Two weeks ago, Anna Merlan schlepped down to the Dallas Police & Fire Pension Fund’s headquarters for a “technical update” on some of the solutions to the ever-simmering Museum Tower-Nasher dispute. The takeaway was that the louver system being peddled by the Nasher crowd as the only solution to the…
I had one of my newspaper moments yesterday. I have them every so often, usually when the Giants win the World Series and I get all trashed on nostalgia, looking up all the front pages of my hometown rags. Yesterday’s was different. Yesterday’s moment was of the Serious Journalism bent,…
We tried this morning to make it clear that the Twinkie is safe. Some private equity firm will swoop in and buy the brand at bankruptcy auction, along with Sno Balls, Ding Dongs and any other Hostess snack cake that carries with it a whiff of nostalgia. It’s inevitable. According…
Right now, the land stretching south and east of The Arts District toward Deep Ellum is a sea of parking lots. We’ve known for a while now what’s supposed to go there — a humongous, six-building mixed-use development known as The Spire — but news has been scarce since developers…
Yesterday I wrote about Curtis Lockey and Craig MacKenzie, who were on my mind Tuesday night as I watched the final electoral votes for Obama click into place. Lockey and MacKenzie are real estate developers suing Dallas in federal court over what they claim is massive misuse of federal de-segregation…
Not long after the networks started calling Ohio for Obama last night, but before Karl Rove tried to convince himself that Cleveland and Cincinnati were going to miraculously turn the state red, Mark Davis, the local conservative talk-radio host and Morning News contributor, dispatched the Tweet you see above. No…
It seems like decades, or perhaps centuries, since we first started hearing about the feud between the Nasher Sculpture Center and its shiny new neighbor, Museum Tower, a high-end condo building owned by the pensioners of the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System. The latest development, aside from our Jim…
Just in case you’ve forgotten, you don’t need a photo ID to vote in Texas. Republicans did push a measure through the Legislature last year requiring exactly that, but the law was challenged and ultimately put on hold in August by a federal court, which concluded the rule would effectively…
The Donald Trump-Mark Cuban feud has been relatively quiet for a while now, but the Mavs owner threw down the gauntlet last night for his billionaire arch-nemesis. Cuban, appearing in a painfully long segment on Fox 4’s 9p.m. newscast, which inexplicably included a basketball hoop and quickly descended into a…
Sunday night, a 25-year-old man fell to his death from a building on Main Street, the second such incident in just over a month. The Morning News posted a story online that, per Romenesko, just so happened to run next to the ad you see above, because, well, the wheel…
A few weeks back we told you about Cody Wilson, the UT Austin law student who heads a group called Defense Distributed. Wilson and co. would like to make a printable gun, a process that was stymied after the company that was renting them the printer abruptly seized it earlier…
Earlier today, Dallas attorney Tom Luce abruptly resigned as the mediator in the dispute between Museum Tower and the Nasher Sculpture Center. This afternoon, Dallas Police and Fire Pension System administrator Richard Tettamant quickly released a lengthy letter to Museum Tower’s homeowners, assuring them that DPFP’s shiniest project remains on…
The Morning News has obtained an email from Dallas attorney Tom Luce, in which he tenders his resignation as the facilitator in the endless dispute between the Nasher Sculpture Center and the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System. The email, sent to pension system administrator Richard Tettamant, has the subject…
Frank Luksa was there in 1960 for the Dallas Cowboys’ inaugural season. He was there for every significant sports event over the next five decades, for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the Times Herald, the Morning News, then, finally, as an occasional contributor to ESPN.com. He had more or less retired…
On Friday afternoon, Arlington’s Michael Brutsch was catapulted squarely into his 15 minutes of fame, after a Gawker article outed him as Violentacrez, a well-known moderator and commenter on a slew of racist, misogynistic and sexually exploitative threads on the internet community Reddit. Just before Chen’s story ran, we put…
With all the feel-good talk recently celebrating Dallas’ hesitant but progressing embrace of cycling (Painted bike lanes! A don’t-be-a-dick-to-cyclists ordinance!), it’s easy to forget about the concerns of the driver. Never fear. Morning News editorial writer Tod Robberson is here to champion their cause. In a post yesterday, Robberson, after…
Fairfield Residential is being very quiet about its plans to build apartments at 406 Houston Street in the West End. Vice president Scott Jackson said he will be happy to talk about the project just as soon as it clears the Landmark Commission, which could happen in November. Until then,…
Museum Tower’s PR team has really been stepping up their efforts lately to persuade people to live there, which sources familiar with the development told us in late August has been an uphill battle. The charm campaign began with an exuberant full-page ad in The Dallas Morning News a couple…
Last week, we told you about Cody Wilson and his group Defense Distributed, which would very much like to create a printable gun using a 3D printer. Not so much because Wilson plans on stockpiling weapons in his dorm room, but because, as he told us, he’s trying to make…
When Brandon Castillo first told people he was going to set up an open-air bazaar in Deep Ellum, he got a lot of crazy looks. “You’re going to do what where?” people asked, doubtfully. Deep Ellum was in the early stages of its renaissance and besides, this is Dallas, where…
For as long as I can remember — which admittedly is only about 20 years — Duncan’s Liquor has held down the northwest corner of Northwest Highway and Lawther Lane a stone’s throw from White Rock Lake. That won’t be the case for much longer. The property still belongs to…
There weren’t supposed to be many kids at CityWalk@Akard. The 200 units at the downtown office building-turned subsidized apartment complex were small, closet-less studios and one-bedroom units, and half were set aside for the formerly homeless or those at risk of becoming so. But there they are: 38 kids, from…
