So, this morning we heard Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway’s reasons for supporting the convention center hotel. Today, on her Web site, Angela Hunt offers several reasons why she’s against it. She also has some words for those who insist that Dallas will become a “ghost town” without the…
Last week, when District 13 city council candidate Ann Margolin started circulating to the media a copy of a $482,337.09 federal tax lien filed by the Internal Revenue Service against Brint Ryan, who’s also running for Mitchell Rasansky’s soon-to-be-vacated seat, I contacted the IRS for further explanation. At the time,…
Just got off the phone with Dallas Independent School District spokesman Jon Dahlander, who, moments ago, announced that the district is closing Daniel Webster Elementary from tomorrow till May 11 due to one confirmed case of the swine flu at that campus. (It will remain open throughout today to accomodate…
On The View this morning, when Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins said Dallas County has exonerated 19 wrongly imprisoned men using DNA evidence, he received an enormous round of applause. But the appearance was less about Watkins than it was his office’s Conviction Integrity Unit and Johnnie Lindsey, who,…
Screw the closet, I’ve got bigger issues today. In a word: Mothereffin’squirrels! First we hear scome scratch-scratch-scratching on the ceiling. Next some creepy scurrying in the walls. Then, while doing some spring shrubbing, I spot not one, but two holes in the corners of our roof. Softball-sized, swear. I go…
In February, the Dallas Business Journal ran a Q&A headlined “Two Minutes with Saul Meyer,” referring to the founder of and partner at Harwood Street-based Aldus Equity. In the piece, Meyer said that what set Aldus apart from other private equity firms is its “degree of governance and transparency,” which…
We missed the pro-convention center hotel wingding in front of Dallas City Hall last night. Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway did not. Here’s his pitch for the hotel, and it apparently has something to do with … cell phones?…
An out-of-state colleague wondered late yesterday, “Is it true that the state of Texas has canceled all sports events till May 11? Does that include Astros and Rangers?” Um … no. Alas, such was his reading of a breathless, since-vanished New York Times story concerning the University Interscholastic League’s decision…
I still – as always – wouldn’t have pulled the trigger on Jason Kidd and two No. 1 draft picks, etc. for Devin Harris and Antoine Wright, etc. But I’ll admit, Kidd has been better than any of us expected. And today – as the Mavericks prepare to enter the second round of…
New stadium. New station. Same starters. Lots of reasons to be excited about the Dallas Cowboys in 2009. Jonestown Coliseum will be the world’s coolest sports venue. The team has moved to a 100,000-watt flagship radio station—KRLD-105.3 FM The Fan—insuring that night games can be heard outside of downtown. Terrell…
“Off Course,” by Jim Schutze, April 23 till it’s gone Building reservoirs to feed Dallas’ growth is Texas’ version of paving paradise to put up a parking lot. Jim R. from Sachse, via dallasobserver.com That reservoir has been planned for decades. Dallas is going to need that water to prosper…
Screen cred: Buzz couldn’t help but wince a bit when we got the advance DVD copy of Dallas DNA, Investigation Discovery’s new six-part series that adds to the growing legend that is Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins. It took Henry Wade decades in office to achieve the status of…
It’s another in a long line of sales pitches for Mayor Tom Leppert as he hawks his vision for a convention center hotel. Tonight the promoter-in-chief is going mano a mano against those who support a referendum for a city charter amendment that would put the kibosh on his proposed…
In October 2007, Katherine Olson was looking for work. Since graduating summa cum laude from St. Olaf College with a dual degree in theater and Hispanic studies, she’d mostly cobbled together part-time jobs—waitressing, teaching Spanish, coaching high school speech. Olson was looking at nanny listings on Craigslist.org when she came…
Two follow-ups in this particular radio round-up. First, I exchanged a few messages with Alan Ayo via Facebook, and the long and short of it is, he’s not at all upset that Clear Channel gave him his walking papers yesterday. Writes the former midday host and music director at KDGE-FM:I’m…
Ron Steinhart, chairman of Enough is Enough, at the group’s press conference not only talked about the negative personal attacks aimed at Mayor Tom Leppert, but he also referred to “inaccurate and misleading statements” from the anti-hotel campaign. Yet when he spoke with the Observer in late March for today’s…
Vanity Fair contributing editor Nancy Jo Sales has a lengthy “Web exclusive” about the post-presidency of George W. Bush — specifically, how he’s looking to “reshape his legacy,” both alone and with the assist of former White House colleagues. From Bush’s March 17 speech in Calgary, Sales offers this highlight:The…
Back in January, Clear Channel laid off 1,800 employees, several of whom were good Friends of Unfair Park and most of whom worked in ad sales. Today comes news that the San Antonio-based conglomerate has laid off more folks in a second round of budget-cutting — and gone even deeper…
For as long as I can recall, El Rincon Tapatio Tres sat at the corner of Knight Street and Maple Avenue. Clearly, that’s about to change…
On Sunday, The Dallas Morning News ran a piece headlined “The last, frantic days of Perot family hedge fund,” which detailed how Parkcentral Global Hub Ltd. — described in the story as “a Bermuda-chartered fund run from Plano and Dallas by the Perot family” — saw its assets dwindle from…
The USA Film Festival kicks off today at the Angelika Film Center, though I’ll still have to refer you to our April 14 item if you’re in need of a full schedule — the official Web site’s still not, well, working at the moment. And, as I noted two weeks…
Just hours after releasing its first radio ad, featuring Roger Staubach, the Enough is Enough’ers unleashed their first TV spot. Dunno how effective it’ll be, though I do know of at least one 5-year-old who thinks it’s a riot.Enough is Enough Convention Center Hotel TV Ad from Dallas Observer on…
