T. Boone Pickens

T. Boone Pickens is in a Strange Family Legal Feud Over His Son's Tell-All Blog

The blog 5 days in Connecticut is a rambling, navel-gazing tell-all about a man's struggle with alcoholism and drug addiction. There's little to distinguish it from the reams of self-published addiction stories that populate certain corners of the Internet. It would be an entirely unremarkable pie ... More >>

Mark Cuban Takes to Forbes to Remind Us That He, Too, Was Once Poor

You wouldn't know it from glancing at his bank account, but Mark Cuban used to be poor. This isn't exactly news. Cuban embodies the modern version of the peculiarly American up-by-the-bootstraps fairy tale, in which a hard-luck young person, through hard work and business savvy, transforms himself f ... More >>

T. Boone Pickens Takes Sen. John McCain's Former Presidential Campaign Strategist To Court Over Loan

T. Boone Pickens -- billionaire oil man, erstwhile wind-energy apostle, multimillion-dollar donor to Karl Rove's super PAC -- wants his money back. According to a filing in Dallas County court, he claims he's getting mostly stiffed on a $125,000 loan he made to political consultant John Weaver, who ... More >>

Mike Rawlings is Drowning in Cash, Bobby Abtahi Laps the Field, and Campaign News

Yesterday was the deadline for state and local candidates to report their fundraising totals for the last six months of 2012, which meant a flurry of last-minute clicks on the City Secretary's website. The reported figures first real glimpse at candidates' fundraising prowess and a suggestion of whi ... More >>

Meet the Dallasites Who Made Forbes' List of Wealthiest Americans

Every year, the wealth fetishists over at Forbes compile an exhaustive list of the 400 richest Americans. It's a rarefied club, whose admittance requires an aggregate worth in the billions. Not surprisingly, a number of Dallasites made the cut -- 16 in fact. They range from oldies-but-goodies like ... More >>

T. Boone Pickens Writes in Forbes About That Time He Told His Boss to Shove It

Before T. Boone Pickens earned his fortune as an oil company executive and corporate raider, before he became a sagacious elder statesman of the business world and made his home in Preston Hollow, he was a geology student at Oklahoma A & M with a wife and daughter and a desperate need for a job. He ... More >>

Rep. Ralph Hall From Rockwall Is Turning 89, Will Do Keg-Stands with Rick Perry, T. Boone Pickens, Harlan Crow

Congressman Ralph Hall, the near-nonagenarian, oldest serving member of Congress, who was elected to things five years after World War II ended, just turned 89 years old. What do you give the man who has everything -- a powerful committee chair; a devilish sense of humor (he loves Mormons!); and a f ... More >>

College Football Uniforms Are Outta Control: My Top 10 Observer-ations

​ 10. We've sorta become desensitized to Oregon's smorgasboard of uniforms with different helmets featuring gray, green, yellow and white and neon-green outlined numbers. Blame Phil Knight and Nike for those. But what about the rest of ya? The opening weekend of college football delivered some gr ... More >>

Fracking is Dirtier Than Coal Mining, Claims Study That T. Boone Should Probably Read

T. Boone Pickens: Fracking's best friend.​The Pickens Plan -- Dallas oilman T. Boone Pickens's plan to equip every American with his very own riding natural-gas fracker -- is enjoying a wave of consensus not seen since The Simple Life got canceled. Pickens's latest pitch for an OPEC-free Ame ... More >>

If EXCO's CEO Douglas Miller Is Interested in Buying the Dallas Stars, He Sure Ain't Saying

​A little while ago, The Hockey News reported that a new bidder for the Dallas Stars has emerged -- and that it's none other than EXCO Resources' chairman and CEO Douglas Miller, whose "offer is believed to be for about $110 million cash, but it would likely be publicly announced as somewhere in t ... More >>

Jon Stewart Spends 22 Minutes With T. Boone Pickens, "The Wilt Chamberlain of Fracking"

​Speaking of vehicles powered by compressed natural gas ...Mayor Tom Leppert was deeply involved in the Dallas Area Rapid Transit board's decision (after much debate and delay) to spend $210 million to convert its liquefied natural gas and clean diesel bus fleet to CNG. Mayor Tom was also deeply i ... More >>

Welcome to the Forbes 400, Darwin Deason!

Kelcy Warren, proof that a UT-Arlington graduate can make the Forbes 400​I've been told: Everybody loves lists, especially this one -- Forbes' annual countdown of the richie-richiest 'Merkins, which contains more than its share of locals, as usual. Tops, through, is a Fort Worth resident who I'm p ... More >>

Dallas Heavyweights Turn Out to Dedicate Walt Humann and T. Boone Pickens' Community Center at Jubilee Park

Photos by Patrick MichelsFrom left, Jubilee Park chairman Tom Harbison, Mayor Tom Leppert, Wealthy Individual T. Boone Pickens and Walt Humann enjoy the children's dance this morning. It was all hands on stage this morning at Jubilee Park, where the new community center's dedication drew the city' ... More >>

Meet the Fort Worth Film Buff Who's Updating and Preserving the Bobbie Wygant Archive

Bobbie Wygant Interviews Robert Duvall for Tender Mercies from Atombomb.tv on Vimeo.I could read to you from this stack of press releases for big-deal Thursday happenings ("Boone Pickens, Mayor Leppert, Chief Brown unveil New Jubilee Park Buildings" and "Mayor Leppert, Dr. Hinojosa to launch first-o ... More >>

Smelling Change in the Wind, T. Boone Pickens's Latest Ad is One Hot Spot

T. Boone Pickens's latest ad for his Pickens Plan begins airing today; that's it above. A story on the front page of today's The New York Times's business section wonders what the Dallas billionaire's up to with the spot, in which he underscores national security concerns in an effort to scare Ameri ... More >>

Athletes' feat? | Blowin' In The Wind | There Will Be Blood

The T. Boone Pickens Alternative Energy Show Rolls Across America

10 Questions: Nick Badovinus

He's loquacious, that much is certain. And he's known for thick, floppy hair.But Badovinus can cook--something he's proven over and over again as he helped build Consilient Restaurants into a Dallas powerhouse...you know, Cuba Libre, Hibiscus, Fireside Pies. Those guys.A year ago he broke from the c ... More >>

Lunch With T. Boone Still Available. It's Also Much, Much Cheaper Than Making Jerry Jones Angry.

With one day left for folks to bid on a power-nosh with T. Boone Pickens at Nick & Sam's, figured now might be a good time to check on how the auction's going to benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters of North Texas. Because when last we left it one week ago today, there was only one pre-approved take ... More >>

So Far, Only One Person Wants to Have a T-Bone With T. Boone For a Good Cause

The Wall Street Journal wonders why there's been just a single bid on the opportunity to power-lunch with T. Boone Pickens, who's selling an eat-and-greet at Nick and Sam's to raise dough for Big Brothers Big Sisters. The auction opened Monday, and thus far only "9***a" has made an offer -- for the ... More >>

Pickin' on Pickens: FedEx Thinks T. Boone Is Full of Natural Gas

T. Boone Pickens, out peddling his plan to ween the U.S. off the foreign-oil teat since July, has long maintained that natural gas is the future. FedEx CEO Fred Smith says: Nope, sorry hybrids are the future. Notes this morning's Wall Street Journal, the disagreement's getting awful big and gro ... More >>

T. Boone Breaks Like the Wind

Picking Cotton

Texas-OU is great and all, but what about the Cotton Bowl's other 51 Saturdays a year?

Not Schadenfreude, Swear: Harold Simmons Is Down a Few Billion

BREAKING NEWS: T. Boone Pickens Tours Cotton Bowl, Considers Tech-OSU in Big D

Cotton Pickens

In Downtown This Morning, Protests For and Against Palin are Planned

One of These Things is Not Like the Others on Texas Book Fest Schedule

T. Boone Now Owns Your Trash's Gas

T. Boone Does Not Forgive, Forget

So He's Not Saint Boone Then?

Pickens "Encouraged" By Obama -- Or, At the Very Least, By His Energy Plan

Sink or Swim: T. Boone Pickens On Why He's Off the Swift Boat

Look Out, T. Boone's at the Dry-Erase Board With a Plan to Save America!

Look at the Big Brain on Boone

T. Boone Pickens Will Now Drink Your Glass of Water. Drink It Up.

NBC's Tim Russert Has Died at 58

TV That's Enviromentally Friendly and Kosher for Passover

T. Boone Pickens Is a Giver

T. Boone Pickens Picks Up His Son's Bill For Stock Fraud Scheme

John Kerry to T. Boone Pickens: Bring It

Who Paid for Your Politics?

What Pickens is Pickin'

Pickens is Blowin' in the Wind

Pickens Says We're Running Out of Oil. But He's Not Running Out of Money.

We Too Are Planning on Giving All Our Money to Charity. Just Not All $171 Million Of It.

Man...That Was Quick

Pickens to Win

Slim Pickens

An angry wife does to T. Boone Pickens what his corporate victims could only dream of

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.