With Angela Hunt passing on a mayoral run and instead seeking a fourth and final consecutive term on the city council as District 14’s representative (term limits), we called the five candidates who have filed campaign treasurers for her seat to find out which ones are willing to stay in…
It’s not often I stay up late to watch a duel between J.J. Barea and Samuel Dalembert, but last night’s 102-100 victory by the Dallas Mavericks over the Sacramento Kings was special. It kicked off the Bob Ortegel-less era with a win. And was the Mavs’ 10th consecutive victory. To which…
Late yesterday, as the boy grew fidgety from yet another day stuck at home, we flipped on the teevee hoping to find something interesting, educational. Which meant: No Disney Channel, no nonsense. A few flips later, and there we were on C-SPAN2, listening to former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk address…
Super Bowled Over: The day after the Super Bowl, half the coverage in The New York Times was about the wibble-wobble section in the stadium. Not good. More than 1,200 through-the-nose-paying ticket-holders were denied access to their seats because of fears that the temporary seating section where they had tickets…
Packers 31, Steelers 25, North Texas 0. This pains me to write because I know a lot of good people did a lot of great work in preparing for Super Bowl XLV coming to the metroplex. But as the thousands of visitors left our towns in the wake of last…
Before 1988, Bucks Burnett didn’t consider eight-track tapes particularly significant. Sure, he managed the eight-track section of the long-defunct Peaches Records on Lemmon Avenue in the late ’70s and early ’80s, but he didn’t own any eight-tracks—not a single one. To him, it was just another format, another means to…
As we were eating dinner, about half an hour ago, the 7-year-old who lives in my house asked me to check Dallas Independent School District’s Facebook page to see if there’d been an announcement about school tomorrow. So I did. I read this aloud:Barring any unforeseen circumstances, Dallas ISD schools…
Shame about this weather — if only because the ice and snow put the kibosh on our plans to head down to Fair Park this morning for a meeting of the Landmark Commission’s Fair Park Task Force, which was called on account of the weather. Because, you see, there was…
I’ll leave it to Schutze, who’s covered this subject at great length, to explain precisely how Larry and Ted Hamilton wound up including more affordable-housing units in their Atmos Complex project downtown. Perhaps Jim will do so as early as tomorrow morning, when, I see here, the Downtown Connection Tax…
Earlier this afternoon, we broke the news that Angela Hunt won’t be running for mayor. She told us that she believes she can accomplish more as a council member and doesn’t think the next mayor should be anyone who’s on the current council. As it stands, council member Ron Natinsky…
Couldn’t make it to Monday’s Landmark Commission meeting, during which there was discussion of the proposed 500-foot-tall Top of Texas Centennial Tower at Fair Park that State Fair of Texas president Errol McKoy hopes to plant in his summertime Midway. But this afternoon I spoke with Good Fulton & Farrell’s…
Snowing like a mother — yes, again — as I leave the warm confines of Collin County for Dallas. Tried to be in a grumpy mood this morning, but this video made me giggle. For those of you who are clamoring for Michael Young trade news, only thing new is…
Will she or won’t she? The prospect of council member Angela Hunt tossing her name into the mayoral race has been on the minds of City Hall followers ever since Mayor Tom Leppert announced that he wouldn’t seek a second term. She just told Unfair Park that she’s out. Not…
Way back in September, Laura Bush stopped by North Dallas High School to introduce the George W. Bush Institute’s education initiative intended to change “the way America’s public school principals are identified, recruited, selected, prepared, evaluated, and empowered.” Well, now that that’s been taken care of comes Initiative No. 2…
It’s been a whole two months since last we contemplated Tom Hicks’s threat to sue for $1.6 billion over the sale — pardon, “epic swindle” — of Liverpool FC to New England Sports Ventures way back in October. But right on schedule, Paul Girolami, a barrister repping Hicks and George…
I was flattered when the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee approached me late in 2009 to help construct and singularly author its prodigious Century in the Making project. What started with 250 of the greatest moments in Texas football history — high school, college and pro — was whittled,…
Coming: Roddy Beaubois. Going: Bob Ortegel. While the Dallas Mavericks got a familiar face back at practice yesterday via their athletic French guard, they also said goodbye to the only TV analyst we’ve heard over the last 23 years. Beaubois, who broke his foot in August and hasn’t played this season,…
Council’s already in recess — till 1:30, said the mayor, citing a brief afternoon agenda. But the morning began with a bit of a bite — bark too.First up, a man repping the striking cabbies said the strike’s over, for now. There’s a demand on the table, of course, for…
On the other side you’ll find the 11-page complaint filed yesterday in Dallas federal court titled STEVE SIMMS and MIKE DOLABI, individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, vs. JERRAL “JERRY” WAYNE JONES, NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE, DALLAS COWBOYS FOOTBALL CLUB, LTD., JWJ CORPORATION, COWBOYS STADIUM, L.P., COWBOYS STADIUM…
The Dallas Independent School District, like most others ’round these parts, is closed yet again. To the Facebook message sent earlier this morning:Guess what? Dallas ISD schools and administrative offices are closed on Wednesday, Feb. 9, because of inclement winter weather. Stay safe and warm everyone!When someone asked about make-up…
It hasn’t been easy reaching a preservationist in this state in the last couple of hours. Or in D.C., for that matter. Not since Governor Rick Perry announced earlier today that in order to save the state some money, he’s proposing the elimination of the Texas Historical Commission, at least…
You have asked, and Frank Librio, the public information officer at Dallas City Hall, has answered by providing a recent sampling of the famous, infamous and who’s-that?’s who have received keys to the city of Dallas. At last, a list I can get behind. Because, as I’ve been reminded more…
