An Experiment in Scotch

Amer­i­can Air­lines has jumped into the cur­rent Wright Amend­ment fray. Appar­ently, Amer­i­can is threat­en­ing to split their cur­rent hub oper­a­tions at D/FW and send large num­bers of planes to Love if the Wright Amend­ment is lifted. This is of course a not so sub­tle ploy to threaten and cajole law­mak­ers and pol­icy mak­ers into leav­ing …

The Dal­las Museum of Art grows in stature and endow­ments. Sev­eral local long-time bene­fac­tors of the Dal­las art scene have agreed to donate their col­lec­tions to the museum upon their death. This is excel­lent news for the museum specif­i­cally and the cul­tural scene of Dal­las in gen­eral. Here’s a DMN story on the same topic …

Dal­las’ strong mayor cam­paign is start­ing to make major news sources. It fun to watch all the dis­parate groups line up against the strong mayor ini­tia­tive. From your expected city coun­cil mem­bers (they have the most power to lose) to local pit bulls to the for­mer mayor above, lots of peo­ple have a vested inter­est …