Adams’ family: If you didn’t notice when Texas Republican Party chair Tina Benkiser stepped down last month to join Governor Rick Perry’s re-election campaign as a senior advisor, you’re forgiven. Buzz didn’t pay it much attention either. But when the State Republican Executive Committee recently elected radical right-winger Cathie Adams…
OK, here goes: I don’t much care for women’s sports. Because, let’s face it, they’re inferior. Call me a sexist, chauvinistic pig if you must. Just admit I’m right. It’s not that I don’t think women should work or vote or be astronauts or president. It’s just that I don’t…
Where did our wealth go? How do we claw it back? And when are we going to punish the culprits? When Barack Obama donned the crusader’s mantle during the 2008 presidential campaign, his Web-savvy campaign team created KeatingEconomics.com and pushed it on millions of voters. The main video showed the…
“Guilty,” by Sam Merten and Jim Schutze,October 15 The Price of Payoffs Who’s forcing white people to pay off minorities? That’s just ridiculous. Everybody has a choice. Politicians have a choice to act in the best interests of themselves or the best interests of their constituents. Southern Dallas voters have…
When we spoke with juror Nedra Frazier hours after she helped convict Don Hill, his wife and three others in the Dallas City Hall corruption case, she mentioned Hill’s denial about owning a fax machine as “the one thing that stuck out” during his testimony. After she referred to it…
As the Dallas City Council reached the end of its painfully long discussion about the proposed ethics reform, Dave Neumann said, “It was productive for the council to go through this briefing, but that’s OK.” Yup, the council began its agenda meeting this morning chatting about fine points of the…
Daniel Iacofano — the “I” in MIG, Inc., which the city hired to develop the latest downtown master plan — was at the Dallas Convention Center a couple of weeks ago collecting wish-list items from stakeholders and civilians; more than a few Friends of Unfair Park have offered suggestions since…
Whilst doing some research for something that may not lead to anything, I’ve been reading Walter J. E. Schiebel’s Education in Dallas: Ninety-two years of History 1874-1966, published by the Dallas Independent School District. So this isn’t entirely an exercise in futility, I thought I’d share some of the tome:…
It’s just a single line on the city’s Automated Red Light Enforcement Commission’s agenda for Tuesday’s meeting: “Program Transition from PWT to DPD.” But as it so happens, Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle tells Unfair Park, that transition — getting the city’s Safe Light Program out of Public Works and…
Say what you will about former ESPN analyst and 105.3 The Fan host Sean Salisbury – and Deadspin says a lot – the guy has followed through on his promise to take on a blogdom giant in an attempt to clear his name and clean his reputation. According to the…
Maybe you saw Michael Lindenberger’s story in The News this morning about the Dallas Area Rapid Transit board meeting yesterday, during which DART officials found that DART officials didn’t do anything wrong during the Fair Park eff-up that resulted in folks missing a big hunk o’ Texas-OU. And maybe you…
Tom Hicks reiterated yesterday that his hockey team – unlike his baseball team – isn’t for sale. My condolences, Stars fans. Also last weekend Liverpool soccer fans marched in protest against Hicks before a game against rival Manchester United. I know Hicks is personally rich enough to put caviar in…
Megan, of course, attended George W. Bush’s coming-out as a motivational speaker Monday at the Fort Worth Convention Center; we’ve also got the slide show to prove it. Last night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart weighed in; the Star-Telegram’s reporting on the Get Motivated! founders gets a brief shout-out…
More than a few Friends of Unfair Park have asked privately and in the comments of yesterday’s Main Street Garden sneak peek how the city expects to deal with the homeless. So happens, that was one thing Willis Winters and I discussed toward the end of our tour (along with…
Courthouse News brings us the interestingish case of Mary Kemp v. the Texas Department of Transportation over … one dollar. Our story starts on November 4, 2007. The Wichita Falls resident was on State Highway 121 — the Sam Rayburn — and about to take the Denton Tap Road exit…
10. There was some good news out of the Dallas Mavericks’ hideous 102-91 loss to the Washington Wizards last night at American Airlines Center. Bruce Hornsby – a long-time buddy of head coach Rick Carlisle – played a stirring National Anthem on the piano. (But, dude, he has the limpest/wimpiest…
Just noticed this on the council’s meeting addendum for tomorrow: I called Crenshaw, who served on the council from 1993 till ’95, to find out the details of the complaint, but a friend of hers answered the phone and offered this rather stunning news: “Her mother died Thursday, and her…
So, right. Like I said, Kirk Cameron was in town Sunday, and the Growing Pains star preached to three separate services at First Baptist Dallas — which, frankly, just sounds exhausting. A video’s just been posted from the third service, and as soon as I hit the part about some…
Michael Precker, who rather famously swapped a gig at The Dallas News for one at The Lodge, sends word the Dawn Rizos-Newt Gingrich saga has reached its conclusion: Newt’s people returned the $5,000 check (along with a check “for the value of two nonrefundable plane tickets” to D.C.), and she’s…
If you didn’t notice when Texas Republican Party chair Tina Benkiser stepped down last month to join Governor Rick Perry’s re-election campaign as a senior adviser, you’re forgiven. We didn’t pay it much attention either. But when the State Republican Executive Committee recently elected radical right winger Cathie Adams to…
Willis Winters, assistant director of the city’s Park and Recreation Department, was kind enough to give Unfair Park a tour of the $17-million Main Street Garden this morning — and by “garden,” I mean mud pit and swimmin’ hole. Hence, Winters’s acknowledgment that, yes, it’s quite likely the garden –…
Jerry Jones signing DeMarcus Ware to a 6-year, $78 million contract is probably going to pay off in the long room. Ware is a good person, a great player and – barring something terribly unforeseen – a decent bargain. One thing Jerry’s proven over his tenure is that he isn’t afraid…
