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  • News

    April 19, 2012

    Mitt Romney: American Parasite

    Mitt Romney’s years at Bain Capital represent everything you hate about capitalism.

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2011

    Office of Economic Development Offers a Look at Where Dallas Lives, Works and Spends

    Click to enlarge this look-see from this afternoon's council briefing​A couple of months back the council's Economic Development Committee got a look at Dallas's workforce and jobs courtesy the Office of Economic Development, which asked: Does the city have the "wrong workforce or the wrong jobs?" ... More >>

  • News

    October 20, 2011

    What's Occupying Tom Leppert

    The Senate candidate doesn't like mobs of protesters. Someone alert the Tea Party.

  • News

    October 6, 2011

    Rick Perry's Manufactured Miracle

    Rick Perry's Texas is a job-making, low-taxing oasis of prosperity. It's also pure fantasy.

  • Blogs

    October 3, 2011

    Council Committee to Receive Briefing This Morning on Dallas's "Flat Employment" Rate

    ​In a few minutes, the council's Economic Development Committee will take up the subject of Dallas' Workforce and Jobs, which comes with this 29-page PowerPoint worth a look-see even if you're not planning on following along, which we are. Long story short: "In an ongoing weak national economy," s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2011

    Obama's Jobs Council Meets at SMU's Cox to Insist Infrastructure's the Way Back to Work

    Photo by Leslie MinoraThe mustachioed man in the middle is Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO​The day before the Labor Department broke the dismal news that the unemployment rate's unchanged and consumer confidence has "dropped sharply," students, professors and local business leaders fi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2011

    Dallas Fed Head Attempts to "Separate Fact from Fiction" When It Comes to Texas Jobs

    Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas​Several Friends of Unfair Park, including a grumpy one below, have asked if we'll make mention of Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fisher's speech given in Midland yesterday. Sure, absolutely, happy to. Because, first, I'm ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2011

    USA Today: "Move to Texas." Ish.

    ​In hotels all across the country this morning, folks are rising and shining to that bit of advice courtesy this state of the state, which, like everyone else, is just waiting for Rick Perry to jump into the pool of GOP candidates and begin talking about how The Great State of Texas is a jobs-maki ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2011

    Perry Signs for Cupcakes

    Free at last, free at last. Thank God almighty it's free at last.​Don't ever underestimate the power of pissed-off bakers. Gov. Rick Perry knows. That's why he signed Senate Bill 81 last week. (Because no candidate wants chocolate cake with thick butter cream icing thrown at his campaign bus i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2011

    Happy Days Are Near Again For DFW Market? So Insists National Retail Real-Estate Report.

    Marcus & Millichap​An old friend of mine was kind enough to forward along the hot-off-the-presses Marcus & Millichap National Retail Report, the must-read amongst real-estaters; insists my pal of the mixed-to-optimistic forecast, it's "a pretty thorough insight into the retail world." In w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2011

    Ex-Mayor Kirk Addresses Soon-To-Be-Ex-Mayor Leppert and Other Tom Tidbits

    U.S. Conference of MayorsMayor Tom Leppert at a panel on job retention and creation yesterday in Washington, D.C.​That's not exactly what happened, sure, but this afternoon in Washington, D.C., at the 79th Winter Meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk delivere ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2011

    Meet Thane Hayhurst, An Apparent Poster Boy for Job Creation Through Deregulation

    Dallas entrepreneur Thane Hayhurst works with computers.​From John Kramer at the Institute for Justice -- and it's funny, I was just staring down the barrel of my "Litigating for Liberty" hip flask -- comes the story of Dallas tech entrepreneur Thane Hayhurst, the "entrepreneurially driven David," ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2009

    Job Hunting, One Dallas Intersection at a Time

    Kimberly Thorpe​Kwaku Twumasi had been out of work for seven months when he decided to try a new approach to job hunting -- right, the very one you see above. The 34-year-old SMU Cox School of Business graduate had exhausted the more traditional routes of job scouting, like mailing resumes and net ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2009

    Now, For the Good News: The DFW Is Still One of Best Big Cities For Job Growth in U.S.

    Earlier this week, Michael Shires, associate professor in public policy at Pepperdine University, and Joel Kotkin posted on Forbes and New Geography their annual list of the best cities for job growth in the country -- though Kotkin adds the caveat that given the state of things, "perhaps we should ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2009

    Says Rick Perry: I'm "Resisting Further Government Intrusion" and Saying No to $500 Mil in Unemployment Insurance

    Just arrived in Austin, only to find in my in-box, oh, 'bout a dozen Friends' links to either Governor Rick Perry's speech down in Houston or the Burnt Orange Report's compendium of reactions to said speech. As you may know by now, the governor is saying no to more than $500 million in unemployment ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2008

    Foster's Brook, or: The Dallas County Judge is Smarter Than He Lets On

    This should be said: One of the heroes in the otherwise ugly stupid saga of the inland port development in Southern Dallas has been Dallas County Judge Jim Foster.First of all: He figured it out. A very good source close to the county commissioners told me, "He's like a little detective. He's quiet, ... More >>

  • News

    November 6, 2008

    Before the Election, Feeling a Little Hanxious

    This should be said: One of the heroes in the otherwise ugly stupid saga of the inland port development in Southern Dallas has been Dallas County Judge Jim Foster.First of all: He figured it out. A very good source close to the county commissioners told me, "He's like a little detective. He's quiet, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2008

    Ever Been to the "Dallas-Plano-Irving, TX Metropolitan Division"?

    This should be said: One of the heroes in the otherwise ugly stupid saga of the inland port development in Southern Dallas has been Dallas County Judge Jim Foster.First of all: He figured it out. A very good source close to the county commissioners told me, "He's like a little detective. He's quiet, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2008

    Another List, or: Maybe Dallas Just Needs a Better Nickname

    This should be said: One of the heroes in the otherwise ugly stupid saga of the inland port development in Southern Dallas has been Dallas County Judge Jim Foster.First of all: He figured it out. A very good source close to the county commissioners told me, "He's like a little detective. He's quiet, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2008

    Why You Live in the DFW

    This should be said: One of the heroes in the otherwise ugly stupid saga of the inland port development in Southern Dallas has been Dallas County Judge Jim Foster.First of all: He figured it out. A very good source close to the county commissioners told me, "He's like a little detective. He's quiet, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2007

    Full-Court Press Releases

    This should be said: One of the heroes in the otherwise ugly stupid saga of the inland port development in Southern Dallas has been Dallas County Judge Jim Foster.First of all: He figured it out. A very good source close to the county commissioners told me, "He's like a little detective. He's quiet, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2006

    Yeah, But, Again, Who Wants to Live in Houston?

    This should be said: One of the heroes in the otherwise ugly stupid saga of the inland port development in Southern Dallas has been Dallas County Judge Jim Foster.First of all: He figured it out. A very good source close to the county commissioners told me, "He's like a little detective. He's quiet, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2006

    Katrina: Bad for People, Good for Business

    This should be said: One of the heroes in the otherwise ugly stupid saga of the inland port development in Southern Dallas has been Dallas County Judge Jim Foster.First of all: He figured it out. A very good source close to the county commissioners told me, "He's like a little detective. He's quiet, ... More >>

  • Dining

    November 9, 2000

    Help Wanted

    Tired of poor service? You can thank the booming economy.

  • News

    January 27, 2000

    Make 'em pay

    Dallas activists fight
    for a living wage from city contractors

  • News

    November 19, 1998

    It's your store (like it or not)

    Albertson's wants to build in East Dallas, and it's not about to let future customers get in the way

  • News

    May 21, 1998

    Help wanted

    A shortage of workers spells happy times for job-seekers and college graduates

  • News

    February 15, 1996

    Funny money

    Kimberly-Clark gets benevolent with Florida county's cash

  • News

    March 2, 1995

    Crazy day in Nootsville

    Job Creation Act threatens sanity of our environmental and health laws

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