He’s never been arrested. Never had a recurring problem with violence. Or drugs. Or alcohol. He loves his momma and has kept the same best friend since third grade. He’s 6-foot-2, 225 pounds with giant hands and minuscule body fat. He was, by far, the best, most talented receiver in…
Editors Note: Mexicans lived in America before many territories became states. Indeed, much of our country was once their country. Today, Mexican immigrants are part of the fabric of this nation. Yet there is now fervor to drive immigrants out -almost at all costs. Keep them from coming here-almost at…
Village Voice Media is underwriting the cost of the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona’s forthcoming litigation against Senate Bill 1070, as well as two other immigration lawsuits. Senate Bill 1070 mandates that a police officer who has “reasonable suspicion” that someone is a Mexican must detain that person. The…
Back in the DSSR: We hate to say it, but what if the Tea Party people are right? Sure, they may look like wacky gun-loving, government-hating, thin-lipped, bigoted, paranoid loons. Completely deranged, ignorant…wait, we’ve lost our point here. Oh, yeah. What if they’re correct? What if there is a subtle…
With Governor Jan Brewer’s April 25 signature affixed to Senate Bill 1070, Arizona is poised to direct all law enforcement agencies to adopt Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s policy of rounding up and incarcerating Mexicans and then shipping them back across the border if they lack proper documentation of their status in…
Just saw this posted on Downtown Dallas’s blog:Downtown Dallas Inc. has completed negotiations with four Downtown liquor and convenience stores to prohibit the sale of “high alcohol content beer and wine” to the homeless. Alcohol related crime was reduced 27% in the City Center in the first quarter 2010. We…
Hours after news began circulating on Facebook that the Dallas Police Department’s own David O. Brown would be taking over as chief next week, the city’s new top cop stepped before cameras and reporters, and about 20 gathered police officers, to give the news a more personal touch. Saying he…
Big breaking news in the world of paleontology today: Back in ’06, Lance Hall, a member of the Dallas Paleontological Society, was out doing what he digs most — rootin’ around for fossils. On this particular day, he was in Mansfield, west of Joe Pool Lake, when he espied something…
Dunno how I missed this, but in the Sunday New York Times there was a piece about FOX’s The Good Guys, which, if I’m not mistaken, is shooting at a certain landmark hotel just down the street from Unfair Park HQ today. Ah, and The Times story was written by…
Every time some local blog posts that In-N-Out’s coming for sure this time swear to God not lying you’ll see, the Unfair Park in-box fills up with missives from the hopeful and the haters who wonder, yet again, for reals? Pretty sure this latest go-round started with a post on…
I’m not just saying this because he’s in sports talk radio and a fellow Duncanville High School alum, but I feel horrible about The Ticket’s suspension firing of Mike Bacsik. His crime: TWI. Tweeting While Intoxicated. Was what he said racist and offensive? Absolutely. In this day and age of everyone sees everything…
Maria May at the AT&T Performing Arts Center just sent over a release announcing the 2010-’11 seasons of the Brinker International Forum, TITAS and JAZZ ROOTS — quite the trifecta, especially when you look at the roster for the Brinker International Forum. The whole kit, along with the attendant kaboodle,…
Seriously.Update: Here’s Mary Suhm’s more formal announcement to the city council and mayor, via a memo given them this morning:Chief Brown Memo April 28 2010…
The council just wrapped up its discussion of those concession contracts at Love Field — but there will be no vote on them today. The council — which is taking awfully personally the suggestion that it’s not being very transparent — has opted to revisit the subject in June after…
You look at the Rangers’ 9-11 start through 20 games and mumble “meh”, same old Rangers. Right? But, believe it or not, this could be a lot worse. Consider: *Supposed ace Rich Harden is yet to make a quality start, issuing 18 walks in 17 innings. *Taylor Teagarden is 1 for…
Back in January, the paper version of Unfair Park featured Megan Feldman’s story on a specialized Dallas County court that’s connecting ex-prostitues with treatment and, provided they stick with their rehabilitation program, keeping them out of prison.Tuesday morning we learned about Dallas County’s plans to help ease jail overcrowding with another…
[Update at 3:47 p.m.: Dallas County Commissioners Court administrator Darryl Martin says he did indeed spend most of the afternoon meeting with Red Frog and Michael Cramer, who told me about an hour ago that it was all systems go. Maybe, maybe not, says Martin: “It appears they still have…
Meant to point this out last week, when I first saw the story on Salon. But now it’s made its way to the U.K. — this story of the little train that could … run on cow fat, that is, all the way from Oklahoma City to Fort Worth every…
10. Welcome to the playoffs, Tuff Juice. Caron Butler set the tone last night at the raucous American Airlines Center. 35 points and 11 rebounds were nice. But it was his aggression – and 0 turnovers – that punched the Spurs in the face. 9. Game 6 is Thursday night…
Well, we finally heard back from Dallas Independent School District on its plans to force Jubilee Park residents and Vickery Wholesale Greenhouse off their land to make way for a new O.M. Roberts Elementary School. Still, the e-mailed, attorney-vetted statement doesn’t address any of the laundry list of questions we…
Still haven’t heard from City Attorney Tom Perkins concerning the legal above-boardness of those no-bid concession contracts at Love Field Airport, which the council will vote on tomorrow. But outta nowhere a a little while ago, yet another e-mail popped up in the in-box from Dallas City Hall spokesman Frank…
The staff was all tied up today and couldn’t make it to the Earle Cabell for Terri Hodge’s sentencing. But the guilty-plea-taking ex-state represenative got a year in federal prison, because U.S. District Judge Barbara M. G. Lynn didn’t really buy her story that, look, it was all a tax-return…
