Articles for July 31st, 2008
Future Bush Home Speculation Hits Spanish-Language Television
Apparently Univision has thrown its hat in the future Bush home speculation. This just came in on my Preston Hollow Google alert. Unfortunately I don’t speak Spanish, but from what I can gather, it seems to be a rehashing of the same old, same old of a story that really isn’t going anywhere right now.
Free Screening of Hazing Documentary
A limited number of tickets are available for a free screening of the documentary Hazing, about underage drinking issues, at 9 p.m. Sept. 4 on the North Lawn by Dallas Hall on the SMU campus. Why does an outdoor screening have only a limited number of tickets? I don’t know.
I do know that former People Newspapers Society and Real Estate editor Paige Phelps (pictured on the right, with an unfortunate dye job) won a Mothers Against Drunk Driving Media Award in 2006 for a series of stories she wrote about the Gordie Foundation. Unfortunately those stories pre-date this incarnation of our website, and thus I cannot link to them.
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Craig Civale: Copy Cat?
Yesterday, Yahoo posted this story by Consumer Reports on how to cut your spending by $500 a month. Then, during one of last night’s WFAA broadcasts, senior reporter Craig Civale filed this report. I can only imagine how this went down at WFAA HQ… (more…)
One More Prison Door Slammed on Patrick Timothy Richardson
A federal appeals court upheld the big fat no given to Patrick Timothy Richardson, the University Park resident convicted of killing his wife. The lesson here: If you kill your wife, you go to jail and it doesn’t matter if the judge’s wife was in the Junior League with the victim. Too bad.