First Baptist Knows How to Put on a Show

The Power of God from First Dallas on Vimeo.Patrick was downtown Saturday morning when First Baptist blew up a few buildings to make way for its downtown expansion. But Patrick didn’t have cameras stationed all over downtown. Not like First Baptist, which appears to have captured the big bang from…

The Dwaine Caraway Tour Of South Dallas (TM)

Yesterday, I rode shotgun in Dwaine Caraway’s Beamer while he balled it up as only Dwaine Caraway can do, chatting with reporters, fist-bumping constituents and checking in on campaign workers encouraging voters to vote against the beer-and-wine proposition. It was an effort to counter the naysayers (though that’s probably a…

Portrait of the Mayor as a Young Baller

This photo of Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert, taken when he was adorable years old, ran with this morning’s New York Times piece to which I linked earlier. But because I didn’t want to lift it from the paper of record, I asked Chris Heinbaugh, the mayor’s chief of staff, if…

Mayor Tom to New York Times: Rangers in Six

Tom Leppert Fact: He pitched a few innings of junior varsity at Claremont McKenna College in Southern California. So notes The New York Times this morning, in a pitching duel between the Dallas mayor and San Francisco’s mayor Gavin Newsom, a former first baseman for Redwood High School in Larkspur,…

Broden: Stop Taking Me Out of Context!

Schutze weighed in over the weekend when The News decided, look, there isn’t anyone worth endorsing in the Texas 30th District congressional race — not Eddie Bernice Johnson, not Stephen Broden, not anyone, so sorry. (A reminder: Jim’s profile of the pastor appears in tomorrow’s paper version of Unfair Park.)…

More About That Voting Machine “Glitch”

Friday morning we had that item about computer programmer Don Relyea’s run-in with that touch-screen voting machine at the Audelia Road Library, where a vote for Gov. Rick Perry appeared to morph into a straight-ticket Green Party vote. Now, see, Dallas County Elections Administrator Bruce Sherbet told us he though…

Brad Watson’s Interview With Stephen Broden

No doubt you’ve read by now Melanie Mason’s wrap-up of Brad Watson’s interview with Stephen Broden, who’s vying for Eddie Bernice Johnson’s seat. Above is the piece itself, by request. (Well, not this guy’s request.) Incidentally, Schutze’s promised profile of the pastor pops in next week’s paper version of Unfair…