Well, I think I got some interesting stuff here.The city keeps telling people they’re going to “fix” the Trinity River levees. Don’t much think so. Looks to me like a whole lot of the existing levee system along the Trinity is going to have be torn out and replaced.My column…
I’m already getting calls from my Republican friends (I have some! Swear!) who have seen the Todd Gillman story that just went up on The Dallas Morning News’s site. In it, former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk tells Gillman he’s really pissed that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is bringing…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Seems Highland Park-ex and potential No. 1 overall NFL Draft pick Matthew Stafford isn’t comfortable talking with teams – specifically a psychologist for the San Francisco 49ers – about his parents’…
Astute Friend of Unfair Park “Wylie H.” drilled into the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ report on the Trinity River levees yesterday evening and found the real horror story that goes almost unmentioned in this morning’s Dallas Morning News account of the report: the story of the day we almost…
Dear Mexican: Why are Mexicans so proud of the brutality of their police force? They seem to glamorize it in all their music and telenovelas. —Batons Are Bats, Or Super Oracles Dear BABOSO: I’ll let you know when Dirty Harry, Detective Sipowicz, Chief Wiggum and the producers of COPS get…
Let’s begin with the assumption that you, as reader and citizen, do give a damn what’s going to happen along the Trinity River through downtown, where the biggest public works campaign in the city’s history seems to have become a big mess. Let’s also assume you do not care too…
Month or so ago, Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price called me up and reamed me out for suggesting he may be carrying water for Ross Perot Jr. and the Perot-dominated Alliance freight airport in Fort Worth. The commissioner told me he barely knows Mr. Perot and said he couldn’t…
The following is a prime example of my curse here on Earth. A fleeting thought sprouts into a mild observation, only to bloom into a thesis that eventually flourishes into a blog item with sports branches. My apologies … Got a text the other day, the salutation of which was LOL. It struck…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *Dallas Police Chief David Kunkel can apologize all he wants for the indefensible actions of Robert Powell, but unless the officer is fired it will be a complete and utter injustice…
Dear Readers: In honor of April Fools’ Day, I’m turning over the column this week to those who think America can stop the Reconquista. Following are the winners of my challenge to Know Nothings a couple semanas back asking people to explain in 100 words or less how they can…
For 11 years the Dallas Observer has been reporting the existence of serious, fundamental life-and-death design errors in the Trinity River project, a huge public-works undertaking to rebuild the river through downtown Dallas alongside a new highway and parks. Above all else, this was to be a flood-safety project, but…
Steve Blow writes today on The Dallas Morning News’s Metro Blog about Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert, the Trinity River toll road and Blow’s own support of Leppert in the past:Yet I don’t feel misled by the mayor. In thinking about it, I finally hit upon the pertinent word for me:…
By now I’m way way too deep into the story of the Trinity River Corridor Project. I have actually developed a kind of side interest — a hobby, maybe — involving the history of the Trinity River Project. I’ll know it’s time to see a doctor when I start collecting…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *It hit me this week: More than the Mavs being psychologically gutted from playoff failure or inherently soft or whatever, the thing that has stunted their growth is the regression of…
Mayor Tom Leppert and The Dallas Morning News are hell-bent for leather to invest half a billion bucks in public money in a city-owned convention “headquarters” hotel downtown to save the city’s convention business. But should we stop and reflect on the fact that the decline in the city’s convention…
Dear Mexican: Why is it that when I go to the Mexican supermarkets to buy productos femeninas, fully 98 percent of the aisle provided for such things is composed of maxi pads and the limited selection of tampons are in dusty boxes with a sell-by date of 1986? I assume…
This one – for damn sure – can’t be explained away by sonic boom. A slamming door and vibrating wall that wakes me from a sleep? Maybe. But a noticable, audible swaying of a kitchen pot rack when I’m awake and alert? I dunno. You tell me. Perhaps Craig T. Nelson…
Whether you’re at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End: *I promise to watch Terrell Owens’ reality show on VH1. Provided that I get to see the unedited footage of T.O.’s reaction when agent Drew Rosenhaus calls with the four most…
New Crum Center. Same crummy results. In Matt Doherty’s first season as SMU basketball coach back in 2006-07, the Mustangs started 9-1. A victory at Oklahoma would’ve likely propelled the Ponies into the Top 25. Instead, SMU was humbled in Norman by 27 points, and it’s been all drastically downhill since…
Dear Mexican: Not sure if this has been asked before, but how do you feel about Arizona’s Sheriff Joe Arpaio? I think the guy’s a fucking racist who’s just out to get Mexicans to fulfill his racist agenda. He’s been relevant lately due to the protests in Arizona against Section…
In reading the latest news about flood dangers downtown and the Trinity River Project, it’s important to know that this is an 11-year-old story that Dallas officials and The Dallas Morning News are just now being forced to acknowledge. And even at that, the acknowledgment is grudging and slow to…
In 1990 I finished the White Rock Marathon. And it almost finished me. This year, I get my revenge: Back then I was a 26-year-old flatbelly, just a couple years removed from competitive cross country and a full-speed dork who would precede Saturday morning flag football at The Village Country Club with…
