city officials join with local newspaper to discover root cause of crime. Apartment owners! Amazing. All these eons, moral thinkers and criminologists have been sorting through possible explanations. Poor impulse control. Socio-economic disadvantage. Chromosomal mishap. Old Nick…

Getting to No | Eat Less Live Longer

“Getting to No,” by Jim Schutze, February 12 Blame Uncle Sammy As a native and resident of New Orleans who lost everything in Hurricane Katrina, I was mortified to see comments by your columnist Jim Schutze. He made disparaging, false comments about New Orleans while discussing a project which is…

Oh, So Now Tom Leppert’s the “Education Mayor.” Right.

If Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert doesn’t mention his ideas for taking over the Dallas school system at his town hall meeting Thursday at Harold Wendell Lang Sr. Middle School, you can bet somebody in the audience will bring it up. In fact, it sounds to me like people will be…