Remember back in February, when council member Ann Margolin said, sorry, but she just couldn’t support spending $1.5 mil in bond funds on a dog park, which the city couldn’t afford to maintain in the first place? No. Of course you don’t. Anyway. On Saturday, we skipped out of the…
That LBJ Freeway overhaul we’ve been warning you about gets underway today as crews begin the first phase of the HOV-lane shut-down, between Luna Road and Midway Road. But, hey, look at it this way, says Andy Rittler, spokesman for the LBJ Express: “We anticipate there is going to be…
OK. So. About that Belleview Connector below.The reason it’s on the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee’s agenda tomorrow is because that bridge — which, as more than a few Friends of Unfair Park have pointed out, doesn’t really seem to go anywhere at the moment — is part of the…
As I’ve said before, new Rangers TV play-by-play voice John Rhadigan is one of the nicest people I’ve ever met. Love him as a friend. Be honored to have him as a neighbor. Or a role model. Whatever. Great dude. But as the voice of my baseball? Um, let’s see…
By the way they reacted at their fog-machine introduction last summer and their tearful over-reaction last week, you’d think the Miami Heat already had won two championships this season. But no, after last night’s drubbing in Chicago they trail the Eastern Conference Finals, 1-0. And for those of us who…
It’s a big day for 30-year-old SMU grad Brady Knowlton, who graces the front page of this morning’s Wall Street Journal — and, now, Gawker. All because Knowlton, a Dallas oilman and new dad and world-traveling big-game hunter (per his Facebook page), likes to stick his arm into dark, wet…
I’ll have my position-by-position breakdown complete with, yes, the highly (smirk) coveted prediction tomorrow, but let’s get this party started pronto. Back in 1994 I covered the Mavericks for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and a team that featured point guards Jason Kidd and J.J. Barea. Well, not exactly. But funny how sports works. Kidd…
We’re going to begin this morning with two Trinity-related items — the first of which you see above. That, Friends of Unfair Park, is the Belleview Connector, a proposed bridge that would link Riverfront Boulevard to the Cedars — specifically, Jack Matthews’s South Side of Lamar and the attendant development…
At several points last night I was distracted from election results by the video you see above, sent again and again and again by Friends of Unfair Park amazed and astonished at its content. As you will see, Debbie Georgatos emerges not necessarily as the front-runner in the race to…
It’s all over but the drinking: Mike Rawlings, who will wind up with around 41 percent of the vote, and David Kunkle, who will claim around 32 percent, will face off June 18 in the runoff to see who will become the next mayor of Dallas. But truth told, Kunkle…
It was awful hard to hear Scott Griggs over the phone from the watch party that turned into a victory party. But with all but four out of 56 precincts reporting in from District 3, Griggs has ousted incumbent Dave Neumann — 2,654 to 2,003, giving Griggs 57 percent of…
If you care at all about the latest vote counts in the Dallas mayoral and council races, you’re either refreshing the DalCo Elections site or at a candidate’s watch party. So this’ll be the last update till the final numbers are in — and we know for sure whether it’s…
Back when we covered the ’07 mayoral election we had a small army of writers out and about, because who doesn’t like drinking at a watch party and calling it “work.” Now, with Merten gone and Schutze on vacation and Patrick Michels covering a small-town race for a cover story,…
The county just posted its early-voting numbers, and it’s Mike Rawlings with the early lead — and quite the lead at that. Of the 29,688 votes cast during early voting, the ex-Pizza Hut CEO got 42.75 percent of ’em — which translates to 12,693 votes, for those bad at math…
Sam says it below, “The budget is easily the biggest issue.” In the race for Dallas mayor, he means, which comes to its thrilling (?) conclusion, though probably not, beginning at 7 tonight, when we’ll reconvene here for The World’s Loneliest Watch Party. If he’s right, if it all comes…
Kosse, down in Limestone County, is known as the “Little Town With a Big Heart” — and as the birthplace of Bob Wills, who was born to John Tompkins Wills (“a hard-drinking sharecropper-fiddler”) and wife Emmaline on March 6, 1905. Thirty years after that, Brunswick Record Corporation’s Don Law –…
Speaking of tomorrow’s to-do list …It’s true — Sam Merten doesn’t live here anymore. He up and split a couple of weeks back, all on his own. He can now be found wandering the countryside playing the role of George Armstrong Custer in Civil War re-enactments; he recently wrote from…
Not surprisingly, all four of Dallas’s mayoral candidates have Facebook fan pages, some (David Kunkle) more active than others (Edward Okpa). But what, if anything, do Facebook numbers mean? Are they indicators of electoral momentum or of quick-thumbed interns? A Chicago-based social media guru says Facebook numbers, when viewed in…
I got a call yesterday from the mighty Robbie Brenner, one of the producers of the fingers-crossed film The Dallas Buyer’s Club, which, as you’re surely aware by now, is the long-in-the-works adaptation of the true-life tale of Dallas electrician Ron Woodroof and his journey from homophobe to AIDS sufferer…
Mixmaster Merritt has posted the lineup for next season’s TITAS performances, which will be spread across the Winspear and Wyly beginning September 1. Here, we bring you the roster for next season’s Brinker International Forum Series, also at the ATTPAC and set to commence November 3 at the Winspear with…
Yesterday we took a look at the latest version of the Dallas Independent School District’s budget reduction plan, as necessitated by the state Legislature’s decision to gut public education in the wake of its $27-billion (give or take) shortfall. After the board briefing, Superintendent Michael Hinojosa went in front of…
If you’ve been evicted without a heads-up in the last two years or so, Dallas County would like to apologize. This morning, County Judge Clay Jenkins and commissioners John Wiley Price and Maureen Dickey did so in person at the County Administration Building, where they announced the findings of a…
