We began the new year by rehashing an ancient topic: the proposed Texas Horse Park that’s been around since the mid-1990s and was part of the $246-million capital bond program for the Trinity River Corridor Project approved by voters in 1998. Reason it never happened: The folks charged with partnering…
Perhaps you’ve heard by now: The Dallas-based Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation (don’t bother clicking the link; the site’s not loading) will no longer be giving grant money to Planned Parenthood, a move Planned Parenthood of North Texas says comes after “anti-women’s health groups have repeatedly targeted and…
Word of warning: This won’t be the sole Unfair Park item of the day to feature the word “Walmart.” Patience, patience. But, to begin: Remember that Walmart going in at Ledbetter and R.L. Thornton? Right, that one. Gave us the phrase “Trees do not vote” during the contentious discussion about…
We told you Friday: Very, very, very, very early guesstimates at City Hall have the city short anywhere from $49 million to $87 million when it comes to putting together the FY2012-13 budget. City Manager Mary Suhm repeated that this morning: “We’re very early in the process.” The city’s chief…
Only yesterday we were wondering during a staff meeting whatever became of Roslyn Carter, the principal at Tom Field Elementary who, as The Dallas Morning News reported in November, phonied up science and social studies grades for her third-graders because, well, they never actually had science or social studies classes…
Google the phrase “SponsorMonsters,” and the first thing that pops up is an item from the Mothers Against Drunk Driving website touting the John Carpenter Freeway-based organization’s partnership with it. As in: “For 2011, Sponsor Monsters donated their lead sponsorship position to MADD and will represent MADD National in order…
Surely you recall for the tale of The Man With the $16 House, a September cover story about Kenneth Robinson, who occupied a $340,000 Flower Mound home for the cost of filing paperwork with Denton County. Now, Robinson faces eviction from the place that’s been his home since June, according…
Oh, oh, oh — now I get it. All this time former Mayor Tom Leppert sure seemed to be just a stinking hypocrite, a back-stabbing, forked-tongue phony who turned all anti-gay and old-time religious-y after leaving office and deciding to run for Senate as a Republican. But no, ol’ Tom…
Texas breeding cattle chased the rain in 2011 to plains states such as Nebraska, South Dakota and Kansas — even all the way to Florida — tripling the amount shipped out of state the year before. That 150,000 head left this stricken country is only the latest metric by which…
But a few hours ago, Rena Honea, president of AFT-Alliance, held a press conference and posted this petition demanding the Dallas Independent School District reinstate fourth-grade Central Elementary bilingual teacher Joseph Drake, who was put on leave late last week after he sent trustee Edwin Flores an angry email regarding…
It’s been a couple of weeks since lawyers hired by the city and the National Solid Waste Management Association squared off in U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor’s over the flow control ordinance that would have dumped all the city’s solid waste at the McCommas Bluff Landfill. I say “would have”…
A few years back Dallas City Hall made a big push for folks to sign up for its Reverse 911 Emergency Notification System, which called you when danger was near. Or, at least, that was the idea. But this morning the city sent a heads-up: Reverse 911 is dead, long…
When Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm first told the council it was time, at long last, to enact twice-a-week watering restrictions, Dallas’s six water-supply reservoirs were about 25 percent depleted. But last week’s record rainfall, in addition to other recent wet-weather events, have helped fill area lakes as evidenced by…
The woman you see at right, in a mugshot posted to the Collin County website, is Sergeant Stormy Magiera, a Dallas Police officer since September 2000. According to an email dispatched by the DPD this morning, Magiera was detained by Garland Police and arrested by Murphy PD on a warrant…
At this point, Deep Ellum could easily star in its own Rocky-style franchise, given how many times it’s been knocked down and still managed to stagger back to its feet. As we’ve mentioned, the latest worry for business owners in the area comes in the form of some 900 schoolchildren:…
In the end, of course, the commenter was right: They took it easy on Edwin Flores last night at E.L. DeGolyer Elementary — mighty easy. The audience was small, equal parts critics and cheerleaders; the faces, familiar — Michael MacNaughton, Bill Betzen, one-time school board candidate Kyle Renard, newly announced…
Anna’s attending tonight’s meeting of Deep Ellum property owners and city officials concerning Uplift Education’s latest charter school — which, Uplift CEO Yasmin Bhatia just told me, is very definitely going to take the former Baylor building on Elm Street. As Bhatia put it: “All systems go” for an August…
The Mavericks — like virtually every other team during this bizarre, lockout-shortened NBA season — are nearly impossible to pin down. A combination of odd scheduling, injury adjustments and minimal practice time seemingly puts a different Maverick team on the floor every night out; in one game they’ll settle in…
I’d called Keith Manoy, one of the city’s senior transpo planners, about this earlier in the day; but since then I’ve heard from one of his colleagues, who promises more details about those Elm and Commerce conversions — a time line, to be specific — sooner than later. But while…
The view from the foot of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge is about to get a lot cooler. This afternoon a spotless rented silver minivan pulled up at 331 Singleton, a vacant West Dallas office space with a large, invitingly blank outer wall. A group of four guys rolled from…
No doubt you’ve heard by now: Rockwall County deputy Keven Rowan had to pull two women from Lake Ray Hubbard early Saturday morning after they took their Honda Civic for a swim. And if you haven’t heard, well, see for yourself; his dash-cam captured his heroics for all to see…
Back in November the Dallas County Commissioners signed off on part2 Productions’ pitch to shoot a season’s worth of Hard Time in the Dallas County Jail on behalf of the National Geographic Channel, which would have taken some 120 days and netted the county upward of $120,000. Alas, we find…
