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Constable Jaime Cortes Twice in the comments affixed to Sam’s Ross Avenue item from yesterday, folks mention that a constable was spotted along Ross trying to gather signatures for the Cesar Chavez Task Force. But even before we posted the item, on Wednesday morning a Friend of Unfair Park mentioned…

Exactly two weeks ago, the city gave Woodard Paint & Body Shop on Ross Avenue till 2010 to git — which prompted my father, a lifelong Dallasite, to note that “our city fathers are suffering from cranial rectitus.” Well, the council member who made the motion to deny Woodard the…

At 2851 Walnut Hill Lane sits a one-time mom-and-pop diner where, when I was a kid, my father and I used to have breakfast every single Saturday morning. But, several years ago, the new owners bricked up its windows (to class up the joint, naturally) and turned the eatery into…

Expect to see and hear plenty from Jessica Simpson in coming days — her country album, Do You Know, is in stores September 9. (Though, yesterday it kinda found its way to the Internets a little early.) Which, among other reasons, is why she’s on the cover of the brand-new…

Facts are slippery: Do we really know enough about John McCain to elect him president? For instance, have you heard that the man spent five and a half years of his youth associating with foreign communists at war with the United States? Oh, sure, he says he was a “prisoner…

“Low-Bid to No-Bid,” by Jim Schutze, August 14 Shaky Construction Jim Schutze’s article “Low-Bid to No-Bid” is long on sensationalism and short on substance. Schutze’s main theme certainly doesn’t raise anything unique in the history of contracting on either public or private projects. Big increases to an original contract by…

Scene 1: Enter the prince It’s the first hour of the first day of rehearsal for Dallas Theater Center’s first production of its 50th season. The show is The Who’s Tommy, the sprawling rock musical based on a 1969 concept album about a “deaf, dumb and blind kid” cured by…

Came across this interesting item on the Interwebs today: CRM Studios is being forced to move out of its longtime home on the downtown Fort Worth RadioShack Corporation campus. Which is a very big deal, even if you’ve never heard of CRM. Because, see, years ago it was RadioShack’s in-house…

Brian Harkin Dr. Elba Garcia, Mayor Pro Tem When the city council’s Trinity River Corridor Project Committee voted unanimously to both rename Industrial Boulevard “Riverfront Boulevard” and move forward with renaming Ross Avenue “Cesar Chavez Boulevard,” I finally became interested in this whole mess. Why? Simple: The process had finally…

Daniel Rodrigue Colin Ross, some folks think you’re just a “sincere kook.” I just knew we weren’t done with Colin Ross just yet. Surely, you recall our favorite X-Man — said he could get his mind to make a sound using eyebeams … or something? Anyway, last week The Skeptics’…

The “new and improved” White Rock Lake spillway, which the council will likely vote to fund today Two more items of interest before the city council today, including agenda item No. 56: spending $16,748,070 to fix the White Rock Lake spillway, which was damaged during the storms of March 2006…

Yesterday, the U.S. Census Bureau released a report titled Income, Earnings, and Poverty Data From the 2007 American Community Survey, in which it lists the cities with the highest median income and the lowest poverty rate. And, as you’ve no doubt guessed from the headline, Plano comes out on top…

At present, the proposed Main Street Garden downtown is but a fenced-off patch of dirt and rubble — very sexy scenery for folks to whom Forest City’s trying to sell apartments in the newly constructed Element, some of which faces the Municipal Building and the abandoned Statler Hotel. Plans for…