Trust them: Jim Schutze took the week off from his Trinity “Oh, shit, here comes the water” beat this week, but our river problems keep rolling, so it’s up to Buzz to fill Schutze’s Wellies. Last week, Schutze got his hands on some internal documents from the local office of…
Robert’s downtown at the Occupy Dallas camp, where police are breaking up protestors as we speak. He sends along these photos, and this: City has yanked their agreement with Occupy Dallas, and they’re currently giving the camp the boot. Police are stationed at every entrance, and around City Hall. No…
Teach for America, the nonprofit teacher pipeline founded by Park Cities native Wendy Kopp, has made a couple of appearances in the Morning News lately, first in a news story and then an editorial about the rate at which TFA teachers stick in their jobs. Apparently the first class of…
On June 10, 2010, I wrote a column for the newspaper about an official complaint brought to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) by two Dallas developers alleging a decades-old pattern of racial discrimination and fraud by the city of Dallas, the county and other local entities…
This morning marked a turning point in the local approach to homeless care. Mayor Mike Rawlings, city and county officials and leaders of local non-profits took turns at the podium in the Flag Room at City Hall in an introduction to the Greater Dallas Homeless Policy Alliance, a public-private partnership…
In the end, the most surprising part of this afternoon’s discussion at City Hall over whether to suspend the rules and allow redistricting brought back to the horseshoe is that there was no discussion at all. Sure, a few speakers came to the mic, among them Roy Williams and Marvin…
An old friends passes along this story from the Associated Press: Former SMU great Forrest Gregg — Birthright, Texas’s own, and a two-time All-Southwest Conference selection in 1954 and ’55 — has disclosed that he’s been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Gregg, a first-round draft pick of the Green Bay Packers…
Earlier this morning, Occupy Dallas posted to its website an item headlined: “OccupyDallas supporter assaulted.” That supporter: Glynn Wilcox, who was among those who helped hash out the agreement between City Hall and the protesters that allowed them to camp out behind Dallas City Hall.And according to the account, written…
When the city-owned Omni Hotel had its grand-opening photo op the other day, everything seemed in place, right down to the giant ribbon and the past-due TV stars. But there’s one little speck of cement that the city’s still fighting over — and its sparring partner isn’t going down easily…
Sometime late in the night of September 3, 2008, prosecutors say The Colony resident Seth Winder, then 29, murdered his lover, dismembered his body, and hauled the pieces out to the dumpster of the victim’s North Dallas apartment complex. Richard Hernadez’s friends at Walmart on Frankford and Marsh in Far…
Yesterday we noted that the city council would be briefed today on two minor changes to rules governing public speakers, chief among them a proposal from Acting City Secretary Rosa Rios’s office that trims speakers’ three minutes at the mic to a mere 60 seconds if they’re coming back within…
We first told you back in May that Dealey Plaza is due for a makeover, which involves redoing the north and south plaza pergolas, planting new way-finding and history-of signs, and making the plaza ADA compliant at long last. Then we discovered how the city is going to pay for…
Leslie’s at Dallas City Hall at this very moment, where Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance is announcing the formation of the Greater Dallas Homeless Policy Alliance, a partnership with the city and Dallas County intended to, among other things, find a way to get 1,800 permanent supportive housing units built by…
True to his word, City Hall spokesman Frank Librio just sent a statement from Mayor Mike Rawlings in response to U.S. District Judge Jane Boyle’s ruling this morning, which cleared the way for the city to give Occupy Dallas the heave-ho from the parking lot behind 1500 Marilla if it…
Robert Tobolowsky wobbled through the doors of Stubb’s as the echo of roots and jam rang in his ears. It was a January night earlier this year; Tobolowsky, a Dallas native and recent SMU grad, was in Austin visiting friends. He stepped onto the sidewalk, the letters on the street…
We were driving over Woodall Rodgers Sunday afternoon when the boy espied what he believed to be bags of dirt sitting on the one-day site of the deck park. “They’re gonna need more than that,” he opined. But, sure enough: Joanna Singleton said sooner than later just last week, and…
A couple of weeks back we noted that some Dallas Independent School District trustees would love to do away with public speakers at meetings, because, in the words of board president Lew Blackburn, “Occasionally we have people come speak to the board, and it’s more of a three-minute bullying, if…
What you see above is the ad for the Texas Theatre that appeared in the newspaper on November 22, 1963. But for some, that photo taken of the marquee on that day is burned on the brain; no need to consult the listings to know War is Hell and Cry…
This morning, U.S. District Judge Jane Boyle denied the request by Occupy Dallas for a temporary restraining order that would have prevented City Hall from evicting the Occupiers based on specific sections of the October agreement. Occupy Dallas Attorney Jonathan Winocour repeatedly called portions of the arrangement with the city…
Over on The Mixmaster yesterday, Leslie recapped Saturday night’s Art Conspiracy jam, the seventh annual auction benefiting a worthy local cause (this year’s was Musical Angels, which provides piano lessons to hospitalized children). No doubt they raised a ginormous pile of cash; prices got high in a hurry this year,…
So much for all that rain we were promised; there it goes, not even close save for last night’s stray raindrops. The not-even-near-miss seems only fitting in advance of tomorrow’s briefing before the Dallas City Council, when City Manager Mary Suhm will recommend going to Stage 1, twice-a-week watering restrictions…
In December 2005, Elizabeth Frizell, then a municipal judge for the city of Dallas for a solid decade, decided it was time for a change, so she filed to run in the Democratic primary for County Criminal Court No. 11. At which point she was told she would have to…
