Apparently, the new bid for the Calatrava bridge includes building the thing outta PVC pipe and a cylindrical steel frame. Which isn’t exactly what Santiago had in mind… On FrontBurner, Tim Rogers comments with obvious satisfaction on word today that the city has come up with a bid for the…
Sign spotted this morning on light pole at Fitzhugh and Swiss: “Lost Turtle. He is six inches long. Reward. 214 826 3378.” Sign includes photo of very cute turtle. C’mon, folks. You don’t put up posters of your turtle unless you’re really hurting. Has anybody seen this bad boy? Give…
It’s hard for people to keep up, so every once in a while I’d like to do a City Council Status update for the blog. Just a few lines to let people know what’s up as of now. As of this moment the Dallas city council and city staff are…
Mitchell Rasansky got his poll results. Says they look good. Then, that’s what the doctor told us last time, and, ah, not so much, buddy. Mitchell Rasansky assured me that as of 1500 hours Central Standard Time October 3, 2006 he still had not made up his mind whether to…
It’s not that Jim’s opposed to boats and boardwalks on the Trinity. He just wants to know where the money’s coming from to pay for this fantasyland. Tim, I must tell you: That barely perceptible little tone of irritation suits you. You should go with your feelings more often. For…
Dear Readers, Folks went loco following my September 7 column that blamed Chicano studies for spawning a generation of humorless activists and “corrupt[ing] the brains of young Mexicans with antiquated concepts like victimization, objectification and grade inflation.” Too many letters and comments from professors, activists and Zach de la Rocha…
So what do you think Yankees should talk like when they come to Texas? Does it do them any good to try to talk like Texans? No, I didn’t think so either. Especially when they’re Hillary Clinton. If we know anything at all in Dallas, it’s about Yankees. This is…
Tim. Seriously. You state that the water from the sewage plant will be much cleaner than the water in the river. That’s true. Then you propose a continuous loop, sans portage, going with the flow from the downstream sewage plant upriver through the lake, then downstream via the river, going…
Jim Schutze is inviting Tim Rogers to go swimming in the Trinity. Tim has to go first. Wick Allison’s worthy acolyte, Tim Rogers, slapped me silly and cleared up a lot of confusion about the manmade lake planned for downtown with his post this morning on the D magazine blog,…
Seems the city council didn’t vote on the Trinity Lakes project after all. Wow. That’s a stunner. Oh, by the way, I just wanted to point out that FrontBurner’s very confident prediction of action on the Trinity Lakes at city council today…uh…didn’t happen. Yesterday, at the very last minute under…
This is the Trinity River with lakes, sailboats, boardwalks and other fantasies. By the way, this ain’t paid for. None of it. So there. Wick Allison makes a good point on FrontBurner today when he points out that none of the changes in the Trinity River project has been carried…
The mayor says Jim Schutze grossly distorted the facts concerning the Trinity River. To which Jim says: Hey, at least I got facts. So there. Of course I don’t like the phrase “gross distortion of the facts” in Mayor Miller’s characterization of my reporting on the Trinity River project. But…
The current Observer city columnist says the Calatrava bridges are a bust. The former Observer city columnist says they’re gonna be the best things, like, ever! Not long after Jim Schutze’s August 31 cover story on the Calatrava bridges, “Eye Candy for Suckers,” hit the streets, I got a call…
History has this way of throwing bean balls at us. Just about now, the city finally has escaped its South Dallas guilt complex. People no longer feel obligated to sluice money into boondoggle rip-off scams that do nothing to relieve poverty and only benefit the same six people. For a…
Dear Mexican, I have a stupid, unemployed, 16-year-old gang-bangin’ cousin who already dropped out of school, and I’m pretty sure most Mexicans are related to somebody who fits that description. About eight months ago, he knocked up a girl around his age, so last week I was dragged to their…
Schutze to D: Stick with what you know best. Speaking of, know where we can get a good burger? Tim Rogers posted a long item today on the D magazine blog FrontBurner accusing me of writing deceptively about the Trinity River project. Some personal innuendo was made, which I will…
Pat Cotton has hired Dallas lawyer James Murphy to sue The Dallas Morning News and political reporter Gromer Jeffers over quotes Cotton says she never said. On September 6, in a story that appeared in the paper that was republished online, Jeffers quoted Cotton as threatening to “destroy” city council…
Dear Mexican, I see Jews, Asians and Persians making something of themselves and conducing safe, walkable communities. Of course they’re not perfect, but I don’t see high Jew-crime communities, either. I see these people sticking together and helping each other out instead of envying their own. Why can’t Mexicans get…
Ever since the 1998 bond election when the city got its hands on $246 million in tax money for the Trinity River Project, City Hall has done everything it could to keep the public out of it. Now, thanks entirely to council member Mitchell Rasansky, the lone wolf of the…
They’re thinking of making the Calatrava bridge with PVC pipe. What, they got something against popsicle sticks? Because that looks good to us. I love the The Dallas Morning News story about how the first Calatrava Bridge over the Trinity River downtown is going to cost half as much because…
Dear Mexican, My gabacha friends and I marched in the May pro-amnesty rallies and wanted to show our support on our chests as well as our feet. We wore T-shirts that read, “I only (picture of big, juicy lips) mojados” on the front and “Yo solo (lips) mojados” on the…
All last week the media were doing their year-after-Katrina stories. Whose fault was everything? What have we learned? I’m reading this stuff, and it occurs to me I’m not really interested in group lessons. What have I learned? What do I do, here in Dallas, Texas, next time this rolls…
