• KERA focuses on the loss of women and Hispanic members on the incoming city council, noting Dallas’ growing Hispanic population. The city is half Anglo and about half black and H[...]
13 May 2013
1. No one cares. Even where turnout was heaviest – abut 20 percent in District 13 (Preston Hollow and parts of far north Dallas), where Jennifer Staubach Gates beat Leland Burk – i[...]
12 May 2013
I was a guest on Observer columnist Jim Schutze’s KNON radio show, Get Off My Lawn, last week, and will return at 10 a.m. on Saturday. Jim, ever the gentleman, even let me plug my [...]
09 May 2013
• Remember the water taxis that were going to shuttle us around the Trinity River park after the tollroad was built? Turns out they were such a good idea that Fort Worth wants to u[...]
07 May 2013
• Oak Cliff city councilman Scott Griggs says he has the votes to pass a resolution in support of marital rights for gay couples, and the council should vote on his motion sometime[...]
01 May 2013
Inrix, a Seattle-based traffic consultancy, annually ranks the most congested highways in the country. Not surprisingly, LBJ from Valley View west to Kingsley made the 2012 list – [...]
25 Apr 2013
Hess Treo [$17] California One of the many facts the wine business sloughs off is that women buy most of the wine in the United States — as much as 60 percent, according to some su[...]
24 Apr 2013
• City councilman Dwaine Caraway unveiled his plan to ban plastic bags in Dallas at yesterday’s city council meeting, reports Rudy Bush at The Morning News. It’s ambitious – would [...]
18 Apr 2013
• We’re one step closer to voting on a constitutional amendment to allow casino gambling in Texas. GOP state Senator John Carona, who represents four of the five neighborhoods whe[...]
09 Apr 2013
That’s the amount the council will be asked to spend to keep the control tower open at Dallas Executive Airport, which is on the federal sequester budget cut hit list. My favorite [...]
01 Apr 2013
• Travel & Leisure doesn’t think much of pizza in Dallas. We’re not among the best 20 cities for pizza in the U.S. as outlined in the magazine’s March issue. It’s no so bad tha[...]
29 Mar 2013
• The State Fair’s not only getting a new Big Tex after last fall’s fire, but a new voice for the icon. Depending on whose story you believe, Bill Bragg, who has been saying “Howdy[...]
28 Mar 2013
