Right about now, poor ol’ Merten’s settling in for a couple hours’ worth of Trinity River Corridor Project Committee talk — mostly for this morning’s Trinity Parkway Update, which, in light of last week’s revelations concerning the state of the levees, should be, oh, interesting? But Sam will also be…
This morning, Bloomberg News takes a peek at public pension funds across the country and, after adding up the dwindling numbers, finds a crisis-in-the-making: “With stock market losses this year, public pensions in the U.S. are now underfunded by more than $1 trillion.” Among those Bloomberg examined is the Teacher…
One week ago today, state Sen. John Carona introduced proposed legislation, S.J.R. No. 31, that would allow for at least 12 casinos scattered throughout the state — seven “in different urban areas,” two “located on islands in the Gulf of Mexico that are tourist destinations with at least 1,000 guest…
Yesterday it was an unexplained noise in my house. Last night it was an inexplicable performance by the Dallas Mavericks in Oklahoma City. Seriously? A 14-win Thunder team missing its top two scorers blows Dallas out in a March game with long-ranging playoff ramifications? And this, of course, on the…
Paul Rudd’s on the cover of the April Vanity Fair — also on the inside as Gene Wilder in Young Frankenstein. Oh, and he was in Dallas today too, at the Ritz-Carlton with I Love You, Man director John Hamburg. We all made out. Oh, sorry — like bandits. Totally…
In his campaign to unseat District 7 freshman council member Carolyn Davis, Libertarian John Jay Myers is using the city’s plans to build a publicly owned convention center hotel as a key issue, posting the footage you’ll find after the jump to his Web site a couple weeks ago. Thanks…
A Friend of Unfair Park sends along this just-posted piece from Politico detailing Ron Kirk’s taxing issue before the Senate Finance Committee, which just today announced it was pushing back his confirmation hearing as U.S. trade ambassador till next Monday. According to a missive sent to journalists by Finance Chairman…
Speaking of Southwest Airlines … The Federal Aviation Administration today announced that at long last it has reached an agreement with the Dallas-based carrier concerning those 46 planes that were allowed to fly despite their not having been inspected for fuselage cracks. Southwest will pony up $7.5 million in civil…
Though the challengers to its throne increase as its working margin idles, 1310 AM The Ticket remains the undisputed champeen when it comes to Dallas-Fort Worth sports talk radio. Even as Arbitron has made the switch from manual diaries to portable people meters, The Ticket has maintained an edge over long-time rival 103.3 FM ESPN…
Fortune just posted its list of the World’s Most Admired Companies — at least, admired by the other bidness folks surveyed by the magazine. Five Dallas-based companies made the list of 363, and they are, in alphabetical order: AT&T, Brinker International, Centex, Southwest Airlines and Texas Instruments. (Twenty-two Texas-based companies,…
As he promised last week, right after we first mentioned Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway’s offer to swap guns for $50 Kroger gift cards, D contributing editor Trey Garrison went out to Reunion Arena to make folks a better offer. (The city collected 147, incidentally.) What he and Best…
Fort Worth-based filmmaker Tom Huckabee’s first feature was a post-apocalyptic William S. Burroughs adaptation, in which a 19-year-old Bill Paxton gets a brainwashing and a sex change from militant feminists.For his second feature now, 26 years later, Huckabee is tackling slightly milder themes, like family ties and caring for the…
Don’t like Jon Kitna? Could be worse. The Dallas Cowboys could still be counting on this clown. Never bought Quincy Carter’s God act when he used to tape scriptures to his locker at Valley Ranch and demand you ask him about his faith during interviews. Just as I never bought…
Speaking of historic properties … an entirely unrelated eBay search over the weekend turned up this gem: a very hard-to-find, hand-colored page from the American Architect and Building News, dating back to November 21, 1896, and yours for the low, low price of $49 plus shipping. What you’re looking at…
Ever since last summer, the city — specifically, Development Services and the City Attorney’s Office — have been attempting to streamline the process that allows for the demolition of buildings in historic districts that it considers “an imminent threat to health or safety.” Initially, the Landmark Commission was horrified by…
Every so often in city council committee briefings, you’ll see the words “Forward Dallas!,” which kinda rings a bell? Anyway, there’s that phrase again this morning — this time in the Economic Development Committee’s briefing package labeled Streetscape Licenses. As “walkability” is the new buzz word, this morning the committee…
I know, whadd’ya say we raid the roster of the only winless roster in NFL history?! Eurrrrrreeeeeka! It only (let’s hope) seems like the Cowboys have targeted the 0-16 Detroit Lions as the supply ship for reinforcements. After nabbing Roy (Receiver) Williams during the season, Dallas acquired backup quarterback Jon…
See more photos from the night here in our slide show.While kids across the country flocked to theaters to catch the Jonas Brothers in concert on the big screen this weekend, the teen-pop trio treated fans and press to a special engagement in Grapevine. For those of us waiting for…
There are plenty of interesting council committee briefings scheduled for Monday; we’ll get to them in the a.m., as usual. But this early sneak preview courtesy the Public Safety Committee: the results of Public Trust and Confidence in the Police: The 2008 Dallas Community Survey provided by the recently created…
While Mayor Tom Leppert continues to dodge questions about his plans to take over the Dallas Independent School District, there’s been no shortage of politicos willing to offer their thoughts on the topic. Since the news broke one week ago today, we’d been attempting to get a hold of Senator…
You’re a fan of the Beatles, right? What’s that you say? No? Hunh. My bad. So sorry. Then if I were you, I most certainly wouldn’t bother with this. Didn’t mean to trouble you on a Friday night. Never mind then. Get back to what you were doing…
The Dallas County Republican Party continued to pick up the pieces from another rough election cycle as it celebrated its largest annual fund-raiser last night at the Westin Park Central Hotel. The Reagan Day Dinner featured House Speaker Joe Straus and South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, who spoke to dozens…
