Dallas, In Red and Blue

As I wrote last night, Dallas County’s new elections website is a marked improvement over versions past — from precinct maps to mail-ins breakdowns, it contains all the details a wonk could want. So, then. After the jump a few of the more relevant color-by-numbers, including looks at the Rick…

Yet Again, Shawn Bradley is Benched

Hadn’t thought of the former Dallas Mavericks center in years — certainly, not since his retirement from the National Basketball Association in 2005. Who knew the way-too-longtime Mav was running for a seat in the Utah House of Representatives? But, sure enough: “I have been fortunate in life to use…

And Just Like That, Broden’s … Gone

While the local GOP suffered its mood swings at the Hotel Palomar, Eddie Bernice Johnson’s Republican challenger in the Fighting’ 30th, Stephen Broden chose Frankie’s in Uptown as his Official Election Night Results-Watching Party Zone. That Unfair Park dispatched an ex-intern to cover the doings might give you an idea…

Dallas Is Getting Wet, And It Ain’t the Rain

It was way back in February that Gary Huddleston, the Dallas market’s director of consumer affairs at Kroger, first made it known he was leading yet another effort to get Dallas all wet and make it possible to buy beer and wine wherever citywide. Nine months later, the treasurer of…

Take a Sip of the Early Election Results

I’m about to head over to the Palomar for the Republicans’ cash-bar shindig, while Sam’s pulling pay-as-you-go drinking duty at the AAC with the Dallas County Dems, and Ex-Intern Elliot’s eating free pizza with Stephen Broden in Uptown. But before the short pour on this long night (at least, for…

Rick Perry’s, Like, Fed Up! With Everything.

The gov was here yesterday; Bill White’s in town at this very moment — and, why, at noon he’ll be just down the street from Unfair Park HQ with Eddie Bernice Johnson in tow. Photos forthcoming. Like I need to tell you.But speaking of Perry, whilst he spent Monday at…

Alas, There Were No “I Voted” Stickers

Don’t let the empty doorway at right fool you — Leonides Gonzalez Cigarroa M.D. Elementary, home of the Fightin’ One-One-One-Seven, was full of voters early this a.m. ‘Round 8 all the booths were occupied, and a short line was forming behind me; hence the brief wait till space cleared. I…

First Baptist Knows How to Put on a Show

The Power of God from First Dallas on Vimeo.Patrick was downtown Saturday morning when First Baptist blew up a few buildings to make way for its downtown expansion. But Patrick didn’t have cameras stationed all over downtown. Not like First Baptist, which appears to have captured the big bang from…