A hearing this morning at the Earle Cabell could have been a First Amendment showdown over Occupy Dallas’s right to remain in Pioneer Park in downtown. Instead, it became a simple formality after protesters came to a late-night agreement to move to a plot of city-owned land at Akard and…
Meet Michael Kloever. Again. The 33-year-old security guard was all over the news back in August, when he said he was pistol-whipped by an off-duty Dallas cop in a strip club parking lot after trying to break up what he thought was a fight between club customers. Now Kloever and…
For those who missed Tuesday’s heads-up, avoid the hell out of LBJ this weekend as they finish taking down the pedestrian walkway and Marsh Lane bridge running over 635. The folks in charge of this operation aren’t kidding around, either: They’ve sent out several warnings in the last couple of…
After months of suspense, and after the other Republican hopefuls hired staff, began campaigning and participated in seven debates, Sarah Palin finally announced last week she wouldn’t be running for president after all. Upon hearing the news, Michelle McCormick and a few of her friends did what you too would…
After the Texas Rangers fired Buck Showalter following the 2006 season, general manager Jon Daniels interviewed five candidates. Of course, there was Ron Washington, a longtime third base and infield coach for the American League West rival A’s who wasn’t interviewed for Oakland’s managerial vacancy. Then-Rangers bench coach Don Wakamatsu,…
There’s a curious item posted on the city council’s Economic Development Committee’s agenda for Monday morning: “Project Wall-E.” And that’s all it says, save for the fact it will be discussed entirely behind closed doors in executive session. The reason: “to deliberate the purchase, exchange, lease, or value of real…
For Dallas-based EPA investigator Keith Phillips, the visits to a Louisiana oil refinery started in the late ’90s, and came, it seems, with dual purposes: business and pleasure. It started as an investigation into the refinery’s waste storage methods and refinery manager Hubert Vidrine, who was eventually prosecuted. But court…
On Wednesday, the Pittsburgh-based Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights issued a report titled Dressing Babies in Sweatshop Clothing: Dallas Cowboys, Ohio State and a Creepy Business, in which it alleged that the Cowboys are having team-branded clothing made in “gross sweatshop conditions at the Style Avenue factory in…
Well, we were going to go to Earle Cabell at 10 this morning for The Big Showdown: City of Dallas versus Occupy Dallas for the right to pitch a tent in Pioneer Park, in the shadow of the convention center. Because, as you recall, Occupy Dallas made its case Wednesday…
Speaking of DPD Chief Brown …On October 4, the Dallas Police Department announced that it had arrested 19-year-old Skyler Brandt for selling the ecstasy that led to the August overdose of a 19-year-old from Grandview named Matthew Allen. Police said Brandt sold the drugs to Allen at a dance club…
The Black Police Association of Greater Dallas, which represents the area’s black police officers, is waging a serious PR campaign against The Dallas Morning News and journalist Tanya Eiserer, a longtime criminal justice reporter at the paper. And while they’re at it, the association is taking swipes at some fellow…
As the trade deadline approached in July 2006, it seemed inevitable that Jon Daniels would make a bold move to bolster a mediocre offense in his first season as general manager. He targeted the best hitter on the market — Carlos Lee, an established 30-HR, 100-RBI slugger. And Lee was…
Back in July we were first introduced to the “Handsome Guy” Bandit — so called not because he’s attractive, because who can tell, but because of the $800 mask he’s clearly wearing in all the surveillance-cam photos taken of the bank robber during his various stick-em-ups in North Texas. And,…
Last year’s inaugural Art of Film event at the Hall of State was quite the wingding as the great Elvis Mitchell and Robert Duvall informally, thoughtfully and quite giddily chatted about a great many things for a good long while before some 400 attendees were wined and dined upstairs. At…
And now we return to the city’s enforcement of the Lower Greenville Planned Development District Ordinance, which, as you no doubt recall, went into effect at midnight September 24 and says any venue without a specific use permit and a new certificate of occupancy has to close its doors at…
It’s quite likely that many Friends of Unfair Park recall O. V. “Skip” Shoffner, who, his son Philip reminds, was a longtime mail carrier in Lakewood — for more than 30 years. Skip was also a regular at the Gold Rush, whose owner, George Sanchez, considered him “a wonderful person,…
As we noted one month ago, the North Dallas Chamber of Commerce is coordinating efforts to repurpose Valley View Center, which has long been a shadow of a shadow of its former self. Bruce Bradford, the chamber’s interim president, and city council member Linda Koop spoke of plans intended to…
One week ago today we walked alongside the Occupy Dallas-ites as they marched from Pike Park to the Dallas Federal Reserve airing their laundry list of grievances, echoing those who stormed Wall Street almost a month ago and never left as their ranks swelled. But in the week since, the…
Just heard a little-girl yelp coming from Schutze’s office; he must have received the same email I just did concerning the opening-weekend ceremonies scheduled March 2-4 for The Santiago Calatrava Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge to Ray’s. We’ve known this was coming for a while now, and there’s another press conference…
On the night of September 18, as heavy thunderstorms blew through Dallas, neighbors on West Woodin in Oak Cliff heard a “heavy, muffled boom,” they told a CBS 11 crew. A small apartment behind a house — little more than a converted, detached garage just a stone’s throw from R.L…
As depressing as it was, I believe Game 3 of the American League Championship Series was an anomaly, much like Game 1 of the ALDS. Nothing seemed right. And while Wash’s decision to keep Colby Lewis on the mound when he was obviously out of gas was the turning point…
Texas Comptroller Susan Combs’s office sends word this afternoon that for the 18th straight month, sales tax revenues statewide at are on the uptick. Not only that, she says, but “all sectors showed increases in September, led by business spending, especially in the oil and gas-related sectors. Consumer sectors like…
