Couple of days back I noted that Corinne Hill, the interim director of the Dallas Public Library system since July 2010, is slated to give a talk about “Re-imagining the Public Library in a Post-Recession Economy” when the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting comes to town next week. But she…
“It’s mid-January,” Dallas Animal Services Commission member Bonnie Matthias said emphatically. “And we’re caught with our pants down again.” As usual, there’s good news and there’s bad news at Dallas Animal Services. This week, shelter manager Jody Jones and head of Code Compliance Jimmy Martin put in two appearances at…
Just four days after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Rick Perry’s favorite law — the one requiring women to get a sonogram, listen to a fetal heartbeat and hear a verbal description from a doctor of the sonogram image before they can get an abortion — is…
This morning a few Friends of Unfair Park asked: Is WrestleMania really coming to Cowboys Stadium? Um … I dunno? Kinda looked like it, maybe: Several popular wrestling websites, including this one, keep saying that WWE’s signature event, which is closing in on its 30th anniversary, is scheduled to take…
While awaiting some return calls I was browsing through Vimeo when I came across this freshly posted — and quite lovely — short about the late, great Metro Diner on Gaston. Owner Wayne Adams locked the door for the last (and damned near the first) time at 2 p.m. April…
Back in September, when the city passed its ordinance requiring commercial solid waste companies to dump in South Dallas’s McCommas Bluff landfill, the proposal drew an unexpected foe: a group of Paul Quinn College students, led by school president Michael Sorrell, who protested in front of City Hall to remind…
For years Flashdancer Cabaret — the topless joint that sits on E. Randol Mill just across the freeway from Cowboys Stadium and the Ballpark in Arlington, or so I’ve been told — has been at odds with the city and state, which have tried their best to shutter the joint…
Late Thursday afternoon, and only because interim super Alan King had a flight to catch, the Dallas Independent School District trustees finally got around to discussing the 2012-13 budget and consolidating — which is to say, closing — those 11 campuses in order to save a guesstimated $11.5 million next…
If you gave me 100 tries to guess how Rick Perry is similar to Rocky and Babe Ruth, I don’t think I’d come up with “Champion.” But there it is, in all its strings-and-keys glory. Soak up the magic while the YouTube channel still exists…
Who doesn’t love Love Field? Easily negotiated, convenient, it’s everything that Dallas-Fort Worth International isn’t. But it’s always had that dingy, regional-airport feel. Said interim Aviation director Mark Duebner, “Compared to what we’ve been working with — our 1950s terminal with few amenities — this will be worth the wait.”…
Still watching that Dallas Independent School District trustee meeting; it’s torture, man, torture. (Four hours after kick-off, we still haven’t gotten ’round to the budget or campus consolidations.) Like, here: The board has spent the last 40 minutes talking about next school year’s calendar. Shouldn’t have taken that long. Except…
We began the week with the broadcast version of Your Reigning World Champion Dallas Mavericks’ visit to the White House to deliver President Obama his jersey. Moments ago, I see, the White House posted this nice little look behind the curtain starring Dirk, Jason Terry, Coach Carlisle and a decidedly…
Just returned from a funeral to find the Dallas Independent School District board discussing 21 ways to get better candidates down to 3700 Ross and how to restructure human resources — which, I know, sounds boring on the surface. But this is the so-called Star Employee Commission’s report to the…
In a 2010 lawsuit filed in federal court, Dr. Tiffiney Barfield-Cottledge claimed the University of North Texas lobbed her application for a faculty position into the dustbin because she’s black. And because they were retaliating against her for allegedly griping to the media. In recompense, she sought a $250,000 settlement…
From time to time the city will post to Lone Star Auctioneers some of the finer offerings being sold out of the City Store, where there’s always a bargain to be had. This week, I see, Richard Matthews is making available, among other curious (four “SelfCheck Checkout Stations”), an assortment…
At 1 today the Regional Transportation Council will discuss the doc you see below: the 132-page report finished last month as part of the so-called Cotton Belt Corridor Innovative Finance Initiative, which the North Central Texas Council of Governments touts on today’s agenda as “a thorough investigation of potential innovative…
The Dallas Independent School District board has much on its plate at today’s briefing, the first of the new year: that look-see at the coming year’s budget, a report on efforts to close 11 schools to save $11 million, a peek at how that under-construction teacher evaluation system is coming…
Dallas Detective Eddie Lopez pushed a photo across the table in a tiny interrogation room. “All I care about is finding this guy right there. It’s that simple. I know you know where he’s at.” A huge, manic grin spread across Seth Winder’s face as he laughed nervously. It vanished…
If you have but a single can or bottle marked “Dublin Dr Pepper,” don’t open it. It’s a collector’s item as of this very moment. That’s because as of 5 p.m. today there is no more Dublin Dr Pepper: From here on out, per a settlement agreement just announced in…
Below you’ll find one Dallas Area Rapid Transit customer who won’t be so upbeat if he’s ever asked to fill out a rider satisfaction survey. But that’s only because he’s at Lew Sterrett right now, after having been arrested last night for assaulting a public servant, a felony offense. And…
The American Library Association Midwinter Meeting’s set for January 20-24 at the Dallas Convention Center, so you know what that means: Thousands of librarians, publishers and authors will be checking out the city for a few days. Perhaps the city can find someone amongst the bunch to lead the Dallas…
As he does every week, Dallas Cothrum of MasterPlan Consulting sat in the front row of the city’s gas drilling task force meeting yesterday, attentively tuning in, occasionally sighing and taking notes in order to deliver his energy company clients the latest news from the home front. Yesterday was slightly…
