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It's another in a long line of sales pitches for Mayor Tom Leppert as he hawks his vision for a convention center hotel. Tonight the promoter-in-chief is going mano a mano against those who support a referendum for a city charter amendment that would put the kibosh on his proposed...

Bust out the Excel for a peek at the May S&P/Case-Shiller home-price index, out today; or just take away the takeaway, which is: Dallas's home prices are down 3.1 percent since May 2007, which is nothing compared to the national average of a 17 percent plunge spread amongst 10 major...

From today's Boston Globe, a suggestion: "Want to get rich? Move to Texas." And while that didn't work out for some of us -- alas, perhaps that's the problem with being born here -- the paper notes that, courtesy a Salary.com report, "Plano topped a list of the best American...

Daniel Rodrigue Robert Smith, who's been known to give The Dark Knight the occasional hard time. Pete's just rolled out of bed, well before the heat index reached 103, and posted over on DC9 at Night Daniel Rodrigue's aces review (annotated setlist too!) of last night's Cure show at American...

Turns out that as the year ended, Dallasites were pretty happy with our lots lot in life -- at least compared to the rest of the country. The Hudson Employment Index, which measures workers' confidence and contentment, was released this morning, and the year-end wrap-up reveals that on average, only...

Priorities, priorities: Man, Buzz needs a vacation. Here we are about to tell you that the Collin County District Attorney's Office is preparing to start requiring all persons accepting felony plea bargains to provide DNA samples, and our lefty knee isn't even twitching, let alone jerking. We must be tired...

Sick of political blogs? Too bad! The 2008 campaign is unavoidable; if you know what superdelegates are, or who said "God damn America," you're already a victim. Thanks to the curse of modern technology, you'll be hearing what top Internet buffoons are saying about the candidates—whether you want to or...

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...

If you need Schutze today, he'll be with Mayor Tom at the Adam's Mark Hotel, where the Williams Institute is holding its third annual conference. Jim's moderating a crime panel this afternoon -- and, says the latest Wholeness Index, crime in Dallas is the worst in northwest Dallas, "mostly west...