Even casual campaign watchers will not be surprised to hear that Mike Rawlings has the support of all but a few current city council members, and plenty of former ones as well. Maybe to underscore the point, maybe to show off just a little, Rawlings invited them all to join…
Several Friends of Unfair Park have sent a heads-up about a particular wager over Mavs-Heat — no, not the governors’ cheapskate bet, but this what-the pitting Bishop Kevin Farrell of the Diocese of Dallas against Archbishop of Miami Thomas Wenski. Stone crabs and cigars, tortillas and pecan pie — now…
The state Legislature addressed Texas’s baby-mama drama this session when, on May 12, Governor Rick Perry signed a bill that immediately relieves men determined not to be the biological father of a child from being required to pay child support. The bill passed unanimously through both the House and Senate.Previously,…
We’re getting closer and closer to City Manager Mary Suhm’s proposed FY2011-’12 budget, which she plans to give to council members in a couple of weeks before they go on summer vacation. And, sure, she still needs to find $60 mil in cuts, give or take, before the thing’s balanced…
Yesterday morning, the state House Committee on Redistricting and the Senate Select Committee on Redistricting released what’s known as PlanC125 — or the Solomons-Seliger Congressional Proposal — which you can see here. Today, Houston Chronicle Washington bureau chief Rick Dunham, a 30-year veteran of the puzzling process, breaks it down…
Good timing: Later today, Leslie’s cover story for the paper version of Unfair Park dealing with the city’s involvement in efforts to thoughtfully (fingers crossed) redevelop West Dallas at the foot of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge will hit newsstands virtual and otherwise. So happens, according to the announcement that…
On Mother’s Day, the Mavericks’ reserves combined to score 86 points. In Game 1 of the NBA Finals, the Mavs’ entire team managed only 84. Granted the Miami Heat are a bitch defensively. They are quick and fast and long and they did a fantastic job of chasing the Mavericks…
I’ve taken the almost-8-year-old who lives in my house to several of ‘cross-the-street neighbor Heritage Auction Galleries’ dinosaur auction previews, because, right, kids love dinosaurs. Which is why I expect at some point, between June 9 and 11, we’ll find ourselves once again wandering the fossils: It’s time for the…
The frustrating thing about Dirk Nowitzki’s injured finger? It happened on a play that wasn’t a foul. “I thought I stripped him clean,” Dirk said after last night’s 92-84 Game 1 loss to the Heat in the NBA Finals. “Then I kind of looked down and I couldn’t straighten my…
No doubt most of you aren’t all that concerned where your garbage gets dumped, so long as it’s picked up and hauled off on time. That said, the subject’s slowly but surely becoming a hot topic at City Hall, as City Manager Mary Suhm and Sanitation Services Director Mary Nix…
At this late date we’ve heard mayoral wannabes David Kunkle and Mike Rawlings address myriad issues — everything from DISD to LGBT. But, at last, a new wrinkle: Bike Friendly Oak Cliff has rounded up the runoff-ers for a question-and-answer session aimed at the hike-n-bike crowd wondering where they stand…
[jump] 5. When the Heat are in The Finals, Miami brings out the big hitters. And who might they be? Jimmy Buffet. Gloria Estefan. Queen Latifah. And Ludacris. Yes, those are ranked worst to first. 4. If the Mavs’ bench can’t obliterate the Heat’s sorry subs, this will be a…
This just in from Governor Rick Perry’s office: He’s added congressional redistricting to the special session’s to-do list. Wait. Sorry. Wrong press release. Let’s start this over.This just in from Governor Rick Perry’s office: He’s bet Florida Governor Rick Scott “a case of Texas barbeque sauce” that the Mavs will…
‘Round this very moment exactly one week ago today we were all preparing to duck and cover beneath Kirstie Alley as hailstones the size of calf fries began forming in the skies above North Texas. Turns out, the weather was even worse than we thought the morning after.This afternoon, the…
Brand-new Dallas Independent School District board president Lew Blackburn emerged from executive session this afternoon to announce the trustees have narrowed their list of interim superintendent candidates to “four or five,” and should be ready to name their pick by Monday. Blackburn, who took over the board presidency just last…
Only a handful of city council members have so far stayed away from offering their endorsements in the mayor’s race, among them Angela Hunt and Ann Margolin. But that changes today: Mike Rawlings’s camp sends word that the District 13 (meaning, Rawlings’s) rep has thrown her support behind the former…
Over the years photographer Hal Samples has shown me bits and pieces of his in-progress documentary about Tachowa Covington, who turned an abandoned water tank on the Pacific Coast Highway outside of Los Angeles into his home. Samples has been shooting Covington since the fall of ’08; just last summer…
USA Today directs our attention to agent Leigh Steinberg’s kick-off column for the Los Angeles Times’s small-paper spin-off The Daily Pilot, which ran last week. In it Steinberg tackles the subject of concussions, which, he writes, have become an “undiagnosed health epidemic … sweeping athletic fields across the country …..
Charles Barkley is 3-0 picking the Mavericks in playoff series this spring. ESPN’s Bruce Bowen is 0-3 picking against them. Me? 2-1. I picked Mavs over Blazers and Thunder but had them losing to the Lakers. In Miami for tonight’s Game 1 of the NBA Finals, I’m having difficulty viewing this series…
After last week’s accidental tour of the Lake Highlands Town Center, or what there is of it, we discovered: Prescott Realty and the city’s Office of Economic Development are hustling to get that long-dormant development off the ground years after that big-deal groundbreaking was buried in the economic collapse. Matter…
Two videos just landed in the in-box via Friends of Unfair Park. Let’s lead with The Association’s Official Ramp-Up to Tonight’s Game 1 of the NBA Finals recapping the post-season that was, so far, for Your Dallas Mavericks. On the other side is Fort Worth filmmaker-slash-puppet master Erik Clapp’s latest…
Recently our brotherly blog down here in Miami concocted a list of reasons why Miami is a better city than Dallas. Same ol’, lame-o stuff. Calling us fat and redneck and boasting that “nobody’s ever killed a sitting president in Miami.” Yawn. Wait, it also says we’re adjacent to a…
