Below, Big Jon Daniel was mazel-tov’ing us Northwest Dallasites about all traffic headed our way, up and down Forest Lane, once Cintra begins planting those managed toll lanes up and down LBJ between I-35 and N. Central Expressway. Which reminded me: Way back in January, Mark Roberts — the man…
Now that the ridiculous birthers have their precious document, what to do with their time-wasting energy? UPDATE: What. The. What?! Dawg Pound over Dog Killer. Maybe aim their misguided anger at the video gaming industry, because at 3 this afternoon I suspect Michael Vick will be unveiled as the cover…
You know it’s a series when the towel-wavers are going at it. Mavs-Blazers has been relatively friendly. Portland coach Nate McMillan snapped at the refs after Game 1. Mavs owner Mark Cuban was hit in the face by a plastic straw during Game 3 and Brandon Roy pissed off all of…
Back in August, Patrick Michels graced the cover of the paper version of Unfair Park with this great cover story about skateboarder and real estate developer Al Coker’s private Guapo Skillz Center, banished to a slice of the Cedars (“near where Akard Street dead ends at Corinth in a collection…
As much as we’d all like to hear it, NFL commish Roger Goodell isn’t going to finish that sentence with “Patrick Peterson. Cornerback. LSU.”That’s because Peterson will likely be taken in the top seven picks of Thursday night’s NFL Draft, and Cowboys owner/general manager Jerry Jones said yesterday he doesn’t…
By now you’re likely well aware of Ralph Isenberg’s ongoing efforts to bring Saad Nabeel back to North Texas, after the the 20-year-old Frisco Liberty High grad was sent to Bangladesh last year by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials — after Saad’s parents’ application for political asylum was denied and…
We begin this morning, like last, with talk of tearing out another freeway — only this one’s a done deal. On the other side is a brief video just posted by the folks at Spanish road-builder Ferrovial and its subsidiary Cintra, in which the majority owners of the about-to-commence LBJ…
So. David Leininger, Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s chief financial officer, and council member Linda Koop just called to talk — what else? — streetcars, on both the DART board and city council’s to-do lists tonight and tomorrow. And Leininger made it very clear: While rider revenues for the next few…
This week, the Paper Version of Unfair Park features a longer look at a guy who’s already turned up here a few times over the past few months: Denton lawyer and Internet porn pirate hunter Evan Stone. (Not that Evan Stone, though he is a Dallas native.) The story details…
Wade Emmert’s no longer on the fence about attempting to succeed Jonathan Neerman as Dallas County Republican Party chair. After telling us last week that he was interested in the position, he’s now committed to running against current vice chair Debbie Georgatos (pronounced Jor-jah-tos). Precinct chairs will choose between the…
Two weeks ago, Schutze noted that the city council — very quietly, very nonchalantly, very consent-agenda-y — loosened up its own restrictions governing when and how developers with zoning cases at City Hall could slide council members some dough-re-mi.When the original ordinance passed two long years ago, it prohibited “applicants…
During our 90-mintute interview with Mike Rawlings at CIC Partners inside Crescent Court for last week’s piece about the mayor’s race, Rawlings repeated a statement about the campaign that he’s made at countless debates: “It’s not about personalities.” We argued the opposite in our story. Since all four candidates agree…
On Friday, Keith Manoy, the chief transportation planning officer, spoke to Unfair Park about who will be responsible for what when it comes to the designing, construction, operation and maintenance of the Union Station-to-near-Methodist Hospital streetcar line, which has to be up and running down the Houston Street Viaduct by…
Let me start off by saying I’m making zero correlation between Colby Lewis’ rough 5th inning last night and his recent sojourn to California to attend the birth of his second child. But let me continue by saying I’m starting to get worried. Why? Because — even though it’s early…
Perhaps you’ve heard: President Obama didn’t issue an Easter proclamation, and that has some folks in a tizzy (which I believe is some kind of religious headgear?). Anyway. First Baptist Church of Dallas’s Robert Jeffress, who is now a FOX News regular, went on FOX & Friends this morning to…
Was talking to Cowboys’ long-snapper L.P. Ladouceur yesterday when the news broke: “Judge Susan Nelson rules for players. Lockout to be lifted.”Him: “What does that mean? We’re back to work tomorrow?”Me: “Um, I’m not sure.” At the time — as usual — I felt like an uninformed dork, clueless to…
Several Friends of Unfair Park, and many fellow Dallas Independent School Distinct parents, have sent along this morning a link to the Texas Tribune’s newly posted searchable database showing how state Rep. Scott Hochberg’s H.B 2485 — which eliminates target revenue, holds all districts to the same revenue formula and…
10. There was a time when the Mavs going 3 of 17 on 3-pointers in a playoff game meant certain doom. Last night, Dallas didn’t shoot particularly well, but it defended and rebounded. Wow did it rebound, to the tune of +12, +11 at the offensive end. 9. Turns out Brandon Roy’s…
Speaking of transportation and the suburbs …Been meaning to mention this for weeks, but Patrick Kennedy’s post on the subject reminds: There’s a Facebook page called Save Downtown Dallas: Tear Down Central Expressway — a subject that’s addressed from a distance in the just-adopted-by-city-council Downtown Dallas 360, actually. As in:…
A few weeks ago, Ed Bark noted that WFAA-Channel 8 was moving Chris Flanagan, co-host of its morning-news show Daybreak, to Good Morning Texas, whatever that is. His replacement: Ron Corning, who’s leaving Kabletown’s Long Island affiliate to pair up with Cynthia Izaguirre, the sixth-most famous graduate of Thomas Jefferson…
About a hundred women and men rallied up at the JFK Memorial Plaza over the weekend for Dallas’s very own SlutWalk, a stroll through downtown to fight the popular notion that it’s fair to blame a woman for anything from cat-calls to sexual assault based on how she’s dressed. In…
Last week, we revisited the Trinity River toll road and convention center hotel referendums with mayoral candidate Ron Natinsky because, well, there just wasn’t enough space to explain it all in last week’s cover story. Much like we quickly glossed over those issues, there was also a brief mention in…
