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March 28, 2012
So There's a Good Chance Energy Future, Texas' Largest Power Generator, Goes Broke
A major credit-rating agency is expressing grave doubts about the ability of the state's largest nonregulated power generator to pay off its debt. Energy Future Holdings, the Dallas-based parent company of power generator Luminant, transmission company Oncor and retail electricity provider TXU Ener ... More >>
Blogs
March 8, 2012
Zagat Releases 2012 Texas Restaurant Guide
Yesterday, Zagat released their 2012 Texas restaurants guide. Here are their top five most popular restaurants. Abacus Fearing's Al Biernat's Stephan Pyles Del Frisco's Steak Look familiar? These restaurants have been dominating Zagat's list for years. The survey, a system employed by the authors ... More >>
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February 27, 2012
Warren Buffett Calls His Investment in Dallas-Based Energy Future Holdings a "Big Mistake," At Risk of Being Wiped Out
Warren Buffett, the inimitable Jesus of Investing, got it wrong, he admits. Investing in the highly leveraged buyout of Texas utility TXU by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Goldman Sachs was a bad bet, plain and simple, he told his shareholders in a letter Saturday. And if things at the former TXU (now ... More >>
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June 29, 2011
A Multi-Million-Dollar Legal Proceeding Over "Casual Games" That's a Lot of MumboJumbo
Back in January '10, Dallas-based MumboJumbo -- distributors of Jewel Quest and Bejeweled 2 and a whole bunch of other familiar time-wasters -- was awarded upwards of $4.6 million in actual damages by a Dallas County jury. Long story short: In 2006, MumboJumbo entered into an agreement with Seatt ... More >>
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March 24, 2011
DISD's Latest Budget-Gut Guesstimates, and Central Admin Staffers to Get Buyout Offers
Lynn Moak briefs Dallas ISD trustees Thursday afternoon.Last night, Robert teased us all with the news that Lynn Moak, from Dallas ISD's lobbyist-consultant group Moak Casey & Associates, would be taking a seat before trustees this afternoon with an update from Austin on the Legislature's att ... More >>
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February 22, 2011
DISD Board Will Consider Using $10 Mil From General Fund to Pay Teachers to Leave Early
When last I looked at the Dallas Independent School District board's meeting agenda for Thursday, there was no item offering to pay some 1,000 teachers up to $10,000 to take early retirement under the so-called "new reality." But, sure enough, it's there now, as Tawnell Hobbs noted this morning: ... More >>
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February 21, 2011
Downtown-Based Blockbuster to Go on Auction Block. The Opening Bid? A Whole $290 Million.
Blockbuster, which went into voluntary Chapter 11 in September, said in a statement released moments ago that it has agreed to sell to a group of noteholders -- one of whom happened to be named Monarch Alternative Capital, the very same creditors to whom Tom Hicks owed all those hundreds of milli ... More >>
Blogs
January 12, 2011
Brace Yourself: Is the Pickle and Booze Fad Headed Our Way?
Chow.comThe poor martini. People just won't leave perfection alone.I took my martinis with olives until I read The Hour, Bernard DeVoto's classic homage to his favorite drink. According to DeVoto, misguided drinkers put olives in their martinis because "in some desolate childhood hour, someon ... More >>
Blogs
March 30, 2010
It's Official: MAPSCO Has New Owner, Needs Map to Find Fort Washington, PA
On Friday we broke the news that 62-year-old MAPSCO was being bought out by Pennsylvania-based Universal Map, though higher-ups at both companies refused to offer comment. Today, we get The Official Comment: Universal Map's done snatched up the entirety of the Dallas institution's assets for an u ... More >>
Music
September 10, 2009
Macon Greyson Is Smarter Than You Think.
On Friday we broke the news that 62-year-old MAPSCO was being bought out by Pennsylvania-based Universal Map, though higher-ups at both companies refused to offer comment. Today, we get The Official Comment: Universal Map's done snatched up the entirety of the Dallas institution's assets for an u ... More >>
Music
April 9, 2009
Ticketmaster and Livenation Merger Hearings Reveal a Hell of a Secret: Bands Get a Cut of Service Fees
On Friday we broke the news that 62-year-old MAPSCO was being bought out by Pennsylvania-based Universal Map, though higher-ups at both companies refused to offer comment. Today, we get The Official Comment: Universal Map's done snatched up the entirety of the Dallas institution's assets for an u ... More >>
Blogs
May 12, 2008
What Ross Perot's Thousand-Dollar Investment Has Yielded
On Friday we broke the news that 62-year-old MAPSCO was being bought out by Pennsylvania-based Universal Map, though higher-ups at both companies refused to offer comment. Today, we get The Official Comment: Universal Map's done snatched up the entirety of the Dallas institution's assets for an u ... More >>
Blogs
April 18, 2007
TXU Finds No New Takers
On Friday we broke the news that 62-year-old MAPSCO was being bought out by Pennsylvania-based Universal Map, though higher-ups at both companies refused to offer comment. Today, we get The Official Comment: Universal Map's done snatched up the entirety of the Dallas institution's assets for an u ... More >>
Blogs
April 16, 2007
Belo to Get New Life?
On Friday we broke the news that 62-year-old MAPSCO was being bought out by Pennsylvania-based Universal Map, though higher-ups at both companies refused to offer comment. Today, we get The Official Comment: Universal Map's done snatched up the entirety of the Dallas institution's assets for an u ... More >>
Blogs
March 8, 2007
Mo' Comerica
On Friday we broke the news that 62-year-old MAPSCO was being bought out by Pennsylvania-based Universal Map, though higher-ups at both companies refused to offer comment. Today, we get The Official Comment: Universal Map's done snatched up the entirety of the Dallas institution's assets for an u ... More >>
Blogs
March 5, 2007
Blockbuster Almost Done Making "Triple Play." Didn't That Star Billy Baldwin?
On Friday we broke the news that 62-year-old MAPSCO was being bought out by Pennsylvania-based Universal Map, though higher-ups at both companies refused to offer comment. Today, we get The Official Comment: Universal Map's done snatched up the entirety of the Dallas institution's assets for an u ... More >>
Blogs
March 1, 2007
Still Plenty of Smoke to Be Cleared in TXU Deal
On Friday we broke the news that 62-year-old MAPSCO was being bought out by Pennsylvania-based Universal Map, though higher-ups at both companies refused to offer comment. Today, we get The Official Comment: Universal Map's done snatched up the entirety of the Dallas institution's assets for an u ... More >>
Blogs
November 22, 2006
And Qantas Never Crashed
On Friday we broke the news that 62-year-old MAPSCO was being bought out by Pennsylvania-based Universal Map, though higher-ups at both companies refused to offer comment. Today, we get The Official Comment: Universal Map's done snatched up the entirety of the Dallas institution's assets for an u ... More >>
News
August 31, 2006
Hard times
This too shall pass--like a kidney stone
Blogs
May 10, 2006
Is Radio Shack a Best Buy?
This too shall pass--like a kidney stone
News
May 22, 2003
Dead Star
Star Canyon goes out with a whimper, not a bang
Best of Dallas
September 26, 2002
Best DVD Store, But Only For Purchase
Movie Trading Company
Dining
July 20, 2000
Hash Over
Poop friction; Beefy dough
Film
March 12, 1998
Grade school confidential
Carrot Top offers up vulgar humor about bodily functions and castration
News
March 20, 1997
Slim Pickens
An angry wife does to T. Boone Pickens what his corporate victims could only dream of
News
October 10, 1996
Don't cry for me, Amarillo
T. Boone Pickens Jr. has lost millions, been booted out of his own company, and his wife wants a divorce. Miriam Rozen chronicles the downward spiral of the once-fearsome Learjet Cowboy.
News
March 7, 1996
Letters
T. Boone Pickens Jr. has lost millions, been booted out of his own company, and his wife wants a divorce. Miriam Rozen chronicles the downward spiral of the once-fearsome Learjet Cowboy.
News
December 21, 1995
BeloWatch
T. Boone Pickens Jr. has lost millions, been booted out of his own company, and his wife wants a divorce. Miriam Rozen chronicles the downward spiral of the once-fearsome Learjet Cowboy.
News
December 7, 1995
True crime story
Forget the usual tales of rape and pillage--consider the sins of corporate America

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