Way back in ’97, and again last June, we told you the story of Sue Pope — a Midlothian rancher who became legendary for taking on pollution-spewing TXI — and the genesis of the fund named in her honor, which doles out green to groups cleaning up the air in…
We’re screwed: Interesting story inside The Dallas Morning News on Tuesday about cuts in the federal budget for the Dallas Trinity River levee project. We’re not saying the Morning News story is any kind of propaganda. Just saying there’s more there than meets the eye. Here is what is sort…
If the Dallas Cowboys can do it, why can’t the Texas Rangers? Win a playoff game, that is. In case you’ve been too fixated on Wade Phillips’ contract, Jay Leno’s limbo or American Idol’s “Pants on the Ground” to notice, the Cowboys broke a 13-year post-season drought last month. The…
Robert O’Donnell stands rigidly in the courthouse hallway, his arms folded across his chest, trying to keep his rage in check. Like some Americans, O’Donnell is fed up with big government, but his simmering anger has nothing to do with Wall Street bailouts or health-care plans. After more than six…
And so we return to the sad story of the old Dallas High School downtown, a historic landmark bought for $6.1 million by California real estate investor Robert Yu in 1998 and vacant ever since. The timing’s right. I’ve just spoken with people close to the owner. I’ve gotten my…
In case you haven’t noticed I’m a bit of a cynic. A skeptic. A glass-half-empty kinda guy. Okay, I can be an a-hole. But I’m genuinely fired up for the 2010 Texas Rangers. Why? New owner Chuck Greenberg. Met him for the first time last night at Jamey Newberg’s shindig, which…
Back in December, Business Resources Corp. filed suit against Dallas County claiming officials hired Virginia-based GTSI to preserve county docs (birth records, death certificates, etc.) at a cost of $17.5 million over seven years — even though the county didn’t take bids on the contract and GTSI doesn’t do the…
Rudy Bush directs our attention back to the musings of Patrick “Car Free” Kennedy, whose “perfectly happy workout” we interrupted on Monday when Kim returned from Dallas City Hall with the news that Ron Natinsky, head of the Economic Development Committee, wanted to make sure the new downtown Dallas plan…
The in-box is filling up with NBA All-Star Weekend party announcements — no actual invites, though, which is just as well, as that’s the weekend I’m planning a spiritual retreat or a lost weekend of drinking, either/or. The most recent: a three-day “epic extravaganza” spread out at the Ghostbar and…
I’ve asked Dallas Area Rapid Transit spokesman Morgan Lyons if he wants to rethink this idea:Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) is inviting its customers to show off their love connection this Valentines and “give us a kiss” by e-mailing a photo of themselves and a loved one kissing onboard a…
Perhaps you recall the recent tale of Inequa Rushing and Waylon McDonald, who, late last month, robbed a bank at East R.L. Thornton Freeway and Grand Avenue — and left a baby in the backseat, not to mention ID in the parking lot. It merited a brief mention in the…
The indictment against Terri Hodge has always looked much more damning than the evidence facing the rest of the gang involved in the City Hall corruption case, and it turns out that, well, it’s all true. Hodge admitted as much in her factual résumé, which she signed Monday as part…
For the second time in a little over two years, Movie Gallery — the parent company of Hollywood Video, which still has a couple of locations left locally but not for long — filed for bankruptcy this morning and plans to shutter 805 “poorly performing” stores out of 2,415. It’s…
The story’s circulating this morning that Terri Hodge is this close to pleading guilty in her involvement in the Dallas City Hall federal corruption case and is stepping down from the Texas House of Representatives. Unfair Park has been unable to reach anyone in the U.S. Attorney’s Office handling the…
Stay tuned later today for my interfacing with new Texas Rangers owner Chuck Greenberg and details of a romantic moment that went horribly wrong. (And no, smartass, those are two separate stories.) But for now, in recent losses Dirk Nowitzki has taken one and zero shots in the fourth quarter…
Word out of Major League Baseball HQ is that yesterday’s meeting among the creditors concerned about Tom Hicks’s deal to sell the Texas Rangers to Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan yielded little of note. In short: “no deal killer,” says here, which means the $530-$570 million transaction is still on…
When last we linked to one of Brother Bill Holston’s KERA-FM essays, he was giving gratitude for the things he takes for granted in the days before Thanksgiving. This morning, the attorney and good Friend of Unfair Park is honoring his heroes, among them two familiar names seldom recognized on…
Food-relief agencies across the country spent the better part of today poring over documents that tell them what they already know and have known for months, if not longer: There are more people going hungry in this country than there were in 2006, the last time Feeding America commissioned a…
DeSoto resident Pamela Bradley, who once worked for the city of Dallas, feels cheated by the education system. She was raised to believe that education leads to better jobs, so she got a master’s degree and started a Ph.D. program. But now Bradley finds herself in this disheartening position: Her annual…
An old friend stopped by Keller’s Cactus Jack’s on Lemmon Avenue and discovered that the longtime burger joint is closing this week; SaturdayFriday’s the last day after 28 years, so stop on by and say hi or bye, says Jon Keller. After that, he’s leasing the property to a California-based…
Rumor ’round town is that another TV show’s setting up production offices in Dallas — this one, from the man responsible for everything from Armageddon and Top Gun to the C.S.I. franchise, among his myriad hit teevee shows. And, yes, that’s one Jerry Bruckheinmer, the man who once told me…
The Dallas Mavericks fell apart in the fourth quarter last night in Utah. In the last 12 minutes they had more turnovers (7) than baskets (5). Not good. A lead vanished into a four-point deficit and, ultimately, a blowout loss to a Jazz team playing without Carlos Boozer. Yikes. That’s…
