This morning, The McClatchy Company announced it is going to “reduce its workforce by about 10 percent,” or 1,400 jobs, ASAP — and, yes, that will likely include some cuts at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where several Friends tell us the mood is one of apropos doom and gloom. It’ll…
Snapshots from an abandoned downtown: water damage in an unspecified hotel and exposed wiring. Another interesting item on the council’s Economic Development Committee agenda: discussion of a pilot program aimed at dealing with the vacant and abandoned buildings downtown, 10 of which were inspected from June 5-13 in preparation of…
Daniel Rodrigue Look, we all know Ray Hunt’s 33-percent chance is a little better than most folks’ 33-percent chance. Good God, just look at all the things on the city council’s Economic Development Committee agenda for this morning — so many items, matter of fact, that there’s even a caveat:…
Daniel Rodrigue Get thee behind me, lucky 13: Oliver Peck gets back to bidness Friday and Saturday as he sets the world record for most tats delivered during a 24-hour period. Oliver Peck set the world record early yesterday morning for inking the most tats in a 24-hour period –…
Noah W. Bailey Gallager has actually turned into a sledgehammer, turns out. Ten minutes into last night’s sold-out (!) Gallagher set at the Granada Theater, I wondered if I’d somehow ended up at Nokia Theater in Grand Prairie for the Friday-night performance by another legendary comedian: Bill O’Reilly. The night…
Lookin’ good, Don Hill! One by one, the 14 folks indicted in the feds’ City Hall corruption case are pleading guilty; thus far, it’s been Allen McGill and Andrea Spencer. So, how long till Darren Reagan sings about his involvement in the low-income housing scheme? After all, he’ll have plenty…
Hell of a thing. This morning, before posting the T. Boone Pickens item below, I came across an interview the Dallas billionaire gave to Charlie Rose last year. Turns out, on that same episode was Meet the Press host and NBC’s Washington bureau chief Tim Russert — who died today…
The press release from the Texas Attorney General’s Office that just arrived in my in-box had a familiar ring to it. (It’s after the jump.) A Texas sheriff is accused of accepting bribes from Mid-America Services Inc. in exchange for awarding the Dallas company food and commissary contracts at the…
Dallas lawyer Laura Shockley told a Utah newspaper she is considering filing a civil rights lawsuit against the state of Texas stemming from the April 3 raid of the polygamist compound in Eldorado. A spokesman for the polygamist group, Salt Lake City attorney Rod Parker, also said he is considering…
This LEGO has proved a rather remarkable educational tool in at least one household I know of. Something to keep an ear out for today: In a couple of hours, National Public Radio will post to its Web site the audio for a story titled “Using Video Games to Get…
Whilst visiting Business Week for the item below, I came across a list on which Dallas scored pretty high — and does so pretty often. The mag asks the question: “Are You in the Best City for Your Job?,” by which it means, quite simply, are you getting the most…
T. Boone’s not going to give them oil prices. He’ll give them quail prices. T. Boone Pickens gets the Daniel Plainview treatment on the cover of this week’s Business Week, in a story detailing the Dallas billionaire’s quest to bring water from the Panhandle to Dallas at the cost of…
Greg Allen The Buck Pets were, from left: Ian Beach, Andy Thompson, Tony Alba and Chris Savage. So, a few hours after I posted that item yesterday about the Grand Hyatt DFW being all that and then some, one “Danny Explosion” dropped this comment concerning the highly rated hotel and…
Parents, take note: This morning, Children’s Medical Center Dallas has begun the process of posting to the YouTube several videos intended to assist moms and dads with questions about everything from strep throat to potty training to obesity to “sudden cardiac failure in student athletes.” (Really could have used the…
Almost 10,000 career assists, yet somehow Jason Kidd couldn’t pass on her. Mavs fans, you think this blog item is going to be about how good you should feel, considering you purged your sorrow six weeks ago as opposed to waking this morning to the grief of blowing a 24-point…
Brad Lollar On Tuesday, Dallas County Chief Public Defender Brad Lollar resigned — right about the time he was being forced out by Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, who claimed Lollar wasn’t very good at his job — wasting money, wasting time. From jump, Scott Henson at Grits for…
NYLO Plano: Or, if I’m going to travel that far north, I’d need a hotel room. Speaking of hotels — and, really, when are we not these days? — the new issue of Time celebrates the latest brands of boffo lodging aimed at the traveling hipster in need of WiFi,…
Which is: by laying off 50 central staffers come September 1. That’s according to a memo the Dallas Independent School District just posted to its Web site. The district’s making the move to cover the $4 million budget shortfall, of course; there’s still the matter of the missing audit; and…
Courtesy Lisa’s computer Lisa Loeb has the most amazing posses in the history of ever. Surely I’ve mentioned that Lisa Loeb and I were cast mates in a Hockaday School production of The Pajama Game back in, oh, 1984, I think it was. (The school was low on public-school boys,…
The nicest hotel in Texas is the Grand Hyatt DFW, no foolin’. So says Expedia, at least, which ranks the airport hotel, connected to Dallas/Fort Worth International’s Terminal D, at No. 41 amongst all the hotels on the face of the entire planet, go figure. Fret not: The folks at…
Rob Goodspeed From Belleview Place, the winning design for the Cedars in the Urban Land Institute competition In January, we mentioned that the Urban Land Institute annual Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition was using Dallas’s very own Cedars neighborhood as the site of its contest. Well, the competition’s…
One’s talking. One’s making noise about talking again. Sat down with Mike Rhyner a while back for my upcoming (no, really, I swear it is) piece on former partner Greg Williams and stuff. As most of you know, he’s the world’s most stubborn 57-year-old curmudgeon. But when our confab turned…
