In his latest Business Week column, KLIF’s Ed Wallace documents the case of “Judi, a news assignments manager for a Dallas TV news operation,” who went to see several docs and specialists as she began experiencing “creeping numbness across her upper right abdomen.” She was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis –…
This is probably what happened: Angela Hunt got a phone call yesterday afternoon from Rudy Bush at The News, who wanted to know why the council person was one of seven to sign a letter telling Jerry Allen and the mayor, that, look, they’ll cut their own budgets, thanks very…
The Courthouse News Service this morning has this lawsuit outta Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport — specifically, the Vanguard Car Rental locations at the airport (Vanguard operates National and Alamo). The regional director of the National Labor Relations Board’s Fort Worth office has filed suit against the car rental company in…
So, driving while texting is 23 times more dangerous than just, ya know, driving; 88 percent of Texas teens do it anyhow; with the growed-ups, the number’s probably closer to 104 percent; and some states are proposing legislation outlawing the practice altogether. To which an Irving-based company says: Have we…
This? Just hours before the first practice of training camp here at The Alamodome, I decided to doodle up what the Cowboys’ final roster will look like come the Sept. 13th opener at Tampa Bay. It starts here. And ends up below. Clip ‘n save, woncha? OFFENSE: QB: Tony Romo/…
You guys tell me what you want to know about a certain player, coach, mascot, etc. during training camp. I’ll go to practice and come back with some tasty morsels. Or perhaps some disgustingly petrified crumbs. Whatever. Just got back from the State of the Union kick-off address over at The Alamodome…
Ah, and speaking of local nostalgia … An old Friend of Unfair Park just sent me a link to Michael Pyeatt’s YouTube page, to which he’s been posting in recent days clips from the likes of Funland, Bedhead, UFOFU, Tripping Daisy, Tablet and Rumble performing at such late, great local…
Regarding yesterday’s item concerning the Dallas City Council’s retreat to Paradise tomorrow, Jaynie Schultz, vice president of the Garrett Creek Ranch Conference Center, sends this reply about her family’s Very Special Gift to our elected officials:After learning that the Dallas City Council was potentially not going to hold their retreat,…
At a press conference at Dallas City Hall this morning, Dr. Bob Sanborn, president and CEO of the Houston-based Children at Risk, ticked off the tragic statistics: Of the reported cases of human trafficking in the U.S., 25 percent of victims were from Texas. During the final few months 2007…
I was looking for something unrelated on YouTube earlier this afternoon and noticed that Lifetime just posted the home-tour videos for this season’s Project Runway contestants, among them local Louise Black. (We posted the Dallas resident’s video back on July 9.) One thing led to another, and suddenly Merritt Martin…
Maybe you saw Janet St. James’s story last Thursday on WFAA-Channel 8, when she visited that Tarrant-Parker Counties bordertown known as Azle to find out what-the-what was up with that “Hispanics Keep Out” sign. The folks over at Guanabee followed up with a weekend item, including a video you’ll find…
Vice President Joe Biden and Attorney General Eric Holder held a press conference this morning during which they doled out $1 billion in federal money to back the blue. And from the look of the list of cities due to receive Community Oriented Policing Services grants, Dallas fared pretty, pretty…
Out old pal the Red Oak Kid has been posting to his Flickr page a bunch of photos of downtown Dallas from the late ’70s and early ’80s, including this one of the old Dallas Public Library on Commerce Street (attached to the Statler Hilton, natch). For some reason, they…
A little vamping while I toodle down to San Antonio if you don’t mind. Usually I reserve my Video of the Week until Friday, but this one couldn’t wait. In last Saturday’s WNBA All-Star – wait, it gets funnier – Sylvia Fowles wanted to dunk. So the players cleared a lane. The refs…
I ask only because this morning, Variety reports that ESPN and the National Football League are collaborating on a biopic called Lombardi — you’ll never guess who it’s about. Notes the trade, the film about the Green Bay Packers coach will be released in theaters the weekend before the 2011…
Low-income housing developer Brian Potashnik appeared frustrated and confused Monday in the federal City Hall corruption trial as a trio of defense lawyers rattled the prosecution’s star witness while attacking his previous testimony. Near the end of a long day on the stand, he asked and answered his own question:…
Got a call back from former 103.3 FM ESPN radio host Dale Hansen yesterday afternoon, explaining how/why he kinda sorta abruptly walked away from the station last week. Seems Hansen – who told me last month he wasn’t happy at ESPN – quit amidst the worldwide leader’s self-imposed muzzling of the…
But that’s precisely where our Danny Hurley found himself over the weekend — at the Monty Python Madness Charity Festival, which was chock full o’ Spam eating, movie watching, tribute making and silly walking. Danny’s got the slide show, as usual, but keep in mind the event wraps this weekend:…
It would appear Norm Hitzges alone cannot keep Lone Star Park’s numbers from suffering a dramatic decline in the midst of a recession. The 65-day spring meet wrapped in Grand Prairie yesterday, and track officials noted with great disappointment the drop in both attendance and wagering, on-site and off. According…
Can’t understand a word of the intro to Forbes’s latest listicle — “Best Cities For Singles 2009,” apparently compiled using Match.com data and other info — so let’s skip it and head straight to the entry for Dallas, which comes in at No. 17:Dallas is high on the list for…
After serving eight years as a city plan commissioner and another eight as a council member representing some of North Dallas’s more upscale neighborhoods, 72-year-old Mitchell Rasansky is no longer roaming City Hall when he’s most needed. Replaced last month by Ann Margolin because of term limits, Rasansky now must…
Guess this could go under the “From the RTF Department” category, since Miles Fisher has quite the estimable demo reel — which includes a snippet from the video in which he parodies Tom Cruise’s infamous Scientology promo. Or maybe “Business News for People Who Don’t Read Business News,” since Miles’s…
