Yesterday afternoon, after U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Michael Lynn delayed the sale of the Texas Rangers to Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan’s Rangers Baseball Express pending some changes, both the Texas Rangers Baseball Partners and the first lien lendors had their reps send press releases huzzah-ing the opinion. Which, I know,…
You know that antiquated covered parking shed at the corner of N. Malcolm X Boulevard and Indiana Street, behind Cafe Brazil in Deep Ellum? Right. This one. Well, this morning Brandon Castillo sends word that he’s found a use for it: a Deep Ellum Outdoor Market, set to make its…
With my trusty laptop in hand, I prepared to liveblog the heck outta today’s city council meeting — the last one before the council leaves for its July recess and then returns to tackle a $131 million budget shortfall. But I soon realized that the council chambers lack an electrical…
As Andrea noted in her liveblog Monday, Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway stopped down the council’s Public Safety Committee meeting to rant against a different kind of crime: the end of fireworks at Fair Park on July 4. Said Caraway, “We’re inviting people to go out to Plano and see…
Richard Hunter has a new member of his household. That’s him, quivering in the corner. Shaking uncontrollably. Convulsing. The 4-year-old is scared shitless. “He lives in fear,” Hunter says of his new best friend, Mel. “You would too if you’d been beating and traumatized your whole life.” Michael Vick is…
Seems we weren’t the only ones following the case of the Institute for Creation Research v. Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board; so too was The Chronicle of Higher Education, which alerts our attention to a ruling by U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks handed down Friday that has closed the case…
The Dallas City Council’s seven minority council members launched a counterattack this afternoon against Mayor Tom Leppert’s campaign opposing the Love Field concession contract extensions, with Vonciel Hill and others reminding Leppert that City Manager Mary Suhm is in charge. “Twice the citizens of this great city have defeated a…
We’ve known since March that Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s $3-billion drop in sales tax receipts would put on hold several key projects, chief among them the second downtown rail line, or D2. But exactly what and for how long? Those are answers we didn’t know, not until this evening. DART…
I see here that Andy Siegel, an attorney at Shackelford, Melton & McKinley, is claiming that Progress Dallas has come up 5,555 signatures short of getting the dry parts of Dallas soaking wet in beer and wine. To which Progress Dallas, headed by Kroger’s Gary Huddleston says, “What the what?”…
Based on the comments, shouts and full-on screams erupting from the standing-room-only crowd gathered in Methodist Medical Center’s Hitt Auditorium last night, it’s a wonder that the town hall meeting to discuss the Dallas Housing Authority and Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance’s plan to turn 100 units of Cliff Manor in…
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Michael Lynn’s memorandum of opinion in the Texas Rangers’ Chapter 11 case just appeared on PACER, oh, 15 minutes ago? And it’s below, all 28 pages. And: It would appear to be a good day for the creditors, as Lynn writes that he ain’t OK’ing nothing till…
Is it because he’s so powerful? So rich? So over-the-top passionate? Or is it because he’s won three Super Bowls? Built an unprecedented stadium that is gobbling up sports? Or kept his team popular, relevant and “successful” despite only one playoff win in 13 years? Whatever the reason, while Dallas loves…
A “poor people’s march” at Dallas City Halll at noon tomorrow will kick off a campaign of protests aimed primarily at Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert. Veteran community activists blame Leppert’s political ambitions for what they insist is a one-sided assault on city programs for the poor. “When you make a…
A little light lunchtime reading …To begin with, the U.S. Census Bureau released its population estimates today, and, as usual, Texas — and the DFWA (as in, Arlington) — fared bestest in all the land. “Star of the Sun Belt,” says here. And that means you, Frisco and McKinney and…
After years and a decade of wandering aimlessly from youth movement to patch-it-together-retread program to losing season, the Texas Rangers in 2007 gave general manager Jon Daniels a contract extension and a mission: Rebuild the farm system. Build a major-league winner. Three summers later the Rangers have … arrived? With…
I heard over the weekend that Kenny & Ziggy’s, the beloved Houston deli, ain’t coming to town after all. At least, not yet and not for the foreseeable future.A few months ago, Ziggy Gruber confirmed to Unfair Park that he did indeed have a letter of intent to take over…
Ken Carter, a consultant working for Dallas Love Field Airport food and beverage concessionaire Gilbert Aranza, sent us word yesterday afternoon that the city council’s seven minority members are expected to appear at noon today inside City Hall’s lobby along with other community leaders for a press conference supporting contract…
Angela Hunt, revealed in last week’s Observer as the swing vote on the controversial concession contract extensions at Dallas Love Field Airport, has continued to research the issue following her maternity leave, but she hasn’t made up her mind yet and now supports a deferral of the items until August,…
Initially MIG Inc.’s Downtown Dallas 360 plan was due to the city council before its summer vacation, set to start more or less after tomorrow’s marathon meeting. But the addition of the parking study pushed back the deadline till later this summer, which gives MIG more time to meet with…
After saying that he’s 75-percent leaning toward not retiring and playing hockey again next season, all-time star of the Dallas Stars Mike Modano is now thinking the unthinkable – putting on the sweater of another team. Mike Modano, Detroit Red Wings? Criiiiiiiiiiinge. It’s still a situation of if he plays and…
This, in case you have not heard, is the “Summer of Justice.” Which, as far as summers-of goes, ranks somewhere in between the Summer of Love, the “Summer of ’69,” The Summer of George and The Summer of My German Soldier, a sadly forgotten Kristy McNichol vehicle from 1978. The…
Jim’s office has been dark all day. I called him earlier, to see if it he was OK. He spoke in a whisper, sounded down. I told him he was missing it — from the office window we could see them placing the first curved piece on the center arch…
