So far there have been legal and accounting issues raised regarding FD! One speaker said it violates Texas zoning law, another said it’s inviting dangerously speculative development along the so-called transit corridors that cannot even withstand the density proposed in the plan. And a woman from Bluffview cried at the…
Of the 700,000-plus people estimated to have entered the United States illegally last year, at least 463 died trying, 140 of those in Texas. Many more bodies lie undiscovered in the desert. Because of increased border enforcement in urban areas, illegal immigrants are increasingly turning to more hazardous routes across…
The first speaker against the plan was Neil Emmons, a plan commissioner. He was representing Cay Kolb, a former city planning commissioner and former DART board member. She could not attend the meeting today, Emmons told the council, because she is tending to her husband in an intensive care unit–and…
Don Hill says he is giving 45 minutes to each side of the FD debate, which may be impossible. When he asked who was here to speak, everyone raised hands. Lill and Finkelman are going last, but Larry Duncan is up now: “This is where I came in 30 years…
Jim and I have decided Laura is on a Southwest flight to Vegas, cause she sure as hell ain’t here. One thing I did notice as Bill Blaydes was bemoaning the yay vote regarding the homeless shelter (“It will destroy the southeast corridor!”): He’s kinda…unhinged. –Robert Wilonsky…
Uh…as Jim just asked, “Where the hell is Laura?” The FD debate is about to start, and she ain’t here. –Robert Wilonsky…
The chamber is packed with Angela Hunt fans–if nothing else, their bright green “CPC YES” and “PEOPLE’S PLAN” stickers suggest they also want the version of Forward Dallas! containing the Plan Commission’s alterations. Not yet to the discussion yet, and room is getting warm and restless. –Robert Wilonsky…
Veletta Lill’s back amongst the council, patting backs and doling out hugs. Still talking Deep Ellum–Lazerz, specifically, and its late-night crowd. Uh, where’s the mayor? –Robert Wilonsky…
Observer blogmeister Robert Wilonsky is bravely putting his sanity on the line–and online–to blog live from City Hall as the council debates the ForwardDallas! master plan. He’s paying attention so you don’t have to. Take it away, Bobby W.: City council chambers are stuffed–if they charged admission, they could pay…
With the giant music festivals of summer upon us, music bloggers across the land have been typing the skin right off their fingertips, hoping to document all the things (the bands, the bizarre weather, the hippies) that make events like Sasquatch, Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza so memorable. Obviously, anyone with a…
That wasn’t Thundershower Alberto chugging through south Florida last night; that was the Karma Train. And, after the city of Dallas inexplicably unveiled its plans for a victory parade a week prematurely, it ran right over the Dallas Mavericks. Well, that and a combination of pathetic Mavs’ play and brilliant…
Is it weird I have made this picture my new desktop wallpaper? Here’s an odd discovery: a city councilmember who calls you back, who’s well informed on the subject at hand, who doesn’t speak in the hyperbole of someone trying to deflect the issue and who actually calls you back…
Looks like Dwyane Wade did not forget his balls last night. What, you didn’t think your Dallas Mavericks were going to sweep the Miami Heat; who are you, anyway, Tim Cowlishaw? And weren’t you getting just a little bored with this series? Wasn’t that the kind of game you wanted…
Last month, Unfair Park brought you the latest “Yokel Fleeced in Dallas” tale. In this installment, the victim was Temple Baptist Church of Springdale, Arkansas. As an Arkansas paper explains, Dallas travel agency Pride Travel, Inc. apparently stole $30,000 the church sent in February to pay for a missionary trip…
Should Forward Dallas! pass, the city of the future could look a lot like the city of the past. But in a good way, right? Wednesday ought to be one hell of a day at City Hall: Not only is the city council scheduled to vote on Forward Dallas!, the…
Well, Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez has belatedly qualified to take the mandatory licensing test she flunked in April. The Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards tells us the sheriff has at last provided the proper documentation she needs to take the test, corroborating that she was a federal…
Good Friend of Fair Park Sharon Boyd has this to say about Dallas’ attempts to beg 20th Century Fox here to shoot the big-screen Dallas by promising millions in giveaways…pardon, incentives: “Does any business pay their own way anymore? I wish we had a city ordinance prohibiting City Hall from…
More good new for American Airline and parent company AMR Corp.: On the eve of an announced settlement between Dallas and Fort Worth’s mayors regarding the Wright Amendment–a press conference is announced for tomorrow, as well as a city council thumbs-up concerning the deal–Standard & Poor’s gives the airline the…
So maybe you will see some John Travolta around Dallas after all. This morning’s Dallas Morning News boasts a front page “exclusive”: Dallas, the movie version of the prime-time soap, will be shot in Dallas after all. OK, not all of it–just four weeks’ worth out of the three months…
Look, we all know our Dallas Mavericks are gonna win the NBA Finals. But that doesn’t mean the series is over just yet. The Mavs are up 2-0 heading into tonight’s Game 3, where the Miami Heat will almost certainly ride desperation to a big early lead. They call it…
Who needs coffee when there’s this to greet you first thing in the morning: “Mavs-Heat isn’t must-see TV,” blares the headline from the San Francisco Chronicle, where columnist Gwen Knapp says Sunday offered much better sports viewing than Game 2 of the NBA Finals. You know what was better than…
Don’t read this if you’re going to watch the rebroadcast of the U.S.-Czech Republic World Cup match tonight. On second thought, do read it, because I’ve got a piece of advice: Don’t bother. We were terrible. In 2002, the U.S. made up for inferior individual skills with relentless pressure and…
