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Speaking of ExxonMobil, as we were earlier this week, looks like the Irving-based petrochemical Goliath is just a li’l bit bigger today: Says here the company set the world’s record by claiming a $40.6 billion profit in 2007, shattering its ’05 record by a good $1.1 billion. Says the AP,…

When there’s a transportation crisis in this region, it’s a given that Michael Morris will make an appearance. And sure enough, with six projects scheduled for delay because of the Texas Department of Transportation’s funding crisis, Morris, Director of Transportation for the North Central Texas Council of Governments, was there…

Frank Campagna’s The Eagle, circa 1975 Speaking of the Rolling Stones — and bootlegs — the great Frank Campagna shoots us the note that, ’bout a year ago, someone lifted his 1975 inspired-by-the-Stones painting as the cover art for a pretty terrific Stones boot. The recording comes from the soundboard…

Randall D. Chrisman, DART’s new board chair Dallas Area Rapid Transit has just named its new board chairman — and, nope, it ain’t John Ware after all, Jim. Rather, it’s Carrollton’s Randall Chrisman, president of a commercial real estate company on Josey Lane. Among the more interesting items on the…

A postcard of downtown Dallas, circa 1944 eBay’s littered with vintage Dallas postcards, most going for a few bucks. There’s also a Web site dedicated to postcards depicting Dallas as it looked in the early 1900s — from the race track at Fair Park to the original 1901 Carnegie Library…

Used to have the concert tee from the Rolling Stones’ November 1, 1981, concert at the Cotton Bowl — second show of a two-day stay in Dallas, matter of fact, promoting Tattoo You. And while the entire set’s been bootlegged under two different titles (Executive Action and Crossfire Hurricane), I’ve…

Divide and Conquer I am elated that Mr. Diaz was able to achieve his goal of becoming a Border Patrol agent (“The Thin Green Line,” by Megan Feldman, January 24). However, the continual hiring of agents with a Hispanic background is highly suspicious. It seems that the plan for continuing…

Wusses: We suppose we should be grateful. Since Mayor Tom Leppert and the new host of city council members came on board last summer, things have been so civil at City Hall. No weekly blow-ups at the council chambers. No Mayor Laura Miller vs. everyone else. With one notable exception—how…

Not much is left of Little Mexico, the once-vibrant Hispanic community surrounding Reverchon Park that blossomed in the 1920s. Uptown redevelopment has replaced the blocks of small single-family homes and businesses with Victory Park and condominiums. Fragments of the old neighborhood can still be seen in four homes on McKinnon…

Dale Jameton sat at the wheel of the pickup, the radio console glowing in his face, a freezer bag full of meth between him and his girlfriend. He looked in the rearview mirror this hot, muggy August night in 2006, at the trail of cops who had been following them…

Courtesy TMZ.com comes some actual legal news involving American Idol and a Dallas-based company called Peachez Inc. On Monday in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Studdard sued the promoter, which offices on South R.L. Thornton Freeway, for breach of contract — most likely, over an axed…

Lynn Flint Shaw Lynn Flint Shaw today resigned as the Dallas Area Rapid Transit board chair, claiming the Dallas County District Attorney’s investigations into allegations she lifted Craig Watkins’ signature and created phone District Attorney’s office letterhead had become “a distraction.” She also mentions the “public scrutiny” given her “personal…

The New York Times today is reporting that Methodists still trying to push President Bush’s library and think tank off the S.M.U. campus are mounting a “last-ditch effort” to block the damned-near done deal. They want to put the project to a vote in front of the 290 members of…

Yesterday we came across the following video, in which a woman — identified on her YouTube page only as “Widowedtoosoon” — grieves the loss of her husband and blames the Dallas Veterans Affairs Medical Center, in part, for her husband’s suicide. Next to the video was a story that appeared…