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There’s a front-page piece in today’s New York Times about how Dallas and Fort Worth–and, for that matter, most of Texas’ hospitals–deal with illegal immigrants. It says, in essence, that Parkland Memorial Hospital has a don’t-ask-don’t-tell policy when it comes to treating its patients, since doctors there don’t question their…

Dallas Public Library Plenty of Dallas police officers and firefighters live out of town; now, says the Arizona Daily Star this morning, they’re buying investment property out of town too…actually, all the way out of state and in Tucson, Arizona, go figure. The paper doesn’t know why the Dallas Police…

Already the suggestions for what Mayor Laura could do with her leftover hundred thou are coming in. To wit: “Her Honor could buy the architectural models of the Calatrava bridges, which I understand cost quite a bit, and use them for her kids’ play and school projects. Imagine a science…

Since Mayor Laura isn’t running for re-election, last we checked, we wondered what exactly she can she do with the $96,146.54 sitting in her campaign war chest. (That’s how much she has left, according to her campaign finance report filed today with the city’s elections manager, Brooks Love, who I…

Why is this man smiling (he is smiling, isn’t he)? Because he’s already got $103,000 to spend on running for mayor, and the race is still almost a year away. Just got back from City Hall, where I snagged copies of Gary Griffith and Laura Miller’s campaign finance reports, which…

Local blues great Sam Myers died this morning. He was 70. We just received the sad news that local blues singer and harp player Sam Myers died this morning, after battling with throat cancer since being diagnosed with it in January 2005. According to his friend, local blues singer Kathy…

Guess it’s been a bad news-good news few days for Dallas-based Affiliated Computer Services. At the end of business Friday, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services announced it was terminating its $171 million contract with ACS, which was scheduled to provide the state with a new Medicaid…

I just checked in with Brooks Love, the city’s election manager, who reports he has yet to actually receive Darrell Jordan’s campaign finance report, which is due today; when it shows, we’ll grab a copy and see who’s betting $200,000-plus on the local lawyer, per Pat Cotton’s press release this…

At least, that’s what Darrell Jordan and his people are saying this morning–probably said it yesterday and gonna say it tomorrow too, only they weren’t issuing a press release touting his bulging campaign finance report as proof that he’s the “leading candidate in the May 2007 Dallas mayoral election.” Which…

You know you can’t fight the feeling that you need to get down to Lancaster this weekend to see some boxing. Last summer Paul Kix wrote about the rise and fall of the Oak Cliff Boxing Club, which at one point had more than 100 young prospects, a handful of…

A Friend of Unfair Park’s spent Wednesday at the Bass Concert Hall with the rest of DFW trying to be a millionaire. Good luck with all that. Just when I thought I was the most annoying triviot in the DFW, the good people at Who Wants to Be a Millionaire…

We took this bloody photo from The Ticket’s Web site, where there are dozens more photos available from last night’s Fight Night. The men and women who duked it out at last night’s KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket)’s Fight Night didn’t do it for charity. No noble cause loomed over the…

Have trouble finding a Dunkin’ Donuts in Dallas. Give it a while. You’re about to see one on every block. Oh. Joy. In its effort to take down Starbucks as the nation’s provider of overpriced coffee, Dunkin’ Donuts has decided to expand from 4,400 to 15,000 stores across the U.S.,…

Yeah, you try schlepping one of these back and forth to elementary school every day. Not fun. It has not been a good July for Brook Mays Music Co. A week ago, news broke that the Dallas-based institution, which has sold or leased a musical instrument to pretty much every…

In three years, more or less, you might be able to ski Dallas. I know, ridiculous. And also awesome. Don’t forget awesome. The latest issues of The Economist wonders whether Dallas (and Charlotte, whatever) isn’t trying to keep pace with Dubai–“home of desert skiing, the world’s only seven-star hotel and…

You likes? This is Jennifer Morgan’s “Flora & Fawna,” among the pieces on display tonight. But it’ll be, like, bigger and stuff. Look, way we see it you have two options tonight: Stay at home and watch It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, one of the last good sitcoms left on…

David Kunkle is the most popular police chief in America today–and in London tomorrow. Or something like that. Tomorrow, Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle leaves for London as part of an FBI program that allows big-city chiefs from all over the country to train with and learn from their counterparts…

Seems our posts about pro bono attorneyin’ in Dallas have some Friends of Unfair Park worked up. A medicine-practicing Friend of Unfair Park would like to answer attorney Bill Holston’s question, which was, “What other profession makes an organized effort to provide free services to the poor?” In short, says…

Kevin Sullivan is probably the first guy to go from doing P.R. for a basketball team to doing it for a president. That’s just a wild guess. And, yes, he knows he looks like actor Oliver Platt. On June 21, Kevin Sullivan was in a meeting about education—most likely, since…

Dallas hotel property taxes are up. Waaaay up. Just sayin’. Interesting story in today’s USA Today about the rise in hotel property taxes across the country–and how Dallas is way above the national average. That’s what PKF Consulting, an Atlanta-based company that keeps tabs on the hospitality biz, says and…