Here’s the full statement just sent out by Courtney Sanders in the senator’s D.C. office, which speaks — at length — for itself: Announcement by U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison To my fellow Texans: For the past 17 years, it has been my greatest honor to serve the people of…
Last week, Dallas Morning News Deputy Managing Editor Maud Beelman penned a piece for Harvard’s Nieman Watchdog in which she explained the paper’s yearlong investigation into the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Parkland Memorial Hospital — two heretofore “sacred cows” in Dallas. Wrote Beelman, both institutions received nothing…
This morning, the D.C.-based Food Research and Action Center released a report — School Breakfast in America’s Big Cities 2011 — that takes a look at the free-breakfast programs in 29 of the nation’s largest school districts, including the Dallas Independent School District. Says the study, during the ’09-’10 school…
This isn’t shtick in advance of Monday’s annual observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. It’s about the Dallas Cowboys’ locker room chemistry out at Valley Ranch. Ray Sherman was a respected voice and, at times, yes, a coddling sounding board among the team’s black players. Now that he’s gone, new…
Now that the city’s worst-kept secret is out in the open as Far North Dallas council member Ron Natinsky expressed his desire to replace Mayor Tom Leppert, we probed millionaire businessman Harlan Crow to get a read on whom he sees as the favorite contender among wealthy, politically connected folks…
Yes there’s a question mark in that headline, because — as always — I’m a little confused. On Tuesday we got this press release from your Texas Rangers about star slugger and American League Most Valuable Player Josh Hamilton: Arlington, Texas–Texas Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton was diagnosed on Monday with…
On April 23, ESPNDallas ran a piece in which Mark Cuban announced he’d become an investor in the start-up United Football League, co-founded by Bill Hambrecht — the man who took Apple and Google, among others, public. Said the Dallas Mavericks’ owner at the time, he didn’t want to invest…
First I’d ever heard of tinnitus was when Who guitarist Pete Townshend announced the ringing in his ears had gotten so bad he might have to hang up his Fender Eric Clapton Stratocaster for good. Then I became a music critic, stood too close to too many stages and speakers…
MEMO: To: James Oh, vice president of current programming, Fox Broadcasting Co. RE: New situation comedy pitch. Dear Mr. Oh: We have a great idea for a situation comedy that we think would fit well with Fox’s lineup of cutting-edge programming. Our show, tentatively titled Carried Away, focuses on the…
Robert Whiteside was sitting in his yard, working on his sprinklers when the car pulled to a stop at his curb. Inside was a dark-haired woman in her mid-30s, looking for a little help finding Preston Road. He gave her the directions, and she drew out the conversation, gathering information…
I will now—fear duct-taped and history ignored—utter the scariest four words in the history of Dallas Cowboys football: I trust Jerry Jones. You? It was a surreal scene out at Cowboys Stadium last week. Not only with a head coach announced and anointed in Arlington for the first time. But…
Danny Balis just called with the heads-up: In the last two days, two local bars have been robbed at gunpoint. Danny wondered if perhaps they were related.According to Dallas Police reports, the first stick-em-up occurred around 1 a.m. Tuesday at the Dallasite on Bryan Street, across the street from Jimmy’s…
What you see at left is but a bit of a photo currently up for grabs on eBay at the low, low price (for now) of $39. It was taken in 1890 at the intersection of McKinney and Harwood, and the photo IDs the manse only as “Maroney’s House,” per…
On the other side is a lengthy missive we just received from the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office in which Craig Watkins outlines his to-do list for the new Legislative session. But you can probably guess what’s top-of-the-pops with a D.A. seeking criminal system reforms: eyewitness identification reform, especially following…
There was a piece in this morning’s New York Times about how Austin’s now the top destination for the young American, all right. So notes Brookings Institution demographer William Frey, who adds Dallas to the list of Top Five destinations for the highly coveted 25-to-34-year-old. Only a few years ago,…
The Dallas City Council kicked off the afternoon with a few minutes in executive session, and it didn’t take long for Mayor Leppert to bring up the SUP application for XTO Energy to drill at Hensley Field — the one we expected Dave Neumann to push for deferring for a…
This morning, the folks at NBC-Channel 5 forwarded a link to their subsidiary site’s story about changes at NorthPark Center involving H&M, which is presently occupying the old Express spot till its move to more permanent digs in the mall in October. Says the piece, a store manager in the…
Fans of music and mimosas huddled up in the Meyerson Symphony Center foyer for a very special mystery announcement this morning — and with Roger Staubach and Mayor Tom Leppert slated to make an appearance, and with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra still short a CEO, you could guess where this…
I thought about stopping off for an adult beverage at the downtown Aloft bar, W XYZ, the other night after a meeting at City Hall, but passed — maybe later. Like, oh, I dunno — Super Bowl week, maybe. Says the announcement that just landed in the Unfair Park in-box,…
Verizon announced yesterday that beginning next month, it too will offer service via the iPhone — thus ending iPhone users’ long national nightmare known as AT&T exclusivity. Jon Stewart’s so excited by the news he used some seven minutes at the top of last night’s Daily Show to celebrate the…
At the very bottom of today’s city council agenda you’ll find a topic first introduced back in August, when the city was looking for every possible penny during the latest budget squeeze — a proposal to increase fees for zoning, development and building permit applications. Last summer, preservationists in particular…
You hear that Josh Hamilton has been hospitalized with pneumonia and what’s the first thing you think? Yep, relapse. Can’t help it. A guy with that kind of history of drug abuse who fell violently and infamously off the wagon two years ago and who still can’t partake in a celebratory beer…
