Earlier this week, the White House announced that it’s looking to sell off excess federal properties — chief among them, the million-square-foot, 75-acre Fort Worth Federal Center. Says the Obama administration, “Billions of taxpayer dollars are wasted each year on government properties that are no longer needed.” Which sounded familiar:…
ABC won’t announce which pilots it’s turning into full-blown series till May 17. But late last night, Deadline’s Nellie Andreeva wrote that it’s all but certain that exec producer Darren Star’s adaptation of Kim Gatlin’s book Good Christian Bitches — set, of course, beneath The Bubble — is a go…
While we await some return phone calls: Twice today I’ve had occasion to dial up various local projects’ construction webcams, including our old favorite the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge — and this was before Mary Suhm acknowledged that, yup, you can cross that October opening off your to-do list, making…
Back in October, the Dallas Police Department launched iWatch Dallas, its spin on LAPD’s “virtual crime watch” intended to use citizen alerts to deter anything and everything from car burglaries to prostitution to terrorism. DPD says it’s working as planned and that iWatch has “led to several important investigations that…
Dallas anti-gas drilling activist Raymond Crawford just copied us on a letter he’s sending to state Sen. Royce West today, asking him to “personally get involved [and] do whatever it takes to help stop HB3105,” which is Rep. Jim Keffer’s proposed legislation that would essentially neuter cities’ ability to regulate…
Haven’t yet had a chance to check out the work of WFAA’s new morning-show co-host, New York transplant Ron Corning, but several Friends of Unfair Park direct our attention to this clip in which he makes a cameo, courtesy Alexa Conomos’s Mayfest gaffe. Turns out, Corning tweeted the clip this…
At the end of March, Heritage Auction Galleries invited some of us to walk across Oak Lawn to take a long, hard look at a never-before-offered original Frank Miller splash page from 1986’s The Dark Knight Returns, among The Greatest Batman Stories Ever told and, along with Watchmen, the comic…
The folks at City Hall aren’t the only ones trying to slip looser ethics rules into places they don’t belong. A bill that cruised through the state House this week would force lawmakers to disclose more information about how money moves between their campaign accounts and their personal ones, shedding…
Really. Who knew?Who knew that Ron Natinsky’s early-morning jab at Mike Rawlings over his union endorsements would become The Issue of the Day? Surely not Tom Leppert, who wound up having his spokesman comment on the matter once Rawlings made it clear that, hey, he didn’t do nothing Leppert didn’t…
Many thanks to the great Rudolph Mantooth Bush, head scorekeeper at The News’s City Hall Blog, who has shared Mayor Dwaine Caraway’s sequel to his Payday Loan King ad slamming Mike Rawlings for his six-year stint on the board of directors of Ace Cash Express. But it’s so much more.Because,…
Remember that item last week about how the city was going to use code enforcement to collect and toss election signs planted on public property, “including parks, recreation centers and libraries”? No, neither do we. (Actually, they’re on a sliver of private property, owned by Fifty Seven Royal, that’s right…
Really, it’ll be like the day after Christmas when this mayoral campaign ends — that sad, empty what-now. Who knew this morning’s email from Dallas mayoral candidate Ron Natinsky would provide a small handful of highlights from an otherwise ho-hum campaign season.There was, of course, the initial email itself, in…
Former First Lady Laura Bush announced this morning that her foundation, which has provided more than $14 million in grants intended to fill school libraries with more and better books, is dispersing more than a million dollars to some 241 schools this year. Bush made the announcement at Jack Lowe…
As promised, CBS News has sent along the first few minutes of Saturday night’s episode of 48 Hours Mystery, which is devoted entirely to the case of Lisa Stone, who disappeared last June from her Far East Dallas home and hasn’t been seen or heard from since. In the Very…
Digging through Pacer this morning, looking for something unrelated, I came across this: In Dallas federal court yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission sued Donna Hvidsten the manager of Planning and Analysis at Brinker International, and her husband Bruce, a former Brinker employee, for insider trading. At the same time,…
It’s sunny. It’s May 5th. The Mavs are winning. The Rangers are in Seattle. The birds are chirping. And the patio is calling. I’ll be at Duke’s in Addison this afternoon talking Mavs, Mavs and more Mavs on 105.3 The Fan, toasting Mexico with cervezas and, oh yeah, watching midgets wrestle. (Go…
Happy Trails 2:00 from Jake Ferguson on Vimeo.Like I wrote Tuesday, the city’s about to officially unveil its “Happy Trails” campaign intended to make those 104 miles’ worth of hike-n-bike paths safer following the death of Lauren Huddleston on the Katy Trail in October and another car-on-cyclist collision two weeks…
C.J. Wilson was superb in last night’s much-needed win over Seattle. Pedro Strop is gone. Mark Lowe is back (uh-oh). Tommy Hunter and Nefali Feliz are getting close. And dazzling Cuban defector Leonys Martin is fast-tracking our way.In the middle of a very transitory Rangers season I was asked by a…
It’ll be a shame to see this mayoral campaign season come to an end a week from Saturday now that it’s getting so…campaigny. Take, for instance, this email that just arrived in the in-box with the all-caps subject header: “RAWLINGS PLEDGES TO SUPPORT THE RIGHTS OF WORKERS TO JOIN UNIONS…
10. For the Mavs, a shocking 2-0 lead. For the Lakers, a Stinko de Mayo. L.A. missed its first 15 3-pointers and was booed off the court in Staples Center. As they head for Dallas and Friday night’s Game 3, the Lakers are muttering things like “dispirited” and “trust issues.” Surreal…
And with the ninth overall pick in the 2011 NFL Draft, the Dallas Cowboys select… Pat McQuistan? Hardly. But upon the arrival at Valley Ranch of their new first-round pick, the Cowboys showered Tyron Smith not with a red-carpet welcome fit for Kate Middleton, but rather an old No. 77…
Paper chase: So, Raymond Paredes, Texas’ higher education commissioner, says Governor Rick Perry’s call for a $10,000 bachelor’s degree is “entirely feasible” and wants to see some proposals by 2013. Education experts scoff. Can’t be done, they say, unless you’re talking diploma mills. “I know Texas’ [Higher Education] Coordinating Board…
