Adverse possession, the law Ken Robinson cited to move into an abandoned Flower Mound home with the intention to claim the property as his own, was initially meant to settle and prevent property disputes in rural areas, according to Brian Rider, a University of Texas law professor who has been…
Rest easy, Friends of Unfair Park. ICE’s Counterterrorism and Criminal Exploitation Unit is on the job. In the most recent sweep, they rounded up 27 dangerous immigration violators in the Dallas-Fort Worth area — criminals guilty largely of … overstaying their student visas. Not quite the stuff of Bruckheimer actioners…
Environmentalists got their turn at the mic at this week’s gas-drilling-panel meeting, where the industry’s opponents took turns airing its dirty bits. While last week, industry representatives lauded the practice for its production of affordable energy and its boosting of the economy, this week drilling sounded a bit rougher around…
The Zoo Tapes: An interactive serial by John Rody | Episode 1 from John Rody on Vimeo.I just discovered, via the wonders of Vimeo, the “trailer” you see above for something called The Zoo Tapes posted by none other than The Great John Rody — one half of LaBella and…
It’s been five whole weeks since the City Plan Commission denied giving a specific use permit to the proposed bowling alley next to Good Records. But fear not: It will resurface in two weeks, when the city council considers its last-ditch appeal. Before then, though, the CPC will once again…
You want the good news or the bad news? Oh, hell, let me just give you the good stuff first: The enforcement of proposed legislation that would have required Texas women to look at a sonogram, have it described to them “in detail” by their doctor and listen to a fetal heartbeat…
I miss basketball. But the kind played with rules and defense and meaning. Not that And1 bullshit that ESPN is hyping today. There was a summer pro-am game Tuesday night at Morgan State in Baltimore. Approximately 4,500 fans packed the Talmadge L. Hill Field House to watch Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul, LeBron James…
By cutting funding to libraries, eliminating raises (or just paychecks) for City Hall workers, raising taxes, closing pools, deferring maintenance on pothole-ridden streets and privatizing parks clean-up? I kid. Only, I don’t. Anyway. This just in from Dallas City Hall: Angela Hunt, a 2008 recipient of the Marshall Memorial Fellowship,…
This just in from the Department of Justice: No way, no how does it want downtown-based AT&T from getting its hands on T-Mobile. So much so it’s just filed a civil antitrust lawsuit in D.C. federal court to block the sale, insisting that …… the proposed $39 billion transaction would…
If you have a moment, take the time to read this just-released report from the Texas Court Records Preservation Task Force, formed in November 2009 by the Supreme Court of Texas to see just how at-risk the state’s historical docs are. Because most of the most important docs in Texas…
You probably noticed: It’s been quite the last few days for the Dallas Independent School District’s board of trustees, what with the board president Lew Blackburn being compared to Idi Amin by a speaker at the last boarding meeting, and trustee Carla Ranger resigning and then, a few days later,…
Today is one of my favorite days of the year. Calendar and temperature be damned, today summer becomes fall becomes football. Welcome, Dallas Cowboys Kickoff Luncheon. I’ve been attending this shindig since it was held at the Grand Kempinski Hotel — later the Hotel Intercontinental — on the Tollway in Addison…
On June 6, 2006, this item appeared in the regional roundup found in the Metro section of The Dallas Morning News:Authorities have identified a woman fatally struck by a Dallas police car Saturday night as 51-year-old Patricia Ann Brooks. Police said Officers Juan Rangel and Susan Kreun were driving south…
Courthouse News brings word this morning of a suit involving Unfair Park’s ‘cross-the-freeway neighbor, the Hilton Anatole — specifically, its V Spa, which bills itself as “a sublime setting, a true spa experience, a multitude of treatments ready to revitalize and pamper, heal and refresh.” The suit, filed Friday in…
Wasn’t a full moon Tuesday night in Arlington, but it was an evening saturated with unique entertainment. Perhaps the most fun 2-0 Rangers win you ever did see.There were two guys in bear heads sitting behind home plate, likely trying to top Katy Perry’s VMA gaudy headgear and definitely pissing off analyst…
On Friday, Dallas Independent School District trustee Carla Ranger posted a note to her blog saying that she was resigning. She didn’t say why. We speculated instead. But, no, she’s not leaving. Not now.”I’ve heard overwhelmingly from the community and constituents who have asked me to stay, and I am…
A couple of weeks back, the city acknowledged that a “renegade pruning operation” was responsible for hacking down trees in the Great Trinity Forest, kinda the last place you’d expect someone to go nuts with a chainsaw. Now, this: Friend of Unfair Park Bill Holston sends along an item posted…
The case involving the citywide sale of beer and wine, which voters approved in November, is set for trial September 12. Could be a short trial, could be a long trial, could be no trial at all; a hearing’s set for this Friday in front of Judge Laurine Blake of…
Early this morning, a Friend of Unfair Park tipped us to this Dangerous Minds interview with Freya Bardell, one of the principals in Los Angeles-based eco-art collective Greenmeme. For the past six years, Bardell and Brian Howe have been dropping into the Los Angeles River art installations known as River…
Your Texas Rangers are a long way off from clinching the American League West — magic number’s still a whopping 25 after the Mariners’ 5-3 win over the Angels last night. That said, John Blake sends word this afternoon: If you’re interested in scoring ducats for “potential Rangers 2011 Postseason…
With an offensive line featuring two rookies and an undrafted free agent, not difficult to see the Cowboys in a transition — if not a rebuilding — season in 2011. Gone from last year’s underachieving team: Roy Williams, Marion Barber, Leonard Davis, Marc Colombo and now Andre Gurode. Next to go:…
Environmentalists will line up at the horseshoe at this afternoon’s meeting of the city’s gas drilling task force, scheduled, as always, for a 2 p.m. start time. This afternoon’s agenda includes seven presenters who will discuss the effects of drilling from perspectives ranging from hydroecological to financial, all with an…
