After taking heat for being “invisible” while Governor Rick Perry rallied liberty-loving Texans with talk of secession and tax parties, Kay Bailey Hutchison declared today at Dallas County Republican Party Headquarters that she and not the governor stands poised to “rejuvenate” the Texas GOP. “That’s exactly why I’m running for…
Dallas County Republican Party chair Jonathan Neerman, whose Q&A with the editorial board at The News can be read in yesterday’s Points section, confirmed rumors that he’s considering a run against Democrat Allen Vaught for Texas House District 107. “I’ve heard the same rumors,” he tells Unfair Park. “I’m looking…
As hot as it was downtown at Taste of Dallas last weekend — we warned you — plenty of food-lovers, balloon animal enthusiasts and Disney Channel superfans turned up in the West End to join the party.You’ll find more shots from Taste of Dallas here in our slide show…
Thanks to the surprisingly large number of Friends of Unfair Park who’ve forwarded along this People story concerning Tony Romo and Jessica Simpson’s apparent break-up, which, the mag reports, happened on Thursday — the night before Jess turned 29. So, who says they’re busted up? “A source close to the…
A Friend of Unfair Park sends us Money magazine’s latest list of the Best Places to Live, and Keller’s the closest ‘burb to rank in the Top 10. So, what makes this Tarrant County town bestest enough to snag the No. 7 spot? (It came in at No. 50 but…
That’s what her campaign communications director, Hans Klingler, just told Unfair Park: U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison’s going to be at Dallas County Republican Party HQ on N. Central Expressway to “announce when she’s going to announce” her run for Texas governor. That’s just a brief peek at her remarks,…
Six paragraphs into this Burnt Orange Report item this morning, which deals with the dwindling number of reporters covering State Capitol doings, there’s this intriguing nugget:Sources say publishers and editors have ratcheted up their efforts to come up with news while cutting staff. Additionally, word that Austin investment guru and…
Back in April, GlobeSt.com crunched the Dallas apartment-rental numbers and found that vacancies were on the rise; said one analyst at the time, “Dallas is likely to see the most decrease in occupancy, due to the large number of units under construction.” Three months later, GlobeSt.com follows up and finds…
Those who haven’t been following the latest iteration of the Texas-Oklahoma rivalry will find a good primer here this morning, three days after Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson asked a federal judge to toss the Tarrant Regional Water District’s 2-year-old lawsuit concerning Texas’s alleged right to buy water from Oklahoma…
After the jump you’ll find KXAS-Channel 5’s video tribute to Brett Johnson, the 13-year station veteran who died Sunday at the age of 48. The NBC affiliate reports that Johnson — whose affinity for Texcentric tales made him the station’s down-home-style version of Bob Phillps — died of pancreatitis, for…
Couple of weeks back, Patrick Michels was down at DART’s West End Station when sculptor Erik Blome parked his bronze Rosa Parks in advance of tomorrow’s opening. But on Saturday, Patrick was down in the West End for Taste of Dallas and noticed that Parks was covered by a tarp…
I did not know Travel Channel host Samantha Brown was born in Dallas. And I did not know she’d filmed an episode here till this evening, when, while killing a few minutes with a World Poker Tour rerun, I spied a promo for tonight’s visit to the DFW scheduled to…
Last summer, we took a peek at the Dallas Police Department’s murder stats and suggested you were best served by staying home between 6 p.m. and midnight on Wednesdays, the prime time for murder. As we just got our hands on the latest batch of stats — and already warned…
Karen Rayzer, director of the city of Dallas’s Environmental and Health Services, called this afternoon to offer further details concerning the $7.2 million in federal stimulus money the city’s set to receive sometime in the fall. Says Rayzer, 14 local organizations submitted to the city proposals that had to fall…
Schutze is out of the office, no doubt freshening up his deep, dark tan for his forthcoming television appearance, about which we were just notified by Meg Fullwood at KERA. As she does every week, Meg sent along the programming schedule for next week’s Thinks, both the radio and teevee…
Honestly, I thought the guy was gonna walk. I’m shocked he took a plea today. I mean, “no contest” is a sort of an admission of guilt, right? To me, this smells like Russ and Mandy – who were reconciled for months – having a very recent falling out and him fearing…
Flickr’s been very good to Unfair Park over the years, helping to turn up vintage photos from Fair Park, inspired looks at the skyline and sharp political commentary from Southfork.Starting next week, we’ll be showcasing some of the best new shots from around town in a weekly slide show: the…
At least, it’s looking that way. On Monday, the Landmark Commission will discuss the installation of a scoreboard opposite the towering HD screen that looms over the south end zone. It’s all but a done deal: In the few weeks since the proposal of a 17′-by-29′ scoreboard in the north…
A Friend of Unfair Park wondered earlier this week what had become of the Institute for Creation Research’s federal lawsuit filed in April against the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, in which the Dallas-based organization claimed the THECB violated its constitutional rights when it refused to grant the ICR’s request…
Yesterday, U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan announced that HUD would be doling out $1.2 billion in stimulus funds to some 400 cities, who’ll use the money to “to rapidly re-house families who fall into homelessness, or prevent them from becoming homeless in the first place.” Of that…
That Cheap Trick eight-track cartridge Stephen Colbert was holding up last week? Made in Arlington. Hand to God. By mom-and-pop’s KTS Productions, to be specific — though you’d never know it from reading recent stories concerning Cheap Trick’s expensive gimmick, which’ll set you back $30 should you pre-order a copy…
By late Thursday, set-up was nearly completed for this weekend’s annual Taste of Dallas Festival in the West End. So be warned: Ross Avenue (past Lamar Street) is already blocked off and will not be reopened until Monday. There are plenty of small parking lots in the area; however, DART…
