Update at 3:37 p.m. Friday: Looks as though the bill’s author in the Senate plans to strip Bonnen’s amendment out of the bill before it goes to the governor’s desk. Amid these “late nights and high feelings” of the tail end of the 82nd Texas Legislature, House lawmakers took a…
As promised earlier today, on the other side you will find the entirety of the Dallas Independent School District’s proposed budget for the 2011-’12 school year, which was just released. And though it’s still rife with cuts (“Staff has been reduced by 1,679 employees in this budget. These reductions have…
About half an hour ago, Richie posted an item on the Sportatorium: John Rhadigan, hired in January to replace Josh Lewin as the Texas Rangers’ TV, play-by-play announcer, is already out. Moments ago, the team confirmed with an Official Statement that follows in full. But long story short: Beginning with…
Since Janine Turner didn’t get that spot on the next-gen Dallas reboot for TNT, she’s turned her attention elsewhere — late-night weekend AM radio. Had no idea. But, sure enough: The former Northern Exposure star with the ranch outside of town launched her right-wing radio hour last Saturday from none…
Sources telling me this afternoon that the Texas Rangers will today fire rookie play-by-play voice John Rhadigan. We knew Rhadigan was off to a rough start, but this seems unfair. He went into the season with zero play-by-play experience and it showed. Not sure what the Rangers expected. But not even…
This morning I was talking to Kourtny Garrett, senior veep of marketing for the DSpotters, about something kinda-sorta related, fingers crossed, when she mentioned that Downtown Dallas Inc. is once again planning to screen movies at Main Street Garden. It’s a reprise of last fall’s successful series, wherein online voters…
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At last, that long-awaited Union Station to Oak Cliff Dallas Streetcar Environmental Assessment is now available for your reading pleasure courtesy Dallas Area Rapid Transit. You’ll find the report itself after the jump; those wishing to drill deeper can peruse the myriad appendices here. But long story short, says Keith…
After last night’s Game 5 door slammer against the OKC Thunder, your Mavericks are now 12-3 in the playoffs and awaiting an opponent in the NBA Finals. Not bad for a team that about 50 percent of prognosticators picked would lose to the Portland Trail Blazers in the first round. I…
There’s no game out at the Ballpark today — shame too, since it’s likely The Last Lovely Day before summer slams into high gear. Nevertheless, at 11:30 this morning Nolan Ryan and Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington will find themselves at home plate, where Ryan will give Washington the keys…
We’re rooting for the Chicago Bulls in tonight’s Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals. Right? I know, in the regular season the Mavs were 2-0 against the Miami Heat and 0-2 against the Bulls. But the longer the series goes — it’s currently 3-1 Miami — the more rest the…
After the jump you’ll find two things of note: the proposed 2011-’12 school year staffing formulas that could be voted on by the Dallas Independent School District trustees at their 5:30 p.m. board meeting today, and a music video featuring a young pianist and singer named Cameron Ordinario. He’s a…
10. Much as I’m giddy over the victory and the Mavs’ second berth in the NBA Finals, I’m almost as happy for the way they handled the win. No confetti on the floor. No champagne in the locker room. Not even a drop of celebratory Ginger Ale. Says Dirk Nowitzki,…
While the gettin’s good: We all need to splash our faces with cold water in this matter of the superintendent of the Dallas school system leaving for a job as superintendent of schools in Cobb County, Georgia. What do we expect? Governor Rick Perry and a cabal of ultra-right ideologues…
For three months last year, Muhammet Atayev—California businessman and, by his own account, a former Turkmenistani cabinet minister—limited himself to a small universe in Dallas. He spent his nights in a room at a Best Western motel. In the morning, he slipped into business clothes, gathered his things and walked…
OKLAHOMA CITY—Kevin Durant, meet Harold Camping. And Dallas Mavericks, reintroduce yourselves to the NBA Finals. Camping is an 89-year-old scam artist, a religious zealot with a troubling propensity for predicting the end of the world and then living to tell about it. Durant is a 22-year-old NBA superstar, the league’s…
What you see above is the official “The Time Is Now” video made last week for the Mavs’ postseason run, which continues in two hours, give or take, but you knew that. Oh, right: Go, Mavs. Cash Sirois, weekend talk-show host and Dallas Mavericks creative director, was in charge of…
You won’t have Chris Heinbaugh to kick around any more — at least, not as a city official. Four years after the former WFAA reporter left journalism to go to work for Tom Leppert as his chief o’ staff, Heinbaugh’s outta there as of the June 8 council meeting. He…
Out of the blue today I got a call from somebody at the Liberty Institute, who said she was returning my message. “I guess you’re calling about ‘The Candy Cane Case,'” she said. Um … no? I think it was about this, actually, but that was a couple of weeks…
Blockbuster, says a new 30-minute doc, was once “900 times the size of Netflix.” Now, it’s…well, you know the story. It’s barely anything at all, except something owned by Dish Network, which hopes to use Blockbuster’s by-mail service to lure new customers. It’s a sad story, the felling of a…
Well, that was certainly fortuitous timing: On Sunday the 7-year-old who lives in my house and I went for our weekly trip to the Scotty’sTop Golf batting cages, after which we took a little drive in search of a nice afternoon hike. At which point we found ourselves in the…
Dallas is all about the hike-n-bike these days, what with Complete Streets and Better Blocks and Bike Plans and Pedestrian Bridges and whatever else will help us ease on down, ease on down the road. Good thing too, since walking ’round Dallas — and Fort Worth and Arlington — can…
