It’s been quite some time since last we discussed the long-proposed high-speed rail line between Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston, which Jennifer Moczygemba, who oversees the Texas Rail Plan at the Texas Department of Transportation, called in April “definitely a priority” for TxDOT. This morning, she reiterates: It still is. So…
No matter how hard you try to find a scapegoat, the story of the 2011 World Series doesn’t have a chapter about its version of Bill Buckner, nor should it. Buckner only dominates the narrative of the 1986 World Series because media and fans ripped out the other chapters. With…
As of today, per city ordinance, you no longer have to water your lawn before 10 a.m. or after 6 p.m.; that rule’s only in place from April 1 till October 31. But according to the latest data, Dallas’s reservoirs are close to 25 percent depleted — 7 percent higher…
Said it yesterday: Many interesting agenda items on the Dallas ISD board’s to-do list Thursday. Among them is an update on that teacher evaluation system, of which we’ve taken note a few times in recent months as trustees spend the next year figuring out how to best grade the graders…
The ongoing fee fight between DirecTV and Fox — which is threatening to yank Fox Sports Southwest and FX and its myriad other cable networks off the satellite provider — isn’t settled yet; and, who knows, it may not before the midnight hour. Also unresolved: DirecTV’s battle with Belo, which,…
This morning, there was Rick Perry’s latest ad — he’s a doer, see, not a talker, or so he says (which is weird, because he’s not a talker … but a drinker, maybe). But lest we forget, from another GOP would-be, there’s a new Tom Leppert spot out there too…
Back in June, you may recall, KXAS-Channel 5 ran an interview with one Sammy Ladymon of Garland, who was busted for shining a green laser into the cockpit of a Southwest plane bound for Love Field — right before he did the same thing to an FBI pilot on his…
My most terrifying night at Dallas City Hall involved a six-hour Redistricting Commission meeting, during which I was forced to eat 1,000-year-old, partially fossilized peanut butter crackers for dinner. It was harrowing. City Hall employees held their annual Halloween party in the plaza just outside the building today, which was…
Used to be, you knew school was back in session day after Jerry Lewis was on teevee, teetering in a tux. Now, of course, kiddos report back at the end of August. But how long will that last? Not quite sure: Amongst the many, many, many items of interest on…
Friday afternoon Uncle Barky noted that KXAS-Channel 5’s made a new hire: reporter Ben Russell, fresh off a five-year stint at a CBS affiliate in Harrisburg, PA. His first day’s today. But if reports out of New York today are true, Russell won’t be the last hire made at the…
But two weeks ago Jerry Allen kicked off a meeting of the Dallas City Council’s Budget, Finance and Audit Committee by boldly announcing that the city’s been “tainted by ethical acts, and the challenge for us is to find ways to establish a clear ethical standard and use it to…
Half the comments below are about Rick Perry’s appearance in New Hampshire Friday, when it appeared our governor began his weekend a little too hard and a little too early; strange stuff, and the clip follows for those who’ve yet to see it. It’s good for a contact buzz, if…
This just in: U.K.-based Great City Attractions, which was working with Dallas County and the Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau to drop that giant Ferris wheel in Founders Plaza, has opted to roll away — for the time being, at least. No doubt, Schutze will be greatly disappointed. But after…
The plan to siphon off the water from Lake Palestine, which is just southwest of Tyler, has been around for close to four decades; in ’72 Dallas acquired the contractual rights to the lake, at a rate of 102 million of gallons of per day. In 2007, the city council…
Gov. Rick Perry’s record on racial issues has always been a little complicated. Earlier this month, there was that dust-up over his family’s Paint Creek hunting lease, which Schutze thought unfairly loaded up Perry’s shoulders with Southern-boy baggage. But back in 1990, during his run for agriculture commissioner, Perry ran…
It’s been more than a decade since the federal suit first surfaced: Betty Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the sexual discrimination lawsuit that would eventually lead to a class-action suit and the book Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Worker’s Rights at Wal-Mart, whose author often compared the lead…
As I’ve written before, I fell in love with the game of baseball in 1986 — the first year I watched every inning of the World Series. Although I had no rooting interest in the match-up between Boston and New York, I couldn’t help but feel absolutely heartbroken for Red…
George Gimarc confirms what I thought I remembered: Early on the King Biscuit Flower Hour aired on KZEW, before, some time in the early ’80s, it jumped over to Q102. Makes sense: Blondie’s 1979 KBFH appearance, recorded at the original Palladium, and mid-’70s Clapton, with Freddie King at the Dallas…
It only took, what, a week? But here, at long last, is GOP pollster Frank Luntz’s presentation to the Dallas City Council, given last week during its retreat at the Arboretum. Mayor Mike’s chief of staff, Paula Blackmon, just sent it along, complete with the tiny-type data tables I didn’t…
Last night, during the 10th inning of Game 6, Steve Busby handed the mic to his Rangers broadcast partner — Eric Nadel, Frick Award finalist and a man whose voice has gotten us through countless seasons in hell. Buzz wanted to make sure Eric had the opportunity to call the…
This just in from the Museum of Nature & Science: Paleontologists at the museum are set to introduce to the world a new species of the ceratopsid dinosaur Pachyrhinosaurus at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 71st Annual Meeting, which takes place next week in Las Vegas (of course). The full…
I’m having a rough day; from the sound of it, many of you are too. On the drive in to work today, this version of Peter Gabriel’s “Don’t Give Up” came up on the iPod, randomly shuffled. I had to pull over. I asked Jamey Newberg: “How do Rangers fans…
