Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Where’s Greggo? Be here Monday morning for the official announcement. As a bonus, I’ll also reveal another familiar local radio voice(s) returning to the air on 105.3 The Fan come June…
Dear Readers: Over the past couple of weeks, the Know Nothing nation has invaded my inbox with the question of why can’t the United States follow the stringent immigration laws of Mexico. They’re merely parroting a recent column by the reprehensible Michelle Malkin, who thought that bringing up the issue…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *This is why I thought Ron Washington should have been fired on the spot last summer when he first told Texas Rangers’ management about his cocaine use: He can’t be trusted…
This morning Rudy Bush and Tanya Eiserer posted a great story on The Dallas Morning News’s Web page about Dallas city council member Dwaine Caraway pressuring the Dallas Police department to lay off a gambling house where Caraway and his father play poker. The story includes a strong quote from…
Dear Readers: I was supposed to deliver this column to ustedes for Cinco de Drinko, but Arizona’s reprehensible S.B. 1070 bill had to rear its ugly head. I could devote this column to the issue again, but Mexican-hating is a national sport, and we must darle chingazos wherever it pops…
Yesterday The Dallas Morning News editorial page rolled out the big cannons and opened fire again on Oak Cliff Metals, a metal recycling yard on Pontiac Street in Oak Cliff that the paper wants moved, we know not why. The editorial, which I’m sure was written by editorialisto Tod Robberson,…
Curtis Lockey and Craig MacKenzie, erstwhile developers of the LTV Tower 1600 Pacific Building and subjects of my column in the current edition of the paper, have sent to Dallas City Council members and city staffers a letter alleging deliberate discrimination against low-income persons and families on the part of…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Newy Scruggs is on vacation next week from 105.3 The Fan, which means two things: 1. I’ll miss my pawdnuh. 2. At least one of the days I’ll be joined by a…
Dear Readers: All together, now: A LA CHINGADA WITH ARIZONA’S SB1070! For those of ustedes too occupied with your Drinko por Cinco hangover, the initiative I mentioned (signed a couple of weeks ago into law by Arizona’s governor) gives immigration powers to the state’s police officers and sheriff’s deputies and…
Don Hill, the Dallas City Council member recently sent to federal prison for 18 years for bribery and corruption, didn’t use a baseball bat on people. He was a lawyer. He used parliamentary procedure. The table, I call it. Hill knew developers always have a clock ticking—money sifting away like…
If this Spring is any indication of where things are headed, SMU basketball’s March Madness drought is likely to hit 18 years next season. That’s because star point guard Paul McCoy – once thought of as the Mustangs’ light at the end of the tunnel – is transferring from SMU. In…
The contractor on the new headquarters of Dallas Black Dance Theatre is suing DBDT founder and artistic director Ann Williams and her daughter for 10 million bucks for “tortious interference” (messing with his money) and defamation. If it doesn’t settle early, this could be an intriguing window on DBDT, a…
Wow. Amazing discovery! I, Jim Schutze, have discovered how to resolve the whole battle over scrap metal yards and rendering plants in Oak Cliff near Cadillac heights. I have the answer! For the last several weeks I have been battling with the Texas Historical Commission and U.S Army Corps of…
I got a theory. Been working on it for a while, nurturing it from a fleeting thought to a flimsy premise all the way up to a working, rational theory. Here it is: There are no more aggressive, dangerous drivers on Metroplex highways than those in white pickups. I know,…
Just came back from an interesting chat with Wade Emmert, the 40-year-old lawyer who is the Republican candidate for Dallas County Judge in the November election. I asked him how a Republican can win in what everybody is now calling a Democratic county.”I don’t think it’s such a Democratic county,”…
I’m like you, I didn’t know if this thing would make it two weeks. But, whatdya know, all the sudden it’s been two years. Seems like just yesterday we launched this lil’ corner of the blogosphere. After 730 days, 1,370 items and more than 20,500 comments we’ve survived to our second…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Dearly beloved, we have gathered here today to pay our last respects to the 2010 Dallas Mavericks. In life, they were an entertaining bunch. Fun. Fast. Full of energy and entertainment. But…
Dear Mexican: I live in a Northeastern city, and a game I play with myself during the cold, wintry months is counting how many Mexicans I see without a heavy coat or appropriate outer-garment. Believe me, I’m not prejudiced (I, too, am a minority, and this game is lightweight compared…
Sometimes I am accused of thinking everything at City Hall is a big conspiracy. But that’s not true. I am willing to concede that some things are just big idiocies. Take, for example, whatever in God’s name is going on in the Cadillac Heights/Cedar Crest area of Oak Cliff right…
Sometimes I feel that life is unfair. I have way too much fun. On occasion I think I should share some of it with others. In that spirit, I offer the following: In tomorrow’s paper version of Unfair Park I will have a column dealing with efforts by Dallas city…
Okay, not that one. But still. Weird…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Cowboys fans rejoice. First of all you have Dez Bryant. Secondly, you’re not the Denver Broncos. The same team that traded for Brady Quinn has now traded up to draft Tim…
