Last night, Dallas County spokesperson Maria Arita sent word: Toni Pippins-Poole has been named Dallas County Elections Administrator, thus removing the word “interim” from her title. No doubt, longtime observers of county politics aren’t stunned by this news. They will say, well, sure, it was inevitable, even after County Judge…
Perhaps you recall: On the night of December 22, 2009, American Airlines Flight 331 crash-landed in Kingston, Jamaica. The Boeing 737-800, inbound from Miami during a storm, overshot the runaway and came within feet of sinking in the Caribbean. The feds told Channel 8 that “the plane may have been…
Rangers pound out another 12 hits. Rangers score another nine runs. Rangers win again. Lead in the AL West remains three games. Magic number shrinks to 11. Rangers are 21 games over .500 for the first time since 1999. Not that good great baseball is boring, but the West…
Go with the flow: How about that? City council member Carolyn Davis said something Buzz agrees with. Either it’s time our doc adjusted our meds, or Davis actually made sense at a recent hearing on “waste flow control” when she said: “[Trash has] been going there for 50 years and…
Tony Romo is a strip club at last call. And this time isn’t like all those other nights, when 2 a.m. rolled around, the lights came on and no matter all the personal conversations and business transactions being forged, the girls vanished, and you were ushered out shoulder-to-slumped-shoulder with the…
On a bridge 10 miles outside of Saint Jo, Texas, a small, sleepy town an hour and a half drive northwest of Dallas, a handful of locals have gathered on a July afternoon to look at a sand mine being built off a remote country road. Rolling hills dotted with…
We began the broadcast day by discussing Sylvan Thirty’s funding; we end it by looking back at last night’s town hall meeting concerning its layout and, more broadly, the future of street and development design in Dallas. And based on the build-up, it was shaping up to be a pretty…
Got a cryptic email yesterday that said someone from Dallas Fire-Rescue would speak to the council today (“if he is allowed”) about changes to DFR mentioned in the city manager’s budget. Those should ring a bell: A couple of months back we looked at concerns over plans to shuffle some…
The Kiestwood neighborhood in southeast Dallas turns 60 this month, and in Texas years, that’s old. Raymond Crawford, who lives in the home where he grew up, hosted a well-attended birthday party for the close-knit neighborhood at the Southwood United Methodist Church last night, and both Mayor Mike Rawlings and…
Many of those Lower Greenville specific use permits approved by the City Plan Commission came before the city council today, which is why Bruce Richardson, repping a coalition of neighborhood associations, was perched at the podium for the better part of the last hour, saying nice things about some applicants…
During the morning portion of today’s city council meeting, Mayor Mike Rawlings told his colleagues he’s been “doing some thinking” about redistricting. Lord, haven’t we all. In reviewing what the Redistricting Commission has done, he said, “I believe the transparency was there.” This, of course, despite recent complaints by Ruth…
No doubt you recall where you were at the exact moment Leon Lett cost the Dallas Cowboys a Thanksgiving Day victory over the Miami Dolphins in 1993. Me? I was icebound in Farmersville, cooped up with out-of-town family convinced it would be just fine to drive up to Collin County…
A little while ago, in this item below, Mike MacNaughton posted a link to this freshly minted release from the Texas Education Agency, which leads with the good news: “Texas has experienced a huge increase in the number of college-bound minority students who take the SAT college admissions test.” At…
I dunno, last Sunday night’s finale to HBO’s Entourage was a little too tidy for me. Vince finally got the girl. Eric was back with Sloan. Ari was reconciling with Mrs. Ari. Drama’s show was a go and even Turtle was a trim, fit millionaire. What the what?! I guess I…
Brantley espied that giant check you see at right during his tour of the Dublin Dr Pepper bottling plant a few weeks ago; turns out, it was just seed money. We just received word that in order to keep pace with Plano-based Dr Pepper Snapple Group, which is suing the…
Since July, the city’s gas drilling task force, established to recommend parameters for Dallas’s fracking ordinance rewrite, has voraciously consumed drilling data, testimony from experts and presentation after presentation on various aspects of the practice. But up to this point, visiting experts have done almost all of the talking. At…
I run a buffet here. Not every customer will like everything I put out, but hopefully most will find a little something to keep them coming back. I get this complaint frequently: “Why don’t you write more about the Rangers? They’re winning!” (Beat the Indians last night. AL West lead still at…
Come Friday downtown Dallas will be short around 30 parking spaces. They’ll be spending the day instead as tea gardens and 50-foot-long “trails” and public reading “rooms” and teensy-tiny soccer fields and bocce ball courts and other community spaces — think park, not parking. There will be music too, spread…
At some point this morning, Anna will be along with her account of last night’s Sylvan Thirty town hall, which, by all accounts, was civil enough. After that, you probably won’t read much about the proposed mixed-use development catty-corner from the Belmont, where the old Alamo Plaza Hotel Courts once…
Let’s face it: If the Cowboys are going to be anything but mediocre in 2011, Dez Bryant has to be effective. And to be effective, he’s first got to be healthy. Bryant caught three passes for 71 yards early against the Jets, then disappeared in the game’s final 52 minutes…
Hey, maybe this will help Rick Perry shore up support with the Tea Party’s Ship-Em-Out Division and his new Arizona boyfriend: Those kooky activists at the ACLU and some of their libtard friends are pleading with the Devil HimselfUnited States Department of Justice to intervene on behalf of Texas’s minority…
As my grandfather would say, “It’s drier than a popcorn fart.” We’re smack-dab in the middle of the worst one-year drought ever. The costliest too. Feed prices are nearly unaffordable. Stock tanks are drying up. But the final boot to the gut of the Texas rancher never came. It’s the…
