Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End (Fish’s Tales?): *A note from Rangers Ballpark: LeBron James fell out of the upper deck while reaching for more attention. *If police have this right, the mayor of Coppell leaves notes…
Dear Mexican: Most Mexicans I know (myself included) feel it’s a terrible disrespect to keep old photos around of you and your ex, and vice versa. I’d never keep around pictures of myself and an ex to try and push my new/current boyfriend’s buttons; I guess I feel it’s a…
I think I just saw it. Caught a glimpse anyway. The Trinity River Project knuckle-under. I could be wrong. But I do consider myself a world-class expert. I believe I just saw Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson do it. Listen. I’ve been covering this project for 12 years. I’m so familiar…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Hope last night doesn’t come back to haunt the Texas Rangers down the road. Despite leading 4-0 with undefeated pitcher Tommy Hunter on the mound in Arlington, the Rangers imploded late…
Note from Jim: In the last week of April I asked the city to tell me how many guaranteed low-income housing units are available in downtown Dallas. There should be lots of them by now -a a couple thousand by some estimates — because over the decades, the city has…
Dear Mexican: I’m a (poor) white girl myself, but I have to ask: What’s the deal with all the rich white girls playing such a big role in Fiesta? Why is it always rich white girls that get crowned? Don’t you think the majority of them should be Mexican girls…
Everybody is on such pins and needles, walking on eggshells at City Hall about the police chief thing. You know they’ve gone over to the weird side when they appoint a special funeral procession prosecutor. City Hall has handed off the controversy over the cortege for Police Chief David Brown’s…
City of Ate’s inbox is typically crammed with messages from eager publicists, hopeful restaurant owners and aggrieved diners, who’ve often found the Better Business Bureau unresponsive to their complaints about grimy bathrooms and surly bartenders. Since we can’t do much for our woeful correspondents either, we’re turning their troubles over…
On Thursday we will get an interesting first official bite of the apple in complaints that the city of Dallas flouts federal law and practices racial discrimination in its downtown housing policies. The board of directors of the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs will ask downtown developers Ted…
[jump] *Keep an eye on SMU football. Something’s not right. I know head coach June Jones supposedly signed a lucrative contract extension last November, but he can’t be happy at all by these players being dismissed from his team and recruits not being accepted into school because of SMU’s ridiculously…
Dear Readers: The Arizona pendejas have emboldened hundreds of Know Nothings in the past week to boast to the Mexican that they’re not racist if they support SB 1070 because, according to them, they believe in the law, and they have no problems with immigrants as long as they’re legal…
We earn disasters like the Gulf oil spill. We bring them on ourselves by breaking the rules every time the rules get in our way. Houston attorney Jim Blackburn, one of the nation’s top environmental lawyers, talked to me last week about efforts by Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert to get…
I know nobody asked me. But the latest development in the story of the police chief’s son is just too much to ignore. Under relentless hectoring by Dallas police unions, City Manager Mary Suhm has hired attorney Terry Hart, a respected former federal prosecutor who worked on Don Hill’s gag-order…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Don’t understand why some folks around here can’t stand Mark Cuban. And that includes you, Ross Perot Jr. In Thursday night’s NBA Draft the Dallas Mavericks owner wrote a check for…
Dear Mexican: Why do the Mexicans HATE American soccer and HATE (bolded, underlined and italicized) Landon Donovan? —Uncle Sam’s Army Brat Dear Gabacho: Because Mexicans hate Americans—DUH! Geez, this is the literary equivalent of taking a penalty kick at this year’s FIFA World Cup with no goaltender—but I also want…
An extremely important thing happened at the city council meeting this morning. Nothing happened. I can’t tell you how big that is. Angela Hunt won. Mayor Tom Leppert told a packed house that the city council had agreed informally not to vote on the contentious Love Field concessions issue, directing…
I saw the Harlem Globetrotters not long ago but I’ll admit, I had no idea they had a “draft.” You? The world’s most famous basketball team yesterday drafted the “Club Trillion” founder, a college slam dunk champion, a husband-wife couple and – lookie here – a dude from SMU. That’s…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Watching Thursday night’s NBA Finals Game 7, it struck me just how far your Dallas Mavericks are from a championship. Lakers 83, Celtics 79 was a rugged, violent scrum on every possession…
Dear Mexican: I’m a civil rights lawyer. I sue the San Diego Minutemen. Whenever the Minutemen are accused of being racist, they always say something like, “I’m part Hispanic,” or they’ll note that some of their members are Mexican. This last claim is actually true. Some of the most zealous Minutemen are…
The Dallas Morning News has been doing stories and editorials about the shrinking population of black students in the Dallas public school system—a phenomenon the newspaper calls “black flight.” In its first story the paper reported: “Interviews with dozens of parents reveal that the exodus is not fueled by a…
The irony here is that true historic preservation activists in Dallas are going to welcome this latest bit of Trinity River toll road news. I began hearing from them long before the Corps went public with its efforts to get some kind of protective historic designation for the Trinity project…
Yesterday’s mail included a couple of letters from the Texas Attorney General, which I will share, regarding two unrelated matters. The first was an opinion dealing with my letter to Dallas Area Rapid Transit on March 23 in which I requested: “All reports generated by DART’s departments of board support,…
