Though The Wall Street Journal reports this morning that the board of Aussie airline Qantas unanimously rubber-stamped an $8.7 billion buyout led by Fort Worth-based Texas Pacific Group and Australia’s Allco Equity Partners Ltd., BusinessWeek notes that Qantas later declared “the terms of the proposal are not acceptable.” The deal…
The Bronco Bowl was one of many things Dallas wouldn’t have had without Lamar Hunt. Now, both are gone. I am sure Richie will be along shortly to offer his thoughts on Lamar Hunt, who died last night of complications from prostate cancer at Presbyterian Hospital. Services will be Saturday…
It is early one Saturday in November, still dark, and Clark Kirby and his volunteers are on their way to spy on a group of Latino men waiting for a chance to paint, saw, dig or demolish. I’ll be going on this stealth mission too. I just don’t know where…
In February 2005, Alice Lynch-Fullen visited her brother, Christopher Lynch, at the Lew Sterrett Justice Center after he was arrested on rape charges in Grand Prairie. A large, imposing man, Lynch had ligature marks around his neck, alerting his distraught sister that he had tried to hang himself. “Don’t let…
Following up: This week, National Public Radio’s On the Media program broadcast a story about how the media’s love of a narrative and themes can tilt our perception of reality. Early on, reporters fixed on the “big story” notion that President Bush is a doofus who leaves the tough decisions…
Don Schutze Crooks, hucksters, etc.: I lived in D.C. in 1978, and I was a young lad working on Capitol Hill when Marion Barry was first elected mayor. That was so long ago you could drive your broken-down Toyota right past the gates in front of the White House. Fast-forward…
All he wants for Christmas is his two front feet. You’d wish for that too if, like 2-year-old Micah Diffee, you were born with disfigured legs bent backward and twisted like pretzels, the soles of your feet pressed against your bottom. “By far the toughest thing I’ve ever gone through,”…
Uncle Barky’s reporting that Andrea Burnett, who joined KXAS-Channel 5 as a weekday morning reporter at the beginning of the year, is “the latest casualty of corporate-mandated downsizing.” In other words: Last one in, first one out. Or damned near. She came here from Wichita Falls, Ed says, and now…
There’s a big feature in The Los Angeles Times today about The Great Mark Cuban — not tied to anything, from the looks of it, just a sort of “Hey, ya know, that Mark Cuban’s a rich and interesting guy with a lot to say” kind of piece. The headline…
There are two kinds of people I live to please: public figures and publicists. Nothing makes me happier than when I’ve worshipfully (or dutifully) touted their products and causes. Thus, in the spirit of commercialism and Christmas, I’ve decided to dole out the various pieces of free swag I’ve received…
This is Ronald “Buffalo” Chambers when he was 21 and sentenced to die the first time. That was 30 years ago. Ronald Chambers has been on death row for 30 years, making him the longest-serving inmate waiting to die in Texas. He’s there for kidnapping, robbing and killing one college…
Barry Zito may be a Texas Ranger yet. Or not. Probably not. Definitely not. But, I’m warnin’ ya, not a second before. So far this off-season the Rangers have added a journeyman spare part, a 39-year-old “stop-gap” center fielder and a reliever who’s missed the last two seasons with elbow…
George Dahl’s Highland Park house, which he designed and constructed and lived in 80 years ago, was torn down yesterday. Hooray for history. Preservation Dallas executive director has left the building — actually, he’s left town entirely. As we reported in October, Jones has taken the gig as exec director…
Dallas sports legends don’t get much bigger than Dallas Texans owner and American Football League founder Lamar Hunt. Dallas sports icon Lamar Hunt is said to be in grave condition in a local hospital, his family desperately holding out for miracles at this point. In a year that’s already seen…
I tore apart Dallas’ Only Daily this morning looking for the story about how, on Monday, attorneys representing Holy Land Foundation asked a federal judge here to dismiss charges the U.S. government filed against it after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks. Didn’t see anything; nothing on the Web site…
Leo Chaney’s campaign treasurer is the executive director of the Ferguson Road Initiative. Only took us a day to put that together. Yesterday, we posted an item about a city-issued press release in which council member Leo Chaney said he was desparate to help the poor, poor people of the…
Just so happens that I scooted out to Southlake today to speak with Carroll High School coach Todd Dodge for next week’s column. Ta-da! Whaddya know? On my way it was announced that Dodge has accepted a job to coach the University of North Texas. This, of course, pisses me…
Leo Chaney says he wants to help the folks of Ash Creek Mobile Home Park. They say that’s the first they’ve heard of it. Seems council member Leo Chaney isn’t terribly fond of the allegations that he did nothing to help the 100 or so residents of the Ash Creek…
Lone Star Funds buys Lone Star Steakhouse — and gets a NASCAR deal thrown in, which is cool, unless it’s for a driver who doesn’t place higher than, oh, 33rd. Shareholders of Wichita-based Lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon just approved a cash buy-out by Dallas-based Lone Star Funds for $27.35…
A week ago, Dallas Housing Authority CEO Ann Lott was fired. Today she’s having her contract extended. Say what? What a difference a week makes. On December 5 it was revealed that the Dallas Housing Authority board was getting rid of agency president and CEO Ann Lott, who’s adored by…
Before she takes this item down, we thought we would direct you to the blog of Betty Culbreath, the chair of the City Plan Commission, to which she was appointed by Mayor Laura Miller. She has some thoughts regarding the city’s closing down of the Ash Creek Mobile Home Park,…
Reel busy: Tearlach Hutcheson, pictured here during construction of the Magnolia Theater in 2002, is now managing director of the AFI Dallas film fest. Some time this week, the newly established AFI Dallas International Film Festival will announce its new (by which I mean, its first) managing director: Tearlach Hutcheson…
