As you no doubt recall, Dallas police Senior Corporal Victor Lozada was killed on February 22, 2008, when his motorcycle hit a curb as he was escorting Hillary Clinton to a campaign rally in Oak Cliff. Lozada was 49, and he’d been on the job for 19 years. One year…
I’m on a tight budget — but, right, who isn’t? So when my boyfriend suggested we check out the inventory of police-confiscated property for sale at a nearby warehouse, I jumped at the opportunity.The City Store, located off Stemmons Freeway on Irving Boulevard, sells seized property, lost junk and city…
Chip Babcock’s representing Judge Sharon Keller in her fight with the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, which last week alleged five violations of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct that could lead to her removal from the bench following a public hearing. And he’s plenty upset about how much this…
Producer-director Michael Roland Williams has a tough sell on his hands: a documentary about black mold and how it led to the shuttering of the 264-unit Saratoga Springs Apartments apartment complex in Addison, the subject of this Wall Street Journal story. Williams and girlfriend Karen Noseff, then attending law school…
Moments ago, the city of Dallas posted a little more than eight minutes’ worth of video from the mayor’s press conference Tuesday, during which he and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers representatives discussed the “unacceptable” rating given some parts of the Trinity River’s levee system. As Jim and Sam have…
I’m only half-kidding when I ask this: Was it worth it for South Oak Cliff High School to change the grades of three players – including McDonald’s All-American Darrell Arthur – and win back-to-back state basketball championships in 2005-06, only to have the titles later forfeited? At the time SOC’s wins…
When last we heard from former Dallas Cowboys QB Quincy Carter, he was starting all over (again) down in South Texas. Two weeks before Christmas, he signed a contract with the Rio Grande Valley Dorados of arenafootball2, whose GM, Grant W. Buckborough, welcomed him as a savior: “Not only do…
A few days back, a Friend of Unfair Park wondered what was up with the old LTV Tower, once a crown jewel in downtown courtesy its bright night lights. Turns out, a couple weeks back there was a joint meeting of the Downtown Connection TIF Board and Downtown Dallas Development…
Going: Brad Johnson. Coming: Trent Green? Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said his team won’t make a “big splash” in NFL free agency that kicks off right about now. Maybe not, but he does need to make at least a ripple with the signing of a backup quarterback, inside linebacker and safety…
We’ve been hearing the rumors for some time, well before Matt Pulle began writing his story about the struggling Victory Park: Quiksilver, among the first tenants in the Hillwood project, would be closing sooner than later, as word was the place would go days without posting a single sale. Well,…
Back in September, we said the race to replace District 13 council member Mitchell Rasansky (who’s leaving because of term limits) was all but over as Ann Margolin announced a jaw-dropping list of endorsements to go along with her experience on the Dallas City Planning and Zoning Commission, Parkland Hospital…
You’d think with A.H. Belo’s ongoing fiscal woes that Robert Decherd hisself would make every effort to get The Dallas Morning News to folks who actually want home delivery. Alas, not so much, says Laura Bush in an interview set to air this evening on ABC’s World News with Charles…
At the end of January, state Sen. Bob Deuell of Greenville introduced S.B.No. 605, which would dramatically alter the Texas Moving Image Industry Incentive Program — by, well, actually offering incentives. Right now, the state has but $22 million to give to folks looking to shoot their movies or TV…
Enjoyed lunch today rubbing elbows with Pro Football Hall of Famers and pretending to be all casual and comfortable at the well-to-do Fort Worth Club. Reason? Don’t know if you’ve heard, but Super Bowl XLV is coming to North Texas. According to the countown clock I was given, in fact, it arrives in 709…
Pick-Up Poker, Inc. is a Dallas-based company incorporated last December that plans on leasing players “furnished poker rooms … at very inexpensive rates” (a dollar per every 15 minutes) and on “a pseudo-nonprofit basis,” whatever that means. At least, that’s what Pick-Up Poker says in its lawsuit against the state…
The Texas Department of Transportation announced this morning that LBJ Development Partners will be responsible for the so-called New LBJ Freeway — which, as we pointed out in September, will feature among its renovations six managed toll lanes sunk smack in the middle. TxDOT spokesman Tony Hartzel, the former Dallas…
Spring has sprung. Look out your window. And turn on your radio. Not only is it supposed to hit 80 degrees here today, but the Texas Rangers make their Spring Training debut on new weekday home 105.3 The Fan in, oh, about three hours. I know yesterday was the unofficial official opener…
On Monday, Schutze mentioned Mayor Tom’s town hall meeting tonight at Harold Wendell Lang Sr. Middle School. A Friend of Unfair Park sends along the poster for tonight’s event, where you can also pick up a half-sleeve tee, 2008-’09 “Hands Across America” headbands and official bootlegs from Tianjin…
While his colleagues assembled at City Hall, council member and Build the Hotel’er Ron Natinsky spent yesterday morning at the Farmers Branch Recreation Center selling the convention center hotel to approximately 40 members of the Preston West Republican Women’s Club. Several of the audience members aren’t Dallas residents and can’t…
Did not see that coming. Yesterday, first thing, I pointed out Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway’s call to arms — meaning, of course, his call for folks to part with their firearms in exchange for 50 bucks’ worth of Kroger groceries Saturday morning at Reunion. Shortly after that, on…
All right, I’m off to a fancy schmancy brunch in Fort Worth this morning – more on that this afternoon – so I gotta make this snappy. Too bad, because I could spend all day trying to dissect your Dallas Mavericks. Down. Up. Down. Up. You follow? Just when you’re ready…
“Getting to No,” by Jim Schutze, February 12 Blame Uncle Sammy As a native and resident of New Orleans who lost everything in Hurricane Katrina, I was mortified to see comments by your columnist Jim Schutze. He made disparaging, false comments about New Orleans while discussing a project which is…
