The Dallas Morning News has a piece this morning on the Trinity Parkway, an important piece of the overall Trinity River Corridor Project. I've been tracking the progress of this project for the last 8 years, and though you hear how it's about bridges, parks, water sports, wildlife, and most of...
Michael Davis has an excellent post at Dallas Progress regarding titled Address the problem. There he outlines some of the issues that he feels are hindering Dallas, and contributing to the crime situation.All his points are on the money. There's so much crime going on at these apartments complexes, I'd...
Tonight, the South Oak Cliff Golden Bears begin the defense of their Class 4A State Championship against Lincoln. The Golden Bears are two-time defending champions, so SOC Coach James Mays II has his team in a familiar position. Coach Mays filled us in on what’s going on with the program...
Tavis Smiley was in Dallas on Saturday to promote his latest book What I Know For Sure, which is his 10th. The book is semi-autobiographical and details his upbringing, and some of the lessons he has learned along the way. Tavis stopped by Friendship-West Baptist Church where he delivered a 45 minute talk describing some of the...
I wanted to get to get you some info on the racist video incident at Texas A&M and Dr. Gates response. Dallas Morning News Account here. Letter From Robert Gates here. Recap of campus meeting here. Response from Texas A&M Black Former Students here. Gates action update here.
Robert Gates has gained the respect of a broad range of people and organizations while at Texas A&M. One of those groups would be the Texas A&M Black Former Student Network, and it's president Ken Robinson. Mr. Robinson graduated from Skyline High School in Dallas, and graduated from Texas A&M...
By all accounts Dr. Robert Gates' tenure at Texas A&M has been an extremely successful one. He had just been featured in the November issue of Texas Monthly hailed as an agent of change. But on Wednesday, all of that changed. As I drove down Central Expressway Wednesday around noon, I was shocked to...
I'm not much into predictions, but I checked into a comment I made at Blue Island on October 14 in reference to Black Republicans. …I hope that the Johnny Come Lately Republicans don't get caught on the wrong side of the impeding political shift. I've talked to a number of African-Americans...
The national shift towards the Democratic Party may have made it all the way down to Dallas. With 99% of precincts reporting, it looks as though Craig Watkins will defeat Toby Shook and become Dallas County's next District Attorney. Watkins, who has promised changes in the DA's office, built on...
CNBC and CNN have given the U. S. House of Representatives to the Democratic Party.
