Yesterday, you’ll recall, those firefighters, police officers and assorted other first responders filed four amended lawsuits related to the 1979 referendum that gave ’em all pay raises (for how long’s the billion-dollar question). We’re still waiting to see how the Supreme Court of Texas is going to rule in the…
When last we took a peek at Men’s Health’s list of America’s fattest cities, Dallas came in at No. 6. But that was two years and, apparently, 13,923 trips to Whataburger ago. Because now: We’re No. 4! We’re No. 4! We’re No. 4! And that ain’t all: Corpus Christi comes…
A few Friday follow-ups, beginning with:ABC News has picked up on Gilbert Leal’s mission to bring paddling back to the Dallas Independent School District — despite the fact that the school board and the super ain’t too interested in handing out swats, sorry. Besides, says the exec director of the…
With even Oak Cliff homeowners associations split over the Bishop Davis Land Use & Zoning Study, if nothing else yesterday’s public hearing at the City Plan Commission proved that not everyone in Oak Cliff marches lockstep with all the changes afoot on that side of the Trinity River. Despite the…
A heads-up to the Friends of Unfair Park who dig old movies about Dallas: Now might be a good time to dig ’em up. Doesn’t matter the format: 8mm, Beta, 3/4-inch videotape. You name it, they want it — “they” being the Texas Archive of the Moving Image, which will…
Before she went home yesterday to soak in a large glass of well-deserved wine, SMU Press Senior Editor Kathryn Lang forwarded to Unfair Park a rather large stack of missives she’d received yesterday following the news that SMU Provost Paul Ludden had decided to save the school $400,000 annually by…
A little more than one year ago, Bloomberg News sent Blockbuster’s stock price tumbling, from 77 cents to 22 cents, with a report that the Renaissance Tower-based company had hired outside counsel to “explore a possible bankruptcy filing,” which Blockbuster quickly dismissed. This morning, Bloomberg again all but predicts the…
Whenever we bring up the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park, as we did yesterday, it sparks quite the contentious debate amongst those who think it the proverbial game-changer and those who think it nothing short of folly doomed inevitably to failure. Which is where Patrick “Car-Free” Kennedy comes in with his…
Daniel’s at Dallas City Hall at this very moment, where he’s been sitting through a City Plan Commission meeting way longer than he’d expected. A little while ago they finally got ’round to discussing the six-years-in-the-making Bishop Davis Land Use & Zoning Study, but Daniel sends back word that proceedings…
Superintendent Michael Hinojosa drew a roomful of huzzahs two weeks ago when he announced that DISD was getting involved in a new effort for school reform in West Dallas. A handful of DISD trustees were among the cheering crowd, including Lew Blackburn and board president Adam Medrano, but not Carla…
Our pal Maria May at the AT&T Performing Arts Center sent about an hour ago that Natalie Merchant, one of the 10,000 Maniacs, will be performing August 19 at the Winspear Opera House in support of her new album Leave Your Sleep. She confirms: This’ll be the first pop show…
Then, Oncor will promptly hang up on that customer.I kid, I kid!But, seriously. Oncor sends word today that, well, sure, maybe the energy provider’s gotten a little too big in the britches. Maybe it’s lost touch with the common man, woman and child who’d like to find out why, days…
Back in December we wrote a few items about the so-called “billion-dollar case” currently being considered by the Supreme Court of Texas. Very long story way too short: It stems from a 1979 referendum during which voters OK’d pay raises for firefighters, police officers and rescue workers with the caveat…
Back in December, we ran a Q&A with Phillip Dennis, founder of the Dallas Tea Party and an adviser to the National Tea Party Coalition. You’ll find it here. But today, Dennis gets a much bigger platform: CNN’s Web site, to which he’s contributed an op-ed headlined “Politicians such as…
The Dallas Police Department’s still searching for the man responsible for shooting a 63-year-old AT&T employee in the head this morning as she and a colleague were walking to work shortly before 6. But DPD now believes that, yes, this same man is responsible for two other robberies downtown –…
I come bearing good news. In short: … the consensus among NFL Network insiders and analysts is that there is no market for Terrell Owens at this point, and it will take a training camp injury to create his next job…
One question that went unanswered in the story about SMU’s decision to shutter, at least for now, the 73-year-old SMU Press is: How many books will be dumped in the wake? That answer can be found in a missive SMU Press Senior Editor Kathryn Lang began sending to the “Friends…
A Friend of Unfair Park whose name might rhyme with “Joanna Singleton” sends word: USA Today, in its round-up of urban parks yesterday, took a long, loving look at the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park. Turns out, ours is among several outta-thin-air parks either in the works or being proposed across…
Gilbert Leal, who (… fondly?) remembers getting swats back at W.H. Gaston Middle School back in the day, wants to bring the paddle back to Dallas Independent School District, just like they’ve done down in Temple. Writes the recent DISD tutor on his Web site, Bring Back Licks:It’s time for…
This just in from Senior Corporal Kevin Janse in the Dallas Police Department’s Media Relations Office:There was a downtown shooting this morning at approximately 5:50 a.m. An AT&T employee was walking with a co-worker to work at 208 S. Akard when a black male suspect approached complainant and shot her…
I’m pretty sure one is retiring and one is staying put. But what if in the last month we witnessed the final games in Dallas of icons Mike Modano and Dirk Nowitzki? Modano is likely done as a player for the Dallas Stars, soon to be an owner with one…
This twosome likes hitting the CVS at 4207 Lemmon Avenue, between Wycliff and Douglas; twice in recent weeks they’ve jumped the counter and loaded shopping bags with cartons of smokes. Then they took it down the street to the RaceTrac. The clerk seen during the first robbery is clearly not…
