Subject: Manufacturing Sector

• Baby, You Can't Drive Their Car

  April 11, 2007

• Sam Coats' Concrete Problem

  March 16, 2007

• Whole Bull?

  February 19, 2007

• Concrete: In the Bad-Air Mix

  July 27, 2006

• Fair Park is the New Baltic Avenue

  April 24, 2006

• From the Highland Park Teen Affairs Desk

  April 7, 2006

• Expect a Marlboro Snus Infection

  June 11, 2007

• Dale Jr. Coming to Dallas Wednesday -- Can a Fig Newton Windshield Be Far Behind?

  September 14, 2007

• Boning Up in Fort Worth, Baby

  September 25, 2007

• Dallas-Based Dean Foods Isn't Making the Cheddar Like It Expected

  October 2, 2007

• What Ross Perot's Thousand-Dollar Investment Has Yielded

  May 12, 2008

• Go, Longhorns! (W.T. White Longhorns, That Is.)

  May 19, 2008

• GM's CEO Wagoner Insists GM Ain't Going Nowhere. But Where's the Beat?

  July 10, 2008

• Dalton Sherman Goes on Ellen, Gets a Computer and Printer

  September 19, 2008

• EDS HP = WTF?

  October 2, 2008

• Podesta's Peeps Suggest Ways to Fix Dallas's "Dangerous Chemical Facilities"

  The loading dock at Petra Chemical's Dallas facility on Storey Lane Only yesterday, Politico.com suggested that the think tank Center for American Progress would become a major player within Barack Obama's White House. After all, it was founded and is headed by former Clinton chief of staff and current Obama transition team co-chair John Podesta -- so, right, makes sense. To that end, this morning we received a missive from CAP concerning a study it published today, Chemical Security 101: Wha

  November 19, 2008

• Don't Let the Bastards Get You Down, Even if Dallas Fed Survey Does

  Dallas Fed prez Richard Fisher This morning, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas -- those bloodsuckers! -- released the latest Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey. In a word: Oy. In two: "Plunged sharply." Or, as the Associated Press puts it: "Texas manufacturers are painting a bleak picture of current and future factory activity in the nation's No. 2 state for production." But perhaps we'd do well to heed the advice of Dallas Fed head Richard Fisher, whose name appears

  November 24, 2008

• Hot Dish

  November 17, 1994

• The Deep End: Dallas Fed's Bleak Texas Manufacturing Survey

  Moments ago, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas released its latest Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey -- a snapshot look at what folks are making, ordering and selling -- and it's not looking good, not surprisingly. As in:Texas factory activity deteriorated further in December, according to business executives responding to the Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey. Nearly all indexes of current activity remained negative, and several dropped to record lows. The six-month outlook remained uncerta

  December 29, 2008

• Blind-sided, again

  August 22, 1996

• Hot Dish

  September 12, 1996

• Food For Thought...

  "A lot of people have left the category. Also a lot of young people have not entered the category, so these ads may help Coke both recruit new, young consumers and recruit some lapsed consumers." (Beverage Digest editor John Sicher, clearly excited over the soft drink company's new marketing campaign) An upcoming advertising effort hopes to boost soft drink sales, which had slumped with the emphasis on more expensive water brands. There's something wrong with this line of thinking...

  January 22, 2009

• Hot Dish

  November 28, 1996

• Update: Beer And Cheese Pairing Canceled

  The Mozzarella Company's beer and cheese pairing mentioned in yesterday's Hash Over post and scheduled for this evening has been canceled in anticipation of tonight's Chicago-like weather forecast.

  January 27, 2009

• Food For Thought...

  "We don't have a good idea right now in terms of how much of that product is still out there; it may have largely been consumed." (Stephen Sundlof of the FDA after the government extended a recall of peanut products produced by the Peanut Corporation of America's Blakely, GA, plant to include the past two years due to salmonella, as quoted in the Washington Post).

  January 30, 2009

• Our Man in Saipan

  February 19, 1998

• Smoke-filled room

  September 17, 1998

• Food For Thought 2.17.09

  Bill Kennedy, Cleveland Plain Dealer"The burden is on the company to make sure they are complying with any local, state and federal regulations that apply to food manufacturing. Naturally, that's not reassuring to the public. But we don't have people driving up and down roads looking for places like this." (Doug McBride of the Texas Department of State Health Services, speaking about food inspection failures after shutting down the Peanut Corporation of America plant in Plainview, as quoted by D

  February 17, 2009

• Fooling with Mother Nature

  February 10, 2000

• Best Place to See Pets Run Wild

  September 20, 2001

• Best Place To Get Real Mozzarella

  September 26, 2002

• Best Used Computer Store

  September 26, 2002

• Food For Thought 3.25.09

  "Because it sells, food companies are slapping it on anything. And consumers believe natural equals nutritious. Actually, it's a bit like Alice in Wonderland. It means what I want it to mean." (Julie Miller Jones, professor of food safety and nutrition at College of St. Catherine in Minnesota on the 'natural' food label, which has defied federal definition. The USDA uses "minimally processed" as their guidline, although some on the extreme call raisins processed--and thus unnatural--food. The F

  March 25, 2009

• Best Mozzarella

  September 25, 2003

• Cultured Bites

  September 11, 2008

• Park City Thrifty

  May 3, 2007

• Corndoggle

  Dallas Is Banking On Ethanol, But Is It The Fuel Of The Future Or A Barrel Of Pork?

  October 26, 2006

• Next Big Things

  The five biggest attention-getters at E3.

  May 25, 2006

• Best Reason to Book It to Denton

  Recycled Books Records CDs

  October 14, 2004

• Best (Men's and Women's) Shoe Store

  Nordstrom at the Galleria

  September 26, 2002

• Label-ese

  Can't find your favorite alcohol? Blame bureaucracy.

  April 5, 2001

• Her Whey

  Paula Lambert parlays a love of cheese into fame and life among the jet set

  November 23, 2000

• Software and hard time

  Texas prisons take a byte out of crime with a computer rehab program

  July 6, 2000

• Toy boys

  The great Furby hunt begins

  August 12, 1999

• Put your ears on

  Disney hopes its upstart kids radio network will be more than just a Mickey Mouse effort

  June 24, 1999

• Food For Thought 4.8.09

  "Coke's messages were totally unacceptable, creating an impression which is likely to mislead that Coca-Cola cannot contribute to weight gain, obesity and tooth decay." (From a statement released by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission regarding an advertising campaign run by the Atlanta-based soft drink company. Coca-Cola's ads labeled as myths the belief that the product causes your teeth to rot, contributes to weight gain and so on. Coke admits the ads could have bee

  April 8, 2009

• Food For Thought 5.26.09

  "We're seeing comfort foods, back-to-the-basics foods do real well in this economy and that's speaking to some of the success we're seeing with hot dogs." (Todd Hale, senior vice president for consumer and shopper insights at Nielsen, on the 5.3 percent booset in revenue for hot dog companies--would manufacturers be a better word?--over the past 52 weeks. Demand for hot dogs has fueled legal battles between Sara Lee and Oscar Mayer over advertising claims as each hope to gain a greater share of

  May 26, 2009

• Eye Candy

  May 28, 2009

• Strange and Passioniate Emissions From Yesterday's EPA Cement Kiln Hearing

  Alexa SchirtzingerIf this picture were at all legible, you'd see Deirdre Tinker testifying while dressed as a cement kilnAmong the first 60 commenters at yesterday's public hearing on proposed Environmental Protection Agency regulations intended to reduce emissions from cement kilns, there was obvious consensus on a few points: They liked the EPA's new rules. They felt they needed them, because the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), depending on whom you ask, falls somewhere betw

  June 18, 2009

• Photos: Bean To Bar Tasting with DallasChocolate.org

  Diana Merrill ClaussenField greens with chocolate Napoleon​For the first event in their brief history, dallaschocolate.org hosted chocolatiers Alan McClure and Steve DeVries for a tasting and a dinner focused on American "bean to bar" chocolate production.Teresa Gubbins, who recapped the event for Pegasus, says the visiting chocolate producers repeatedly urged folks there to think of chocolate like wine, and local pastry chef Rhonda Ruckman was on hand to spin the cacao-heavy chocolate into de

  August 24, 2009