Lynn Flint Shaw Tomorrow’s edition of the Dallas Observer will include a story about a series of e-mails that have been in the Observer’s possession since last summer, depicting Lynn Flint Shaw as the enforcer in a tight-knit group called “The Inner Circle.” The e-mails have been on my desk...
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...
A Friend of Unfair Park sends word that in June, the Institute for Creation Research relocated its headquarters to Dallas, all the way from California. And, no, it's certainly not Big, Big News -- say, Comerica big -- and the ICR has had an office in Dallas for several months,...
By now you know Comerica's moving a couple hundred of its top execs from Detroit to Dallas. Supposed to happen in the fall, as the company looks for downtown digs. Till then, Comerica's chairman and CEO Ralph W. Babb Jr. is going to be hard at work at his other...
Comerica's moving to Dallas, sure, but bringing with it only 200 employees, which means, according to its top execs, some 7,300 emplyees will stay in Michigan -- many of them in Detroit Rock City. Nonetheless, yesterday a group of Detroit ministers marched in front of Comerica Inc.'s downtown Detroit tower...
Ralph Babb, the Comerica bossman, is moving his company to Dallas. Nicer winters than Michigan. Technically, this falls under the category of Breaking News: Just this morning, Comerica Bank announced it was moving its corporate HQ to Dallas, which, we are happy to announce this morning, still qualifies as a...
While everyone else is figuring out whether to use their Katies as doorstops or hat racks, the Dallas Observer is proud to announce we've moved on to far more prestigious honors: Our team took home the first-place trophy at the first annual LIFT Charity Grown-Up Spelling Bee, held today at...
This pic was taken outside a recent American International Toy Fair in New York. And, no, these are not the droids you're looking for. Seems Comerica isn't the only bidness moving to town: Yesterday, the Toy Industry Association announced it was moving its fall preview show from the Jacob K...
All morning long, KTXQ-FM staff members--on-air personalities, sales personnel, and receptionists alike--wandered through the radio station's frigid corridors, saying little and wearing faces so long, they damn near brushed against the carpet. When they spoke, they offered only curt words and dark jokes. "You leaving?" a receptionist asked one of...
Michael Lile stood patiently outside the gate of the grand prix racetrack inside the Malibu SpeedZone in North Dallas, intently watching pint-sized cars wheel around the track in their fervid race to post the fastest time on the house clock. Behind him, a sparse crowd fueled by Miller High Life...
John Spano was just a dull, two-bit Dallas businessman before he tried to buy a professional hockey team. Now his claims of wealth and business prowess are dissolving.
