Dallas Police Chief David Brown sent a sub to address the city council’s Public Safety Committee this morning: Assistant Chief Charles Cato, who explained the crime-stat summary you see above. Said Cato: Crime’s down 4 percent overall citywide, but when pressed by council member Delia Jasso later, he predicted that…
I called Mitchell Rasansky Friday — because, you may remember, I was supposed to. Last month, the former council member and co-owner of the former Whole Foods on Lower Greenville said that come October 21, we should know to whom he was leasing that space — be it a Walmart…
In an interview published Sunday in Parade magazine, Rick Perry was asked whether he believes the president was born in the United States. His response, which you’ll find below, has caused some alarm, because it makes Perry appear to be aligning himself with the one-roll-of-Reynolds-Wrap-per-hat faction of the Tea Party…
Your World Champion Dallas Mavericks were supposed to take on the Indiana Pacers tonight at the American Airlines Center, the sixth of eight preseason games leading to November 1’s regular-season opener against Chicago at the AAC. But with each passing day, it’s looking more and more like the lockout will…
Speaking of transportation projects across and around the Trinity River …Saturday’s hike-n-bike installation perched atop the Cedar Crest Bridge is one of myriad items about which the city council’s Trinity River Corridor Project Committee will hear this afternoon, following its field trip to and walk across the Margaret Hunt Hill…
Well, that didn’t last long. One day, the Texas Rangers and their fans are basking in the glow of a dramatic ninth-inning comeback win against the St. Louis Cardinals to tie the World Series at 1-1, with the next three games to be played at home in Arlington. The next…
First there was a Better Block; then, a Better Boulevard; then, just yesterday, a Better Bridge. Of all the efforts to temporarily transform a piece of the city into something other than what it is, yesterday’s brief installation atop the Cedar Crest Bridge, which connects Oak Cliff to South Dallas…
If you’ve read my piece about St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa, you know that the first time I had a really good, strong sports cry was Game 1 of the 1988 World Series. As a fan of La Russa and the Oakland A’s at the time, Kirk Gibson’s…
In moments, till 1 this afternoon, you’ll be able to laze across the Cedar Crest Bridge — yet another temporary installation from Team Better Block, in conjunction with the city and others trying to best determine how to turn a seldom-used thoroughfare into A Destination. There’s a schedule of events…
I’ve taken one spin through Tom Waits’s forthcoming Bad as Me, which is every bit as good as they say — Rain Dogs redux times 10, turned up to 11. Hear for yourself: Anti- Records is streaming the lit-with-a-torch “Back in the Crowd” and the titular trash-can growl. Record’s out…
You remember Craig Hall, right? He’s the developer who’s been talking since forever about building something fancy in the Arts District — like, say, that stalled-out tower where presently there sits a parking garage on Ross. Only, remember, he and the city got sideways over unpaid lease monies and TIF-for-tats,…
Michael Signoretto is 73, and as of today the Dallas man faces up to 40 years in federal prison for his role in defrauding two British telecommunications companies out of of more than $60 million. Signoretto, who was just found guilty by a federal jury, didn’t do this alone. He…
A rig in ArlingtonThe New York Times ran an interesting story Thursday on the growing reluctance of banks to grant mortgages to owners of properties that have been leased for gas drilling in the northeast. Landowners often aren’t giving banks a heads up before signing on the dotted line, and…
One years ago, when Mayor Mike Rawlings was merely Park Board President Mike Rawlings, the city held its first-ever Dallas Parks Summit at the Music Hall at Fair Park. By way of invite in 2010, ad man Rawlings said this:”Walt Disney once said he didn’t want the public to see…
Today’s lesson, boys and girls, courtesy of WFAA’s Craig Civale and the Lewisville police: When you appear to be running a racket that involves importing a high school basketball player from Mexico only to force him to sell gourmet popcorn at suburban big box stores, it’s probably a bad idea…
From time to time, as we noted in August, Dallas County takes to the Internet to auction off stray animals — donkeys and mules, mostly, and the occasional horse — found wandering roadways, usually after their owners have cut ’em loose. Dallas County Sheriff’s Department Deputy Paul Stroud explained that…
Thursday evening, Dallas Independent School District trustees approved resignation incentives for the 209 “unassigned” employees who are under contract but lack permanent positions after personnel cuts and rearrangements this summer. Teachers, principals, librarians and counselors in the pool now have the option of filing their resignation by November 1 and…
The Degolyer Estate at the Dallas Arboretum is a beautiful spot, a big house set back from a broad lawn, edged this time of the year with pumpkins and purple flowers. In the library, retreating Dallas City Council members and various other City Hall types (City Manager Mary Suhm, the…
Sometimes the worst managerial moves are the ones that weren’t made, but the focus tends to be on the ones that were. The vast majority of media and fans across the country agree that Tony La Russa out-managed Ron Washington in Game 1 of the World Series last night, which…
This morning, we received word of a new report released yesterday: the American Express OPEN Independent Retail Index, which was done in conjunction with Austin- and Chicago-based Civic Economics and looked at 15 big cities, Dallas among them, ranking each based upon the number of independent restaurants and retailers in…
A friend directed my attention to something entirely unrelated on Kickstarter, where I stumbled across this intriguing item: Square Dance: A Community Project, which the organizers — Leila Grothe and Cynthia Mulcahy — are billing as a “public art project.” Which is how you have to bill an event just…
The video you’ll find after the jump was posted two days ago by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York. So far it’s been viewed 60 times. In it, John O’Dell, curator of history and research, provides a brief tour of Rangers artifacts in the…
