After taking a few weeks off, the city’s Gas Drilling Task Force reconvenes at City Hall at 2 today; lucky Leslie will recap by day’s end. Should be an interesting one: After weeks of tours and overviews and regulation reviews and a public hearing, today the industry will make its…
First, the city of Dallas said it would begin exploring the possibility of selling naming rights to … well, you name it, from city-owned facilities to its vehicles; first on the to-sell list, the Elm Fork Athletic Complex off Walnut Hill. A few weeks later, Dallas Independent School District trustee…
Sure, let’s get greedy. In June, Mavericks fans were presented with a utopian climax: Sweep the hated Lakers and then rally to beat the even-more-despised Dwyane Wade and the Heat in the NBA Finals behind an MVP performance from long underrated, underappreciated star Dirk Nowitzki. I’ve pretty much given up…
When City Manager Mary Suhm proposed dumping all of the city’s trash at the McCommas Bluff Landfill as a revenue-generating brainstorm last summer, few imagined it would become such a hot-button issue this summer. Because in 2010, the idea came and went nowhere, along with that suggested transportation user fee…
I like that camo draping those wooden picnic tables on the site of the former Alamo Plaza Hotel Courts at Sylvan and Fort Worth Avenue — very M*A*S*H. In recent months, of course, that’s been the site of the Cox Farms outdoor market, a sorta sneak peek at what’s to…
More than 450 current and former property owners at a Lake Whitney residential golf community, including dozens of locals, are suing Dallas-based developer Double Diamond, Inc., claiming they were charged exorbitant fees by a puppet property owners’ association that funneled the proceeds directly to the company. In some cases, the…
Shortly before 1 p.m., the city council dove into that plan to dry up the city’s 17 pools and replace them with those family aquatic centers — a plan that’s “just the beginning of a plan,” as Park and Rec head Paul Dyer cautioned the council. It’s still going on,…
A little past 7 Saturday evening we stopped by to say our farewells to the Joe Ratcliff Pedestrian Walkway over LBJ Freeway, between Marsh and Webb Chapel, which will be demolished in coming weeks to make way for the extreme managed toll-road makeover. As with the Forest Lane cruisin’ reunion,…
I’m not going to argue the merits of Charles Haley’s football career. As one of the most fierce pass-rushers of his era, he won five Super Bowl rings. The dude belongs in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, just not the Cowboys’ Ring of Honor. Here’s why: Simple, he’s not one of…
The end is near! The city’s Redistricting Commission has just one more meeting left before its forwards its final recommended map to the city council. And after Saturday’s public forum in a jam-packed council chambers, and the commission vote that followed, it looks pretty clear that map will be cPlan16b,…
Must be the season for new websites — first Dallas Independent School District, now Dallas Area Rapid Transit. Morgan Lyons, spokesman for the transit agency, sends word this morning: The old URL directs you to a spiffed-up site, where, he writes, “We’ve tried to open the look and put a…
What started so promising … ended with a whimper. The Rangers won the first six games of the 10-game road trip. Late last Thursday night they were three outs from an eight-game lead in the AL West. Then Mark Trumbo took Mike Adams deep, Texas’ offense evaporated in Chicago and,…
Tags: Gay Video & Lesbian Movies, Logo: Fierce TVBack in April, Logo sent word that come fall it would expand its A-List franchise to include Dallas — but one of several realty series set ’round town, including that Bravo show that airs tonight, which Hunter Hauk is watching over on…
Some time after lunch is when today’s budget briefing ought to get interesting: Not only will the city council take a dip in Paul Dyer’s Aquatics Facilities Master Plan, but it’ll ride shotgun as Assistant City Manager Forest Turner looks at how much it’ll cost to rescue Dallas’s roads from…
[jump] 5. Talked to head coach Jason Garrett in the locker room about Tony Romo’s interception. Sure enough, it was half-bad read (he thought Eric Weddle was latching onto Bryant and not Kevin Ogletree) and half-bad throw (too flat to get over the safety). 4. Bryant dropped a first down…
Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price did not attend yesterday’s rally on his behalf at the Pan-African Connection Bookstore across the street from Fair Park. And those who’d packed the pews at the St. Luke “Community” United Methodist Church one month ago did not fill the parking lot, or the…
The poor Dallas Pedestrian Network, otherwise known as Vincent Ponte’s downtown tunnels and skyways. So unloved, so unwanted — and if you believe the Downtown Dallas 360 plan (not to mention Laura Miller and Mary Suhm and Jack Gosnell), the leading cause of the death of downtown. Hence the closed-door…
After Dwaine Caraway got done excoriating Paul Dyer over the city’s decision to close five pools in the coming fiscal year, two in Caraway’s district, the head of Park and Rec told the former mayor to get used to the idea. Because, look, said Dyer: The city owning and operating…
If you’ve got little to do this morning, and you missed it the first time ’round in the fall of ’09, might I suggest you spend a little time with “The Consummation of Dirk,” penned by Jonathan Callahan, an American living in Japan. “Batshit insane,” declared Deadspin upon its mysterious…
A few days ago an old friend asked: When did Dallas’s reign as country-music comer officially end? Hard to say, officially, though I’ve always pinpointed it ’round May 3, 1956 — when producer Jim Beck died, after he’d been poisoned by the carbon tetrachloride he was using to clean his…
The Annie E. Casey Foundation just released KIDS COUNT, its annual report on child well-being in every state across the U.S. One of their grantees, the Austin-based Center for Public Policy Priorities, put the report for Texas on its website on Wednesday: The State of Texas Children. So how are…
Driving through downtown earlier this week I couldn’t help but notice: First Baptist Dallas is erecting its new downtown campus with remarkable speed. Seems like only yesterday Tom Leppert, Mark Lovvorn and Robert Jeffress were pressin’ The Big Red Button. But according to this nicely done look-see just posted to…
