Subject: Pete Sessions

• Isenberg, Back from China, Now Taking on "Child Prisons"

  February 13, 2007

• Ralph Isenberg Heading Back to the U.S. and A

  January 5, 2007

• Shopping at Foley's

  October 6, 2006

• Gary Griffith Opens the Books. Has To, Really.

  July 17, 2006

• Sore Winners and Losers

  June 28, 2006

• Drug Money

  May 11, 2006

• You, Snooze. We Lose.

  May 18, 2007

• Do Lies Come with that Shake?

  May 29, 2007

• The China Syndrome

  August 3, 2007

• The Lie is Now in Sessions

  August 24, 2007

• When the Levees Break: Behind the Scenes of the Trinity Toll Road Campaigns

  September 21, 2007

• Esquire Endorses: A Sneak Peek at the Local Races (and Restaurant)

  October 10, 2008

• Dallas County's Early Birds See Blue

  November 4, 2008

• GOP Kisses Sheriff’s Race Goodbye

  November 4, 2008

• Who'd Be Mayor If Leppert Left Early? And, Why Would Leppert Do It?

  Brian Harkin Is Dwaine Caraway positioning himself as Leppert's replacement? While speaking with one of Mayor Tom Leppert's consultants last month, I asked if Leppert was considering running for Kay Bailey Hutchison's senate seat. At that point, I heard he was contemplating the political leap from a few sources, but the response was something along the lines of "Right now, Tom is focused on being the best mayor he can be for the citizens of Dallas." The rumors have continued to make the rounds

  December 24, 2008

• Out of bounds

  March 7, 1996

• Publicity Paul

  July 24, 1997

• Mr. Nobody

  August 14, 1997

• Stephen Colbert (Ahem) Supports (Wink Wink) Pete Sessions's "Insurgency" Remarks

  Last week, Rep. Pete Sessions had to be interrupted by an aide during an interview with the National Journal when he just couldn't stop putting the words "insurgency," "Republican Party" and "Taliban" in the same sentences. Which is how Sessions, makin' the 32nd District proud, wound up as the subject of Stephen Colbert's "The Word" segment last night. .cc_box a:hover .cc_home{background:url('http://www.comedycentral.com/comedycentral/video/assets/syndicated-logo-over.png') !important;}.cc_links

  February 11, 2009

• Fairmont Hotel To Turn Its Lights Out Next Week

  Take a dim view of the Regency BallroomOn Thursday, April 2, the Foundation Fighting Blindness will hold its second annual Dining In The Dark at the Fairmont Hotel (1717 N. Akard St.) in honor of donors Margot and Ross Perot.The event begins with cocktails at 6 p.m. followed by recognition of honorees (the Visionary Award). Guests might want to take it easy on the drinks, though, as they will soon be eating in total darkness. Blind servers dedicated to each table will guide diners through the ne

  March 26, 2009

• SEC Says Texas Financier Sir Allen Stanford Swindled Investors Out of Billions.

  It didn't have to happen.

  April 9, 2009

• With Dallas Republicans in Pain, One Local Leader Believes He Has the Cure

  How County Chair Jonathan Neerman Plans to Ease the Dallas GOP's Woes

  December 4, 2008

• Behind the Trinity River Toll Road Scenes with Angela Hunt

  September 20, 2007

• Put Out

  If Dallas doesn't give the boys their road, they want the jewelry back

  September 6, 2007

• Waiter, Waiter!

  March 23, 2006

• Last Men Standing

  Leppert and Oakley show that what you think about Dallas politics could be wrong

  May 17, 2007

• The Broke Leading the Broke

  Plus: Back to China

  November 3, 2005

• Pretty Woman

  The strange tale of a man and his Chinese bride that has Dallas talking

  September 29, 2005

• The Big Squeeze

  Thinking about taking out a payday loan? Think again, sucker.

  September 8, 2005

• BBQ Sauce for the Soul

  When he's not catering for the president, barbecue maven Eddie Deen caters to the spirits of the indigent

  February 24, 2005

• Letters

  November 11, 2004

• Democracy Inaction

  Mr. Gonz doesn't go to Washington

  November 11, 2004

• Stop the Presses

  Martin Frost is a Democrat?

  September 30, 2004

• Sweetheart Deal

  How does Virginia McGuire make a profit in the nonprofit business of creating affordable housing? Simple. She pays her husband.

  April 25, 2002

• Houses Divided

  A fight over public housing pits working-class East Dallas homeowners against their poorer neighbors in a battle tainted by claims of racism

  March 29, 2001

• The Lost Girl

  Haifa Bale has spent three years trying to get her daughter back from an abusive ex-husband. Not even the Queen of Jordan can make it happen.

  December 14, 2000

• Testing Patience

  A gun-toting fugitive gets a hand from Chuck Norris, while a father waits for help from anywhere

  November 9, 2000

• Swing Vote

  Think all politics is local? In the 5th District, think again.

  September 7, 2000

• Battle for the barrio

  Dallas Hispanic Republicans fight historic allegiances -- and a few slashed tires

  April 20, 2000

• The girl can't help it

  Laura Miller says she'd "love" to run for mayor

  February 10, 2000

• Buzz

  Magnum CPA; Advise and consent;Regina who?

  November 11, 1999

• Buzz

  How can we miss you...; And take Julio with you; Penny pinchers; Bad timing; Turnabout is fair play

  September 23, 1999

• Wade Emmert Emerges as Party Favorite in GOP Effort to Take Back County Judge Seat

  flickr member: cedarhillchurchofchristEmmert is charged with helping the local Republican Party rebound by jumping from a council member in Cedar Hill to Dallas County Judge.At the Dallas County Republican Party's annual Reagan Day Dinner in February, we described Cedar Hill City Council member Wade Emmert as a rising star likely to become the party favorite in the race for county judge in 2010. Emmert wouldn't confirm his plans with us at the event, but now it's official: He's running with the

  May 22, 2009

• Pete Sessions and His Lead Zeppelin

  ​In a lengthy piece published early this morning, Politico notes Pete Sessions's public stance on earmarks: "a symbol of a broken Washington to the American people." Except, see, there was this one time, in 2008, when the Congressman from the Fightin' 32nd "steered a $1.6 million earmark for dirigible research to an Illinois company whose president acknowledges having no experience in government contracting, let alone in building blimps." Sessions said the project would create jobs in Dallas.

  July 30, 2009

• Pete Sessions to Fly His Dirigible to Richardson Tomorrow Night for Town Hall Meeting

  Pete Sessions​Few days back, Politico ran a piece about how politicians' town hall meetings have gotten a little out of control. Such phrases as "house of horrors," "angry, sign-carrying mobs," "disruptive behavior," "pointless" and "boiling anger and rising incivility" crop up throughout, often in reference to House Democrats' meet-and-greets where they've been greeted by folks unhappy with, oh, health care reform or cash-for-clunker payouts and so forth. One Republican who's particularly gid

  August 4, 2009

• Last Night, Pete Sessions Turned Health Care Debate Into an Easy-to-Swallow Pill

  Kimberly Thorpe​The debate surrounding the proposed health care bill can seem distant. The bill is some 1,000 pages. Those who claim to have read it become experts either for or against the legislation. But last night, a cherry-faced, white-haired politician successfully tied this unwieldy document to a singular concept his constituents can really get behind: freedom."Freedom will be lost if we have a government that tells us how to do everything," said Republican Congressman Pete Sessions las

  August 6, 2009

• Senators Take Scalpel to Local Medical Equipment Providers' Cost of Doing Business

  ​Six years ago, Cynthia Fitzgerald filed in Dallas federal court a complaint that The New York Times predicted in 2007 "could become one of the largest whistle-blower lawsuits on record." The suit stemmed from Fitzgerald's tenure at Novation -- a company HQ'd on John Carpenter Freeway that sells medical supplies to hospitals, health-care centers and doctors across the country -- and in her complaint, Fitzgerald alleges that the business of hospital purchasing is a help-yourself free-for-all wh

  August 14, 2009

• Outside a Quiet Two-Party Town Hall, Health Care Demonstrators Take To the Streets

  Patrick MichelsDemonstrators on both sides of the debate shared space outside this morning's town hall meeting with Rep. Pete Sessions and Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson.​Update: Check out our slide show for more photos from the meeting and the protest.Walking up to the health care reform protest outside Cityplace Conference Center this morning, a man in his 60s, in a plain white T-shirt and a bucket hat, had to stop and ask directions on the street corner."If you're for health care reform, you're

  August 17, 2009

• When an Art Project Turns Into a Political Statement Turns Into a Web Site Ad

  Patrick MichelsWe did catch a glimpse of the posters outside Pete Sessions and Eddie Bernice Johnson's Monday health care jam.Haven't yet seen those Obama-Joker posters -- then again, I clearly haven't been downtown in a few days. At least some members of the Alex Jones street team have been posting black-and-white copies of University of Illinois senior history major Firas Alkhateeb's Photoshop project 'round Dallas; after the jump, "2 Free American Citizens" decorate Dealey Plaza and the Dalla

  August 19, 2009