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Fossil Fuel Energy

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2010

    Clean-Air Fund to Stop Funding Natural Gas Projects Till Industry Cleans Up Its Act

    Click to expand this map provided last week by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality​Way back in '97, and again last June, we told you the story of Sue Pope -- a Midlothian rancher who became legendary for taking on pollution-spewing TXI -- and the genesis of the fund named in her honor, w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2009

    Dallas Oil and Gas Man Discovers That Coffee and Federal Prison Are For Closers

    ​Speaking of missives sent from the U.S. Attorney's Office ...A press release just landed in the in-box concerning the tale of one Tommy Eugene Barber, a 32-year-old Dallas man who today pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle to two counts of securities fraud. And what did Barber ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2009

    Southwest Airlines Ties FedEx as Seventh Most-Admired Company in ... the World!

    Courtesy Southwest AirlinesFortune just posted its list of the World's Most Admired Companies -- at least, admired by the other bidness folks surveyed by the magazine. Five Dallas-based companies made the list of 363, and they are, in alphabetical order: AT&T, Brinker International, Centex, Sout ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2008

    Jim Schutze's Top 10 Highway Foods For Journalists On The Go

    Our resident political curmudgeon gets around. Between the office, city council meetings, back to the office, over to that proposed inland port, pausing to scoff at the site of Dallas' signature bridge and the road to nowhere then to the office once again for a quip-trading session with Wilonsky, he ... More >>

  • News

    December 18, 2008

    The Secret Society of Happy People Spills the Coffee Beans

    Our resident political curmudgeon gets around. Between the office, city council meetings, back to the office, over to that proposed inland port, pausing to scoff at the site of Dallas' signature bridge and the road to nowhere then to the office once again for a quip-trading session with Wilonsky, he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2008

    Captain Marvel Cracks the Quake? Or: Drill, Baby, Drill!

    Our resident political curmudgeon gets around. Between the office, city council meetings, back to the office, over to that proposed inland port, pausing to scoff at the site of Dallas' signature bridge and the road to nowhere then to the office once again for a quip-trading session with Wilonsky, he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2008

    Finally, We Step Inside Harlan Crow's "New" Old Parkland Hospital

    Our resident political curmudgeon gets around. Between the office, city council meetings, back to the office, over to that proposed inland port, pausing to scoff at the site of Dallas' signature bridge and the road to nowhere then to the office once again for a quip-trading session with Wilonsky, he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 6, 2008

    Tracy Rowlett's New Boss at ShaleTV Makes Confusing Case for Advertorials

    Our resident political curmudgeon gets around. Between the office, city council meetings, back to the office, over to that proposed inland port, pausing to scoff at the site of Dallas' signature bridge and the road to nowhere then to the office once again for a quip-trading session with Wilonsky, he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 31, 2008

    In Alaska, Another Irving-Based Oil Company Goes Shootin' at Some Crude

    Our resident political curmudgeon gets around. Between the office, city council meetings, back to the office, over to that proposed inland port, pausing to scoff at the site of Dallas' signature bridge and the road to nowhere then to the office once again for a quip-trading session with Wilonsky, he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 12, 2008

    A Lawsuit Over the Barnett Shale -- Look Out, Tommy Lee Jones!

    Our resident political curmudgeon gets around. Between the office, city council meetings, back to the office, over to that proposed inland port, pausing to scoff at the site of Dallas' signature bridge and the road to nowhere then to the office once again for a quip-trading session with Wilonsky, he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2008

    One Local Attorney's Figured Out How to Get Money Out of Big Oil

    Our resident political curmudgeon gets around. Between the office, city council meetings, back to the office, over to that proposed inland port, pausing to scoff at the site of Dallas' signature bridge and the road to nowhere then to the office once again for a quip-trading session with Wilonsky, he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 30, 2008

    Now, You Can Tell The Kids, "Hey, We're Going to the Perot." Or Not.

    Our resident political curmudgeon gets around. Between the office, city council meetings, back to the office, over to that proposed inland port, pausing to scoff at the site of Dallas' signature bridge and the road to nowhere then to the office once again for a quip-trading session with Wilonsky, he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2008

    Now What Do We Call Laura Miller? And Keep It Clean.

    Our resident political curmudgeon gets around. Between the office, city council meetings, back to the office, over to that proposed inland port, pausing to scoff at the site of Dallas' signature bridge and the road to nowhere then to the office once again for a quip-trading session with Wilonsky, he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2008

    A Shell of Its Former Self?

    Our resident political curmudgeon gets around. Between the office, city council meetings, back to the office, over to that proposed inland port, pausing to scoff at the site of Dallas' signature bridge and the road to nowhere then to the office once again for a quip-trading session with Wilonsky, he ... More >>

  • Home Entertainment

    January 17, 2008

    DVD Releases for the Week of January 15

    Our resident political curmudgeon gets around. Between the office, city council meetings, back to the office, over to that proposed inland port, pausing to scoff at the site of Dallas' signature bridge and the road to nowhere then to the office once again for a quip-trading session with Wilonsky, he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2007

    Hunt-ing Season

    Our resident political curmudgeon gets around. Between the office, city council meetings, back to the office, over to that proposed inland port, pausing to scoff at the site of Dallas' signature bridge and the road to nowhere then to the office once again for a quip-trading session with Wilonsky, he ... More >>

  • Music

    July 26, 2007

    Chris Knight

    Thursday, July 26, at Suede Bar & Grill

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2007

    NPR Knows What's Buggin' Dallas

    Thursday, July 26, at Suede Bar & Grill

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2007

    Re: NPR Knows What's Buggin' Dallas

    Thursday, July 26, at Suede Bar & Grill

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2007

    Dallas: Home to the Fortune 11

    Thursday, July 26, at Suede Bar & Grill

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2007

    Swift Justice in a Faraway Place

    Thursday, July 26, at Suede Bar & Grill

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2007

    En Guard, Castleguard

    Thursday, July 26, at Suede Bar & Grill

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2007

    "A Shadowy Coalition." Sounds Cool. Can We Join?

    Thursday, July 26, at Suede Bar & Grill

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2006

    Clean Your PIPEs

    Thursday, July 26, at Suede Bar & Grill

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2006

    Texans Love Al Gore!

    Thursday, July 26, at Suede Bar & Grill

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2006

    Feel Free to Nominate Me

    Thursday, July 26, at Suede Bar & Grill

  • News

    May 15, 2003

    Public Disinterest

    So is media consolidation a bad thing?

  • News

    April 20, 2000

    Buzz

    The shallow end; All the news that fits; Heart of darkness

  • News

    October 14, 1999

    Low-octane litigation

    A conservative court and a hardball corporation have gutted plaintiffs' claims in the Kaufman County pipeline explosion case

  • News

    October 5, 1995

    Yemengate

    In a tiny Middle Eastern country, government officials have accused Dallas oilman Ray Hunt's company of cheating them out of millions.

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