On January 7, Oncor filed with the Public Utility Commission a rate-hike request: It wants to jump your electricity bill by around $5 a month. Said Chief Operating Officer Charles Jenkins: So sorry, but we have no choice! “The proposed new rates reflect both the investments we’ve made and the…
Marilyn McDonald writes for something called Hg2 — “a luxury city guide series coveted by travellers who value both style and substance when it comes to soaking up a city.” I don’t see Dallas included in its series of Hedonists Guide-books between Courchevel and Damascus. But who knows: McDonald seemed…
What you see above is one of the Environmental Protection Agency’s AeroCommander 680s, which the agency uses to sniff air quality via Airborne Spectral Photographic Environmental Collection Technology. (I dunno.) Which I mention only because the Dallas Police Department just sent this heads-up well in advance of a flyover scheduled…
Before the Dallas City Council voted to back Dave Neumann Wednesday and wait till October to vote on XTO Energy’s gas drilling proposals, we did get a little more insight into where the council stands right now. Angela Hunt, for instance, mentioned why she was for extending the city’s leases…
That’s not exactly what happened, sure, but this afternoon in Washington, D.C., at the 79th Winter Meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk delivered the keynote address to a lunch-time audience that included “my mayor” Tom Leppert. Following the mayors’ trip to the White House…
Do you like delicious cocktails? Do you like reproductive freedom? Do you want to drink delicious cocktails while celebrating reproductive freedom? If the answer to these questions is yes, you’ll want to be at La Grange in Deep Ellum tomorrow night for the Feminists For Choice Tweet-Up celebrating the 38th…
Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway just sent The Official Announcement: He’s decided not to run for mayor after all. His statement follows, but I also spoke to Caraway about his decision — one he came to, he says, after speaking with his family and concluding that now was not the…
The Unfair Park in-box is now a mess, cluttered with invites to and press releases for Super Bowl shindigs — each, just one more reason to consider moving to Farmersville till this whole thing blows over. But our music editor insists — nay, demands — I share this heads-up for…
In April 2009, John Patrick Newton was arrested by Drug Enforcement Administration agents for growing, storing and selling marijuana out of an apartment on N. MacArthur Boulevard inIrving. Said the feds, he was the leader of “a marijuana distribution conspiracy known as the Newton Drug Trafficking Organization,” which included former…
The third public meeting for the 2011 Dallas Bike Plan, billed as an opportunity to review the first full draft of the document City Council will see this spring, was as much pep rally as policy session. The map unveiled last night has been tweaked to incorporate citizen suggestions, so…
Several Friends of Unfair Park have sent me today’s Paste piece on Big Bucks Burnett’s Eight Track Museum in Deep Ellum. So let me note: Pete posted the details concerning the Official Grand Opening on DC9 yesterday. Takes place Valentine’s Day, with The O’s and the Tom Tom Club in…
That headline is the very first sentence in a press release from the U.S. Federal Transit Administration announcing that on Thursday, it and the North Central Texas Council of Governments finally signed the grant agreement that will provide $23 million in Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery funds for the Union…
On October 1, 2009, 14-year-old Jared Williams, at the time a freshman defensive back on the Pinkston High School varsity football team, was paralyzed from the waist down in a game against North Dallas High School. As The News would explain a few days later: “He had struck his head…
About three years back we stumbled across the mother of all modern manses being built where Northaven Road turns into E. Ricks Circle, only to discover it was the future residence of country singer Darren Kozelsky. Hadn’t thought of it since, not till I drove past it again a couple…
I was looking for something completely unrelated on the Dallas County Civil District Court website this afternoon when I came across the petition you’ll find after the jump, which was filed one week ago today. In it, attorney Haakon Donnelly — on behalf of, among others, the Dallas Police Association,…
Most releases the Dallas Police Department send to the media are the stuff of crime stats and nightmares — it’s usually bloody awful bad news. But then, a short while ago, this tale arrived in the in-box courtesy Sgt. Warren Mitchell, a DPD spokesman. The subject header? “Positive News Story.”…
On Tuesday, Friend of Unfair Park PeterK sent me an e-mail with the subject header: “European Crossroads demolished.” He included a link to friend of the show Scott Dorn’s Flickr set, where Scott had written that “the small shopping community was demolished for new development In Janaury 2011.”And so, on…
While we wait on some return calls, here’s yet another intriguing bit of local ephemera presently for sale on eBay suggested by Friend of Unfair Park PeterK: a Guzzling Diploma from Mac’s College Inn. It was on the stretch of Mockingbird presently occupied by the strip center that includes Premiere…
Upping their total contribution to the under-construction Perot Museum of Nature & Science to $25 million, Jan and Trevor Rees-Jones celebrated today in a high-rise room full of their closest philanthropic friends. Two exhibition halls — one, for traveling exhibits and another for earth science — will be named for…
Not that I’m endorsing cheating, but I would have zeeeeroooo problem with an AshleyMadison.com commercial during Super Bowl XLV at Cowboys Stadium February 6. But, somehow, Fox does? The ad, which has been rejected because Fox’s standards and practices have deemed it unacceptable for air, isn’t offensive or anything racier than a hot…
Time after time, when I showed up at Dallas Animal Services over the course of the winter, Lieutenant Scott Walton would razz me about taking home a kitten. I’d outed myself as a cat person in our first interview, and this guy went for the hard sell every time after…
Landmark win by your Dallas Mavericks last night at American Airlines Center, 109-100, over the Los Angeles Lakers? Maybe. But, eh, probably not. Most important, it broke a six-game losing streak. But it also lets them boast this achievement: Wins this season over the Spurs, Celtics, Heat (twice), Hawks, Magic, Thunder, Jazz…
