As a bulldozer chipped away at the sides of a hideously blighted cinder-block building in South Dallas this morning — forward, reverse, forward, reverse — a crowd of community members and Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity employees and supporters stared ahead with childlike gazes. And then, finally, the ‘dozer delivered…
In early April of last year, word went out that Realtor Allie Beth Allman was listing H.L. Hunt’s sprawling 10-acre Mount Vernon estate overlooking White Rock Lake on Lawther for $32.5 million — a steal! Then, not so much: Allman rescinded the listing, insisting that John and Teresa Amend weren’t…
Back in June, some two dozen educators, religious leaders and activists — among them The Rev. Zan Holmes, John Fullinwider, Frederick Haynes III, Diane Ragsdale and Beverly Mitchell-Brooks — urged the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees to appoint former DISD Superintendent Nolan Estes as the interim super following…
Perhaps by now you’ve seen Rudy Bush’s item about Frank Luntz, one of two speakers lined up to address the city council at its Arboretum retreat today. Among pols and media folks, Luntz is a pretty well-known guy — after all, he’s the man who, in 2003, told George W…
Back in January, an online petition appeared asking that Bexar Street in South Dallas be renamed to Rev. Carlton Garrett Street in honor of the founding pastor of The Lord’s Missionary Baptist Church. Six people signed it. But on August 19, council members Dwaine Caraway, Carolyn Davis and Tennell Atkins…
I was in the KERA studios earlier this week, the guest of station contributor and Friend of Unfair Park Rawlins Gilliland as he bravely plowed through a 10-hour marathon pledge drive on behalf of the station. We did our segments in the KXT studios, where, for the first time, I…
Fat, rested, ready: Buzz is back after a week’s vacation spent camping out on Wall Street, fueling the fires of progressive revolution as we take back America from the crony capitalists and amoral fat … Naaah. Just foolin’. We spent the week in New England, eating large quantities of fatty…
It’s 2 a.m. and an underground pledge meeting for the Omega Theta chapter of Omega Psi Phi is underway at a home in Houston’s Third Ward. Two University of Houston students are being asked about poetry, the Greek alphabet and the history of the African-American fraternity that can boast basketball…
The new federal crackdown on medical marijuana announced on October 7 by the four California U.S. Attorneys sent chills throughout the industry. It was a stunning reversal by the Obama administration. Only two years ago, Deputy U.S. Attorney General David Ogden wrote his infamous “Ogden Memo,” announcing the feds wouldn’t…
It’s finally here. Pinch yourself. Your Texas Rangers are back in the World Series, and this time feels much different than last year’s playoff run. There’s a confidence flowing through my body that just wasn’t there before, and I suspect the players feel the same way. Don’t get me wrong…
Sam’s World Series Game 1 preview-open thread’s upcoming any minute now; start polishing your bats. Till then, this: The governor’s office sends word that Rick Perry has, but of course, made a wager with Missouri Governor Jay Nixon concerning the outcome of Rangers-Cardinals. And it’s not a terribly thrilling wager…
Speaking of Southlake …Huffington Post this afternoon directs our attention to something called the Southlake Journal, which, turns out, is actually the Star-Telegram, which pointed out on Monday that Glenn Beck’s Mercury Radio Arts production company, which employs ’round 100, is eying the former Gateway Church building on Southlake, which…
The Southlake City Council Hall, once packed from floor to gallery with residents for whom gas drilling in town was either a looming menace or a windfall, had only a smattering of attendees a little after 11 last night. Many had already wearied of the debate, which had raged since…
Years ago, when writing about efforts to revitalize a neighborhood near Fair Park, I came across the building you see above: the former Pete’s Sandwich Shop at 4702 Baldwin, sandwiched between Starplex and Julia Frazer Elementary. At the time, Habitat for Humanity was building new homes nearby, on Jamaica, but…
As promised, the public comment period at this morning’s Dallas City Council meeting featured several members of the Domingo Garcia-led Latino Redistricting Task Force . In the council briefing room, every chair was full, with many people wearing white or blue tees that read “Count Us In” inside a drawing…
Twice in recent weeks the Dallas Police Department has dispatched surveillance footage of a bald, back-packing man creeping around homes near Midway and Walnut Hill in Northwest Dallas — the man initially ID’d only as the Lively Lane Prowler. He now has a name, according to an email we just…
TNT’s crack publicity department sends word: Production began on that next-gen Dallas this week — 21 hours ago, or thereabouts, from the looks of Jordana Brewster’s tweet. And despite Larry Hagman’s cancer diagnosis, revealed late last week, J.R. Ewing was indeed there for first call; so too brother Bobby, Patrick…
For whatever reason, my relationship with baseball went from casual to deeply committed bordering on obsessive during the 1986 baseball season. Like most kids growing up in North Texas, my father taught me to love the Dallas Cowboys, Texas Rangers and Dallas Mavericks (in that order) — if for no…
Had a brief chat with Mayor Mike Rawlings last night concerning what appears to be the never-ending process of redistricting, about which the city council will get an earful this morning from Latino leaders who insist they’re not properly represented on the map the council approved to send to the…
If you missed last night’s CNN Western Republican debate in Nevada, the clip above is the best example of why the GOP is seriously screwed no matter who they choose. The two supposed front-runners — Mitt Romney and Rick Perry — acted like a couple of high schoolers, barking and…
Earlier today, an item appeared on The Poynter Institute’s website in which Mark Medici, vice president of audience for The Dallas Morning News, is quoted as saying that within the next three years, “we won’t have a seven-day paper.” Medici allegedly delivered that shocking bit of news during a conference…
What’s that? You want another redistricting item? Well, then, you are so in luck. Anna too, since she’s got some place to be at 9 tomorrow morning.The city has not yet sent to the Department of Justice the new map of council districts approved by the council — just barely…
