Yesterday, we had planned to offer a sort of follow-up on the still-occupied house demolished on city’s orders at Greenville Avenue and Vickery Boulevard in late January. Of course, Wednesday had much bigger news in store for that stretch of Lower Greenville — and it will continue to do so for…
After early voting numbers showed Clay Jenkins with a commanding lead in the three-way Democratic primary race for county judge, talk last night among the small group gathered at the Belmont Hotel supporting Judge Jim Foster focused on how the race appeared to have been won by dough (Jenkins raised…
Friend of Unfair Park PeterK sends the following item from The Smoking Gun, along with the note: “Southwest just can’t catch a break. As if you need another reason not to use one of those ratty airplane blankets, take a look at what the FBI says one guy was up…
Before its Oncor briefing, the council did have a few other things on its agenda — like, oh, approving the sale of $330 million in bonds to fund projects in the $1.35 billion 2006 bond program. And for months, council member Angela Hunt has more or less been the sole…
The Liverpool Echo this morning directs our attention to the Web site of the Spirit of Shankly, the Liverpool FC supporters’ union that has made it its mission to rid the Reds of owner Tom Hicks. As you can see here, SoS has gotten into the billboard business, erecting five…
In a speech titled “Lessons Learned, Convictions Confirmed,” delivered today to the Council of Foreign Relations at the Harold Pratt House in NYC, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas president and CEO Richard Fisher outlined and expanded on the “four fundamental beliefs” he’s picked up during his career “contemplating the nature…
Maybe you missed this heads-up on Sunday: Oncor’s schlepping over to Dallas City Hall this morning at 9ish, at a few council members’ behest, to address the widespread power outage sparked by last month’s snowstorm — and the aftermath that left thousands powerless and frustrated days after the record event…
That’s from last night’s Variety. But that’s not the only place. The news is spreading: Blockbuster, which banished the phrase from its lexicon six years ago after some legal tussling, is bringing back … late fees. In fact, they’re already back: The story broke in Home Media Magazine Monday that…
In the online discussion related to this afternoon’s Unfair Park post regarding Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins’s campaign finance reports, several comments about Dallas County Republican Party chair Jonathan Neerman appeared, pointing to a fine he received from the Federal Election Commission and alleging that Neerman is the target…
A few housekeeping items with which to end your long thumbs-up, thumbs-down kinda day:There’s been no Official Word from Dallas Fire-Rescue concerning the cause of this morning’s fire on Lower Greenville, but one city official to whom I spoke this evening says all evidence points toward an electrical fire. We…
We didn’t have time to attend the DowntownDallas annual luncheon at the Sheraton — though, from the sound of it, we didn’t miss all that much. (Update: Rudy recorded it — then, for some strange reason, turned it into a video.) Besides, we got all we needed out of the…
Courthouse News brings us this lawsuit out of Fort Worth, in which 51 North Texans — including a dozen Dallas County residents — are claiming a man named Lee Goodman Ponzi-schemed them out of $2.5 million. It’s a long, sordid story involving myriad alleged broken promises and dashed dreams, but…
Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins has paid family members or businesses they own more than $85,000 from his campaign funds, according to Unfair Park’s review of his campaign finance reports. In addition, after his election in November 2006, Watkins begin paying utilities for his campaign office, which include a…
Sam and/or Schutze had been hoping to make it to the council’s Trinity River Corridor Project Committee meeting this morning. Didn’t happen. Slackers. Too bad too, as Assistant City Manager Jill Jordan told council members that, sorry, but a whole mess of those levee fixes won’t be fixed till after…
It would appear from this tweet dispatched by the Dallas Police Department that the department has not, in fact, forgotten about those cheerleaders who had their bags stolen from the Dallas Convention Center on February 20. As a matter of fact, according to the DPD’s bulletin, they now have a…
I just spoke with council member Angela Hunt about the four-alarm fire in her district this morning. She spent the last hour where Terilli’s, Greenville Bar & Grill, Mick’s and Hurricane Grill stood till 5:30 a.m., and visited with Dallas Fire-Rescue officials and the restaurants’ owners, and she reports back…
If you thought the efforts of former Dallas City Council members Diane Ragsdale and Sandra Crenshaw to get Terri Hodge reelected were futile, think again. While lawyer Eric Johnson “would make a fine representative,” says Dallas County Democratic Party chair Darlene Ewing, she predicts that he’ll fall short when votes…
Last I heard, Greg “The Hammer” Williams was looking for a sidekick for his Wichita Fall-based radio show set for syndication. But since Richie’s on vacation, I guess it falls to me to pass along the news forwarded along by one Friend of Unfair Park this morning: The show’s “a…
At this very moment, Schutze is down on Lower Greenville, where the block that once housed Terilli’s, Hurricane Grill, Mick’s and the Greenville Bar & Grill is now a memory courtesy a four-alarm fire that began at Terilli’s at 5:45 this morning and spread quickly to the other businesses on…
Now this is breaking news. By now, surely you know the story of Bob and Jane Cull, which has been around for a decade — when the twosome sued Perry Homes, claiming their house in Mansfield went to hell shortly after they bought it for $233,730 in 1996. At almost…
We’re still trying to figure out why Bill White continues to burn through campaign dough since his only significant competition in the Democratic primary is Farouk Shami, but perhaps the former mayor of Houston is aiming to embarrass Shami at the polls worse than Shami embarrassed himself as White makes…
All Things Considered kicks off on KERA-FM (90.1) right about … now. And even if you’re not a frequent listener, well, today might be a good day to tune in. Why? Because of this piece, which, from the looks of today’s rundown, comes about 10 segments in:Dallas, Fort Worth Battle…
