Ask a Mexican

Dear Readers: The paperback version of my book is out in stores now, cheap enough so that even a Guatemalan can afford it. Buy, por favor! Now, on to the preguntas… Dear Mexican: Whenever I see the television show COPS, the white folks pull over and hope no one searches…

An Industrial-Sized Misdirect

Today’s agenda at City Hall is a great example of the low regard they have down there for the wretched taxpayers of the world. Drum roll, please: Big and bright, up front and public at 9:30 this a.m. for your entertainment and enlightenment, ladies, gentlemen and hard-working farmhands — a…

Programming Note

This picture isn’t me, my office or my pointy lamp. Nonethless, I’ll try to blog on weekends. Try. Stay tuned. — Richie Whitt…

Welcome To Orientation

Pissed for years at my ramblings in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram? Constantly annoyed by my weekly columns in the Dallas Observer? Despise my bloggy rants over at Unfair Park? Well then, congratulations and welcome to your worst nightmare – my own sports blog. As long as you’re here, grab a…

Ask a Mexican

Dear Mexican: Consider the similarities between my people, the Celtic Scots, and yours, the Hispanic Mexicans. Both our people trace roots back to Spain. We sailed north to the British Isles and mixed with the aboriginals to become the Scots; you sailed west to mix with the aboriginal Americans. The…

When It Comes to Downtown Rail, Tomorrow Looks Like Yesterday

From the Collections of the Texas/Dallas History and Archives Division, Dallas Public Library Pacific Avenue, circa 1920 In last week’s paper version of Unfair Park, I wrote about the mess we’re going to have next year when Dallas Area Rapid Transit spills a whole new rail line of traffic down…

The Best Part Is, You Do Care

Texas Association of School Boards I wish Wilonsky would take the amazingly long list of comments on my recent Woodrow Wilson High School item, bind them in pigskin and publish them as an anthology. Taken together, the whole package is a fascinating specimen of blogography. The original item was one…

DART Needs to Build a Subway Downtown

Look, if you’re like me you don’t wake up in the morning thinking, “I can’t wait to find out what happened overnight in regional rail policy.” I could wait a lifetime. But I also don’t want to wake up two years from now in a nightmare where downtown Dallas is…

Ask a Mexican

Dear Readers: The paperback version of my book is out in stores now, cheap enough so that even a Guatemalan can afford it. Buy, por favor! Now, on to the preguntas… Dear Mexican: Lately, I’ve been hearing how punks and metalheads in Mexico are trying to beat up emos because…

Ah, Terrell Bolton, Those Were Good Times. Good Times.

WXIA-TV When Terrell Bolton got forced out as Chief of Police in Dallas, there was a certain amount of heart-bleeding among persons who saw his fate as somehow tragic. Maybe he was elevated too rapidly, they said. You know, like maybe he didn’t have enough oxygen in his head. And…

Leppert Throws DART Board Appointments Under the Bus Today

Former (and future?) DART board member Joyce Foreman Pretty good fireworks this morning at the city council meeting over a last-minute decision by the mayor to delay consideration of appointments to the Dallas Area Rapid Transit board. Several members clearly thought the mayor and his partner, Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine…

Kids Demand a Prison Break from Woodrow Wilson

Rod Dreher kicked off a lively discussion about Woodrow Wilson High School last week by writing an op-ed about it for The Dallas Morning News that was … well … how to put this in polite terms? Fine — seriously demented. Dreher said the white people who send their kids…

LULAC Brands Urban League CEO, and DART Board Candidate, a “Racist”

Beverly Mitchell-Brooks The North Texas Regional Council of League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) has passed a formal resolution opposing the Dallas Area Rapid Transit board candidacy of Greater Dallas Urban League CEO Dr. Beverly Mitchell-Brooks. The protest is on grounds that she has made public racist remarks about…

The Great Trinity Forest Ain’t So Great

As I hike down from the high embankment of the levee and out of the Great Trinity Forest, rain and dusk pushing me on, not to mention mosquitoes, I find two cop cars waiting for me on the tarmac below—a discovery that does not surprise. In fact it warms my…

Ask A Mexican

Dear Mexican: I work at a Seattle-based company, and our customer service department uses a phone tree system that asks all callers to press 1 for English, 2 for Spanish and a few other numbers for commonly spoken languages in our area. I handle customer complaints as part of my…

Missing the Bullseye, Caraway Derailed DART Board Interviews

Former (and future?) DART board member Joyce Foreman Lots of buzz this week about a bizarre performance on Monday at City Hall by council member Dwaine Caraway. He tried to rattle Joyce Foreman, who was being interviewed by the council for reappointment to the Dallas Area Rapid Transit board. Foreman…

Why Rod Dreher Really Isn’t Wild About the Woodrow Wildcats

My last few dog-walking tours over the weekend have revealed to me that Rod Dreher, editorial writer at The Dallas Morning News, is the New Great Satan of Old East Dallas and Lakewood. I think I’m jealous. Lord. I had people coming off their porches at me to complain about…