[Update: If you can’t make it through all 80-some-odd comments to get to the actual news, here it is: The council eventually voted to open up the bids at Love Field. It wasn’t easy, and it wasn’t pretty. But it’s done.]It’s another Wednesday morning here at City Hall, and love…
Out of gas? At 35, just plain old? Nothing more than a slump? My heat, my God he’s wilting in the heat? Whatever the reason, something’s going on with Texas Rangers’ designated hitter Vladimir Guerrero. And it ain’t good. While the Rangers meander around – despite last night’s 10-1 loss in Tampa…
Patrick Michels will be Our Man at City Hall today, liveblogging the portion of today’s council briefing having to do with Love Field concessions (hey, he asked). But there is something else of interest on the agenda today: Storm Communication Improvements, referring, of course, to how Oncor gets out to…
Tomorrow, finally, the city council will be briefed once again on the concession contracts at Dallas Love Field Airport that has the council is split along racial lines. Mayor Tom Leppert failed to mention the racial taint attached to the issue in an e-mail we received from his campaign this…
I spoke yesterday with a high-ranking City Hall monitor who says that based upon the feedback council members are getting at their budget town halls, a tax hike “actually might happen,” since a 1-cent increase would go a long way toward sparing proposed cuts to rec centers and, just maybe,…
E arlier this afternoon, Dallas Symphony Orchestra president Doug Adams told Dallas Morning News classical music critic Scott Cantrell why he’s leaving within the next 30 days: “I’ve been trapped in a real estate deal I can’t get out of,” said Adams referring to a home in Denver, where his…
My wife and the 7-year-old who lives in our house happened to be downtown close to 12 sharp and stopped by Thanksgiving Tower for Project Bandaloop’s noontime show, which went off a little earlier than originally announced; hence they missed the whole thing, then opted not to stand in a…
Based on Friend of Unfair Park PeterK’s morning e-mail, I tracked down a copy of Dave Zirin’s Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love. Peter hadn’t seen the book but wondered whether Tom Hicks makes a cameo. It’s much more than that: Chapter 15 is titled “‘What’s…
He wasn’t exactly invited to any summer summits at Dwyane Wade’s house. And he wasn’t even atop the Dallas Mavericks’ wish list. But the signing of forward Tim Thomas is, quietly, a big, good deal for the Mavs. Why? Because Thomas can shoot. From distance. No, he’s not a 20-minute-a-night…
Turns out our own Patrick Michels is a bit, well, obsessed with the Baker Hotel in Mineral Wells — as in, “I haven’t broken in there … yet.” He was just out there a couple of weeks back, matter of fact, just to see the place. Which is why, after…
Now that we’ve identified and solved downtown’s parking problems, here’s the second doc posted to the Downtown Dallas 360 site yesterday — the 48-page August 2010 Steering Committee Presentation, which breaks down downtown into five areas in need of some TLC: the Main Street District, Farmers Market, South Arts District,…
About 10 percent of next winter’s college bowl games will be played right here in our backyard, two under noses in Dallas. In addition to the Cotton Bowl at Cowboys Stadium, this year will mark the debut of the Dallas Football Classic at the Cotton Bowl. And yesterday brought news…
The very top of the very morning to you, Friends. Here I am at City Hall once again (still haven’t regained my Foursquare mayorship, very upset about it) to bring you live updates from the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee meeting. Maybe you have heard about this thing, where the…
Initially, MIG’s Downtown Dallas 360 plan was due to the city council right about now; but that was before the price tag jumped to more than $700,000 to cover the cost of parking, and now it’s scheduled to be put under City Hall’s Christmas tree, can’t wait. But late yesterday…
My former Dallas Times Herald colleague, Helen Bryant Anders, writes this morning that Jeff Trigger — former managing director at the Adolphus and The Mansion on Turtle Creek, and the man responsible for the Stoneleigh Hotel’s extreme makeover — is about to save the mighty Baker Hotel in Mineral Wells,…
At this late date, there are enough caveats accompanying U.S. News and World Report’s annual college rankings that no one would confuse this with science. Buried within the fine print, this is how the magazine answers the why-even-bother question: “You wouldn’t go out and buy a computer or a car…
I was thinking the other day – after another mindless, rambling post-game press conference – at how Texas Rangers’ manager Ron Washington was deteriorating into weirdspeak. He not only trips over simple subject-verb conjugation, but recently his synopsis has read like a play-by-play review. “They got a couple early, but…
Not to take anything away from the good people at the GovEnergy federal electricity management trade show, but the biggest thing at the Dallas Convention Center over the weekend was, by far, the smorgasbord of hugeness, the ode to the swoll, the EuropaCon bodybuilding and muscle supplement expo. From the…
TCU announced today it’s spending $105 million to redo Amon G. Carter Stadium — everything from new and more concession stands to a raised seating bowl on the west and north ends to suites and club seating to an expanded capacity of close to 50,000. Promises the announcement, Amon Carter…
Greg Maloney, president and CEO for Jones Lang LaSalle Retail, has heard he’s closing down Valley View Center. He’s heard he’s tearing down Valley View Center. “I’ve heard all the rumors,” says Maloney, whose company was appointed by the courts just last week as the receiver for the beleaguered mall…
At around 8 a.m. on Saturday, Tina Wiley was on Facebook messaging members of the now-1,821-member-strong Looking for Lisa group: A reward is now being offered for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of whomever’s responsible for the disappearance of 51-year-old Dallas woman Lisa Stone. Wiley and her…
Whilst looking for items of interest on the YouTube this afternoon, I came across this what-the-what: six people dancing — which is to say, twirling and gliding and bouncing — on (or, rather, off) the side of Thanksgiving Tower Sunday morning. So I called Younan Properties to find out what…
