A supporter of Casey Thomas filed an ethics complaint Monday against Dave Neumann, who’s being challenged by Thomas for his District 3 city council seat, claiming he violated the Dallas City Code. Brian Wesley alleges Neumann accepted $27,925 in contributions that exceed the allowable $1,000 donation per individual in each…
Plenty of government agencies are dipping their toes into the Twitter waters these days, but when we found the Denton Police Department’s Twitter page this afternoon, we knew we’d found something truly special.With automated posts for everyone booked at the jail since Sunday night, the feed comes complete with a…
A crowd of approximately 75 Vote No’ers gathered in front of City Hall this afternoon in support of Mayor Tom Leppert and the convention center hotel; among them were Dr. Frederick Haynes of Friendship-West Baptist Church, former council member Ed Oakley, county commissioner John Wiley Price and Deputy Mayor Pro…
Last night was one of those nights. In a season of 82 Mavericks’ games and 162 Rangers’ games, we’ll remember April 15. For it was last magical night that we were treated to two – almost simultaneous – rare individual athletic feats in our own back yard: Jason Kidd’s Triple-Double and Ian Kinsler’s Cycle…
A Friend of Unfair Park this morning was browsing the Library of Congress’s archives and came across this Henry Clogenson photo of the Trinity River in 1908 — “the flood of record,” as Schutze describes it. So happens Jim has been making open records demands from the U.S. Army Corps…
Earlier this week, Michael Shires, associate professor in public policy at Pepperdine University, and Joel Kotkin posted on Forbes and New Geography their annual list of the best cities for job growth in the country — though Kotkin adds the caveat that given the state of things, “perhaps we should…
Now, Texas Rangers second baseman Ian Kinsler doesn’t necessarily identify himself as Jewish — his dad is, his mom ain’t, and the guy was never bar mitzvahed. Though, as he told ESPN.com last August, he knows he’s beloved in the Jewish community: “If you have any kind of Jewish ancestry…
A Dallas Mavericks’ season that had more than its share of ups and downs and ups and downs enters the playoffs on a peak. Thank you – of all people – Michael Finley. The former Maverick’s overtime-forcing 3-pointer allowed the San Antonio Spurs to beat the New Orleans Hornets Wednesday night and allowed the Mavs…
In front of Dallas City Hall, radio host and Dallas Tea Party co-planner Mark Davis poured the first cup of tea with a joke: “Those who oppose big government actually have jobs.” To which the crowd of guestimated thousands responded with chants of “U-S-A, U-S-A, U-S-A.” The scene at the…
Yesterday, Tawnell Hobbs summarized the debate over the fate of the Dallas Independent School District’s learning centers, created by court order in the 1980s to “return disadvantaged, inner-city, minority students to their neighborhood schools and provide quality educational programs with supplementary funds,” as the district’s Web site puts it. District…
And the hits just keep on coming — though General Growth Properties’ filing for Chapter 11 protection this morning wasn’t exactly a surprise. Way back in November, we pointed to the Chicago-based mall owner’s fiscal issues involving more than a billion in overdue debt payments, which puts in jeopardy the…
Southwest Airlines announced this morning that it’s living up to that old motto, offering nearly every single employee what CEO Gary Kelly calls an “early out” in the wake of a first-quarter net loss, the Dallas-based carrier’s third straight decline. Southwest today announced a first-quarter ’09 net loss of $91…
Driving down Eldorado Parkway in McKinney last night I happened upon a slew of sign-holding, flag-waving folks staging themselves a protest thinly disguised as a “tea party.” Embarrassingly lame. “Bailouts Steal Our Children!” read one sign. “You Can’t Multiply Wealth By Dividing It!” screamed another. And my personal fave: “Obama…
If you claim to have witnessed the wildest game in Dallas Mavericks’ history, chances are you’re lying. Only 9,007 fans squeezed into the team’s makeshift home at SMU’s Moody Coliseum on April 26, 1984. The fifth and deciding game in Dallas’ first-round playoff series with the Seattle Supersonics was telecast…
Tim Marshall and his wife, Kay, were bickering like seagulls when the cow dung flew inside their pickup’s passenger-side window and splattered across his face. “Put the vehicle in drive,” Marshall said in a hectoring tone that any spouse would find annoying. “No. No. No. We are fine. We…are…fine.” About…
Free Jenny Thank goodness Margaret Morin hasn’t given up on Jenny—without hope, there often is nothing. If Jenny knows, she appreciates it. Morin has a wonderful vision for Jenny, and she won’t give up. We need more people like Morin who fight for what is right, even when the system…
Lost in translation: Wow. That was some piece of reportage The Dallas Morning News produced this Sunday about Richard Allen’s inland port project in southern Dallas County. Reporters Kevin Krause and Gromer Jeffers Jr. spent two months reviewing allegations that a coterie of southern Dallas pols and businessmen tried to…
Friend of the show Justin Cozart’s been digging through his grandfather’s boxes of photos again and come across this mighty gem taken during the Republic Bank tower’s construction in ’53. And if it looks familiar, maybe it’s because you’re thinking of this iconic photo taken high above the Manhattan skyline…
We already mentioned that Jenny the Elephant’s got a few new friends trying to spring her from the Dallas Zoo, including the great Emmylou Harris, the irascible Kinky Friedman and Laugh-In star Ruth Buzzi. Buzzi, who lives just west of Fort Worth, joined Concerned Citizens for Jenny founder Margaret Morin…
At the end of March, the Dallas City Council’s Transportation and Environment Committee took up the discussion of regulating a “relatively new practice being employed by private parking lot operators to enforce payment in their lots” — booting cars. Parking lot owners, in a letter to the council, said, Look,…
Just when some of you – okay, and most of me – blamed the Texas Rangers’ weekend sweep in Detroit on the lack of a certain rosy-hued sartorial splendor, we’ve got a new scapegoat. The Rangers wore red again last night. But they also handed the ball to a left-handed reliever…
Till then, though, today we get this ad from the Citizens Against the Taxpayer-Owned Hotel — the group’s fourth, for those keeping score at home. But if it looks familiar, well, it is. Because, see, first there was this CATOH ad that debuted a month ago starring some dude in…
