There’s a kid running around sucking the helium out of the red, white and blue centerpiece balloons here in the Palomar ballroom, and just like that, over the last hour or so, somebody’s let the air out of the party here.While the crowd’s still going hard for Boehner on the…
While the local GOP suffered its mood swings at the Hotel Palomar, Eddie Bernice Johnson’s Republican challenger in the Fighting’ 30th, Stephen Broden chose Frankie’s in Uptown as his Official Election Night Results-Watching Party Zone. That Unfair Park dispatched an ex-intern to cover the doings might give you an idea…
With The Ackermans now on stage at the Jack Daniels Old No. 7 Club, Dallas County Democratic Party chair Darlene Ewing finally made her appearance about 45 mintues ago along with state Senator Royce West and a group of candidates, when she expressed her condolences to the Texas House candidates…
Watching the real news some nights has its advantages. Like this gift sure to keep on giving, for instance, which was wedged almost unnoticed at 10:23 in between awkward election-result wraps: WFAA-Channel 8 just ran Rebecca Lopez’s story about how city council member Carolyn Davis might well have interfered with…
It’s been a relatively quiet night at the Jack Daniels Old No. 7 Club, where Democratic candidates or officeholders have been hard to spot. Heck, even party chair Darlene Ewing has been in hiding all night. The slim pickings thus far have included state Rep. Helen Giddings, who we’re guessing…
With a monster show of force, and a little help from the weather, Dallas County Republicans have made their presence known tonight, bringing Central Expressway and Mockingbird Lane to an absolute standstill pulling their Large Vehicles into the Hotel Palomar for their election night cash-bar bacchanal. We’ve heard from a…
It was way back in February that Gary Huddleston, the Dallas market’s director of consumer affairs at Kroger, first made it known he was leading yet another effort to get Dallas all wet and make it possible to buy beer and wine wherever citywide. Nine months later, the treasurer of…
My, my, but the county’s come a long way. Used to be, way back when, us media folks just got occasional updates as precincts’ results came in. No more: Now, as evidenced by the Craig Watkins-Danny Clancy count that just came in with 24 out of 737 precincts reporting, those…
I’m about to head over to the Palomar for the Republicans’ cash-bar shindig, while Sam’s pulling pay-as-you-go drinking duty at the AAC with the Dallas County Dems, and Ex-Intern Elliot’s eating free pizza with Stephen Broden in Uptown. But before the short pour on this long night (at least, for…
On the other side are details for tomorrow’s Rangers Rally, scheduled for 6 p.m. outside the Ballpark in Arlington. Long story short: Chuck Greenberg, Nolan Ryan, Jon Daniels, Ron Washington and a few players will get together for an hour to remember the “magical” season that was. Because, see, that…
Knowing that winning Dallas County is vital in his uphill battle to unseat Governor Rick Perry, Democrat Bill White dropped by Reverchon Park Recreation Center this afternoon for a quick media appearance with U.S. Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson in a last-ditch effort to grab votes before the polls close. Not…
On Friday we took a look at the Texas Park and Wildlife Department’s proposed land swap with Dallas’s Rod Sanders, co-founder of Huntington Homes. The states offering to swap the 20,000-acre Devils River State Natural Area in Val Verde County for Sanders’s 17,638 acres further downriver. Sanders would also take…
If you’ve spent the last few nights out and about watching Your Texas Rangers get thoroughly outplayed in the World Series by the Giants, perhaps tonight is a good time to stay home and drown your sorrows alone. But for those ready to shift gears and put on your political…
And what a ride it was … 10. After an generous incorrect no-call on a check swing, Michael Young blasts a three-run homer to center field on the next pitch as Texas races to a 5-0 lead in Game 2 of the ALDS en route to a 2-0 series lead in Tampa…
Few weeks back we noted: TXU’s setting up electric-car charging stations in Dallas and Fort Worth, and Half-Price Books’ Northwest Highway mothership already has one plugged in. That, right there, is thinking ahead. Because, per General Electric and Deloitte, Dallas is Numero Uno on the list of Best Cities for…
Victims of unsolved sexual assaults committed prior to 1996 will now need to contact the Dallas Police Department should they wish for DNA analysis to be conducted in hopes of identifying their attackers. In a press release sent out today in advance of an afternoon press conference with Deputy Chief…
We now return to your regularly scheduled football season where … Oh, dear. If you saw this coming – the Dallas Cowboys at 1-6 – raise your hand. I’m impressed. I’ll also, of course, need proof. Some of us thought the Cowboys would play in Super Bowl XLV. Most of…
I know, I know — the fair folded up its tents a few weeks back, and today’s thunderstruck gloom renders it an even more distant memory. Still. The fine folks at You+Dallas just posted to the site a remarkable look-back assembled by Jun Kang. Among the contributors is our old…
The gov was here yesterday; Bill White’s in town at this very moment — and, why, at noon he’ll be just down the street from Unfair Park HQ with Eddie Bernice Johnson in tow. Photos forthcoming. Like I need to tell you.But speaking of Perry, whilst he spent Monday at…
Don’t let the empty doorway at right fool you — Leonides Gonzalez Cigarroa M.D. Elementary, home of the Fightin’ One-One-One-Seven, was full of voters early this a.m. ‘Round 8 all the booths were occupied, and a short line was forming behind me; hence the brief wait till space cleared. I…
Craig Watkins and Co. would like to remind you, as polls open in the thus-far highly contentious Dallas County District Attorney race, that Craig Watkins is committed to “protecting Dallas women.” With more than 1,000 rape kits backlogged — even Detective Olivia Benson is pissed about that — and sexual…
10. Not sure what manager Ron Washington was doing going to closer Neftali Feliz in the 8th inning of a game the Rangers trailed 3-1. If the Rangers had forced extra innings it would’ve been an interesting mix-‘n-match bullpen. Unfortunately, Texas’ bats were too feeble to even force a second-guess…
