What you see above is the North Central Texas Council of Governments’ map charting the number of new residents added to the area’s 16 counties’ “Top Ten Cities” over the past decade. This year alone, Fort Worth topped Dallas by adding 17,400 new residents, as opposed to the 6,000 newcomers…
Richie’s just returned from Jerry Jones’s EnormoDome out in some place called “Arlington,” and he brings news: Your Dallas Cowboys have a new radio home. (Which, sure, is very old news to anyone who reads Sportatorium, as Richie will remind you.) He’s got all the details, but this note seemed…
If this comes as a surprise (I first hinted at this way back in October) you haven’t been paying attention, but today – officially – the new radio home of the Dallas Cowboys is 105.3 The Fan. Funny, seems like just yesterday we were dissecting how The Ticket would treat America’s…
The duo behind the bestselling weight-loss how-to Skinny Bitch are back with a follow-up: Skinny Bastard, due to hit stores Monday. And it features among its famous faces several vegan athletes, including them a certain hobbled Dallas Maverick who’s been sidelined during the playoffs. Alas, The New York Times has…
Smokey Joe Barton’s Wednesday afternoon tweet from a House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing has been making the rounds, as the Arlington congressman does seem awful proud of hisself for stickin’ it to Secretary of Energy Steve Chu — the same dude who won the Nobel Prize in Physics…
Last night, Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s project manager, Ernie Martinez, stopped by a downtown resident’s council meeting at the Old Red Museum to pose a question: He wanted folks who live and work in downtown to tell him which proposed light-rail route they would prefer.There are four options on the…
Gotta make this snappy because this morning I’m headed to Jonestown Coliseum. Seems Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is holding a press conference to talk about this weekend’s NFL Draft and – surprise! – a new radio partnership. Watched a wonderful, weird Rangers’ game last night. Weird, because of the ending: With two…
Had a few civil, private, agree-to-disagree exchanges with some R.I.P. Dallas members yesterday, prompted by this item and most definitely this one. So, without further comment, here’s the pro-hotel group’s first online spot, which I found this morning and which is a far sunnier offering than those signs. (Though the…
Ever since early February, The Dallas City Council has considered extending the Juvenile Curfew Ordinance — which keeps 17-and-unders off the streets from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. Sunday through Thursday and 12:01 a.m. till 6 a.m. Friday and Saturday — to include the hours when, ya know, the 17-and-unders…
So, apparently, the citizenry of Dallas had best get acquainted with United League Baseball, which, if I read my Dallas Morning News right this morning, will throw out the first pitch on the banks of the Trinity River this time next year. So, let’s see: Just last month in Dallas…
Simple: Do you trust Dirk Nowitzki? In the final seconds? In tonight’s Game 3? In the series against the San Antonio Spurs? To get him more room – more open looks – the Dallas Mavericks must push the pace at Amercian Airlines Center. One of the toughest things in the NBA…
See, here’s the problem: The Dallas Mavericks aren’t just playing the San Antonio Spurs; they’re also fighting the devil. Their internal devil. Who is he, you ask? It’s the little demented, destructive voice inside them. Inside us all. The one that urges you to hit the snooze button. The one…
Atlas shrugged: On Monday, 14th Civil District Judge Eric Moye put the planet Earth back where it belongs, much to the relief of people clinging to its surface in one East Dallas neighborhood. In the infamous “dirt skirts” case, a zoning dispute over building heights, Moye ruled that city of…
“Blown Away,” by Tom Korosec, April 16 Cats and Dogs Living Together So, Dallas is not ready for a flood or a tornado. Next week, a cover story on how we are not ready for an earthquake, and the week after the cover story will be that we are unprepared…
Can’t budge. My 22-year-old son, Will, is standing in the bow of the canoe breaking branches to allow us to go forward. I’m trying to paddle backward so we can turn, but the stern of the canoe is locked in a fist of vines and trunks, meaning we have managed…
As the University of North Texas Law College — or UNT at Dallas College of Law, whatever it’s going to be called — inches closer toward becoming a reality in the old Municipal Building downtown, its supporters are working overtime to get the entire state Legislature behind the idea. Which…
The most irresistible press event of the day had to be Burch Management’s Jobless to Topless Job Fair earlier today at Cabaret Royale. In the report we pointed out yesterday, KXAS-Channel 5’s Susy Solis said the fair was timed — you know, in this economy — for “North Texans who…
View Larger MapFellow Northwest Dallas resident Sharon Boyd directs our attention today to some heretofore unreported news involving a significant piece of the neighborhood: On Monday, the Texas Alcoholic Beverage will conduct hearings concerning several bars located at 2900 Walnut Hill Lane, otherwise known as the patch of land where…
On Monday, we noted that the Royal Lane-based Institute for Creation Research filed a mammoth lawsuit in Dallas federal court in which it alleges that the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board violated its constitutional rights when denying its application to offer master’s degrees in science last year. Today, the ICR…
True story: Back in 2004 I was preparing to go to the Summer Olympics in Greece as a reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. In preparation for what was potentially a hostile, dangerous, terroristy, post-9/11 environment, all Knight-Ridder newspaper chain employees headed overseas were required to undergo special security training. CPR…
Moments ago, Luis de la Garza — host of something called Televisión ConSentido and former auto auctioneer — posted to YouTube his interview with the mayor about the convention center hotel. And by interview, I mean “informercial” in which the mayor sells the hotel to the Hispanic community, “which will…
This morning, Dallas Independent School District board trustee Carla Ranger posted to her blog a letter from a district teacher who’s terrified that the DISD’s going to use the Classroom Effectiveness Index to clean house. This teacher must be among the some 700 who Tawnell Hobbs writes received letters from…
