Zebra mussels are really Schutze’s thing; he likes his with saffron and a white-wine broth, though of late he’s taken to the far more exotic variation with aquavit, tarragon and cream. And per a release just dispatched by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,…
Oh, and there’s one more thing to ask Edwin Flores about tonight: his $10,000 check from the Dallas Regional Chamber-connected EducateDallas political action committee. At least, Carla Ranger, Flores’s fellow Dallas ISD trustee, has some issues with it; she says so this morning on her blog, beneath the headline “Dallas…
For more than a year the city’s been talking about two-waying Elm Street in Deep Ellum, with Commerce to follow. Last we heard there wasn’t enough to fund the whole project; there’s $6 million in ’06 bond money, but not enough to finish what the city hopes to start sooner…
Edwin Flores’s appearance at E.L. DeGolyer Elementary has been on the schedule for quite a while; says the invite, the Dallas Independent School District trustee’s scheduled to speak about “the state of the district and superintendent search.” I expect that’s not all he’ll be asked to address.But where to begin?…
Last night, I got a text from Peter Schmidt, who could not believe I’ve never written about a short-lived 1966 TV show called The !!!! Beat, hosted by iconic Nashville deejay Bill “Hoss” Allen. Wrote Peter, who’d come across it yesterday after a lunchtime discussion about Etta James turned up…
Mayor Mike Rawlings has a closed-door, no-press-allowed meeting this morning with 25 LGBT community leaders to discuss something that’s become, say, a small issue for him in the last week: his refusal to sign the “Mayors For Freedom To Marry” Pledge. Earlier this week Rawlings also elected to back out…
For those who forgot the phrase “Meet and Confer,” you may want to reintroduce yourself to the city’s agreement with Dallas Police Department and Dallas Fire-Rescue that saved the city $22 million during the “painful, painful, painful” dog days of 2010, when Mary Suhm had to gut $131 million from…
So, maybe you noticed: On Monday we checked in to see how progress, or whatever, was going with efforts to redo 1401 Elm Street. That’s the George Dahl-designed building Mike Sarimsakci was going to spruce up with $30 million in TIF money from Dallas City Hall. Except, turns out, the…
I warned you: Yesterday’s item about Uplift Education’s intention of opening a charter school in the old Baylor building in Deep Ellum was just the first of many to come. Here’s the second, because yesterday I’d left a message for Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Pauline Medrano, in whose district Deep…
Not two years ago Dallas city officials believed, based upon information provided by HNTB, that to bring the unaccredited Trinity River levees back to that so-called 100-year flood level of protection, it would cost anywhere from $100 million to $150 million. The solution: cut-off walls sunk into the levee, around…
So Ralph Isenberg threatened to fuck me in my ass the other day. Well, that’s not the first thing he did. Before that, he shook my hand and told me his name was Ralph Isenberg. And before that, I drove approximately nine minutes to his office in Oak Cliff to…
The woman popped up from the pile of blankets she had laid out on a dirty patch of sidewalk and took a look at the ring of people surrounding her. She patted her woolen beanie self-consciously. “Why you takin’ pictures?” she complained sleepily to a photographer. “I ain’t put my…
At the beginning of the Dallas ISD trustees’ long day’s journey into night, I dialed up the back-and-forth over the superintendent search, as the board at long last debated what makes a super super. That video’s archived here. And it was intriguing too, a peek into the thought processes of…
They argued, they reasoned, they pleaded, they threatened, they chanted, they cried. But in the end, it just didn’t matter. It never really did. It’s over, and it was never in doubt. Under budget pressure, and after a final, five-hour session, the Dallas Independent School District’s board of trustees voted…
While we await our recap from a raucous Ross Ave. last night, let’s begin with this bit of … well, not sure it’s breaking news, not exactly. Because, after all, we’ve known for months now that Sylvan Thirty — the long-proposed, much-talked-if-not-shouted-about mixed-use development on the site of the former…
Like I need to tell you, even if there were no photo credit, this is a Justin Terveen photo — one in a series of extraordinary photos of the rain-soaked city he’s taken in the past 24 hours. This one was taken earlier this evening, just west of the Houston…
For a long while now, the old Baylor offices at 2625 Elm Street in Deep Ellum have been on the market — for $5.5 million. And word was that a would-be buyer was eying the space for offices, which greatly pleased restaurant and bar owners, since it would have meant…
Quick test: When you think Craig James, what comes to mind? A. SMU and New England Patriots football player and long-time sports announcer. B. Texan, father, husband. C. Who the hell is Craig James? D. Senate candidate and taxpayer. You’re right! And today, James took his “plethora of experience” to…
By 8 a.m., the news vans had started to arrive, parking on the street behind the cop cars, the Medical Examiner’s white sedan, the city of Dallas vehicle marked “Crime Scene.” They sank their tripods into the soft mud surrounding the house on Peavy Road, a nice-looking two-story with a…
Every once in a while, amid the stacks of semi-literate, pro se habeas corpus petitions, trademark suits and product liability complaints, there comes a federal filing so disturbing, so completely awful, that it leaves the reader with nothing but questions. This week, it’s Danny Cantu v. The City of Dallas…
A Friend of Unfair Park reminds me: It’s that time of the year again — time for Dr. John W. Miller, president of Central Connecticut State University, to rank 75 major metros’ literacy levels using a handful of criteria (“newspaper circulation, number of bookstores, library resources, periodical publishing resources, educational…
Following the passage of HB1353, the Texas Department of Transportation has been looking at where it oughta bump up the state’s speed limit to 75 miles per hour. Today it released that list, and it spans some 1,500 miles of Texas highways — a “major milestone,” per the press release…
