Got a call this morning from Bob LaPrelle, president and CEO of the Museum of the American Railroad, which, as you’re well aware by now, is due to roll out of Fair Park to its new digs in Frisco. I’d left him a message a while ago, even before Justin…
Just last month, we learned that Dallas Animal Services had around 30 vacancies in shelter and field operations that urgently needed to be filled — this, despite a RIF process in October that saw 53 people laid off and replaced with temporary workers. At Thursday afternoon’s Animal Shelter Commission meeting,…
For years, the city has wanted to do something, anything about the 60-year-old public housing project on Bexar Street known as Turner Courts, once described in a council briefing as “severely distressed,” a victim of “elevated rates of vandalism and criminal activity” and in desperate need of demolition. Things were…
Decades after my sports card-collecting prime I’ve become familiar once more with the doings of that particular industry, thanks to my 8-year-old son’s obsession with cards — baseball, mostly, and Houston-made Obaks when he’s feeling particularly old-school, though any Topps’ll do. But he’s got a couple of binders filled with…
One year ago, or close enough, Stephen Page gave us a tour of his Texas Museum of Automotive History in Grand Place at Fair Park — its temporary home, we were told, but an appropriate one, given the space’s estimable past as the site where the Ford Motor Co. had…
All week it’s been leading up to this: Yu Darvish’s first spring training press conference, held today, wherein we discover what the newest Texas Ranger loves about the U.S. and Nolan Ryan and Greg Maddux. Straight outta Surprise, the Rangers have actually been sending video dispatches all week for those…
As Leslie noted yesterday, in her piece about Judge Andy Chatham finally, officially declaring Richard Miles innocent two years after he was let out of prison, Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins noted, out of nowhere, that his great-grandfather had been executed by the state of Texas. The DA, a…
That item below — the one that says the Texas Department of Transportation is still hoping to open the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge to vehicular traffic on March 5, immediately following the Trinity Trust and Bridge-o-Rama’s respective now-not-really-opening-weekend wingdings? Forget it. Just forget it. This just came in from Dallas…
We’ve known for months that the United State Post Office might shutter the Dallas Processing and Distribution Center on IH30; the USPS has been talking about doing it since, oh, 2009, for that matter. But today it’s official: The postal service has announced that it’s moving the Dallas Processing and…
Like I said yesterday, Rick Santorum’s in town today raising money for his campaign. This morning it was coffee at a country club — Royal Oaks, to be specific, on Greenville Ave., where cups were filled for $1,000 a pop, $2,500 if you were among the “hosts.” Then it’s off…
It’s not often we get invitations to flood the mayor’s office with phone calls — we tend to do that all on our own — but LGBT rights group GetEQUAL TX is planning a different sort of mass phone-in to Mayor Mike Rawlings’s office tomorrow. According to this here Facebook…
Speaking of “complete streets” …For many months now City Hall’s been trying to wrap its head around the Complete Streets concept in the hopes of finishing up a street-design manual and implementation how-to’s by year’s end. Which is why, beginning last fall, Sustainable Development began workshopping Complete Streets all over…
Speaking of putting cars on bridges over the Trinity River, or not …Couldn’t quite tell from last night’s Channel 8 piece if the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge will indeed be open to vehicular traffic following next weekend’s opening events; said Jason Whitely, there’s a shot it’ll be closer to mid-March,…
Last March council members Delia Jasso and Pauline Medrano joined Dallas Bike Coordinator Max Kalhammer and others for a bike ride through Seville, Spain, with Jasso sending word that the locals were strapping on their thinking helmets for a possible ciclovía somewhere in Dallas, which means turning over a complete…
Three long years ago the frugally fashionable bid farewell to the Billy Reid corporate offices on Canton, which adiosed to Alabama with one last warehouse-purging sale offering Best-of-Dallas-winning bargains. After that the sale moved to its NorthPark Center shoppe, and things were never the same; and now, of course, the…
Thanks to a lengthy lockout, an abbreviated schedule and the apparently very confusing revelation that Asian-Americans play basketball, the NBA season is spiraling into chaos. The unrelenting schedules of 30 teams have sent the plodding progression of a typical 82-game season into a frenzied 66-game sprint, and right in the…
Couple of months back we noticed that the Museum of the American Railroad hadn’t pulled out of Fair Park as planned — or as stipulated by its agreement with the city of Dallas following the resolution of the lawsuit brought by the city in January 2010. Still not sure when…
Ever since Jack Perkins got his Dublin Bottling Works soda fountain at Maple & Motor, well, let’s say I’ve had way too many cane-sugar soft drinks in recent weeks. (May I recommend mixing the Tart-N-Sweet Lemonade, Cherry Limeade and Dublin Lemon-Lime with a twist of real lime? You’re welcome.) But…
Deion Sanders overlooked the crowd from his seat at a long table, positioned in front of the altar at Charity Church in East Fort Worth at last night’s town hall meeting for his latest venture, Prime Prep Academy, a charter school he says will have campuses in both Fort Worth…
Says here Rick Santorum’s coming back to town tomorrow for a fundraiser on behalf of his Red, White and Blue Fund super PAC, which declined to nail down the Dallas date; it also doesn’t appear on his official campaign schedule, and his campaign folks haven’t responded to our queries either…
The ever-expanding and always sharply dressed brotherhood of Dallas County exonerees once again lined the courtroom at the Frank Crowley Courts Building for an exoneration hearing this morning, this time in support of Richard Miles, who they already know quite well. After 14 years behind bars for a murder and…
For the last two days my inbox has been flooded — flooded — with emails from residents and property owners around the downtown farmers market, each one of which more or less says the same thing: Those two supportive housing projects being proposed downtown — Larry Hamilton and John Greenan’s…
