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Insurance Carriers

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2012

    Texas Insurance Companies Waste More Money Than Any State's -- But You May Get Some Back

    If you are one of the 18 million or so Texans who have health insurance, you may find something unusual in your mailbox this summer: an envelope from your insurance company stuffed with cash or, more likely, a check. That's when the provision of the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare) will requ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2011

    Deep Ellum Urban Gardens Could be Hours Away from a Big Donation

    Dallas girl Lindsey Cook is in a tight race with Mary Edwards from California as the fan favorite in the Aetna Healthy Food Fight -- a fight that could mean a nice influx of cash for the Deep Ellum Urban Gardens. In case you missed it, through a contest at the State Fair, Cook was chosen to go to N ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2011

    Deep Ellum Urban Gardens Could Get a Major Boost from a Local Woman's Stuffed Peppers

    ​As an avid runner and cook, Lindsey Cook of Dallas loves to create healthy dishes, like her quinoa and turkey stuffed bell peppers. Easy, versatile and full of deliciousness, Cook was so smitten with the recipe that she entered it in the Aetna Healthy Food Fight contest. From there, the dish ... More >>

  • News

    October 13, 2011

    Life's Cheap. Levees Aren't.

    Corps of Engineers and city struggle to balance flood protection's costs versus the value of not drowning.

  • Blogs

    September 5, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2010

    Clearly, Snow Big Fan of Trinity River Project

    ​Trying to get to my post at Unfair Park. Big weather issues here. See photo. Huge branch the size of the Sears Tower fell on wife's car. Worse: I had inadvertently left money bag containing $1 million-plus in rubles on top of car, part of inheritance I received recently from little-known uncle in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2008

    The WSJ Polices Insurance Companies' Image Scanning Police

    ​Trying to get to my post at Unfair Park. Big weather issues here. See photo. Huge branch the size of the Sears Tower fell on wife's car. Worse: I had inadvertently left money bag containing $1 million-plus in rubles on top of car, part of inheritance I received recently from little-known uncle in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 5, 2008

    Nope Springs Eternal

    ​Trying to get to my post at Unfair Park. Big weather issues here. See photo. Huge branch the size of the Sears Tower fell on wife's car. Worse: I had inadvertently left money bag containing $1 million-plus in rubles on top of car, part of inheritance I received recently from little-known uncle in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2008

    One Trinity Item Is on the Fast Track, At Least

    ​Trying to get to my post at Unfair Park. Big weather issues here. See photo. Huge branch the size of the Sears Tower fell on wife's car. Worse: I had inadvertently left money bag containing $1 million-plus in rubles on top of car, part of inheritance I received recently from little-known uncle in ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 3, 2006

    What's Up Doc?

    ​Trying to get to my post at Unfair Park. Big weather issues here. See photo. Huge branch the size of the Sears Tower fell on wife's car. Worse: I had inadvertently left money bag containing $1 million-plus in rubles on top of car, part of inheritance I received recently from little-known uncle in ... More >>

  • Dining

    September 29, 2005

    Deep Easy

    N'awlins reborn in Deep Ellum

  • News

    August 18, 2005

    Obedience School

    Plus: Home, Bitter Home

  • News

    September 13, 2001

    Blame Game

    Is the insurance industry a bully or are the moldies just being hysterical?

  • News

    October 28, 1999

    Quick Fix

    After years of financial neglect, the state is hoping a shot of privatization will cure Dallas County's addicted and mentally ill population

  • Film

    June 25, 1998

    Afterthought special

    The classic children's story deserves better than this misconceived mess

  • News

    March 19, 1998

    Dr. Bombastic

    Dallas oncologist Dennis Birenbaum claims he's been given a bad rap by the state and media. Now he's going to make them pay.

  • News

    April 10, 1997

    Not so fast, Sonny

    A sweetheart bill down at the Texas Legislature will let you pay to make one Dallas businessman richer

  • News

    August 24, 1995

    Couldn't Medicare less

    Shady goings-on in the fight over health care

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