Here’s the latest report from Craig Kinton’s office: Audit Report on Inappropriate Tax Exemptions and Delinquent Property Taxes, which the mayor and the Dallas City Council were given on Friday. But the short version: The City Auditor’s Office went through the Dallas Central Appraisal District records and discovered that 35…
So, judging by this sneak peak at the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees’ briefing agenda this week, Ron Price has decided to save the district $18,000-plus: He’s now recommending giving DISD Chief Academic Officer Robin Ryan a $10,000 raise. Because, as you may recall, Price and superintendent Michael…
Some news that will surely soften Broncos 17, Cowboys 10. Would you believe: R.I.P., Rowdy. Well, the obnoxious, foam, giant-noggin’ed Cowboys’ mascot isn’t exactly dead. But I heard over the weekend that at least we won’t be subjected to his stupid shenanigans any longer at Cowboys Stadium. I guess we were…
I just noticed this on the city of Dallas’s Web site: “A Message from the City Manager to Residents & Business Owners.” It’s Mary Suhm’s way of explaining why come the city’s hiked water, wastewater and stormwater rates, which took effect last week per the FY2009-2010 budget. It’s also intended…
Got a buddy who is Cowboys’ season-ticket holder. One of the privileges is getting first dibs at all the events – not just NFL games – at the sparking, billion-dollar joint. So he buys four tickets on the 50 to last month’s Oklahoma-BYU game. Cost him $1,200, and he sells them…
Sam’s on his way to the Earle Cabell Federal Building and Courthouse, where, at around 10:30 a.m., we’ll find out what says the jury in the Dallas City Hall federal corruption trial. Which means those of you who selected “October 1 through October 7” in our contest are one step…
As you’re no doubt aware, on Thursday, Judge Tena Callahan of Dallas County’s 302nd Family District Court ruled that two men married in Massachusetts in 2006 could indeed get divorced in Dallas. To which Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott responded, Whoawhoawhoa: “The laws and constitution of the State of Texas…
Couple of weeks back we debuted the Dallas Urban Design Studio, a Trinity Trust-funded endeavor that’ll get its own office in Dallas City Hall in order to “elevate the design consciousness and culture of Dallas, while working to balance social, economic, environmental, and design sustainability towards enhancing livability for all…
10. Fox’s Pam Oliver stinks. While she was busy reading some shallow, pre-orchestrated featurette, we went three series before learning that Gerald Sensabaugh was out with a bum thumb. And though Marion Barber played just one snap in the second half, we never received an update. 9. Not only is Kyle…
While fast forwarding through a TiVo’ed version of Friday night’s 6:30 p.m. rerun of The Office on KDFI channel 27 (the one where Ryan burns his cheese pita in the toaster oven), none other than Mayor Tom Leppert appeared in a commercial break for yet another ribbon cutting — this…
In response to DMN’er Sherry Jacobson’s story about the city’s frustrating permit process and its effect on neighborhood farmers markets, council member Angela Hunt has requested the investigation of the permitting processes in other cities so the city council can consider changes as soon as possible. Ed Lowe, owner of…
Earlier this year, Deloitte LLP went down to Dallas City Hall and said it was thinking of consolidating its Dallas and Irving operations under one roof … in Irving. The accounting firm had crunched the numbers, and “there was a multi-million dollar cost advantage to Deloitte LLP if it chose…
Much like Wednesday afternoon, I got another itch to sit in during the day’s last couple hours of jury deliberations in the City Hall corruption case, but I was quickly disappointed upon seeing Don and Sheila Hill in the lobby of the Earle Cabell Federal Building and Courthouse. Turns out…
Sure, our economy’s grim, but consider this: In Haiti, 80 percent of the population lives under the poverty line and two-thirds lack formal jobs. Altering such circumstances is the mission of the Chiapas Project, a local micro-finance group that raises money for loans to impoverished women in Latin America. While…
So, you’re busy reading this blog at your desk (or on your phone … at a stop light … or in the HOV lane). At the same time you’re replying to an e-mail, checking your voice mail, answering a coworker’s question and doing whatever it is you do to make…
A colleague in Miami thought we might find this interesting: “The Consummation of Dirk,” penned by one Jonathan Callahan. It comes from the latest issue of something called The Collagist, an online literary journal. Right. You know the drill.At first, I thought maybe it was a chopped-and-screwed variation on Jesse…
Southern Methodist University and Dr. Robert Tafel have agreed on an undisclosed settlement regarding the lawsuit filed by Tafel and attorney Gary Vodicka in which they allege that SMU defrauded residents of the 350-unit University Gardens Condominiums in a land grab for the George W. Bush Presidential Library. “Dr. Tafel…
The 6-year-old who lives in my house is a big They Might Be Giants fan — because, after all, they did teach him his ABC’s and 123’s, and they twosome are currently in the process of learnin’ him about the science. The one TMBG product in which he’s never shown…
On our midday show at 105.3 The Fan, I nervously asked Jerry Jones this morning if he had, um, seen the video of two fans “christening” Cowboys Stadium last Monday night in Arlington. After joking that he had called several committee meetings to investigate the situation, Jones simply said: “Yes. …..
In the October 12 issue of Newsweek, Cathleen McGuigan takes a visit to the AT&T Performing Arts Center and tells Lincoln Center to watch out. Well, more or less: “Lincoln Center is still the country’s premier cultural complex, but it’s getting competition from an ambitious project in — are you…
In the paper version of Unfair Park this week I took a longer look at Re:Vision Dallas — you know, that self-sustaining development John Greenan and Brent Brown want to build on a parking lot behind Dallas City Hall sooner than later. Right, that one. Anyway. In the piece, Greenan…
Danny Hurley, who’s never met a grown-up playing dress-up he didn’t like to photograph, found himself amongst the living dead last night at the Zombieland sneak, held at the Studio Movie Grill on Royal Lane and N. Central Expressway. It’s Halloween already? Apparently — hence, the bloody slide show. And…
