Why, what good timing: Just last week we got back up to speed on the legal doings brought in March by Arnold Leon Schroeder Jr., son of the late Wendy Reves, namesake of that estimable art collection at the Dallas Museum of Art. To rererecap the case that made national…
Juan Gonzalez and Rafael Palmeiro made their debuts on the Baseball Writers’ Association of America’s 2011 Hall of Fame ballot — and didn’t even come close to finishing near the Top 10 vote-getters. Raffy, poor Raffy, came closest with 64 votes; Juando trailed just behind Palmeiro with 30, two ahead…
I won’t horn in on the music blog’s review of last night’s Wilco-Nick Lowe show in the Music Hall at Fair Park. Seems about right to me, though the first-timer can’t appreciate the giddy shock of hearing A.M. standard “Passenger Side” slid into that short, sharp, shard-filled set list that…
Sylvan Thirty, the planned mixed-use development for Fort Worth Avenue in West Dallas, has received more attention than any development project in recent memory — especially given the fact it’s nothing but a barren patch of land where once sat at motor hotel. The $47-million project, still closer to concept…
The AT&T Performing Arts Center is about to send out a formal release, but long story short: Jamie Foxx isn’t coming to the Winspear Opera House tomorrow night after all. The Terrell native was supposed to take part in the Brinker International Forum, for a Q&A hosted by none other…
Remember back in August of last year, when 48-year-old carjacker Michael Browne led police on a slow ride through Dallas before landing on the Love Field Airport runway? Sure you do. Passed right by Unfair Park HQ, matter of fact. Then, in November of last year, a federal grand jury…
This morning’s News carries a paywall-less story about yesterday’s meeting of the minds between Rick Perry and Phoenix-area sheriff Joe Arpaio. (No wall on an immigration story? Liberal media!) It was the move of a desperate candidate, and it came on the same day Perry forgot both the legal voting…
The young man you see at right is Daniel Villegas Jr. He is 25 years old, and at this very moment the Dallas Police Department’s Missing Persons Squad is trying to find him. That’s because Villegas “suffers from diminished mental capacity and is unable to communicate verbally or in writing,”…
Injection wells, like most aspects of gas drilling, elicit conflicting opinions, contradictory data and the frequent, familiar demand: “Not in my backyard!”. While the wells used for the disposal of produced fracking water are not currently allowed within Dallas city limits, the issue prompted a particularly lengthy debate at yesterday’s…
So much for that proposal to stretch some Dallas Independent School District students’ calendars till July 26. Still: District parents have till Monday to vote on two calendar options, down from the five presented to trustees earlier this month, and on the surface, at least, both run longer than the…
It was early November when watchdog group Downwinders At Risk found out that Dallas-Fort Worth had set off air-quality monitors more times than Houston in 2011. Yep, America’s petrochemical hub violated EPA standards less often than we did. Depressing, right? As you may recall, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality…
In mid-August, the Texas Rangers said that come Opening Day 2012 the team hoped to have near the Home Plate Gate of the Ballpark in Arlington a statue of Shannon Stone and 6-year-old son Cooper as a tribute to the 39-year-old Brownwood firefighter killed at the Ballpark on July 7…
Over the course of the day a few items have rolled in related to American Airlines and AMR’s Chapter 11 filing this morning. Among them: A Q&A from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport about how the bankruptcy might but probably won’t affect the airport (it follows in full); and a statement…
All the ducats for Saturday’s TEDxSMU wingding at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre are long gone, but no matter: As The Hilltop reminds, you can espy the doings from three remote locations: the Texas Theatre, Tech Wildcatters and the AT&T Foundry in Plano. And, of course, it’ll livestream on…
Get ready for more rolling blackouts, because according to a grid reliability report, Texas won’t have the juice to meet peak demands by 2013. The study, authored by grid reliability enforcer North American Electric Reliability Corporation, says Texas operators may either bring old plants offline as they retrofit them to…
Interesting: I see the Dallas Independent School District has yanked from its Thursday agenda that STAAR End of Course Policy Impact briefing we posted yesterday. Also gone: the supporting docs for the Teach for America review, which we posted last week. At least they haven’t pulled this (yet): Discussion of…
Late yesterday I got a call back from Dallas Water Utilities Director Jody Puckett, for whom I’d left a message about Irving and the North Texas Municipal Water District’s need to buy water from the city. We set up a time to chat this morning, and just got through visiting…
The city’s spent the last month or so piloting some Complete Streets projects all ’round town, among them the Grand Avenue Better Block-ing that transformed the four lanes and land in front of R.L. Griffin’s Blues Palace near Fair Park the Saturday before Thanksgiving. Sustainable Development and Construction is this…
Wait — who’s Tom Horton (no, not a Canadian coffee shop), and what has he done with Gerard Arpey? Oh, Arpey’s out — decided to “retire,” per the statement from Fort Worth-based AMR that follows in the wake of its Chapter 11 filing in NYC court this morning. (Though some…
Every decent-sized courthouse in the country has its own serial pain in the ass, the guy who thinks nothing of suing the kids who threw a ball over his fence or the cat who pooped in his yard. But there’s a special subset of filing addicts: the inmates who while…
The Dallas Police report says, simply, “TRAFFIC FATALITY #78.” There is a time and date: 10:30 p.m. Friday. A location too: 4100 Cedar Springs. But the DPD has no further information, which is why it’s asking for help as it attempts to ID whoever was driving the SUV that struck…
The man who see at right is Thomas C. Royer, M.D., who, for 12 years, was the man in charge of CHRISTUS Health, described on its website as “a Catholic health ministry.” Not long ago he received the American Hospital Association’s Distinguished Service Award, one among myriad high honors on…
