Mitt Romney, who’s polling well amongst would-be GOP presidential contenders, stopped in Arlington today to grab a bite of Rudy’s barbecue — and take a bite out of President Obama, specifically his Middle East policy speech, which Romney said “threw Israel under the bus,” a sound bite making the national…
It would now appear all but certain Dallas Independent School District Michael Hinojosa is out the door, joining his Fort Worth counterpart Melody Johnson, who surprised her board today with a resignation letter of her own. We’ll know for sure soon enough. Watch it live, after the jump. If you…
Down below, Dallas Independent School District trustee Bruce Parrott says he wants to know “how does the business community feel” about Superintendent Michael Hinojosa’s more-than-likely departure for the top job in Cobb County, Georgia. (The Atlanta Journal Constitution is now reporting that “Dallas school chief Michael Hinojosa is reportedly going…
Shortly after The News broke the news that Dallas Independent School District Michael Hinojosa is a finalist — perhaps the sole finalist — for the top job at the Cobb County School District outside of Atlanta, I asked DISD spokesman Jon Dahlander if there would be a statement forthcoming. His…
Earlier this week we received word that some parents sending their kids to the First Presbyterian Church Developmental Day School on St. Paul downtown are concerned about plans for a piece of property adjacent to the school. Seems they just discovered that developer Larry Hamilton and John Greenan, executive director…
Backed by a new group of law-enforcing backers calling themselves “Crime Fighters for Kunkle,” former Dallas police chief and mayoral hopeful David Kunkle took a minute this morning to cast himself as a force for sunshine and justice at City Hall. Introduced by David Dean, chairman of board of the…
Adrian Beltre got the big hit. Ian Kinsler made the defensive play. And, in a first, Mark Lowe salvaged what Neftali Feliz ruined. The Rangers beat the Royals in extras last night and — pending a weekend visit through Cliff Lee and the formidable Phillies’ pitching staff — might avoid these…
Earlier this month, city officials — among them For-Now Mayor Dwaine Caraway, City Manager Mary Suhm, about-to-be-out Trinity River Corridor Project Committee chair Dave Neumann and others — schlepped to D.C. to beg for more money for the Trinity River Corridor Project. Specifically, the city wants federal earmarks for three…
If the Mavs-Thunder somehow doesn’t do it for you, how about some Colonial golf out in Fort Worth or even a basketball game played by football players? After delivering a eulogy for his dear friend Ron Springs at his Carrollton funeral this morning, former Dallas Cowboy Everson Walls will help host…
The Mavs can play better than they did in Game 1 of the NBA’s Western Conference Finals. For the first time in the playoffs they allowed 100 points, 112 to be exact. The Thunder grabbed 11 offensive rebounds and, according to Mavs’ coach Rick Carlisle, corralled 13 of the game’s…
There hasn’t been much action in the city’s case against the Museum of the American Railroad at Fair Park, which city attorneys took to court at the end of January 2010 after the museum failed to choo-choo to Frisco as it had long promised to do. Long story short, the…
Just remember: A grand total of 235 people voted to make Wade Emmert the new chairman of the Dallas County Republican Party. But 33,000-and-still-rising have now watched his rival Debbie Georgatos’s film-school thesiscampaign video on YouTube — and far more saw it last night on MSNBC, as Rachel Maddow and…
It’s a Thursday night in late March, a little more than a year removed from the Flaming Lips’ memorable free performance—complete with multiple power outages—at the 2010 35 Conferette in Denton. Frontman Wayne Coyne stands swallowed among a mass of fans in the aisles of Good Records on Lower Greenville,…
He’ll be here before you know it. Sooner than we all expected. He’s got the above-average arm in the outfield. The plus-speed on the base paths. Immeasurable instincts. That sweet lefty swing. Bat resting anxiously on his shoulder, ready to spray the ball, with power, to all parts of any…
Fishin’ in the Trinity: OK, now we’re really curious. We’re talking to you, Dallas City Hall, about those Trinity River project emails and memos you’re fighting to keep us from seeing. What, has someone been unduly candid in his or her assessment of the city’s plans to put a toll…
What you see above presently resides in the United Kingdom — Yorkshire, specifically, where one “frantique2000” hopes to part with this “pewter beaker” that dates back to 1904. That, incidentally, is when Jospeh Linz and brothers Simon, Ben and Albert had their glorious jewelry store on Main Street downtown –…
Pamela Weatherby, a 45-year-old Big Spring woman — and, according to a federal suit filed Monday in Dallas, an “unstable insulin dependent diabetic” — was serving a one-year sentence for drug possession at Dawson State Jail when she died last July. Now her parents and two sons say Weatherby would…
The Dallas Police Department has now lost 80 officers in the line of duty. The first was C.O. Brewer, who, according to the Officer Down Memorial Page, was “shot and killed while attempting to arrest a man for slander at the Union Depot station.” That was on May 24, 1892,…
So, yes, former candidate for Dallas County Judge Wade Emmert is the new head of the Dallas County Republican Party, having been elected by a vote of 140-95 at last night’s special election. Upon his victory, Emmert tweeted, “I’m honored to have your trust as the new Dallas Co. GOP…
John Blake just sent word: Josh Hamilton will return to the world of the baseball living tonight in Frisco, when he begins a rehab stint with the RoughRiders as Steve Buechele’s second-place squad takes on the Midland Rockhounds. Hamilton, benched with a non-displaced hairline fracture of his right humerus bone…
Since it’s Follow-Up Wednesday here, may I direct your attention to a piece Jason Roberts posted this morning on Go Oak Cliff, which is more or less a response-slash-reaction-to Schutze’s piece yesterday about that Oak Cliff Walmart planned for Fort Worth Ave. Not to reopen Tuesday’s still-fresh can o’ worms,…
The Rangers lost a game because Matt Harrison walked two guys and then coughed up a home to the White Sox No. 9 hitter. We’ve dissected Dirk. And the Stars … who knows cares? At least there is news with our Cowboys. Sorta. While the NFL lockout storms toward its June 3 court…
