In Town Dallas

Editorial

Solving DISD Budget Crisis Will Take Common Sense Solutions

In reviewing the wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth over whose fault the current school debt crisis is in DISD, we can’t depend on the State. Citizens and Corporate Dallas needs to own up and quash the talk about firing or paying off teachers to leave which would raise the classroom ratio to 35/1.  It’s time we get real and do what should have been done a long time ago in regards to sales tax, property tax and privatization. 

After thinking about it, it’s awfully coincidental that our public school failings, both fiscally and behaviorally, began when helicopter parents, lawyers and overly sensitive public school administrators jacked the Six Grade Crossing Guard.

In Oak Cliff, Love Field & S. Dallas

Walmart Announces $200M Expansion

Today, Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert announced Walmart intends to invest $200 million to launch more than a dozen new projects in the city of Dallas, including at least three new stores in Southern Dallas. The expansion will more than double the number of locations inside the city limits. 

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3rd Annual Retail As Art Photography Invitational

Retail as Art is a photography contest designed to showcase the best local photographic talent that captures the true essence of Dallas retail and next Thursday, February 24th, an informational session will be held at design within reach.

Invest In Your Neighborhood

Preserving Dallas Beyond Today

Michael Amonett with the Old Oak Cliff Conservation League has recently brought an important city-wide issue to our attention that affects everyone who owns a business or lives inside the City of Dallas in or near a neighborhood that is historic, under conservation status or simply values having the ability to maintain what’s left of the cities structural history.  The City’s record at historic preservation has been abysmal and without the support by the historic preservation program, it goes without saying, more would have been destroyed. 

Katherine Seale with Preservation Dallas has drafted a letter below that details the fee increase in addition to moving the preservation program back to the General Fund from the Enterprise Fund that Amonett, with support by the OOCCL encourages everyone to consider sending to their Council Representative since the vote is tomorrow.  Feel free to copy and paste the letter below to this City of Dallas link. DHarris

2 Cool 4 School

jampact is Jammin' @ SMU

Music scholar and pianist Jose Bowen says the jam band dedicated to an improvisational mix of jazz, funk, and world music.  From exotic grooves to jammin blues, everything is a world-premiere original and electro-acoustic.  The multi-disciplinary collaboration: a 3-way improvisation among dance, art and music is a partnership between the band jampact, dancers and digital art.

Free and Open to the Public

Family Day at Meadows Museum

In conjunction with their current exhibit, adults and children of all ages have an opportunity to get in touch with their inner Spanish Muse by playing games and engaging in hands-on gallery games including collages, scavenger hunts and building sculptures on the plaza.  Focusing on contemporary artists currently on display in the museum, the games are aimed at helping children connect the mental dots of art through touch, play and their own creations.
 

An Editorial

Can NPR Survive? Not as we know it and that's a good thing...

Let’s face it, million dollar business deals with television stations don’t happen overnight so why is anyone surprised the comment made by Juan Williams on NPR, to the overnight contract with FOX, was probably a well executed plan between Fox and Williams.  Hey that’s business, right?  Is NPR the unwitting fall guy?  Sure, but that wasn’t hard. 

For a long time, they haven’t been rational in how they operate in the reality of cable television, internet radio and new media?  And let’s face it, they fell from their mission more than a decade ago.  Can it be saved?  “You betcha”!  But they will have to accept only parts of it will survive assuming they put the National back in National Public Radio. If they do, we need to get behind and make sure 110% of its funding comes from private funding rather than 98% so we don’t risk losing it and the television component, well…it needs to be retired.