Speaking of the city’s $131.1-million shortfall …That very subject came up last night at the first DISD Budget Town Hall Meeting held at Walnut Hill Elementary, where school district staffers, principals and board members far outnumbered parents. (There were, maybe, 10 people in the audience not employed by the district.)…
A couple of times in recent days we’ve linked to Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm’s list of maybe-coulds offered as fund-raising suggestions to a cash-strapped city council that just doesn’t wanna raise taxes. But have you really studied the document? Like, say, the part about how Suhm thinks City Hall…
Two sports items with which to begin your Friday, starting with the news that the NBA’s looking into comments Mark Cuban made earlier this week to CNNMoney’s Poppy Harlow concerning his interest in LeBron James. That’s the interview in question above. But, in short: Was the Mavs man tampering by…
As we told you yesterday, Willis Johnson is lobbying Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway on behalf of Concessions International in an attempt to secure the company lucrative concession contacts at D/FW Airport — at least, according to Johnson and the lobbyist registration form he filed with the city. Johnson, one…
Perhaps you saw the story: At 8 a.m. Monday, a Dallas Area Rapid Transit bus driver noticed a body lying along the Clark Street sidewalk just beneath the overpass where North Central Expressway becomes the Woodall Rodgers Freeway. The body was eventually identified as that of 24-year-old Baxter Odom, whose…
So, speaking — or shouting — of bicycling in Dallas …A couple of weeks back I mentioned that on May 27, the city and the North Central Texas Council of Governments are holding a 2011 Dallas Bike Plan Open House from 5 to 8 p.m. at Dallas City Hall, during…
As it has each year since 2003, Dallas’s bike community gathered last night for the Ride of Silence around White Rock Lake, honoring the many cyclists who’ve been killed on roads they shared with cars and trucks. Chris Moreno nearly ended up on that list last July when a hit-and-run…
Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Pauline Medrano began this afternoon’s Love Field Concession Committee meeting by letting folks know why the committee was formed — to clear up “perception issues reported by the newspaper” — and what the ground rules would be — “no political grandstanding.” Medrano, who co-chairs the committee…
No Tiger. No problem. Phil Mickelson won’t be at today’s opening round of the HD Byron Nelson Classic out in Las Colinas. Neither will Tiger Woods or past champs like Sergio Garcia or Adam Scott or, really, anybody you’ve ever heard of outside Vijay Singh and maybe defending champ Rory…
At this very moment, Sam’s at the inaugural meeting of the Love Field Concessions Committee, and never have so many been so concerned about the selling of food, drink and magazines at an airport. That said, I finally spoke with Sylvia Ross, the vice president of compliance and contracts at…
Right about now Progress Dallas’s peoples are at Dallas City Hall dropping off the petitions it says will most definitely trigger a local option election allowing Dallas residents the opportunity to vote for drenching the dry parts of town in beer and wine. Progress Dallas says it has way more…
Entertainment Weekly has taken a look at the early numbers for last night’s sneak peek at FOX’s shooting-here series about mismatched Dallas police detectives (Bradley Whitford and Colin Hanks) and concluded that so far, so so when it comes to eyeballs. “An inauspicious start” is how Lynette Rice characterizes the…
In case you missed it, the nonprofit folks over at the Trinity Trust and Texas Horse Park, Inc. flew media types and others in a helicopter last week to check out the 600 acres upon which the Texas Horse Park is expected to be built. Invited guests included D’s Glenn…
No way it will be bigger than last summer when UFC took over American Airlines Center, but Mixed Martial Arts – in the form of Bellator – invades the metroplex again tonight. The BFC XIX will hold seven fights at the Nokia Verizon Theater in Grand Prairie, headlined by lightweight…
Last we mentioned Uplift Education’s planned “museum” school, the growing charter school network already had the name and start date all picked out, and was even inviting students to apply online. Only one big question mark left to sort out before Laureate Preparatory’s Fall 2010 debut: where to put the…
The Park and Rec board’s meeting at the Dallas Zoo today — appropriate, since the highest-priced item on today’s agenda involves the Dallas Aquarium at Fair Park, scheduled to reopen in September as The Children’s Aquarium at Fair Park under the privately operated auspices of Dallas Zoo Management Inc. per…
Michael Young is crushing the ball. That’s nothing new. He’s also playing flawlessly in the field. Again, nothing new. And last night he sparked a Texas Rangers’ 4-3 victory over the Baltimore Orioles with first his bat, then his hustle. Want something else not so new? We underappreciate him. I’ve…
This morning’s New York Times wonders: How much longer can Fort Worth-based American Airlines limp along without merging with another airline, a la Delta-Northwest and, more recently, the proposed United-Continental union? AA, which held a “sparsely attended” shareholders meeting in New York yesterday, is in danger of becoming the nation’s…
Honor system: It’s reasonable to assume that your coupled friends and neighbors are engaging in a certain amount of consensual adult behavior. But if you’re friends or neighbors with one Granbury couple, you don’t need to assume. You just need to log on to the CW33’s website or watch its…
Psst! Hey buddy, wanna buy a used watch? No? Then how about a broken, if not broke, local professional sports team? Plenty in stock. Last December on HBO’s failed Joe Buck Live, guest and Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was asked about his confidence in spending—amidst the worst economic crisis…
In 2007, J.R. Cohen took over Coffee Groundz, the Houston Midtown-area coffeehouse, and began tweeting. He personalized the Twitter account and used it to talk to his customers directly, to take orders during the morning rush and to promote the charity events he began hosting almost every week. Within two…
Everything you need to know about the lawyer-on-lawyer lawsuit pitting former Baron & Budd attorney Gary Cruciani against Russell Budd and his namesake firm you’ll find in this April 21 story in Texas Lawyer by John Council.But, to recap: Cruciani alleged that in 2006, Baron & Budd made “negligent and…
