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How Bleacher Report Rules the World

Step 1: Be terrible. Step 2: Count the money. Repeat both steps as necessary.

Insuring the Insurers: What Something Called "Faktor K" Could Mean for Big D

​Writer and radio journalist Julia Barton, a regular reader of Unfair Park, tipped me today to a really fascinating piece published September 1 by BusinessWeek, called "The God Clause and the Reinsurance Industry." It's about an arcane industry located in cities far from Dallas, but Barton spied t ... More >>

As Virgin America Deflowers DFW, A Few Questions, Such As: What's Next? And How?

Andrea GrimesRichard Branson on the DFW tarmac following Virgin's official debut at DFW​At this very moment, a fellow Unfair Parker is headed to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport to catch a Virgin America flight bound for Los Angeles; looking forward to the in-flight review. But mere weeks a ... More >>

Think America Coddles Mexicans? How About The Way The Entire World Coddles Americans?

Apparently, Analysts Want Southwest to Charge for Luggage. Passengers Do Not.

Not effin' around: This ad first appeared back in June of last year.​Dallas-based Southwest Airlines releases its third-quarter financials tomorrow. Will the numbers go up? Dunno. Down? Could be. Hard to say. Kind of like whether Southwest is gaining passengers or losing money because it refuses t ... More >>

Billion Dollar Babies: Build America Bonds to Build Dallas Area Rapid Transit's Light Rail and Maybe the Convention Center Hotel

Dallas Area Rapid Transit The Martin Luther King Jr. station, part of the Green Line expansionNo doubt you've heard of the Build America Bond -- "the financial crisis equivalent of war bonds," says this BusinessWeek explainer from last month, if you haven't. Dallas Area Rapid Transit has cert ... More >>

Vacation Scorecard: Dallas v. Seattle

Took this pic out my airplane window. I was not flying over Dallas.Spent the first half of my vacation in the Pacific northwest. Seattle, to be exact. I'd been there several times, covering Cowboys-Seahawks and Mavericks-Sonics after my initial trip in 1987 for, would you believe, Dallas ... More >>

The T. Boone Pickens Alternative Energy Show Rolls Across America

Money-Huggers

How can all the top dogs in Dallas come out against TXU and coal?

Trial Lawyers Looking For Someone to Sue, Not Having Much Luck

Qantas Crashes Texas

What's Wright About That?

Deal or No Deal

You Will Never Work in This Biz Again

Cox, Hard to Get Into

No class

New York-based Edison Schools flunked out with trying to privatize Sherman's public schools. Why should things be any different in Dallas?