In this week’s paper version of Unfair Park, Schutze takes a lengthy look at Republican Stephen Broden, which might have been a good idea for The Dallas Morning News to do before it endorsed him over U.S. Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson and then switched to a Switzerland stance in the…
The Friends of Unfair Park are no doubt familiar with the fine work of Bill Holston, noted human-rights attorney, KERA-FM commentator, occasional Morning News op-ed’er and Unfair Park commenter. (He’s also joining Angela Hunt, Rawlins Gilliland and Shibboleth at the Dallas Rally for Sanity at Lee Harvey’s Saturday, following Jon…
This morning, as expected, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood passed out $2.4 billion in funding to 54 high-speed rail projects in 23 states. Among the recipients: the Texas Department of Transportation, which’ll take home $5.6 million intended to allow a further look-see at the Oklahoma City-South Texas Corridor Plan. From…
Yesterday, I rode shotgun in Dwaine Caraway’s Beamer while he balled it up as only Dwaine Caraway can do, chatting with reporters, fist-bumping constituents and checking in on campaign workers encouraging voters to vote against the beer-and-wine proposition. It was an effort to counter the naysayers (though that’s probably a…
Dallas County Democratic Party chair Darlene Ewing said she’s accustomed to dealing with typical political gamesmanship during campaign season like distorting records and taking words out of context, but she felt it necessary to “take a stand” against the Republicans and chair Jonathan Neerman for running “an orchestrated campaign of…
This photo of Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert, taken when he was adorable years old, ran with this morning’s New York Times piece to which I linked earlier. But because I didn’t want to lift it from the paper of record, I asked Chris Heinbaugh, the mayor’s chief of staff, if…
Tom Leppert Fact: He pitched a few innings of junior varsity at Claremont McKenna College in Southern California. So notes The New York Times this morning, in a pitching duel between the Dallas mayor and San Francisco’s mayor Gavin Newsom, a former first baseman for Redwood High School in Larkspur,…
Several Friends have asked, privately, in recent days: Whatever happened to Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway’s threat to drown Keep the Dollars in Dallas? As you may recall, when it came time for the council to call the election that will allow the off-premise sale of beer and wine citywide,…
Schutze weighed in over the weekend when The News decided, look, there isn’t anyone worth endorsing in the Texas 30th District congressional race — not Eddie Bernice Johnson, not Stephen Broden, not anyone, so sorry. (A reminder: Jim’s profile of the pastor appears in tomorrow’s paper version of Unfair Park.)…
No doubt you’ve read this morning’s story about how the three defense attorneys supporting Danny Clancy for Dallas County District Attorney — including Toby Shook — have piled on Craig Watkins, claiming that Christopher Scott and Claude Simmons maybe shouldn’t have been DNA-exonerated after all. Well, Dallas County Democratic Party…
Friday morning we had that item about computer programmer Don Relyea’s run-in with that touch-screen voting machine at the Audelia Road Library, where a vote for Gov. Rick Perry appeared to morph into a straight-ticket Green Party vote. Now, see, Dallas County Elections Administrator Bruce Sherbet told us he though…
If you’ve seen Republican Danny Clancy’s latest political ad above or his first one, you know what he views as District Attorney Craig Watkins’s biggest wart: never prosecuting a felony case. But that’s not true, according to Kurt Watkins, Craig’s cousin and campaign manager. In fact, Craig examined two witnesses,…
Way back in June, the city council’s Transportation and Environment Committee took yet another look at yet another proposal aimed at regulating neighborhood farmers markets and said, in short: Fine, looks good, next! Operators of neighborhood markets ain’t thrilled with the final product, but they’re willing to live with it,…
In mid-December, 16 Dallas Water Utilities workers sued the city in federal court, claiming City Hall engages in a “pattern and practice of disproportionate enforcement of policies with regard to their minority employees.” They also alleged the city “has engaged in blatant segregation amongst its workforce whereby teams of employees…
Perhaps you’ve heard: Dallas is no longer the city of J.R. Ewing. Mayor Tom Leppert said as much during the topping-off ceremony at the convention center hotel, and his message was reiterated today at the House of Blues during the Dallas Convention and Visitor’s Bureau annual meeting. Dallas CVB CEO…
No doubt you’ve read by now Melanie Mason’s wrap-up of Brad Watson’s interview with Stephen Broden, who’s vying for Eddie Bernice Johnson’s seat. Above is the piece itself, by request. (Well, not this guy’s request.) Incidentally, Schutze’s promised profile of the pastor pops in next week’s paper version of Unfair…
It seems like only yesterday that we were at the parking lot in front of the Dallas Convention Center to celebrate the groundbreaking of the new city-owned hotel, where Mayor Tom Leppert donned a bellhop’s hat and twice shoveled dirt into a hole before a large “D” was pulled out…
Friend of the show Amanda Warr forwards along this item from Gawker (which sprang to life on Reddit), in which a Dallas resident goes to the Audelia Road Library to early-vote for Rick Perry … only, the machine switches his votes to all-Green Party. Or does it? Another heated Reddit…
They won’t break ground on the George W. Bush Presidential Center at SMU till November 16, around the time his book’s released. But beginning tomorrow locals and road-trippers so interested can sneak peek some of the collectibles in Dubya’s prize closet at the Meadows Museum. The exhibit’s called “Breaking New…
[Update at 6:45: To spare you the trouble of reading all the way through, here’s the news. With a 7-6 vote, the commission denied XTO Energy’s application for an SUP to drill at Hensely Field. XTO can now appeal that decision to the City Council, which will, you have to…
As Friend of Unfair Park Ed D. notes in the comments below, Dallas City Hall just posted to its Facebook page six photos of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge taken by — let’s see if I get this right — “remote control plane.” Oh, so that explains why I saw…
Initially I thought this would be just an oddball novelty item: Heritage Auction Galleries is selling the door to Lee Harvey and Marina Oswald’s old Oak Cliff apartment — the one on Elsbeth and Davis Streets, more or less across the street from the Bishop Arts District. It doesn’t officially…
