For folks in Dallas, where the council-appointed gas drilling task force is running to stand still, or in Southlake, the subject of a recent cover story on towns grappling with urban drilling, this EPA report released today tying fracking to groundwater contamination in Wyoming probably doesn’t mean much. We get…
Last I looked, Sylvan Thirty — the proposed mixed-use development across the street from the Belmont — was closer to conceptual than actual. As in: Short a few million, developer Brent Jackson more than likely will have to partner with the city to actually get the thing built, as we…
Dallas Stars President Jim Lites says: No, this was not his idea. He wants to be clear about that. Interim team president Tony Tavares was already working on a plan to lower Stars ticket prices, Lites tells Unfair Park. But, of course, he could do no such thing — not…
Emissions of cancer- and central nervous system defect-causing toxic air pollution put Texas power plants atop the pile of serial polluters, a report based on EPA data finds. Nationwide, pollution controls such as smokestack scrubbers have reduced the rates at which air toxins are pumped into the air we breath…
Technically, the U.S. Postal Service hasn’t yet made a decision about whether it will close the processing center at the main post office near Sylvan and IH-30, just one of several local sites it’s considering shuttering as it looks to move operations to the Coppell and Fort Worth plants instead…
Yesterday, during my occasional and futile shift on the Rick Perry firing squad, I unloaded most of my ammunition on Perry’s impossibly ignorant rant about Obama’s plan to protect gay people overseas — an act Perry deemed as an attack on “traditional American values.” By the time I finished firing,…
What you see at right is the artwork currently decorating the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim’s website: side-by-side pics of Albert Pujols and C.J. Wilson, both of whom are now Angels. The now-former Cardinal’s deal is for 10 years and worth between $250 and $260 million, and is said to…
I asked Schutze yesterday: “You know what tomorrow is?” His response: “Um, Thursday?” Well, yes, that — and the 20th anniversary of the death of the Dallas Times Herald, which was bought by The Dallas Morning News on December 8, 1991, for $55 million, and then shuttered after 103 years…
Yesterday’s massive drop-off at the Earle Cabell is but a pit stop. Sooner than later, more than likely, it will head back to Oakland, where, in July 2009, former UCLA basketball great Ed O’Bannon filed the shot heard ’round the sports world: the antitrust suit alleging that the NCAA steals…
It’s 9 on a Tuesday night, and Jaguars Dallas, a big, boxy strip club between Stemmons Freeway and Northwest Highway, is almost empty. The club doesn’t have many neighbors, just a row of truck lots and vacant yards, plus one friendly rock ‘n’ roll strip joint called the Clubhouse. Jaguars…
Merry, merry, merry: OK, Santa, cancel the pony. We’ve already received the bestest present any Dallas newsguy could desire: Betty Culbreath is running against her former mentor, County Commissioner John Wiley Price, in the Democratic primary. Just typing those words made us pee a little. From the happiness, you know?…
Rudy got to this before I could, but no matter: What you see above was made for the Dallas Citizens Council, which had a dinner this week to which I am sure Schutze’s invite was lost in the mail. Long story short: Dallas is kickin’ ass. We have “attitude.” We’re…
Texas cattle country lost some 600,000 head this year — a 12-percent reduction in the herd — driven by a drought that withered grasses and baked river beds and stock ponds. It’s the kind of en masse decline the likes of which this state hasn’t seen since drought ravaged the…
Speaking of SMU …It has officially been invited to join the Big East, and is only too happy to accept. In a conference call with media, commissioner John Marinatto just intro’d the Hilltop to the ranks of the conference, along with the University of Central Florida and the University of…
That structure you see at left is called a Pallet House, made out of … aw, you cheated. Anyway: It was initially built in Prince Charles’ Royal Gardens as part of a sustainability confab, and on Friday it’ll find its way to the SMU campus, perhaps as future housing for…
If you want to be there when the Dallas County Commissioners Court votes on the new boundaries for the county, you’d best reshuffle your schedule: For whatever reason, the county has opted to call a special meeting for Monday at 8 a.m. during which the commissioners will vote to approve…
On Monday a few Friends of Unfair Park seemed a little humbugged to hear that the Dallas Police Department, along with the mayor and the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office, would prefer you buy non-black-market items for your Christmas list this year. Nonetheless, DPD Chief David Brown, undeterred, stopped by…
Update, 3:42 p.m.: This could get awkward. Yahoo! is now reporting that several sources are saying June Jones will not be ASU’s next coach, because — well, basically because of all those Tweets below, or whatever the big-money-booster equivalent of bitching on Twitter is. Original item: After rescuing the SMU…
At yesterday’s meeting, the council-appointed drilling task force grappled with some of the more divisive issues in front of them — and actually nailed down what they’ll recommend the council do about set-back distances and allowing disposal wells for produced frack water. As they deliberated, anti-drilling activists in the audience…
Here’s the president yesterday, decrying not-minor human-rights violations against gays overseas (from the Washington Times):”I am deeply concerned by the violence and discrimination targeting [lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered] persons around the world — whether it is passing laws that criminalize LGBT status, beating citizens simply for joining peaceful LGBT…
Moments ago, the National Center for Education Statistics released its so-called Nation’s Report Card, wherein the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences rank fourth- and eighth-grade public school students from 21 urban districts using math and reading scores. And for the first time ever the Dallas…
I hear jingle bells: Freddie King’s in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Per this morning’s heads-up from Cleveland, the Gilmer-born guitarist, singer and songwriter is this year’s entry in the Early Influence category; damn right. His newly penned Hall bio lists the myriad reasons — for starters, “His…
