As we saw this morning, the city’s having enough problems funding that 1.6-mile streetcar starter line from Union Station to Methodist Hospital (or close to). So how does it expect to stretch track over more than 40 miles in and three miles around downtown Dallas, which is the ultimate goal?…
The council’s Transportation and Environment Committee is being briefed on streetcar funding at this very moment. We’ll get back to that shortly. But a little while ago, the committee was interviewing Dallas Area Rapid Transit board nominees, among them Jerry Christian Sr., who’s a sitting board member and has been…
On Thursday morning, the Dallas Independent School District’s board of trustees will take its first long, hard look at a proposal to “streamline the process for implementing a charter school.” It’s the result of months of work by the board’s Charter School Ad Hoc Committee, which was tasked with exploring…
On the other side is the full release sent by the Texas Comptroller’s office in which Susan Combs reveals that personal info belonging to millions of Texans was “inadvertently disclosed” on a server easily accessed by … well, anyone, really. Among the private info made public: Social Security numbers, dates…
Bobbie Wygant Interviews Sidney Lumet for “The Morning After” from Atombomb.tv on Vimeo.Shortly after news broke of director Sidney Lumet’s death at the age of 86 on Saturday morning, our pal Erik Clapp, the Fort Worth-based keeper of The Bobbie Wygant Archive, sent word: He had in his possession an…
On the other side you’ll find four videos posted by KERA in which BJ Austin asks each of the Dallas mayoral candidates, more or less: Why you? The best part: No video last longer than two minutes…
The bad news: Tony Stewart had a pit-road collision, was dinged for speeding and ran out of gas during Saturday night’s Samsung Mobile 500 at Texas Motor Speedway. The good news: Somehow he still managed to finish 12th. The better news: I had very little to do with any part of…
When we got to the Metro Diner yesterday, a little after noon, the Gaston Ave. greasy spoon was packed. TV crews were in the back, interviewing Virgie and James Adams, who opened the diner in ’68 and was there to help his son Wayne close it down after close to…
Two more homers. Another win, this one 3-0 over the Baltimore Orioles. Three consecutive series victories. Everything, it seems, is going boffo for the Rangers. With 18 dingers, 58 runs, splendid starting pitching and an 8-1 record, they are both the talk of baseball and the best team in the sport…
The city’s still auditioning would-be managers for Dallas Animal Services, which is still recovering from a disastrous run of bad news, and hopes to have that wrapped by month’s end. And while plenty items remain on the to-do list, one quick fix is identified in this afternoon’s DAS update in…
So who crumbled worse Sunday: Rory McIlroy at Augusta or your Dallas Stars in Minnesota? Hours after McIlroy ruined a four-shot lead with an 80 at The Masters, the hockey team fanned on a tap-in and missed the NHL Playoffs. After the Chicago Blackhawks lost at home to Detroit earlier…
Here’s a council committee briefing worth keeping an eye on today: Streetcar Planning Update, always a topic of interest but even more so as the Federal Transit Administration revenue-service deadline barrels down the tracks. Recall: In order to not to lose that $23-million Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery grant the…
Took the visiting mother-in-law to White Rock Lake yesterday, and as we were leaving, the wife espied a sign like the one you see above in this photo posted by Jason Roberts to his Facebook page last night. Turns out it’s part of that BlockCamp project about which we wrote…
Tomorrow at 2 p.m., Wayne Adams will do something he hasn’t done since The Great Remodel of ’97: He will lock the front door to the Metro Diner on Gaston Avenue. Which is why he had to see a man about a lock earlier this week. Wayne couldn’t find the…
The best part of posting secret audio from concerts you’ve attended is using them as an excuse to ring up others who were also there and reminisce about that, like, amazing night, remember? Like, say, Jeff Liles, who recalls Blur’s February 3, 1996, show at Trees (scroll down) as “a…
It’s been an awful long time since last we wrote about John Greenan and Brent Brown’s plans to build that green, sustainable building of tomorrow directly behind Dallas City Hall. But a few days ago, a piece written by a former local crossed my screen celebrating Dallas — and this…
We mentioned this morning that Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro was in town speaking to business journalists gathered on the SMU campus. Turns out, during her speech she mentioned something that rings a bell: The failure of the Fort Worth office to shut down Allen Stanford’s Ponzi scheme…
I just stumbled across this piece out of Houston, which says the Texas Department of Transportation has submitted docs to the feds asking for around $43 million to expedite that long-discussed and even longer-debated Dallas-to-Houston high-speed rail line. I called Jennifer Moczygemba, who oversees the Texas Rail Plan at TxDOT,…
A crowd of Deep Ellum residents and business owners got a look at City Hall’s latest plans for turning one-way Elm and Commerce Streets into models of walkability during a two-hour PowerPoint-n-panel-talk at Life In Deep Ellum last night. Pamè La Ashford from the City Manager’s office spent much of…
Speaking of big doings on the SMU campus …Next week brings the first-ever Engineering & Humanity Week to the Hilltop, courtesy the Hunter & Stephanie Hunt Institute for Engineering & Humanity. And among its myriad highlights is the construction of the so-called Living Village, where students will “live, cook their…
At this very moment, more than 350 biz journalists, members all of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, are on the Hilltop for a star-studded afternoon of speeches and panels set to feature the likes of Elizabeth Warren, tasked by President Obama with creating the Consumer Financial Protection…
If you need Governor Rick Perry or Fort Worth Mayor Mike Moncrief this afternoon, they’ll be at the intersection of Belt Line Road and Montfort Drive at around 2:30 — at that Walgreens, to be specific. (Update: I’ve been informed that Perry and Moncrief will actually be at the Arlington…
