Articles for June, 2009
Former DMNer Scores Big Payday, Ctd.
The good folks at Gawker don’t quite believe that price tag, Glenn.
Former DMNer Scores Big Payday
Who says you can’t make a boatload of dough off New Media? Nikki Finke, who used to toil hereabouts for The Dallas Morning News, is selling her cutting-edge Hollywood news web site for an estimated $15 million.
SMU Emergency Happening Now?
A Florida-vacationing FrontBurnervian sends us the text message she just received on her phone:
From: SMU Emergency Alert <swnalert@sendwordnow.com>
Date: June 25, 2009 10:45:05 AM EDT
This was sent at Main Campus Only: There is an emergency on campus. Please shelter in the nearest building now. Do not go outside. Will update.
Does anyone know what this is about? Comments are open.
UPDATE: Our commenting FrontBurnvians provide the answer. Thanks!
The Most Dangerous Neighborhoods in Dallas
The most dangerous neighborhoods in Dallas? You’re looking at them — although the first one confuses me. Here’s the thing: an alert FBvian pointed me this morning to this study of the country’s 25 most dangerous neighborhoods. Dallas has two on the list. No. 9 on the list is “Route 352 and Scyene Rd.” Except Route 352 is Scyene Rd. So I guess watch out pretty much all up and down that street? No. 12 on the list is “2nd Ave. and Hatcher St.,” the second picture below. You’ve been warned.
Leading Off (6/25/09)
1. I still don’t understand why, without fail, every summer I have to read a story about a woman SOMEONE leaving a baby or toddler locked in a car, with the windows rolled up, on a hot summer day, while she THAT PERSON — probably some no-good, jerky dad even though, in this case, it was a mom — is in a store. At least this time, the baby survived. (Happy now, everyone?)
2. The American Volkssport Association has been hosting a national convention for older outdoor walkers in and around Dallas this week. That just seems like poor planning, no?
3. Former Texas Rangers president Tom Schieffer officially joined the race for governor yesterday in Fort Worth. Is it too early to call him the Zac Crain of this race? Probably not.
Turns Out Glenn Hunter Is a Country-and-Western Fan
And here’s the proof: he recently went to Branson, Missouri–Sun Country Airlines just launched direct service from DFW to this C&W hot spot–to see legends Merle Haggard and Gene Watson. Read all about it.
(photo courtesy of Bob Cannella)
The Year’s Most Outrageous CEO Pay Package?
The S-T’s Mitchell Schnurman nominates Aubrey McClendon of Chesapeake Energy. He took in $122 million while profits fell by half and the stock price collapsed.
Jim Schutze Doesn’t Know Whom To Blame
Turns out the city knew about the sand under the Trinity. Better yet, the city told the Corps of Engineers about it from the start. Here’s Schutze:
So here’s the deal. This means the city did do the geo-tech. The city says it did give the geo-tech to the Corps. The Corps did give the city the go-ahead for the project. The Corps then stopped the project and said it was shocked, shocked, when sand came out of a hole.
Now Schutze doesn’t know what to do. Can’t blame the city anymore. But blame the Corps? He’s been pumping the Corps against the city for a year or more. What to do? He’s got to blame somebody. After all, it’s the Dallas Observer. It’s their schtick.
Leppert’s Preston Hollow Home Quietly Up For Sale
So, Dallas’ top city official “sort of” wants to sell his multimillion-dollar manse in Preston Hollow, during the most brutal real estate market since the 1980s. And to do so he’s quietly listed the place with a, er, somewhat controversial Realtor. Interesting. The unbeatable Candy Evans has the scoop over on DallasDirt.
Mansfield Stays Classy, Takes Federal Funds
An alert FBvian points us to this Wonkette item:
http://wonkette.com/409419/texas-town-turns-down-socialist-blood-money-but-then-takes-it-a-day-later
[struggling with new cut and paste functions on iPhone]
“The city of Mansfield, Texas took a bold stand against the socialist Kenyan martyr Barack Obama and his free-spending ways on Monday, opting not to take $38,000 in FREE FEDERAL GRANT MONEY that they had applied for. They were going to send Washington a message: a message that said, ‘Yes, we requested federal assistance to improve our police force, but now we do not want it because … socialism?’
“But then they thought it over and on Tuesday decided they would reluctantly take the filthy Obamabucks that they had just proudly opted to turn down.”
[#Fail]
Mandy Doolittle, R.I.P.
A Dallas native and HPHS grad, she was killed in Tuesday’s Washington metro crash.
The Texas Paradox: What Really Goes On In McAllen
A FrontBurnervian sends us a fascinating case from McAllen which highlights almost everything wrong with our healthcare system. In fact, the problems are so obvious the solutions present themselves. I really, really think it’s worth reading:
Leading Off (6/24/09)
1. Okay, try to follow along. Now the plan is to turn Young Street into César Chávez Street. Then Canton Street becomes Young Street. I don’t understand why we’re still messing around with this. I am, of course, a huge racist for pointing this out, but César Chávez didn’t have anything to do with Dallas.
2. I give you the quote. You guess who said it. Here it is: “I got my inspiration from Frankenstein. The doctor creates the monster and drives him to desperation. These people have driven me crazy. I don’t know the difference between right and wrong. Now I’m going to let them control the outcome of all the other innocents.” Was that a) Zac Crain, b) Councilwoman Carolyn Davis, or c) a guy who shot a woman in the face at a park?
3. The sale of Highland Park Village is the Wall Street Journal’s “Deal of the Week.” The story fails to mention the current plan to rename the shopping center César Chávez Village.
DART Board Approves Orange Line to DFW Airport
The line, already being built from Downtown Dallas to Las Colinas, will be extended to the airport. As close as last month, the extension was in question, and the Legislature almost nixed it.
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