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According to today’s Wall Street Journal, Dallas-based Comerica will partner with the U.S. Treasury Department on a prepaid debit card for folks receiving Social Security benefits. The purpose of the so-called Direct Express card is to “provide safer and cheaper benefits payments” for Social Security and Supplemental Security Income recipients…

Colorado-based Denver Glass Machinery manufactures equipment for “the professional glass artist.” Mesquite-based Paragon Industries likewise manufactures kilns and furnaces for the glass-making and clay-baking enthusiast; has, in fact, since 1948. The two companies could be considered rivals. If nothing else, after Paragon filed suit in Dallas federal court last week,…

NBC News Priscilla Ceballos on Today today Seems America (or, at least, Matt Lauer) cannot get enough of Priscilla Ceballos, the mom who faked that dead-daddy-in-Iraq letter to score her 6-year-old daughter some Hannah Montana tickets. More than a week after the 25-year-old mother of three was first busted by…

So, now we know a little more about what’s planned for what will be the former AMC Loews Cityplace 14 come Sunday: a mixed-use development. Indeed, from all accounts, Georgia-based buyer Inland American Communities plans for the Cityplace side of North Central Expressway a development very much like the one…

Today, The Economist weighs in on the state’s new “pole tax,” which wriggles an extra fiver out of a strip-joint patron’s wallet before he or she’s even in the door. And while The Economist absolutely agrees that the dough’s being raised for a good cause — helping victims of sexual…

Nine months after Deferential Dirk got his ass shackled, shocked and shelved by the Golden State Warriors, Decisive Dirk exacted some revenge last night. OK, so the 22-point blowout is, like, only an ounce of revenge, but that’s some, right? In his best performance in a Mavs season that’s been…

Forty-year-old Monique Blasko of Frisco is a school crossing guard; she and her husband, who have three children, also run a business buying other folks’ garage-sale items to sell on eBay. Fact is, I learned a great deal about Blasko today, as this morning she’s “the commuter” featured at some…

A year ago, then-Dallas Mayor Laura Miller was in the midst of that contentious battle with TXU over its plan to build at least 11 new coal-fired power plants throughout the state. Now, she’s among the stars of a documentary about that fight, Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal Wars. The 30-minute…

Aunt Fannie’s Butt Jim Schutze’s kind and understated article “Slow Train Coming” (December 20) should really have been titled “Decrepit and Totally Dead Middle Ages Oxcart Left on the Side of the Road.” I have lived in Dallas for more than 27 years, and never in my born days have…

Dear Dallas, We need to talk. You’re a really great city, and you’re really nice and all, but things are not working out for me right now. No, shhh, listen! I have so much respect for you, and I’m so glad we met. But it’s not you. It’s me. I’ve…

A maverick female city council member challenges the powers that be at City Hall all by her lonesome. Voters trek to the polls to decide the fate of the Trinity River project: Will it be a park or an expressway? The feds are sniffing around alleged corruption among southern Dallas…

As noted, oh, minutes ago, Dallasites will have one fewer moviegoing option come Sunday, as AMC is closing its Loews Cityplace 14. Turns out, the property is owned by Rosebud Properties, which has actually sold the theater, according to the woman who answered the phone there. Only, to whom the…

Justin Scott, a spokesperson for AMC Entertainment, tells Unfair Park today that the theater chain will be shuttering its Loews Cityplace 14 location on Sunday. When asked why Kansas City-based AMC Entertainment was closing the multiplex on Haskell Avenue, Scott told Unfair Park, “You know, Cityplace 14 was identified as…