Muddy conditions in the floodway prohibited today’s big announcement from taking place near the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge (complete with a scheduled “steel signing”), so instead the $10-million donation aimed at converting the Continental Bridge into a pedestrian bridge was unveiled by Mayor Tom Leppert at the office of the…
This just in from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, via press release:James T. Jacks, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, and Robert E. Casey, Jr., Special Agent in Charge for the Dallas Office of the FBI, announced today that Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, 19, has been arrested and…
So, I was on SMU’s Web site looking for something entirely unrelated this morning when I came across this event: Jim Schutze, columnist for the Dallas Observer, will speak on “Inside Dallas: A Muckraker’s Paradise” on Tuesday, Oct. 13, at an event sponsored by SMU’s Retired Faculty Association.His talk will…
After presenting the city council’s Public Safety Committee with the latest crime statistics showing nearly an 11 percent decrease in overall crime from last year, Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle this morning addressed the elephant in the room: the police department’s methodology of reporting crimes. Earlier this month, The Dallas…
OK, now that the Dallas City Hall corruption trial has wrapped up and landed in the hands of the jury, it’s time for everyone to weigh in. And, to make it interesting, Robert has generously ponied up a fabulous prize so this isn’t just about fun and yuks. That’s right,…
Kim Nimon, assistant professor in the department of learning technologies at the University of North Texas, is emerging as a national voice on what’s becoming an increasingly common and potentially controversial practice: companies hiring chaplains to minister to workers. In this month’s Annals, the quarterly publication of the American Psychotherapy…
Back in December, we flashed back to ye olden days when The Dallas Times Herald and Marvel Comics would team up to take Spider-Man to the Dallas Ballet or the Hulk to Sanger-Harris (for new pants, natch). One title I completely forgot about: The Uncanny X-Men at the State Fair…
Earlier this week, the recently formed Dallas Friends of Public Education PAC announced its endorsements for the Dallas Independent School District Board of Trustees: Dr. Kyle Renard (District 1), Bruce Parrott (District 3) and Bernadette Nutall (District 9 … no, different District 9). The special election, which pits those candidates…
Kim’s at the city council’s Public Safety Committee meeting this morning; she’s got a few crime-stat questions for Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle, who brought with him to City Hall the latest crime report. Till she returns, these are the latest figures according to the DPD…
Former Dallas Morning News Cowboys beat writer Gary Myers’s new book doesn’t look like the easiest read for longtime fans of the home team: The Catch: One Play, Two Dynasties, and the Game That Changed the NFL. (And, with a foreword by Joe Montana!) Early word is good: Publishers Weekly…
Imagine the Byron Nelson Pavilion on steroids. And ecstasy. Then, about every 10 minutes, a fight breaks out. Welcome to Ultimate Fighting Championship 103, better known as the best place to see bullies, boobs, brawls and good ol’ blood on a Saturday night in Dallas. Scooch a bit, boxing. “Boxing,”…
“Ask a Mexican,” by Gustavo Arellano, September 17 Repatriate with a vengeance Our Mexican visitors come to Dallas to work, get free education for their kids and free medical help from out candy-ass hospitals who refuse to bill them. Yet, there is a silver lining to their visits. They can…
I’m on my way to see a Delhi-born meditation guru who once worked for Gandhi and who specializes in the virtues of discipline and peace. Naturally, I’m late. I slept through two alarms and turned off the third, woke up an hour later, and now I’m speeding west on Highway…
Don’t blame the system: We’ve been hearing a lot of chatter from commenters on the Observer’s Web site about how former city council member Don Hill’s trial on charges of corruption is, in fact, an indictment of the city’s 14-1 council system. Under 14-1, created under federal court order in…
It’s cute when it happens in the movies and stars, oh, Andie McDowell and Gérard Depardieu or Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock. But when you screw around with immigration documents and arrange for foreign nationals to marry U.S. citizens for permanent residence or citizenship, well, that’s a federal offense that…
Those trying to keep the Dallas Independent School District from razing W.H. Adamson High School have put out the word: Tomorrow’s the last chance to speak up before the board votes on the resolution to quash historical designation. It’s on the consent agenda for tomorrow, and Adamson alumni are marshalling…
View Larger MapFirst, a very brief history of Midway Road, which runs from Love Field Airport to the Shops of Willow Bend. As best as Rachel Howell, assistant manager of the Texas/Dallas History & Archives Division at the Dallas Public Library, and her colleague Brian Collins can determine, the road…
To the Friends of Unfair Park who were less than thrilled with how that whole Drew Barrymore meet-and-greet went down at Urban Outfitters last week, Roderick Stoker at Moroch, the agency handling PR for Whip It, has read your complaints and extends a sincere “so sorry.” He also invites you…
Earlier this month, Steve Thompson and Tanya Eiserer took a long, hard look at how the Dallas Police Department reports car burglaries and thefts — or, rather, how the DPD doesn’t report some car burglaries and thefts. The reason: the so-called Auto Theft Affidavit, which was introduced in June 2007…
Ann Margolin’s picking up where her predecessor, Mitchell Rasansky, left off: She ain’t voting for City Manager Mary Suhm’s budget, which the council is discussing at this very moment for those with time to kill. The District 13 council rep hinted as much a month ago, when she wrote that…
After 13 weeks and 45 trial days, jurors begin deliberations this afternoon in the Dallas City Hall corruption trial, determining the fates of former Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill, his wife Sheila, former plan commissioner D’Angelo Lee, community activist Darren Reagan and car dealer Rickey Robertson. I’m glad the end…
We’ve known all along that the city’s upping myriad fees to cover some of the $190-million budget shortfall in the budget that’ll get passed today by the city council and take effect October 1. But the best look yet at what’s to come is spelled out in Addendum Item No…
