Dwaine Caraway has come seriously unglued in recent months, behaving less like a Dallas city council member and more and more like Huey Long. My God. I can’t believe some of this stuff. More on this in my column in the paper next week. But I can’t wait that long…
Dear Mexican: I have a friend who frequently wears a T-shirt that boldly states in big, bad-ass, Old English letters, “Hecho en México.” Five facts follow: He was born 23 years ago in the United States, in Bellflower, California. His truly Mexican parents were nowhere near Mexico when he was…
Ireland, South Africa and Sierra Leone have all committed to “truth and reconciliation” as a process for healing wounds of history. Even Canada. So why not us? Dallas’ grand obsession with a star-crossed and now collapsing public works project has finally brought the city to what may be a truth-and-reconciliation…
Couple weeks ago I wrote a column about the sudden anomalous enthusiasm of The Dallas Morning News editorial page for getting rid of scrap yards and a dead animal transfer station on Pontiac Street at Cedar Crest, next to the Cadillac Heights neighborhood. The News said they wanted to do…
Editing memo to Steve Blow: Thank you for getting around to writing the column I directed you to write on the Trinity River. It was a good effort, in the main. I hate to quibble with you, but I do need to point out a few errors and omissions. If…
I’m on tour Sunday. Well, I’m not on tour. My wife is on tour — part of the first annual “A Peep at the Coops: The Urban Coop Tour.” I just work there. Actually, a guy named Victor works for my wife a lot in the garden, and then I…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Not only should Dirk Nowitzki be on the first-team All-NBA squad and a legit MVP candidate, he’ll be unstoppable against the Spurs. San Antonio has its nucleus back – Tim Duncan, Manu…
So tomorrow, on some page of The Dallas Morning News (I assume Page One), Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert will concede that the Trinity River Project has hit the wall. Wall, wall, wall. A story posted on The News’s Web site this afternoon by Michael Lindenberger quotes Leppert: “Given the current…
Dear Mexican: I’ve dated a few Mexican girls in the last couple of years and I’ve come to realize one big, important thing—most of the girls didn’t know how to cook, clean and, you know…bring that ol’ school Mexican flavor from the roots! What’s happening to all our true mexicanas?…
I know it’s only my two-bits worth, but I loved the Erykah Badu video in which she stripped naked on the X-marks-the-spot, where Kennedy got shot in Dealey Plaza 37 years ago. I’m thinking seriously about going down there and taking off my own clothes. But I want everybody else…
The story in today’s Dallas Morning News about possible historic designation for the Trinity River levees falls squarely in the Unintentionally Hilarious category. It says the idea of building the Trinity River toll road project between the flood control levees may be in trouble because the U.S. Army Corps of…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your rope, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Don’t care if you’re a puckhead or merely a fan of storybook endings, you had to have been moved (to tears?) by Mike Modano’s swan song at American Airlines Center Thursday…
Fine. Call me paranoid. I can take it. But there’s a difference between being paranoid and being able to see through crap. Let’s start with the crap: On March 26, The Dallas Morning News ran an unsigned editorial/op-ed column in its Sunday “Points” section suggesting the city resolve the problem…
Dear Mexican: I know that Mexicans and pochos can be black, white, Asian and indios, but I just got my U.S. census form. Figured you would be the best person to ask about question No. 9 about race. I know I’m not white (I’ve been pulled over too many times)…
Interesting item on the Dallas City Council’s agenda this morning: “Judicial Nominating Commission.” (It’s Action Item No. 5, for those playing along at home.) City Attorney Tom Perkins is offering the council three alternative ways to fix the body that vets candidates for municipal judgeships. So … uh … why…
I am embarrassed, and I want to offer the Friends of Unfair Park an apology. Last Thursday I proferred an ironclad prediction that The Dallas Morning News would run one of its aw-shucks-yer-pretty-head Trinity River columns or editorials by Sunday, two days ago, telling readers not to pay attention to…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Major Near catastrophic computer meltdown this morning at 8:19 a.m. Outta nowhere, the dreaded blue screen. Bottom line: Whitt’s Dead End. $%^&*$#!! Expect, fingers crossed, re-construction sometime this afternoon right about now…
Yesterday on The Dallas Morning News transportation and editorial blogs, Rodger Jones, an editorial writer, casually passed on a bit of information — as if it were a sort of minor tid-bit — gleaned from a recent meeting of the editorial board with Texas Department of Transportation Regional Engineer Bill…
In the weeks ahead I’m going to be tied up with some stories that will demand a lot of my time, so, I’m sorry, I’m just not going to have time to do my regularly predictable clockwork swat-down reaction pieces to Dallas Morning News stories on the Trinity River project…
Sure. Turnout for the Democratic runoff election for county judge on April 13 will be tiny. Few people will vote, but the outcome will be huge. The real issue is the character of the community. You know who the real candidates are, right? Let me paint it for you as…
Dear Readers: In honor of April Fools’ Day, I turn this column over to Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project movement, to answer your preguntas. Enjoy! Dear Mexican: I’m a white, college-educated, liberal, Democrat, socialist U.S. citizen. I don’t have any problem with Mexicans coming here to get a…
I guess Hobby Lobby Bobby — the PR guy for Hobby Lobby — is never going to call me back about the big bible museum planned for Dallas. So I’ll just have to go on breaking the story a little bit at a time as I learn things from my…
