Yes, yes, yes, I’ve seen it — Forbes has named Plano “America’s Safest City,” based upon a low-low-low violent crime rate and a relatively low number of killer car crashes. Thanks to the many Friends who’ve sent the piece, which says money matters — so too homogeneity. Which is nice…
To the Texas Rangers, tonight’s do-or-die game is unprecedented, uncharted territory. But as metroplex sports fans, we’re accustomed to these elimination scenarios. And, you know what? We’re pretty damn good at them. While the Rangers take their pathetic 3-11 playoff pedigree into tonight’s decisive Game 5 against the Tampa Bay Rays,…
I finally watched Friday’s Good Guys last night, and the missus was not pleased. “Still?” she said. “Really?” Civic pride, I guess. I shrugged. She rolled her eyes and went to watch Jets-Vikings in another room. Far as you know. Anyway. There was one upshot to fast-forwarding through the ep…
While we’re on the subject, perhaps some required reading?On Thursday, the Dallas Independent School District’s board of trustees will take a closer look at a proposed policy: “Freedom from Bullying.” District officials say this morning it was an idea proposed, separately, by trustees Edwin Flores and Bernadette Nutall; Flores tells…
We’re here at City Hall for the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee’s briefing about the recent setback in the city’s rush to restore the Trinity River levees’ 100-year flood protection before FEMA finalizes new flood maps at the end of 2011. At issue is a request by the U.S. Army…
Looks like about 3.5 times more of you – 885,000 homes to 250,000 homes – watched the Dallas Cowboys over the Texas Rangers on Sunday, so let’s not shun football today. Though Leonard Davis is admitting he sucks and Martellus Bennett is hurt and the Cowboys are 1-3 and old…
inside the former LTV Tower as it crawls toward a rebirth as The Grand Ricchi’Bout a month back we got a sneak peek at the Grand Ricchi, Leobardo Trevino’s planned hotel-slash-“office condo” slated to move into the former LTV Tower. When all’s said and done, Trevino’s supposed to spend somewhere…
That, in short, is a summary of a study conducted by University of Michigan psychologists Nansook Park and Christopher Peterson, which appeared in the September issue of American Psychologist and is making the rounds this week via this Infrastructurist item. Long story short: Peterson and Park asked, via the Internet,…
History isn’t on the Rangers’ side. But everything else is. When the Texas Rangers face the Tampa Bay Rays tonight at 7:07 at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, they’ll do so knowing they’ve never won a playoff series and that no 5-game baseball series has ever been decided via five wins…
George Gillett, left, and Tom HicksIt’s déjà vu all over again this morning in the U.K.: On the one side of the courtroom are attorneys repping the creditors trying to force the sale of a sports team owned by Tom Hicks; on the other side are Hicks’s attorneys. So perhaps…
The Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance’s Mike Faenza and John Castle have been pretty regular faces at City Hall over the past few months, but this afternoon, the city council’s Quality of Life Committee turned the tables and took their show straight to The Bridge.They wrapped their visit with a 10-minute…
In advance of TEDxSMU this weekend at the AT&T Performing Arts Center, this week has been dubbed “Idea Week,” with daily events popping up around Dallas to promote conversations about hot-button topics — like, ya know, transportation, schools and bullying. Just … stuff. “Our goal is to get a good…
Among the recommendation in the downtown plan to be discussed shortly: Plant “glass box” retail downtown pronto!It’s dudes in suits on parade here at City Hall this afternoon, as the Transportation and Environment Committee Meeting — which, in due time, will finally get ’round to the Downtown Dallas 360 plan…
One of these men ain’t coming back next season.Me, I’m all set for the Texas Rangers to exit the post-season tomorrow — heartbreak and frustration and despair are prerequisites for being a lifelong fan of a franchise yet to sniff a post-season series win. So, then, I consider this release…
Dallas County Democratic Party chair Darlene Ewing said it’s her party’s “belief and suspicion” that Republican Danny Clancy’s reported theft of four tires from his Ford Expedition on Thursday was a “stunt,” adding that there’s a racial connotation to Clancy’s suggestion that District Attorney Craig Watkins or his campaign was…
Photos by Danny FulgencioOn the other side is Danny Fulgencio’s recap from a Saturday evening spent, yet again, at Stonebriar Centre in Frisco — this time, with recent Entertainment Weekly co-cover boy Ian Somerhalder, star of The Vampire Diaries. (So I’m told.) Me, I liked him just fine in The…
There, on the High Court of Justice Chancery Division’s to-do list tomorrow, is one of two U.K. cases in which locals will keep a close eye: Royal Bank of Scotland PLC v Hicks & Others. As in: Tom Hicks, from whom the Royal Bank of Scotland wants the money owed…
In the aftermath of a stinging season-ending loss in Philadelphia in 2008, Dallas Cowboys’ quarterback Tony Romo shrugged his shoulders and infamously offered: “If this is the worst thing that ever happens to me, well, then I will have had a pretty good life.” In the wake of a stinging…
The city’s spending a small fortune fending off Leanne Siri, Helen Watts and others’ long-simmering allegations of sexual harassment and discrimination within Dallas Fire-Rescue. But it didn’t take long for City Hall to settle with two other women who stepped forward with their own lawsuit only last month.No doubt you…
Sam MertenTo be honest, I’d kinda forgotten all about Dallas County District Attorney candidate Danny Clancy’s boosted wheels — that was only Thursday? Guess I’m the only one. Not sure we’ll make it to down to Dallas County Democratic Party HQ this morning, where chair Darlene Ewing’s scheduled to address…
10. No two ways around it, your Dallas Cowboys are not a good football team. They are a collection of talented football players. But together they are not a good team. In linebacker Keith Brooking’s words, “We play really stupid football at crucial times in the game.” 9. Tony Romo was…
Where to begin, where to begin as we sneak peek the council’s week ahead? Perhaps at Jim’s favorite destination — the shores of the Trinity River. Tomorrow’s meeting of the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee looks to be the most interesting in a long while, as the council starts adding…
