Ross Perot

Dreams of Fabulous Wealth Can Come True at DISD

Lots of people have nightmares. I do. So what? I've never covered that up. I told you about the one in which I work for The Dallas Morning News and I have to go in every day and write positive stories about the Perot family. See also: - OK, We Get it Already. The Perot Science Museum is Freakin' W ... More >>

The Inland Port Can Still Win the Race for Jobs If We Don't Let Fixers Screw Us

How Much Does Perot Dislike Cuban? Enough to Try to Take Away Mavs, Stars Fans' Parking.

​It's become very clear in recent days that Ross Perot Jr. isn't about to walk away from his feud with Mark Cuban. On December 2, his attorneys notified the Fifth Court of Appeals that he intends to fight Judge Craig Smith's order tossing that suit in which Perot accuses Cuban of mismanaging the D ... More >>

Local Paleontologists Find New Dinosaur Species, Name It After Ross Perot. No, Really.

Courtesy the Museum of Nature & ScienceRoss ain't no dinosaur. At least, he wasn't.​This just in from the Museum of Nature & Science: Paleontologists at the museum are set to introduce to the world a new species of the ceratopsid dinosaur Pachyrhinosaurus at the Society of Vertebrate Paleo ... More >>

The Perots Gave Willis Johnson's Wai-Wize Its Start, and It's Been Hot Ever Since

​Digging back through old files, I can see some patterns emerging that I missed back in the day. For example, the connection between Willis Johnson, the luckiest radio host in the world, and Ross Perot Jr. Johnson is a close personal and political associate of Dallas County Commissioner John ... More >>

Did Mark Cuban's Attorney Just File Greatest Legal Scoreboard Ever in Ross Perot Jr. Case?

We've written here and there about Ross Perot Jr.'s legal claims that a "reckless and careless" Mark Cuban has done an awful job of running the Dallas Mavericks .... right, Your NBA Champion Dallas Mavericks, of which Perot still owns 5 percent. Well, moments ago Tom Melsheimer, Cuban's attorney, ju ... More >>

One of Ross Perot Jr.'s Suits Against Mark Cuban Gets Adiosed. Will the Other Follow Suit?

Sam Merten​Back on July 15, 2009, Ross Perot Jr.'s Hillwood Center Partners sued Mark Cuban (and the Dallas Mavericks) over money made from the American Airlines Center, with Perot insisting that the AAC's profits weren't going to partners (including Perot, who still owns a 5-percent stake in the ... More >>

Perot Museum Needs $50 Million. Spare Some Change? Come On. Do It for the Children.

A conceptual rendering of the entry plaza to the new Perot Museum​Hold up on that Gilt Groupe purchase you were about to make and take a moment to think of the children -- specifically, the five children of Ross Perot, who've given $10 million each to the future Perot Museum of Nature and Science ... More >>

From Tom Hicks to Jerry Jones to Mark Cuban, Owning a Sports Team Isn't as Easy as it Looks

Mark Cuban d. Ross Perot Jr. 6-2, 6-1, 6-0

NBA.com​During his 1996 introductory press conference at Reunion Arena in which he bought the Dallas Mavericks from founding father Don Carter, Ross Perot Jr. offered a simple, serious question: "How many players are on the court?" And that, my friends, is all you need to know about th ... More >>

Sure, Your Dallas Mavs Haven't Won a Title. Doesn't Mean They're Not "Dominant."

​So says list-lovin' Forbes in its round-up of The Best (And Worst) Teams of the Decade, assembled using franchises' win-loss record during the '00s, playoff appearances, titles won and the value of the franchise (which, in the Mavs' case, has more than doubled since Mark Cuban bought the team in ... More >>

Mark Cuban to Ross Perot Jr.: Well, Allow Me to Retort

Just received an email from Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban regarding the lawsuit filed against him by former owner Ross Perot Jr. I've covered the Mavs during both regimes and just let me say unequivocally that in any fight - fist, financial or basketball IQ - I'm siding ... More >>

The Germans Declare Victory is Theirs

John Wiley Price, Still Fit at 59!

Hard to believe it's been nine whole years since John Wiley Price's "JWP Fit at 50" calendar.Month or so ago, Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price called me up and reamed me out for suggesting he may be carrying water for Ross Perot Jr. and the Perot-dominated Alliance freight airport in For ... More >>

Now the Question Is: How the Hell Will Hillwood Save Victory Park? Maybe By the Slice? Or With a Bowling Ball?

This is the Victory Park Ross Perot Jr. dreams of when he goes to bed every night.When Pulle wrote his obituary for Victory Park in January, Ross Perot Jr. and Hillwood execs refused to talk to him about the fate of the taxpayer-subsidized development crumbling around the American Airlines Center. I ... More >>

Dallas' Victory Park Struggles to Deliver a Win

Blame it on a bad economy, a bad idea or both. Ross Perot Jr.'s glitzy downtown district is in big trouble

Mother Jones Welcomes Homes Dubya

Well, actually, that'd be San Francisco-based Mother Jones writer Josh Harkinson, a Preston Hollow native (his parents still live here) who today posted an essay about what it's like to grow up in the neighborhood populated by the likes of Ross Perot, Tom Hicks, AT&T CEO Rayford Wilkins Jr. and, ... More >>

Ross Perot is Now Down in the Basement and Taking Your Questions

On Wednesday, the same day it was reported that H. Ross Perot lost a bundle in a real-estate assets hedge fund now absent its assets and funds, Stephen J. Dubner put out the call: Who's got questions for Ross Perot? The co-author of Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Every ... More >>

Why is Mayor Leppert Putting the Brakes on Dallas' Inland Port Future?

The Perots have solid business reasons to slow down Dallas' inland port. But why is our mayor helping them?

Campaign Flashback: Perot for Prez! And Other Political Grab-Bag Goodies.

Kicking a Dead Horse: Just Why's the City Council Trying to Save Reunion Arena, Anyway?

The Chicago Cubans? Say It Ain’t So

Sticker Shock

Let's not have that Victory parade just yet

TIF for Tat, Part II

Avian Boo-Hoo

Still Sacred

Morning News avoids the holy trinity

Famous Last Words

Did the intern blow it? No.

Jerk the Jerk

At long last, Mayor Miller and the city council give Tom Hicks' chain a good hard yank

The Thing That Ate Downtown

Downtown’s real estate barons are terrified that Perot-Hicks’ slick Victory project could wreak havoc on their own tax-funded plans to fix the city’s core

The Little-People Tax

Dallas tax appraisers can't keep up with Ross Perot. But if you're Average Joe, they've got your number.

Good Vibrations

Disputed Reform Party candidate John Hagelin thinks he can change the world with the power of positive thinking. Does that make him nuts?

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The new Mod Squad; Busted

Helping themselves

Ministers hope to do something Dallas developers won't -- build homes in South Oak Cliff

Trojan horse

Dallas PTA leaders fear a Perot-funded district survey will be used to destroy public schools

Ross to the rescue

Perot Sr.'s plan to fix DISD makes a multicultural misstep

The war over Gulf War Syndrome

Dallas doctors believe they've solved the mystery of sick veterans, but find themselves in "a bloody scientific war" where they are branded charlatans

Mavs held hostage

Did Ross Perot Jr. strike out when Tom Hicks bought the Rangers?

Letters

Mr. Mayor, Meet Your Nightmare

Frustrated, fed up, and ready to fight, Laura Miller trades muckraking for a run at City Hall

That giant sucking sound

No, not The Dallas Morning News' arena coverage--but tax dollars being siphoned away for millionaires' pet projects

Flying blind

With the mayor and city manager leading the charge, the city council moves full speed on an arena deal that doesn't even exist yet

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Priced to sell out

City Manager John Ware ramrods a patched-together arena deal

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Perotnoia

The great mystery of Perot's 1992 presidential bid was his sudden decision to quit the race. Biographer Gerald Posner found that Perot was a victim of a shadowy soldier of fortune-- and his own delusions.

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Power Houses

A celebrity home tour of Dallas' rich, famous--and all too often tasteless--movers and fakers

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The new voodoo

Republicans are the party of fiscal responsibility--and, yes, there is a Santa Claus