1. Mark Cuban is planning a huge development — offices, homes, ball fields, an indoor sports facility — in east Oak Cliff. If it comes off, it’ll be a bold move in a part of town that needs it.
2. In today’s Wall Street Journal, our own Willard Spiegelman, who writes the “Good Professor” column for the “print product” each month, has a piece on the artwork at Cowboys Stadium. Willard took a tour of the joint recently and came away quite impressed.
3. Channel 8 last night did the drunk Jerry Jones story in its early broadcasts, which Dale Hansen thought was the wrong decision. So you know what he did? He went “unplugged” on the 10 o’clock newscast and absolutely blasted station management. This is one of the reasons I love the guy. No one else in town has stones that compare to Hansen’s. I sent him an e-mail after the newscast, asking whether station management knew what he was going to say. They did, though they said they’d rather he not do it (and kudos to them for allowing the video to be posted). Hansen also wrote about 30 minutes after they’d signed off: “About 40 emails so far from viewers. Every one saying they agree with me. But then why do TMZ, Inside Edition, Extra and all that other crap do so well??”
Update: Uncle Barky breaks down how the other local stations handled the story last night (or didn’t). Good analysis of Hansen, too.
