The Texas Rangers aren’t pro-actively shopping Michael Young. They’re simply listening when other teams call to talk about him. We can’t have a problem with this, can we? As I noted occasionally in the playoffs, Young’s limited mobility at third was on the verge of making him a defensive liability…
A couple of weeks back we posted that photo of the borrowed streetcar parked in downtown Fort Worth, which city officials said they’d put there to get folks excited about spending that $25 million Urban Circulator Grant. At which point, several Fort Worth-l-i-v-i-n Friends of Unfair Park cautioned: It’s just…
Council elections are in May, and this morning we learn that District 3 rep Dave Neumann will square off against a political newcomer (of sorts): Scott Griggs, with whom you’re probably familiar by now. The attorney is, after all, among the more outspoken and visible of the North Oak Cliff…
Last December, Gary Brown helped organize Dallas’s very first (and, later that night, the second) Unsilent Night walk, a local take on the 18-year-old New York City tradition that’s spread to 24 cities around the world. To refresh your memory, the deal is that you bring a boombox, a laptop…
Prior to the beginning of baseball’s winter meetings yesterday at Walt Disney World Resort, a flurry of activity resulted in big-name players dealt and fat contracts inked. Predictably, Derek Jeter (three years, $51 million) and Mariano Rivera (two years, $30 million) returned to the Bronx, but not without painful negotiations…
Richie hinted at this earlier, but the Texas Rangers just made it official: Beginning next season, Eric Nadel and Dave Barnett will be heard on ESPN’s local radio affiliate, which I believe is located at 103.3 on your FM dial. The official release follows, but note: Some games will actually…
Last night a hundred or so folks interested in downtown development gathered at the Dallas Convention Center — where they were filming an episode of Chase! — to be presented with the findings from the Downtown Dallas 360 plan and, ostensibly, to provide some input and feedback. Bobsky and I…
And his name is Alan King. My mom’ll be thrilled — she’s a big fan of the late comic. Ah, wait. Wrong one, of course. No, this is the current deputy superintendent of the Lewisville Independent School District, who replaces the headin’-back-to-Austin Larry Throm. Before he was up in Lewisville,…
I see Paste’s blog has given an awful nice shout-out to local artist Chet Phillips, whose military monkeys graced Unfair Park back in May 2009. (And one of his Lucky Monkey magnets stares at me all day every day.) Turns out, the Art Pets highlighted today date back to September…
In case you’d forgotten all about City of Dallas v. Museum of the American Railroad, rest assured: It’s alive and well in Dallas County District Court, where, in recent days, there have been myriad filings and hearings in advance of a January 25 court date that comes almost one year…
For the first time since 1995, Texas Rangers’ games next season will not be on KRLD 1080 AM as, according to a team source, the franchise will announce – perhaps as soon as this afternoon – that it has agreed to a contract with 103.3 FM ESPN. This year the…
In a few minutes the council’s Public Safety Committee will begin wrapping up 2010 with a few items of interest — among them, the latest crime report you see at top that more or less speaks for itself.Also on the agenda: the so-called 10-70-20 Crime Reduction Program, which refers to…
I’ve seen enough. You? If Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones announced the hiring of Jason Garrett today as permanent head coach, I’d be fine with it. Elated, actually. It won’t happen of course, in part because of the NFL’s Rooney Rule that requires teams to interview at least one minority…
Couple of months back we noted that Mark Cuban and Jim Crane were trying to get back a few mil after unsuccessfully bidding on the Texas Rangers during the August auction. Cuban wanted $1.121 million; Crane, $1.527 million. The reason? The men behind Radical Pitch LLC figured that since they…
First Baptist Church of Dallas sends word that this morning on KCBI-FM (90.9), Robert Jeffress announced the launch of a website — Grinch Alert — “dedicated to showcasing businesses that do not show outward signs of supporting Christmas.” In other words: He’s declaring war on those who’ve declared war on…
Is that doable? Seems like it. Although the Kansas City Royals are reportedly getting impatient with the Texas Rangers’ low-ball offers. I understand the odds are against the Rangers getting Lee, who is now also talking to the Boston Red Sox. But – dream with me here a little -…
Grimes and I went to the convention center last night for the unveiling of the Downtown Dallas 360 plan — which is to say, the 164-page PowerPoint thumbed through in advance of the final plan that’ll be presented to the city council next month. (Council’s scheduled to approve the plan…
Before the first bell rings this morning, this inspirational moment … Perhaps you recall: Back in October, 16-year-old Amy Chyao, a junior at Plano’s Williams High School, was among the whiz kids invited to the White House to show-and-tell their science projects to President Obama. Chyao’s science project involved eradicating…
Back in October, after so much breath-holding and finger-crossing by those in desperate need of hip-n-affordable togs, H&M finally announced it would be opening its first Texas outpost at NorthPark Center in “the second half of 2011” — second half meaning October 2011, per NorthPark’s coming-soon website. But a curious…
Speaking of demolitions …Back in September we wondered whether 807 Elm Street’s days were numbered. Park Cities Bank, which owns the building, had been trying to sell it for years but could find no takers. Said attorney Steve Metzger, repping PCB Properties, that was for one very good reason: “That…
It’s open season on drug houses in Dallas today, with the Texas National Guard kicking off its two-week Operation Crackdown campaign — demolishing around 50 otherwise vacant crack dens and stash houses — and the city tearing down the first of South Dallas’s Summer Breeze Apartments after a years-long court…
Even though the city council ultimately added half a mil back to the Dallas Public Library’s new-materials budget back in September, seems the grand total of more than a million wasn’t enough to keep up with the demand for new titles. Hence the e-mail that just arrived from City Hall…
