Doubtless you’ve heard about Occupy Wall Street, the protests against corporate greed and Wall Street bailouts (among other things) that have been going on for the last three weeks in New York. The protesters call themselves “the other 99 percent” or just “The 99,” and this morning in Pike Park…
I swear: Every other item today won’t be a redistricting item. Even Anna’s moved on for now: She was out with the Occupy Dallas folks, and her recap of the march to the Dallas Fed is forthcoming. But the Redistricting Commission just made available the map and data packet accompanying…
Don’t know how we missed this scientific breakthrough making the rounds in the last couple of days. Perhaps it was hiding behind sheets of heated-up carbon nanotubes?Those are how you make things appear invisible, according to the work done over the last five years by Ali Aliev, Yuri Gartstein and…
Below, Anna told you all about how fugly it got ’round the horseshoe Wednesday afternoon and evening before the council finally voted, 9-6, to send a new map of districts to the Department of Justice. But many have asked to see the whole debate — or, at least, what happened…
Back in May, at the request of a City Hall worker who’s been staring at the carnage next door for far too long, we peaked into 500 South Ervay and discovered the old Butler Brothers furniture warehouse wasn’t just a 500,000-square foot mess, but also one tied up in litigation…
Yesterday afternoon, around 5:30, as a tiny audience sat in the city council chambers, former Mayor Dwaine Caraway came by and declared to Unfair Park, “I think we got something.” That’s right. A final redistricting map. Finally.Caraway spoke about three hours too soon, though. Last night at 8:30, the city…
Block the vote: Listen up, fellow white people. Buzz knows that the election of a black president has ushered in a giddy era for many of us. White people have been able to get away with stuff we wouldn’t have dared in pre-Obama days: that whole birther thing, the secret…
In his quest for the presidency, Texas Governor Rick Perry says three things: His state’s economy is better than America’s. Low taxes and small government are the reasons. He gets the credit. Almost none of that is true. The Texas economy isn’t stronger than the national economy, and it may…
We had hoped to end the day by telling you which redistricting map the city council’s going to send to the Department of Justice. That will not happen, at least not in the next little while: After Mayor Mike Rawlings took council members Tennell Atkins and Delia Jasso into a…
Speaking of Fair Park …In the wake of its inclusion on the American Planning Association’s list of Great Public Places, several Friends of Unfair Park have asked: How’s that long-proposed plan to open the fairgrounds year-round(ish) coming? And: What about the pending closure of The Women’s Museum?As far as the…
Speaking of President Obama’s visit to Dallas yesterday …Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins was among the D’s who got to briefly meet with the president Tuesday. Which prompted an email sent out moments ago by Dallas County Public Information Officer Maria Arita, in which the attorney-turned-county judge insists not only…
Brent Jackson posted a note this morning headlined: “City Approves Sylvan | Thirty Zoning Application.” Well … technically, no, that’s not true. Nothing’s been approved for Jackson’s controversial mixed-use development at Sylvan and Fort Worth Avenue where the Cox Farms grocery store’s supposed to take root. City staff has, however,…
A Friend of Unfair Park asked this morning: “What’s going on over at Cityplace? Looks like they’re sinking a giant drill bit.” Funny he should ask: Moments ago we got word that today’s doings are related to the installation of three pieces of public art that begin at 7:30 this…
An interesting case, originally filed a few weeks ago in Dallas County District Court, showed up at the federal courthouse yesterday: Victory Park UST Joint Venture I, L.P., v RED Development, LLC, which involves “the development of certain commercial property located near the American Airlines Center.” The plaintiffs are the…
Talk about your good timing: Last night, Dallas City Hall sent word that the American Planning Association yesterday released its list of the Great Places in America, which is divvied into three categories — Great Neighborhoods, Great Streets and Great Public Spaces. It’s the latter with which we’re concerned today,…
Anna, of course, is at today’s council briefing, where, Mayor Mike just said, they’re going to spend the next 90 minutes or so fighting over the three council-submitted redistricting maps. She’ll recap later today — the mayor said they oughta wrap the chat at 11:30, though it could go longer…
The Dallas gas drilling task force sees many of the same faces at each meeting: a small and dedicated group of Dallas residents who show up every Tuesday afternoon and, as it turns out, have formed an unofficial task force with the same goal as the city’s official entity –…
Our Sara Kerens was on the Love Field tarmac when President Obama arrived yesterday; revisit that moment via this slide show. Then hop on over to the White House website, where all three of the president’s Tuesday speeches are preserved — not only his Eastfield College American Jobs Act remarks,…
Did high-powered, Lubbock personal injury attorney Kevin Glasheen do diddly-squat for the wrongfully imprisoned Steven Phillips, aside from filling out a one-page form with the State Comptroller? Or is Phillips an ungrateful client who stiffed his attorney on a $2 million legal bill, filed for $4 million in compensation through…
In case you forgot: Faced with a walloping $131-million budget shortfall one year ago, Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm asked police officers and firefighters to take a 2 percent cut in pay. As part of that agreement, known as meet and confer, city officials rewrote the Special Events Ordinance to…
On August 13, a 19-year-old from Grandview named Matthew Allen came to Dallas to go dancing at the Northwest Highway club, off Spangler, called Afterlife. He left there with friendsin an ambulance, and was pronounced dead shortly thereafter — the result, said police, of an ecstasy overdose. Moments ago, the…
Back, by popular demand, is today’s ALDS Game 4 open thread as the Rangers try to finish out the Rays following last night’s epic nail-biter — so nerve-wracking even Nolan Ryan said it was “as stressful a game as I’ve sat through.” Before we get to first pitch, once more…
