We’ve had it good, no doubt about it. Ever since the drought of the ’50s, when Dallas water planners set forth, constructing and acquiring the rights to reservoirs that would feed the city’s growth for the coming decades, we haven’t had to worry. Even as Lake Travis contracted to a…
We generally don’t actively want to write about Glenn Beck, for more or less the same reasons we don’t go around touching other people’s cold sores. But sometimes, up there in his Southlake media fortress, the man does things that put us in the sad position of feeling obliged to…
The Daily Show with Jon StewartMon – Thurs 11p / 10cThe Employees Strike Back – Twinkie’s Endwww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical Humor & Satire BlogThe Daily Show on Facebook On The Daily Show last night, Jon Stewart took on Hostess, finally providing the definitive postmortem on what caused the snack maker’s…
Writing in the Atlantic today, Derek Thompson reports from recently released data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis that Midland — not Washington, D.C. or San Francisco, but a 110,000-person speck of dust out in West Texas — is the country’s second richest city, per capita. It might well be…
It’s hard not to note the triumphant tone in Joel Kotkin’s piece in Forbes today on where Americans are moving. Kotkin, a scholar and pundit on urban issues, has some skin in the game, having just published a book that predicts that population growth over the next several decades will…
Pop culture and music writer Dan Solomon, who until recently contributed to CultureMap’s Austin and Houston sites, says his byline is no longer welcome at the digital-media venture. Apparently, corporate didn’t take too kindly to this post on his personal blog, critical of CultureMap Dallas managing editor Claire St. Amant’s…
It’s safe to say that Livefyre, that fancy new commenting system we rolled out four months ago, has been an unqualified success. Sure, there were some technical hiccups at the beginning and some ongoing cries of anguish from the comment section, but what you haven’t seen are the mountains of…
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…
