Trade

Winfrey Point Debate Stirs Up a Memory of a Blooming Genius

Of course I can't read about the ugly mess at the Dallas Arboretum without remembering Bobby Scott, my weird brilliant friend and enemy who patrolled in front of my house for a year muttering that he wanted to kill me. Then at the very end I visited him in the hospital and saw that, as I suspected, ... More >>

Southwest Airlines' Herb Kelleher: Energy Independence, As You Understand It, Is A Myth

Southwest Airlines co-founder Herb Kelleher and a gaggle of other titans, from former U.S. Spec Ops commanders to Sam Gilliland, chief executive officer of Dallas-based Sabre Holdings, reject outright the idea that we can drill our way to energy independence. In an Energy Security Leadership Council ... More >>

Mayor Dwaine, Meet President Goodluck

Via.Goodluck Jonathan​One week from today, Goodluck Jonathan -- who won election last month after receiving more than 60 percent of the vote during mostly peaceful elections -- will be sworn in as president of Nigeria, the most populated country in Africa. Analysts are mixed on what Jonathan's pre ... More >>

First Minority Candidate Enters Mayor's Race

Edward Okpa​Real estate broker and international trade consultant Edward Okpa has submitted the necessary 357 signatures of registered Dallas voters required to run for mayor, joining David Kunkle and Ron Natinsky on the May 14 ballot. Former Park Board president Mike Rawlings has also announc ... More >>

Kirk on Leppert and Dallas's Next Mayor

Last week, the Texas Tribune sat down in Austin to chat up U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk. Today, the Trib posted some of that interview, during which Kirk reveals that when he stepped down as Dallas Mayor, he cried. So did Schutze. Like a baby.You can watch the video. Or read the transcript. Yo ... More >>

You Can Take the U.S. Trade Representative Out of Dallas, But You Can't ... Well, You Know

​Late yesterday, as the boy grew fidgety from yet another day stuck at home, we flipped on the teevee hoping to find something interesting, educational. Which meant: No Disney Channel, no nonsense. A few flips later, and there we were on C-SPAN2, listening to former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk address t ... More >>

Mass deportation, strict border enforcement, amnesty. What will comprehensive immigration reform look like if the feds take action--or if they don't?

What the Duck: Why Do Duck Breeds
Get Short Shrift?

​Even eaters who dine out only on special occasions have typically been exposed to Berkshire pork and Waygu beef. But when it comes to duck, few restaurants bother to reveal which breed they're serving. "Every time I see duck on the menu, it just says duck," says Ted Hill, co-chair of the Dal ... More >>

Texas Rangers Pitchers and Catchers Report to Spring Training in About 100 Days

​OK, so now what? The Texas Rangers just produced their latest, greatest season. Tonight at 6 at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington we'll toast the 2010 team one last time with not a victory parade, but more so a second-place appreciation party to be shown on Fox Sports Southwest and heard o ... More >>

Are Mexican-American Border Patrol Agents Traitors?

i Fratelli Pizza: Just What We Wanted, and No Sneaky Delivery Charge

​i Fratelli Pizza 2208 Dallas Parkway 972-608-8833 Promised Delivery Time: 30 minutes Actual Delivery Time: 26 minutes The Score No delivery fee or fuel surcharge: 10 points Polite, professional order-taker: 15 points No online ordering: -5 points Delivering sooner than promised: 20 Point ... More >>

The "Rich Irony" of One Lawsuit

​Courthouse News this morning brings us The Case of the For-Profit Vocational School vs. The Personal-Injury Law Firm. The former is Rhodes Colleges, a California-based chain of campuses that offers courses in everything from criminal justice to HVAC repair (maybe you've seen the ads?). Locally, R ... More >>

Two Months Into Budget, City's Already $4 Mil Down on Guesstimated Sales Tax Income

Sam MertenFIrst Assistant City Manager Ryan Evans​Perhaps you saw the story in the morning paper: According to the state comptroller's office, Dallas pulled in sales tax revenue totaling $14.5 million in November 2009. And while that's a considerable plunge from same-time-last-year's intake ($18.3 ... More >>

Steer Clear of the Crescent on Monday

Former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk at the U.S.-Africa Business Summit in D.C. earlier this month​That is, unless you have business with former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk, who, in his position as U.S. Trade Representative, will be holed up at the hotel Monday talking North American Free Trade Agreement. But, ... More >>

Why do Mexican's love bad-boy cops so much?

The T. Boone Pickens Alternative Energy Show Rolls Across America

Bully or Bodyguard? The WSJ Looks at Mayors Who Take Over Schools.

Alexander FloresTill Mayor Tom Leppert decides to talk for himself about his thinking about maybe one day possibly taking over the Dallas Independent School District we'll see not sure for sure who knows, it's all one big guessing game. Which doesn't stop the Dallas mayor's name from appearing in th ... More >>

Chewing the Fat: Spilling The Bills

You probably remember how last summer's painful gas prices set off a ripple effect, jacking the cost of everything else, including your groceries. Now that gas prices have crashed back to a mere inflated-enough-to-fatten-Exxon-execs-and-their-political-friends level, you're probably still waiting f ... More >>

Oh, Say, Can You D.C.: Ron Kirk and Tom Leppert at the U.S. Conference of Mayors

Dallas mayors former and current were in D.C. over the weekend for the U.S. Conference of Mayors annual winter meeting: Tom Leppert, to once more make Dallas's case for stimulus dough-re-mi; Ron Kirk, to calm mayors' fears concerning his unpopular position on free trade. Leppert, like every other in ... More >>

Where Does Ron Kirk Stand on Trade? Why, On His Feet, Of Course.

Captain Ronald Tiberius Kirk will be promoted to admiral this morning, after which time he will have to deal with the Trade Federation, no easy task there. Hunh. I feel like I've confused some things here. President-elect Barack Obama will name First Buddy Ron Kirk the chief U.S. trade representa ... More >>

Links And Clinks

Toast the holidays and have a brat

Nom, Nom, Nom

The Libertine goes halvsies

Look Out, Avi, But Forbes Just Gave Folks a Reason to Move to Greenville

SMU's Bullock Has Gas (and Oil, Etc.)

AA's Tim Wagner Will Now Answer Your Questions and Concerns. Be Nice.

Bush Tells Dallas, Fort Worth and Arlington Mayors Their Jobs Are Harder Than His -- Haw, Haw, Haw.

Truckin' Up the Trinity River

The Broken Promises of NAFTA

Dean Writes Own Deal, Deal?

The Yellow-Brick Corridor

Cash Money

When we least expected it, a real opportunity in southern Dallas

High Cost of Lower Prices

Port of Call

Syriana II: Bee County

That's a Gas

Best Family Fun

Hamburger Mary's

Best Wine/Liquor Store

Goody Goody Liquor

Best Middle Eastern Grocery

Worldwide Food Inc.

Best CD Store (New)

Good Records

Run Over

Small towns in the Big Bend area brace for an onslaught of Mexican trucks rolling their way thanks to NAFTA

Pumped Out

Major gas companies are driving away independent station operators, all in the name of greed

Buzz

Cold embrace; No free ride; Love fest

Unhappy New Year

SMU's resident Cassandra says the economic end is near -- again

Through a Lens Darkly

Through a lens darkly Juarez's street photographers capture the face of a horrific future--and the future is closer than you think

Borderline case

An illegal immigrant mother battles against bureaucracy to stay near her ailing daughter

Busted

Julio Mercado is Dallas' brand-new DEA boss, and he's inherited kilos of trouble. His city is about to be declared a drug disaster zone, but all his narcs seem to care about is snitching on each other.

No man is an island

A Dallas businessman's ties to a fictional nation carry no weight in federal court

Rough road ahead

NAFTA road warriors fight it out for federal funding

Left to right

Thoughts on GATT, retraining, corporate welfare, and Bosnia