Oak Cliff Metals’ move, which was on the council’s to-do list last month, returned this afternoon, with Mayor-For-Now Dwaine Caraway once again squaring off against Vonciel Jones Hill over the site that’s in her district near S. Central Expressway and Loop 12 and across the train tracks from his. This,…
With any luck we’ll be re-writing this list in the coming week. But for now, last night’s pulsating win at American Airlines Center certainly is among the best in Dallas Mavericks franchise history: 10. 6.2.88 — Mavs 105, Lakers 103: Led by Sixth Man of the Year Roy Tarpley’s 20-point,…
In case you hadn’t heard, the state and county redistricting processes have already gotten a tad … heated, let’s say, what with all the threats of lawsuits and the temper tantrums. The city of Dallas’s Redistricting Commission is trying to avoid the same fate on the local level: Its members…
That headline comes from the request for proposals mentioned yesterday — the one where the city’s looking for marketing pros to “generate additional income for the City through naming, sponsorship, advertisement, and marketing partnerships with private corporations.” And if you’re a marketing professional interested in the gig, well, you’d best…
The morning after every game of The Finals, The Association posts a slow-mo, Bruckheimer-esque recap. Last night’s short just became available. And it’s worth a look-see. Or several. Especially that part at the 3:14 mark…
At some point this morning, the city council will vote to pay something called 11900 Marsh Lane, L.P. out of Houston a little more than $800,000 for a piece of land currently on the tax rolls for around $458,000. That’s a piece of property near Marsh and Forest where once…
Fittingly, sitting courtside at American Airlines Center last night: Emmitt Smith. What he witnessed was perhaps Dallas-Fort Worth’s gutsiest individual performance since, well, his own masterpiece 17 years ago. Yep, on a night when he fought a 101-degree fever, Dirk Nowitzki willed the Mavericks to a heart-stopping, gut-wrenching victory that yanked the…
The city council’s last big day before going on summer vacation is June 22, when the agenda will be action-packed. On the hefty to-do list: voting on the makeup of the gas drilling task force in advance of its first meeting some time in July, as task force head Lois…
First, an apology: Patrick’s all out of good photos of Maurine Dickey, Clay Jenkins and John Wiley Price at that very first media what-for during which the unholy trinity acknowledged that mistakes had been made and that many Dallas County deputy constables had lied about serving papers to, among others,…
10. Could tell something wasn’t right with Dirk Nowitzki early in the second quarter. He didn’t look good on the bench. Piqued, even. Towel over head. Two warm-up jackets draped over him. Gulping liquid out of two water bottles. Not involved in coach Rick Carlisle’s huddle. Then at half it was…
Let’s go back to City Manager Mary Suhm’s budget Q&A memo for just a moment, because there was one Q that had me at A:What is being done to generate revenue by marketing the City? A Request for Proposal was advertised on May 12 and 19, 2011 seeking proposals from…
Last night in Austin, state Rep. Sid Miller laid out a novel solution for Texas’s troubled school budget: the Taxpayer Savings Grants Program, a reward of nearly $5,000 for any parents who’ll do us all a solid and take their kids out of public school. Under Miller’s plan, parents would…
Must be the day for getting rid of lawsuits involving the city of Dallas. The feds already sent their heads-up that the city’s going to fork over $2.5 million related to ambulance over-billing, and now the Institute for Justice sends word that that lawsuit over the 2008 sign ordinance prohibiting…
No doubt you’ve heard by now that this morning’s meeting of the Dallas County Commissioners Court was interrupted by a Dallas County Commissioner who threw a tantrum that included name-calling (you … you … bobos!) and the ol’ take-me-to-jail-I-effin’-dare-you gambit. Mauine Dickey’s outburst, captured by Channel 8, is after the…
No doubt some of you are aware that for the last couple of years or so, the city of Dallas has been entangled in a federal whistle-blower suit instigated by a former auditor at City Hall. Douglas Moore revealed that he’d discovered the city and Southwest General Services of Dallas…
This Friday, shortly before the council goes on summer vacation, we’ll get our latest peek at City Manager Mary Suhm’s FY2011-12 budget “snapshot,” following the mid-May look-see that said she’s still around $60 million short of funding the need-to’s. Speaking of: Last Friday Suhm sent to council a lengthy memo…
When Ben Johnson was stripped of his 100-meter gold medal in the 1988 Olympics, it was awarded to second-place finisher Carl Lewis. When Carter High School was ripped of its 1988 Texas State 5A Football Championship, it was given to the team it beat in the title game — Converse Judson…
Right now, Dallas Area Rapid Transit policy prohibits the sale of booze ads on its trains and buses for no reason other than earlier boards thought that’d just be a good idea. Or, as it was explained during a DART board meeting last month, its “predecessors determined that alcoholic beverages…
Simple. If their reserve players don’t perform better, the Mavericks will lose the NBA Finals. And that starts tonight in Game 4 at the American Airlines Center. Jason Terry has to be more productive than the player who has shot only 38 percent and failed to produce a 20-point game…
The Cowboys are on the verge of making the final decision to relocate their 2011 training camp from San Antonio to Cowboys Stadium in Arlington because of the ongoing NFL lockout. But one change that apparently won’t be made this season is the voice of Cowboys Stadium. That said, even the return of…
From the extremely loud to the completely silent …Yesterday was a momentous anniversary that passed without any notice whatsoever: It was the 75th anniversary of the opening of the Texas Centennial Exposition at Fair Park. Coincidentally, though, one YouTuber marked the occasion by posting some Brownie 8mm footage of the…
This is how loud Mavs playoffs games were at Reunion Arena. And this is how regular season games sound at the American Airlines Center, where, writes The New York Times’s Alan Schwartz, “it is hard to tell if the Mavericks’ favorite machine during these playoffs is Dirk Nowitzki, their star…
