As you’ll no doubt recall, Brian and Cheryl Potashnik were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn the week before Christmas. The couple, of course, was among the first to take guilty pleas in the Dallas City Hall federal corruption case that eventually landed former Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill…
Between court hearings and cover stories, we couldn’t spare a warm body to attend this morning’s Trinity River Corridor Project Committee, the first since December 7. On the agenda: an update on the Standing Wave and Santa Fe Trestle projects, about which a Friend of Unfair Park will occasionally ask…
A little more than a month ago — and before the Environmental Protection Agency assumed control of Texas’s greenhouse gas permitting — the EPA looked to be drawing a line in the sand over water contamination from gas drilling in the Barnett Shale, with an emergency order for Fort Worth-based…
This just in from the U.S. Attorney’s Office: A 29-year-old man from Plano, Edward Louis Molz III, pleaded guilty in Dallas federal court this morning to a single count of wire fraud, for which he faces up 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. On top of that, he…
Just last night I was telling the wife about how, like, about 20 years ago I was part of a small group of music freaks and geeks who’d gather ’round the turntable every so often to drink bourbon and swap songs and stories about why this guitar solo was, like,…
Soon as I got back to the office, Jim Rogers showed up with a press release and a photo. Rogers, the first president of the Bryan Place Neighborhood Association perched in the shadow of downtown, came by to announce that he’s running for Dallas City Council — the District 14…
This morning’s hearing got started an hour late, and court’s in recess till 1 p.m. — I’ve sent Intern Jesse to cover the afternoon portion of the proceedings. Should be interesting: Shortly before Judge Laurine Blake called for the noontime lunch break, City Secretary Deborah Watkins was on the stand…
Some of us — guilty — figured that this weekend your Dallas Cowboys would be hosting the NFC Championship Game, just one step from staying in town and becoming the first team in NFL history to play in a Super Bowl in its own stadium. Those plans, to say the…
Just rode up to the briefing room with Tennell Atkins, who — and I’ll try not to take it personally — seemed awful anxious for those elevator doors to open on five, and we’re shooting the breeze in the gallery as the rest of the Economic Development Committee trickles in…
I’m fascinated by Mount Everest and absolutely bow down to those who have reached its peak. It remains at the, ahem, top of my bucket list. Watching the Dallas Mavericks lose again yesterday — this time to the lowly 15-26 Detroit Pistons by 14 — I’m left to equate their…
Off to the George Allen in a few for that 9:30 court date I told you about last week, during which attorneys representing the city, Keep the Dollars in Dallas and those contesting the election allowing for the wetting up of Dallas will hash over some legal matters, baby. Top…
… but half the site didn’t load this morning. Instead, I kept getting the message, “Sorry you are experiencing a delay. Please try your request again.” And it won’t verify my subscriber account — now I have to call just so I can read that story about how “Carrollton councilman…
If you’re a fool for the latest in trailer technology, you probably heard the sad news: THOR won’t be here to defend us next month, after all. But before tonight’s Stars game, a flash of hope: If you want to see a 3D movie trailer inside a trailer — if…
Remember when that L.A. auction house auctioned off the pine box in which Lee Harvey Oswald was buried on November 25, 1963, at the Shannon Rose Hill Funeral Chapel & Cemetery in Fort Worth? Man, seems like only six weeks ago. Since then, of course, the coffin sold — for…
Patrick Michels, our go-to guy on all things having to do with XTO’s efforts to drill for oil and gas at Hensley Field, is presently occupied, and so, once more, it falls to me to point out what some Friends of Unfair Park have mentioned in the comments below: On…
Shortly after we posted that item about bcWORKSHOP’s public art installation intended to draw attention to the 5,750 homeless men, women and children living in Dallas, we received this look-see at the first installation set up at White Rock Lake. Word is they’re close to finishing setting up the cutouts…
I needed a book yesterday and happened to be driving by the Borders in Preston Royal, which did not have said book. Or many books, for that matter. There were, however, bins full of discounted tchotchkes, aisles lined with 2011 calendars (each selling for $4.99) and displays hawking T-shirts and…
Is it kosher to like the son but loathe the dad? As in Andre and Mike Agassi. Luke and Bill Walton. Stewie and Peter Griffin. Good, then bring on new Dallas Cowboys defensive coordinator Rob Ryan. And may his father, Buddy, suffer from eternal gas. Rob is the twin brother of…
Just got the heads-up: At this very moment, volunteers with the bcWORKSHOP are out and about installing cut-outs like those you see below across the city, from North Dallas to downtown to White Rock and points in between. They’re intended to raise awareness about how to end homelessness. The cutouts…
Almost as soon as we published that very popular post about University of Texas at Dallas researchers’ efforts to silence that high-pitched problem known as tinnitus, readers began leaving comments and sending e-mails in which they all asked the same question: How can I participate in the forthcoming human clinical…
Dallas police just sent word: First thing this morning, the store manager opening up the CVS Pharmacy on E. Northwest Highway — where Plano Road turns into E. Lake Highlands Drive — found a dead man in the bathroom. Hell of a way to start the day. DPD explains:Drug paraphernalia,…
At this very moment, Mayor Tom Leppert — for now — is taking part in the annual Elite News MLK Parade, after which he will fly to Austin for Governor Rick Perry’s inauguration. When he returns Wednesday, there will be a budget workshop at which time City Manager Mary Suhm…
