My wife is from Michoacán state. We’ve bought a home in the small town of her birth. I love everything about the quiet little place. Even her mother is kind to me, as if I were her son. The food is incredibly good. The puerco is killed that morning and…
For the last several weeks, a certain story has emanated from the superintendent of schools in Dallas and also from a majority of the school board and a cast of lawyers. I paraphrase: Dallas’ splendid magnet schools and learning centers, the crown jewels of a beleaguered school system, must be…
Thanks to the tip from loyal Sportatorium reader, Luca: If you’re not busy Sunday morning and you always wanted to barf on a pew, head down to Ovilla’s First Baptist Church. Now appearing at the pulpit: David Bliss. Yep, that one. Actually, the church’s website boasts a speaking engagement from a David Bliss,…
I spoke this morning with Ben Barlow, the Fort Worth attorney for the Dallas Independent School District system who had informed me yesterday that no waivers were available under existing law for Dallas’s magnet schools facing severe budget cuts under federal Title I funding rules. The thing was, an hour…
At about 5:50 pm today, I received a call from a Fort Worth attorney, Ben Barlow, representing the Dallas Independent School District on the magnet school and learning center issue. He informed me that my piece posted to Unfair Park on Friday night was dead wrong and that there are…
Things are popping a bit today on the Dallas Independent School District magnet schools front.Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson’s office confirms that Johnson is talking to the U.S. Department of Education seeking “clarification” of its current position on Title I money and school funding. Dallas school headquarters has been insisting it…
The Dallas Independent School District is about to do massive damage to its magnet school and learning center programs. The magnets represent the best of the district’s academic efforts. The learning centers are the last remaining legacy of a successful decades-long court battle to cleanse the district of apartheid. The…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Looks like The Ticket’s parent company – Cumulus Media – is asking forcing employees to take five unpaid days off before June 30. Ouch. Maybe not a big deal to on-air talent with…
Is it true that most Mexicans are carriers of the swine flu because they eat a lot of chicharrones, or is it the fact that your women are so pig-like? I knew that Mexicans have muy shitty diets, but now we have to worry about them infecting us with a…
Does truth get more difficult the smarter you are? On August 17, 1998, President Bill Clinton told a Washington grand jury, “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is….[I]f ‘is’ means is and never has been, that is not—that is one thing. If it means there is…
Last night’s four-hour “hearing” on the Trinity River toll road was one big toothache for most of the 100 or so folks on folding chairs in the very gloomy, Soviet-seeming Dallas Convention Center Arena. I put hearing in quotes because it was clear from the very outset that the event…
The Dallas Independent School District board of trustees seems to be moving toward Draconian cuts in staff and budget for the district’s two most distinctive programs, magnet schools and learning centers. The board appears likely to acquiesce to the urgings of Superintendent Michael Hinojosa, who is telling them that pressure…
I paid a visit today to the Margaret Hunt Hill suspension bridge construction site on the Trinity River because a frequent correspondent had expressed concern about the effects of recent heavy rains. His worry was about the two big pier footings right by the river’s edge: When viewed from the…
And then one day, just to keep his readers on their toes, the demented blogger stood Whitt’s End on its head … *For those inclined toward auditory masochism, I’ll again be the analyst for Time Warner Cable/Metro Sports Channel 185’s upcoming telecasts of the Texas Brahmas minor-league hockey playoff games. Game…
Seems like just yesterday we hatched this lil’ corner of the blogosphere as a Dallasy, sporty catch-all spiced with news, opinions and snarky assholeism. After 365 days, 755 items and 7,735 comments, how we doin’? President Obama just got graded on his first 100 days. Knowing full well the risk, today I’m soliciting your…
Got a call over the weekend from Charmane Jackson, who lost her legal fight against golf manufacturing giant U.S. Kids Friday in Sherman. After a week of testimony the jury deliberated only 90 minutes before failing to find U.S. Kids responsible for the death of 12-year-old Chandler Jackson. Asked if…
Check out more photos in our slideshow from the mini-camp. It’s rare I don’t have time to check out the hotties, especially the athletic ones. But with the NFL Draft and Mavericks-Spurs this weekend, I dispatched the lovely and talented Kelly to do what she does oh so good: Lingerie…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Barring a trade, the Cowboys won’t make their first pick (51st overall) in tomorrow’s NFL Draft until around 9:30 p.m., a good six hours after the thing kicks off. But it’s…
Dear Mexican: First of all, please don’t think that I’m a self-loathing Mexican; I was born in the United States to northern Mexican parents. As far as I know, my ancestry is just Indian, Spanish and a little French. For some strange reason, I have developed an intense fascination and,…
With help from Michael Morris, transportation director of the North Central Texas Council of Governments, The Dallas Morning News has been painting the developer of the city’s inland port shipping and warehousing center as a racist. In a story in the paper on April 12, Morris was quoted as saying…
At 2:30 p.m. today 14th Civil District Judge Eric Moye put the Planet Earth back where it belongs, much to the relief of people clinging to its surface in one East Dallas neighborhood. In the infamous “dirt skirts” case, a zoning dispute over building heights, Moye ruled that city of…
Maybe Hopefully you remember Chandler Jackson. Quick refresher: Gifted 12-year-old Frisco boy tragically killed in a 2005 freak accident by a broken golf club in tiny-town Kentucky. After almost four years of misery and mystery, Chandler’s parents – Rick and Charmane – may this week get some closure. At the very least,…
