This just in from the U.S. Department of Justice’s press department: The government and the Dallas Independent School District have settled their dispute involving the misuse of funds provided to the district for the so-called E-Rate program, created in 1996 to give “affordable access to telecommunications services for all eligible…
Late yesterday, Don Hill’s PR man, Ken Carter, sent to media an objection filed in federal court in which the former Dallas mayor pro tem and his wife, Sheila Farrington, want U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn to keep from the public’s prying ears the feds’ “audio-visual evidence” against the two…
Rosa Parks Plaza at DART’s West End Station is still a noisy dust-covered construction site, but with help from sculptor Erik Blome, the corner at least has its centerpiece installed: a bronze statue of Parks on a bus seat, planted on a granite hill.The city had planned to open the…
The Star-Telegram has rounded up a few folks who attended The Jacksons’ three-night stopover at Texas Stadium in 1984, to which I referred yesterday. Contained therein is a story that I will spend the better part of today and the next who-knows-how-long fleshing out, if only because I’ve finally found…
“Mystery Meat,” by Robb Walsh, June 18 No Cow blood for Oil! Truly amazing energy resources are required to raise, process and deliver beef. Read up for yourself so you understand the story behind this story. The systems necessary for our current meaty lifestyle contribute substantially to making American energy…
During last week’s minicamp at Carrollton’s Standridge Stadium, Dallas Cowboys head coach Wade Phillips was chatting with longtime radio voice Brad Sham. It had come to Sham’s attention that veteran linebacker Bradie James was suddenly likening Phillips to TV’s old Dr. Cliff Huxtable. Compassionate but stern. Fair but firm. Soft…
Puttin’ on the Ritz: Buzz returned from Dallas City Council member Angela Hunt’s post-inauguration luncheon held at the Stoneleigh Hotel last Monday, for which Buzz showed up late wearing a fishing shirt, and Buzz felt like crawling into a hole and dying. Wow. Talk about fancy-schmancy. Buzz has missed a…
Nyjai Hill is dressed like a debutante, but she isn’t in the mood to act like one. Wearing a white dress, a tiara and gloves that reach her elbows, she can no longer ignore the pain in her feet as she balances on teetering heels. When she spots her mother…
Though I’m always skeptical when a head coach drafts a player 24th overall and then contends he “pin-pointed” the kid all along – see: Jimmy Johnson on 7th-rounder Leon Lett, circa 1991 – I’m willing to forge into the Rodrigue Beaubois Era with an open mind. Well, I lied. I won’t…
We’ll have more tomorrow from this evening’s final community budget forum held at White Rock Lake’s Winfrey Point, but when the dust cleared after residents were given sets of 10 green and red dots to assign one each to items in the budget they hoped to keep (green) and ditch…
We’re already breaking our promise, but because we’re strangely obsessed with the city’s struggle to get a car booting ordinance on the books, Unfair Park probed Angela Hunt regarding the city council’s decision to bring the issue back to the Transportation and Environment Committee in August. To catch everyone up,…
The central question posed in this week’s cover story is this: Can teaching rebellious young girls how to become old-school “ladies” save them from a cycle of teen pregnancy and poverty?Teen pregnancy is a riddle in Texas, a state that has the second-highest teen birthrate in the country behind California…
Estela Hernandez in the city’s Public Information Office broke our hearts with the following e-mail that just landed in the Unfair Park in-box. Read it for yourself.Re: Reunion Arena Demolition Scheduled implosion of upper concrete seating decks demolition-CanceledSTATEMENT: Upon further review of the arena structure, A&R Demolition has found an…
School’s out for summer, but the Dallas Independent School District’s board of trustees has one hellacious evening ahead of it, beginning with a 5 p.m. public hearing at 3700 Ross Avenue concerning the proposed 2009-’10 school year budget. After that’s done, it’s down to big business, some of which has…
While watching this tour of Cowboys Stadium, keep reminding yourself that Tashard Choice is third string. Third. The video, shot after a recent OTA, includes cameos by Marion Barber III, Roy Williams, Jerry Jones and the Jonas Brothers. And it’s hosted by the chattiest of Cowboys, who apparently owns a…
Corpus Christi native Farrah Fawcett, who died today at the age of 62 following a lengthy and very public battle with cancer, will be remembered for many things: Charlie’s Angels, her hair, that pin-up poster, The Burning Bed (she could act!), her David Letterman appearance. But locals who actually saw…
Forbes today is but the latest in a long line of media outlets to celebrate Big in Japan’s made-in-Dallas ShopSavvy app, currently available only for the T-Mobile Android. The Stemmons Freeway-based developers are rushing as fast as they can to get their bar-code-scanning, price-checking app to the iPhone, but noted…
The Deep Ellum Community Association’s membership is concerned that what with all the talk of parking boots this week, the neighborhood’s other big story kinda got lost this week. Which is? The Deep Ellum Mural project, to be spearheaded by the great Frank Campagna (Tiffany Kieran of the DECA refers…
A Friend of Unfair Park sends this, via SMU’s Twitter account:Alert: SMU Main Campus Only: There is an emergency on campus. Please shelter in the nearest building now. Do not go outside. Will update.Just checked The News site, where it notes only that “a student says a professor has told…
Out this week is a report that notes the following: Patients spent “an average of four hours and three minutes” waiting in the emergency room in 2008, a slight decrease from the ’07 average but an enormous jump from the ’02 numbers. (In Texas, the average wait is 258 minutes,…
Pete reminded me late yesterday that I hadn’t mentioned the press release we received earlier this week from the Hard Rock Cafe’s New Jersey-based publicist concerning the joint’s opening date in Victory Park. So here ’tis: July 15. Can you smell the excitement? No? Maybe that’s just the $14.95 burger.We’ll…
Like the Dallas Cowboys did a couple months ago, the Dallas Mavericks have made the decision to fortify their roster via quantity, not quality. But in an NBA Draft that features Blake Griffin, Hasheem Thabeet, James Harden and a bunch of extras, that might not be such a bad idea. Unwilling…
