DART president and executive director Gary Thomas can back-fill your pain. Dallas Area Rapid Transit Board of Directors chair Lynn Flint Shaw, in the news lately over a forgery accusation, sat sequestered in a corner of the room where reporters couldn’t get to her yesterday, while DART director Gary Thomas…
We finally figured out what those orbs are in the mosquito pond in front of City Hall: the city council’s testicles. Glory be, the Dallas city council isn’t dead after all. And just when I was beginning to expect a story out of City Hall that started out, “Police were…
Dear Mexican: I feel that the more Mexicans who come to this country, the better. I am a Mormon, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. In our Book of Mormon, on page 54, it says on the left side of the page in verse…
Dirt skirts. Understand dirt skirts, and you understand the Earth. Some weeks ago I received e-mails from an esteemed neighbor warning me of an important City Hall issue having to do with “dirt skirts.” I wrongly assumed we were talking about our perennial East Dallas problem with prostitutes. Dirt skirts,…
I attended some of today’s meeting of the Dallas Area Rapid Transit board during which they tried, once again, to explain why they are suddenly a billion dollars short on the cost of the proposed new rail lines to suburban Irving and Rowlett. It was supposed to cost $1 billion…
During the Trinity River toll road debate — which is to say, prior to the election in which a majority of Dallas voters voted the wrong way — various bloggers, pundits and kiester-faces around town mentioned Storrow Drive in Boston as an example of a multi-lane road that coexists peacefully…
I must point out: In my column this week, I reveal that one of my personal goals for 2008 is a massive flood in the Park Cities. Within 24 hours of my column hitting the streets, flood-clogged sewers in the Park Cities begin burbling poo-poo into the streets. Hear this…
C’mon, Wick, show us your dot. We promise not to giggle. The current issue of D includes sort of a neat little item — a map indicating “How Dallas Media Voted in the Trinity Toll Road Referendum.” It shows how the city voted in November, and there are dots indicating…
One of my New Year’s resolutions is to be a better person. Another is to do a better job cleaning up after the dogs in my backyard. Whichever comes first. The dog thing I can do. The better person plan is in conflict, I must admit, with some of what…
Dear Mexican: As everyone knows, dogs seem to reflect their master’s personality. Likewise, the breeds invented by a nation say a lot about that nation. Germans bred the German shepherd and the Rottweiler: smart, loyal, faithful, yet a little cold and not the kind of dogs you want to piss…
I apologize for the shortened column this week, but there are tamales to make… Dear Readers, Gracias, thank you, gracias for another successful year. The Mexican now appears in 32 newspapers across the country, with a weekly circulation of just more than 2 million! As more readers join the Reconquista,…
Shipped off a little Christmas Eve bundle to DART legal affairs this afternoon — the letter’s after the jump. What we are looking for: How many, if any, of Mayor Tom Leppert’s political team received lucrative DART contracts. I await DART’s response, as always, with breath both bated and baited…
Hey. Want to know where you can find a billion dollars? Dallas Area Rapid Transit has been saying they are suddenly a billion dollars short of what it will cost them to meet their rail-building obligations, and they’re blaming it on inflation. Nuh-uh. I report in my column in this…
DART, the regional mass transit agency, announced a couple weeks ago that it had underestimated the cost of building a new billion-dollar suburban rail line by, oh, say, give or take, you know… about a billion dollars. Was gonna cost $1 billion. Now the DART staff says it’s gonna cost…
Dear Mexican: U.S. citizens are sick and tired that for more than 40 years, Latin American elites have lived like monarchs because they pimp their poor to American businesses for cheap labor that American taxpayers have been forced to subsidize with health care, food, housing, education and so forth, costing…
So is my son, Will Schutze, ahead of the curve, behind the curve, or did he drive off the curve and get in a wreck? He’s a senior at the University of Texas at Austin. And a month ago he quit Facebook. There’s a story on the front page of…
O.K., the first of two self-referential familial blog item of the day. I am looking at my own street with Google Maps Street View, the way everybody told me to. I see my own house. Wow. I see my own car. Wow. I click on the arrow and go on…
It has been decades since Ron Cowart was a grunt in Vietnam or a SWAT cop on the streets of Dallas, but he still has the bearing. Now head of the city’s homeless outreach team, he is more gray about the ears than when we met a good 20 years…
Dear Mexican: I’m sad that there aren’t more Mexicans here in the Detroit area. We’re one of the few areas in the country that is predominantly Catholic. We’ve welcomed wave after wave of Catholic immigrants for well more than 100 years, and they’ve intermingled and blended into our local society…
Well, well, well. Isn’t this great? An olive branch from the anti-Trinity River toll road folks to Mayor Tom, who beat them in the recent referendum on building a toll road through downtown. I do believe it’s kiss-and-make-up time. All the mayor has to do, in order to accept this…
A lot of what goes wrong at The Dallas Morning News has to do with people who forgot to take their smart pill in the morning. Stuffed way inside today’s paper is a legal ass-covering story by Kent Fischer, in which the paper tries to amend for its atrocious coverage…
Ray Hunt, the most amazing person in the history of ever Am I the only masochist who actually read through all the way to the end of that embarrassing Ray Hunt story on the front page of yesterday’s Dallas Morning News? Well, see, whenever I see one of those stories…
