The toughest room in Texas today was a plain white conference room in Garland along Interstate 30, down the hallway in the Texas Department of Safety’s regional office. That’s where Governor Rick Perry joined about three dozen officers, friends and family members to welcome Chuck and Aaron Norris into the…
I learned my lesson. I’m not going to throw a spoiler in the headline or even in the first paragraph of this blog post — not even if you already know who won. Some people have DVRs and were busy with Top Chef All Stars and Celebrity Rehab, and I…
No doubt you’re well aware by now that Love Field Airport is undergoing its so-called modernization program. But Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport wants to make sure you’re well aware of the fact it too is about to undergo, oh, seven years’ worth of renovations beginning in 2011. Which is why…
A Friend of Unfair Park alerts us: Mayor Tom Leppert is on today’s episode of National Public Radio’s Tell Me More, along with Utah Governor Gary Herbert. The subject: How Utah and Dallas are leading the economic recovery, per that Brookings Institution report to which we directed your attention yesterday.Listen…
We already know where Dallas Independent School District trustee Carla Ranger stands on extending DISD trustees’ terms from three years to four. (She’s very against it.) But moments ago, as the board finally got ’round to discussing the subject, District 9 trustee Bernadette Nutall made her case against extending the…
As Robert mentioned earlier, the U.S. lost to Qatar in its bid for the 2022 World Cup, leaving the couple hundred folks gathered in the lobby at City Hall speechless. Still smiling as the news was announced on a big screen TV, Mayor Tom Leppert said afterward that he couldn’t…
Two months ago, Zynga, makers of FarmVille and Mafia Wars, snapped up Dallas-based Bonfire Studios — one of many such acquisitions in recent months. This morning it held a telephone press conference to announce it’s bought yet another locally based game-maker: Paul and David Bettner’s Newtoy, otherwise known as the…
A couple of weeks back we noticed that The Dallas Morning News would begin offering very special “subscriber content”on December 14, the same date the paper intended to launch its new iPhone and iPad apps. Publisher Jim Moroney wouldn’t offer any further details about DallasNews.com’s banner announcement — “we are…
I’m in. After watching the Dallas Mavericks win seven in a row and vault to the NBA’s second-best record I’ve officially got my basketball Jonesing. ESPN believes, as they have the Mavs ranked No. 4. So does Sports Illustrated, who shoves Dallas all the way to No. 1. I know…
Moment after a Dallas court date that cleared the way for the sale of Liverpool FC to New England Sports Ventures, attorneys representing Tom Hicks called it an “extraordinary swindle” and vowed to “apply all of their legal energies toward securing at least $1.6 billion in damages they expect will…
The season is a disaster. When it’s “Super Bowl or Bust” and at the halfway point you fire the head coach with a record of 1-7, “or Bust” wins. All is lost. But not all. When the Dallas Cowboys play the Colts in Indianapolis this Sunday they’ll be playing for pride…
A couple of months back, Texas Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples was in Arlington introducing Texas Department of Agriculture’s “Get the Hog Outta Texas” campaign, intended to rid the state of our feral hog population. Said Staples, “Wild, feral hogs are causing tremendous damage across the landscape of Texas.” And so…
… you might wanna swing by Dallas City Hall, where Mayor Tom and the Dallas World Cup Bid Committee and Hunt Sports Group chairman Clark Hunt and a few FC Dallas players (including goalkeeper Kevin Hartman, defender Ugo Ihemelu and forward Ruben Luna) and former Colombian National Team midfielder Oscar…
Vaya con Dios: This morning we received a photo and a press announcement: “Godless Ads Go on Fort Worth Buses December 1.” The image was of a bus with a large exterior banner ad that read “Millions of Americans are Good Without God.” That’s true. Of course, it’s equally true…
Walk under a ladder. Get yourself pictured on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Or, to ensure bad luck, crappy karma and repugnant results, just get on my pissy side. Turns out my hater hex really, really works. It started a couple years ago when I—like most sports fans in Dallas—tired…
On a Sunday afternoon in July, Cliff Lee sits alone by his locker in the Texas Rangers’ clubhouse. A handful of his teammates have gathered a few feet to his left around the lockers of Ian Kinsler and Michael Young, joking and chatting, but Lee, dressed in a gray Rangers…
Unauthorized immigrants make up just more than 3 percent of the U.S. population, But they’re accused of sucking up public benefits and dodging taxes. Illegal aliens are tax dodgers. That’s one of the most shocking findings of FAIR’s most recent report on the cost of illegal immigration. “Most illegal aliens…
Do undocumented migrants steal jobs from American workers? In 2007, the U.S. Senate debated the doomed McCain-Kennedy “comprehensive immigration reform” bill that aimed to secure borders, enforce workplaces, modernize the visa system, and allow non-criminal undocumented immigrants already in the country to pay a fine and stand in line for…
White-nationalist reads in the United States and Europe reflect anti-migrant hatred in a grim economy. To FAIR patriarch John Tanton, The Camp of the Saints, a 1973 apocalyptic book by French novelist Jean Raspail, stimulates honest discussion. The graphic book tells the story of the downfall of Western civilization and…
Retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was dissed by Russell Pearce over Prop 200’s dismissal. In late October, days before the election, state Senator Russell Pearce directed his e-mail wrath at retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, whom he decried as an “activist judge” with a “lack of trust…
On June 5, hundreds rallied at the Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza in Phoenix in support of SB 1070, the harshest state immigration law in the nation, which had been signed by Governor Jan Brewer six weeks earlier. The crowd of mostly middle-aged, working-class Anglos waved handmade signs blaring such things…
End of the day Friday I posted that photo of the enormous Santa Claus sitting atop Porter Chevrolet, taken some time in December 1953 and for sale, for one more day, on eBay. It was, I thought at the time, a curiously forgotten image of Dallas Christmas past; my father,…
