Tomorrow at noon, pro-choicers from around Dallas will be meeting up at JFK Memorial Plaza and moseying through downtown for a “Walk for Choice” protest, against a run on bills around the country aimed at slashing funding for women’s health providers and limiting access to abortions.The Dallas event is one…
Following the mayoral forum held last night at Methodist Hospital’s Hitt Auditorium, District 3 city council candidate Scott Griggs and incumbent Dave Neumann took their turn to disagree on several issues — including gas drilling, that Walmart, affordable housing at Cliff Manor and the Trinity River toll road. Griggs quoted…
Last night, the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees approved that buyout plan for on-campus full-timers wanting to take the money and run before they’re laid off. At which point, the district handed to principals a FAQ, which the Dallas Friends of Public Education posted to its website this…
Here’s the announcement posted moments ago on ’bout-to-be-former-Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert’s website, which is titled, like the brand-new campaign adshort film (mmmm … doughnuts) you see above, “Why I’m Running.” For U.S. Senate, that is.I bring a unique conservative approach to government. I’ve created jobs, grown a business, and cut…
Although he typically exhibits a dry temperament, former Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle nabbed some much-needed laughs from the audience last night at the first mayoral forum of the campaign season. “This is our Iowa,” he told nearly 200 folks at Methodist Hospital’s Hitt Auditorium in North Oak Cliff. Kunkle…
If you click to embiggen the image at right you’ll note it’s an invite to a beer-and-wine “launch party” at the Preston Forest Whole Foods scheduled for tomorrow; it arrived this morning with the header “It’s the end of Prohibition at Preston Forest’s Whole Foods Market.” Soon as it landed…
We began the week by sneak-peaking one of the latest Woodall Rodgers Deck Park renderings unveiled at yesterday’s $9-million press conference. As promised, here are two others provided by the Foundation, which now needs but $17 million to cover amenities and park operation for the first three years of the…
Enough of this asinine stuff about “best player available.” What if, somehow, at No. 9 in April’s NFL Draft that player happens to be a tight end? A weakside linebacker? A punter? Or, God and Tim Cowlishaw forbid, a quarterback? Under that premise, the Cowboys — 6-10 and desperate for…
Tom Leppert has hired Shawn McCoy, the deputy communications director for the 2010 U.S. Senate campaign of Linda McMahon, whose website was designed by the same folks who are behind Leppert’s. While it’s apparent Leppert is preparing for a Senate bid of his own, until he leaves the city council…
The Woodall Rogers Deck Park Foundation’s still $17 million shy of its fund-raising target, but with construction well under way, the series of major donations announced today was a fine chance for Mayor-For-One-More-Day Tom Leppert to take one last photo op beside a group of kids and wax dreamy on…
Had a long talk with Dallas Independent School District trustee Edwin Flores today about a lot of things, some of which I’ll get to tomorrow. But before tonight’s board meeting, I figured it was worth sharing at least this one thing — our chat about the proposal to pay the…
Patrick Michels, our gas-drillin’ expert, is presently at the Hunt Oil Building for that Woodall Rodgers Deck Park press conference — which, turns out, is worth $9 million (no wonder Mayor Tom’s Mayor Tom till tomorrow). So, then, I’ll share with you a memo council member Angela Hunt sent to…
On Tuesday, you no doubt recall, the city sent word that Walmart’s opening 14 new locations citywide — among them, three in the southern sector, including on the vacant lot at Fort Worth Avenue and W. Colorado Boulevard. Yesterday, on Go Oak Cliff, Jason Roberts wrote about the reaction to…
Yep, pretty much the easiest list I’ve ever put together. On June 24, 1998 the Dallas Mavericks drafted robust, rotund — let’s face it, fat — Michigan forward Robert “Tractor” Traylor with the No. 6 pick in the draft. Three picks later the Milwaukee Bucks drafted a German teen named…
Tom Leppert writes in his official letter of resignation sent to the city council that he will officially step down as mayor at 11:59 p.m. tomorrow. At which point Dwaine Caraway will become the interim mayor of Dallas, and no one’s more excited about that than Schutze, as you’ll see…
Moments ago, the Department of Justice announced that an investigation by the FBI’s Dallas Joint Terrorism Task Force has led to the arrest of 20-year-old Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, who was born in Saudi Arabia but came to the United States in 2008 on a student visa so he could attend…
In the comments below, a Friend of Unfair Park notes that shortly before Mayor Tom Leppert said his farewells to the Dallas City Council, he hopped on his Twitter account to take issue with President Obama’s announcement that he believes Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional…
Just saw this hot-off-the-virtual-presses release about a February 8 wingding at The Trinity Trust concerning the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge opening-week ceremonies scheduled for October. As you’ll note, there’s a photo of Gail Thomas, Lyda Hill and Lynn McBee standing next to a placard bearing the new slogan: “It’s My…
I don’t expect a Dallas Mavericks’ deal before this afternoon’s 2 o’clock NBA trade deadline. Couple of reasons. First and foremost, the Mavs are 41-16 after last night’s thumping of the short-handed Utah Jazz and have won 14 of 15 since Dirk Nowitzki’s sprained knee healed. With the additions of Peja Stojakovic and…
Late yesterday, Dallas Police sent word about a story you’ve no doubt seen plenty of since: Late on January 27, DPD Officer Quaitemes Williams kicked in the face and used pepper spray on a handcuffed man named Rodarick Lyles, who’d been pulled over by another officer for driving with a…
Happiness is…: Two years ago, when the Texas Legislature took up the important question of whether college students who possess concealed handgun permits should be allowed to carry weapons on campus, Buzz carefully examined the issue for 20 seconds before weighing in with our usual carefully crafted argument. To wit:…
They came to honor the past, and wound up finding their future. Dale Earnhardt Sr., make way for Justin Bieber—at 200 mph. In a chaotic Daytona 500 that featured a record number of leaders, crashes and tears, 20-year-old Trevor Bayne shocked stock car racing by authoring a momentous upset and…
