The natural gas industry’s slow creep toward Dallas over the Barnett Shale has launched a small army of activists in Fort Worth’s exurbs, from small-town mayors to goat fromagers — a well-organized crew that’s gotten used to running into one another at wild parties like the EPA’s six-hour public comment…
Speaking of the ballpark …Texas Rangers president — and, any day now, co-owner — Nolan Ryan fielded some questions from ESPNDallas readers this afternoon, and during that chitchat he revealed: Yes, he and Chck Greenberg are going to make significant improvements at the 16-year-old Ballpark in Arlington by next season,…
As Andrea noted earlier, when it came time for the city council to discuss banning K2 and other synthetic cannabinoids, there was no mention of bongs, pipes and other paraphernalia — the other half of the ordinance drafted by City Attorney Tom Perkins. I finally spoke with Perkins today and…
If you were planning on attending tonight’s Rangers-Yankees game — and I was considering it — be warned: It’s damned near a sell-out. Ballclub spokesman John Blake just sent word:As of 1:30 p.m., only obstructed view and scattered single tickets remain for tonight’s Texas Rangers game with the New York…
A Friend of Unfair Park directs our attention to this Texas-sized showdown last night on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 concerning “anchor babies” — or, as Houston’s Rep. Debbie Riddle calls ’em, “little terrorists.” Offered on the other side without comment except to say it takes a good four minutes into…
Last week, the Dallas Housing Authority presented 17 people, once homeless, with a new place to stay in Cliff Manor despite earlier assurances that it would hold off till a task force figured out how to ease their transition into the neighborhood. The mayor has said he hopes to use…
A judge in Connecticut recently ruled that – surprise – cheerleading isn’t a sport. He said nothing, however, about cheerleader-watching. Game. On. 10. Oregon Ducks. 9. Texas Longhorns. …
Welcome back to Wednesdays at City Hall, Friends. It’s the full council’s first voting session at the horseshoe after their summer vacation, and no doubt all of them labored for hours last night trying to figure out what they were going to wear this morning to show their friends how…
View more news videos at: http://www.nbcdfw.com/video.Late last night, KXAS-Channel 5 sent word: Not only did it air a lengthy sit-down with Dallas Police Chief David Brown, in which “no subject was off limits,” but the NBC owned-and-operated was also making available the entirety of the interview in 14 separate segments…
On June 22, Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s higher-ups sent the bad news: Three projects had been derailed by that $3-billion drop in sales tax receipts: the section of the Orange Line that’s supposed to run from Irving to Terminal A at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, the Blue Line extension from…
Yeah, but the Rangers’ left fielder has reversed the curse. 10. It’s rare that Yankees’ Hall of Fame closer Mariano Rivera surrenders three hits in an inning. And you usually don’t win when you commit three errors against the best team in baseball. But each happened last night during the…
Damn it. I’d been meaning to mention this all day, and now the day done got away from me. But there’s still time — close to two hours till the Texas Theatre screens Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. It’s easily…
As Sam noted yesterday, the local Republican party shelled out three grand for a proper venue to accommodate the mammoth crowd they expected at their welcoming protest for President Obama. So, miles from the president’s fundraiser, in the thick of the triple-digit late afternoon heat, how was the crowd out…
When word came down that Jeff Cogen, till today the president of Your Dallas Stars since 2007 and before that president and chief operation officer of Your Texas Rangers, was decamping for the Nashville Predators, where he’ll be chief executive officer, I called his cell hoping that maybe he’d find…
Good afternoon, Friends. Here we gather in City Hall’s icy 6ES to commence the Transportation and Environment Committee Meeting, at which is promised discussion of both transportation and environment: street cars and community gardens are both on the agenda, with a bonus presentation on the North Central Texas Council of…
By now you’ve no doubt read all 624 pages of City Manager Mary Suhm’s proposed FY2010-11 budget. Or at least heard: Library branches are losing staffers, which means those who stay will have to do more with less; the downtown outpost’s specialty floors will stay dark all but 26 hours…
ABC analyst Jeff Van Gundy — who I like, by the way — thinks the LeBron James/Dwyane Wade/Chris Bosh-led Miami Heat will be the best team in NBA history. He says the Heat, a team he predicts will be “unguardable,” will in 2010-11 never lose two games in a row,…
Well, maybe you weren’t. But the city council’s Quality of Life Committee is right about now, because, as it turns out, the city’s graffiti ordinance is, in some spots, in conflict with recently enacted state law dealing with graffiti removal. As in: State law demands owners adios-mofo that tag within…
As the Dallas Police Department struggles to find clues, friends of missing Dallas woman Lisa Stone gathered Friday night to pray, sing and remember the Mesquite native whom they haven’t seen or heard from since June 4. Clustered in small groups, they hugged and passed out bracelets and ribbons, all…
After 15 months of delays, disputes and despair, the Texas Rangers emerged from bankruptcy. The goal now is to keep the Dallas Stars from going down the same pot-holed path. While he further dissolves his once-mighty sports empire by selling Liverpool Football Club in England, Tom Hicks is also getting…
Why? Because, as evidenced by the photo just sent by the very Friend of Unfair Park who got this thing rolling ’bout two weeks back — one John M. — that sumbitch has been chopped down. And, see, I found out about this yesterday. And I initially just updated the…
Let’s go to the lengthy transcript, which the White House just posted from last night’s big-ticket fund-raiser at the Highland Park home of the attorney and his wife, a former president of Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity. Before the politics, a shout-out to his traveling mate (“I want to also…
