Late this afternoon, Chris Heinbaugh, Mayor Tom Leppert’s chief of staff, called to discuss those proposed changes to council meetings, which would put stricter limits on public speakers at City Hall and put a deadline on when council members can remove consent agenda items for individual consideration. Heinbaugh insisted that…
After months of discussion and debate and occasionally contentious meetings with parking lot operators and downtown business owners, the members of the city council’s Transportation and Environment Committee appeared today more than ready to bring to a close the saga of the parking boot. And so, pending a vote by…
On Friday, The New York Times got a sneak preview of North Texas’s largest art gallery, that intimate EnormoDone known as Cowboys Stadium. Today, it was our turn to tour, and seeing as Patrick Michels never misses a chance to dash out to Arlington, he has returned with a small…
In the comments concerning Mayor Tom’s proposal to limit speakers at city council meetings, Friend of Unfair Park Mike MacNaughton directs our attention to a similar policy change the Dallas Independent School District’s trustees will consider on Thursday. You can read the whole thing here, but looks like the board…
Announced by Jody Dean?! Sportatorium spy sent me this pic of the new VOCS (Voice of Cowboys Stadium) working on his craft this week out in Arlington. T-Minus 10 days until the new public address announcer’s debut in Cowboys-Raiders Titans…
Anyone who’s driven south of town knows most of the state’s suffering from a severe drought, especially south-central Texas. And without water, there can be no hay. So Monday morning before dawn, a ranch foreman from Harwood headed north to Bonham to buy some for the cattle and other farm…
I see Rudy’s already posted his item about tomorrow’s vote on Dallas City Council rules changes, which showed up earlier this week on the addendum for tomorrow’s meeting. (It’s Item No. 2.) But what he doesn’t get into is why the council will vote on reducing and, in some cases,…
When last we saw Reunion Arena, it looked like “a coffee table from 1974.” Or, “that carport thingie that’s going up in the Arts District.” Turns out, it’ll stay that way a while longer — like, oh, till at least January of next year. How come?Under the arena’s exterior plaster…
The day Jerry Jones introduced the world to his huge new TV screen, gamers wondered what it’d be like to plug in their PlayStation and have a game 90 feet above the Cowboys Stadium field.Well, wonder no more. While the stadium opened up to season ticket holders for Saturday’s open…
Speaking of old business … At 2 today, the city council’s Transportation and Environment Committee will yet again take up the business of how to regulate parking-lot owners who wanna boot patrons who they claim ain’t paid up. Seems months of meetings and complaints from Deep Ellum and downtown patrons…
Now that everyone on the Dallas City Council’s more or less okee-doke with Mary Suhm’s proposed budget — Suhm and city CFO Dave Cook were damn near feted during yesterday’s briefing — it’s apparently back to old business, of which there’s plenty planned for today. At noon, the Quality of…
This morning, The Wall Street Journal goes to church — Bent Tree Bible Fellowship Church, specifically, on International Parkway in Carrollton, where membership is high (4,000-plus pray at the arena-rock-sized megachurch) and shekels are low. Which has necessitated a few cuts superficial (lawn care, daily cleaning crew) and profoundly deep…
Former Highland Park star and Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford had himself quite the summer bash recently. Girls in bikinis. Dirty dancing. Some sort of beverages in those same red cups that I serve alcohol in at my pool parties. Who knows, maybe whipped cream made a cameo at some…
Perhaps you’ve heard: The North Texas Tollway Authority will, come September 1, most likely raise the speed limit on most area toll roads to 70 miles per hour following a full board vote one week from Wednesday. There will be some exceptions: For instance the Dallas North Tollway between Oak…
On Wednesday, the Dallas City Council will more than likely vote to approve turning over management of the Dallas Zoo to the Dallas Zoological Society — and, more specifically, its management arm, Dallas Zoo Management, Inc. Further details concerning the transfer of power can be found in Item No. 9…
A few minutes ago, the University of Texas at Dallas posted word that over the weekend, one of its programmers made a tiny boo-boo that allowed students to peek at each other’s very private information — such as, their names, “addresses, class schedules, Net identification, UT Dallas ID numbers, and…
Check out our slide show for a closer look at the racing chihuahuas, and the rare breed of owners who trained their dogs for this.One-hundred and fifty nine Chihuahuas came to the parking lot Saturday morning, but by high noon there was only Charlie. Flanked by his entire family on…
How you get shut down by Gio Gonzalez and then light up John Lackey I’ll never know, but your Texas Rangers deflected the dirt from their coffin in Anaheim this weekend. I still don’t think they’ll catch the Angels or make the playoffs, but taking two of three in California keeps baseball relevant past mid-August…
So says Editor & Publisher in its just-published list of “10 That Do It Right.” A.H. Belo biggest wig Robert Decherd has long maintained the free, miniature Morning News is a money-maker, not merely a trash-generator. (Though, admittedly, my folks got a copy last week that wound up much closer…
[Editor’s note: Jim’s on deadline, and Sam’s on vacation. So Trey Garrison’s down at the Earle Cabell Federal Building and Courthouse live-blogging the City Hall corruption trial for Unfair Park today. Jim’s back tomorrow; till then, take it away, Trey.]Don Hill’s defense attorney, Ray Jackson, spent the morning building on…
Hard to remember way back when we bitched and moaned about a “Cowboys bias” in the Pro Football Hall of Fame isn’t it? Saturday night in Canton receiver Bob Hayes became the 11th Cowboy inducted into Canton, continuing a trend that has seen four Dallas stars earn immortality over the…
As the council begins commenting on the proposed FY2009-2010 budget, one issue comes up time and again: the layoff of 840 city employees, which will begin on Friday. Moments ago, the city manager further explained how the process will work: When the reduction-in-force notices are sent out at the end…
