Aaron Johnson

• 2 months, 1 week ago
  Aaron Johnson's comment on:

  Dallas renters pay just as much in taxes as homeowners

  Yes, but who do you think absorbs the risk of the tax expense outstripping the rental market's ability to reimburse it. The OWNER/LANDLORD. So no, renters don't pay taxes, they pay rent. The landlord then pays the taxes out of the rent he collects (or tries to collect in some cases). Regardless of whether the rent pays his rent the landlord pays the taxes.

• 1 year, 10 months ago
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  Lone Star 92.5 fires legendary Dallas DJ Redbeard

  This is why I just listen to 95.3FM the Range.

• 1 year, 10 months ago
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  Dallas-based Reddy Ice Holdings' $1.1 billion buyout terminated

  I'm having a difficult time fully understanding who is being referred to in the first paragraph when they say "'the company' has also agreed to pay $4 million". Are you referring to GSO partners or Reddy ice?

• 1 year, 10 months ago
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  Tax dollars hard at work at Lake Dallas High School

  Ahh, skool daze...

• 1 year, 10 months ago
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  Tim O'Hare running for mayor in Farmers Branch

  I wonder what would become of me if I illegally immigrate to Saudi Arabia or China? Certainly they would treat me better than we Americans treat our illegal immigrants. What with the free medical care offered by clinics and parkland (not to mention the fee based medical care that never gets paid for because you can't track down the illegals to make them pay), zero income tax, and free education, wow we're really making life miserable for our illegal immigrants aren't we. Why are they punishing the legal residents of farmer's branch instead of hitting the illegal immigrants with the fine? Ohh, wait the law doesn't apply to illegal immigrants, or if it does, they don't care, they're illegal remember. There's certainly one thing the illegal immigrant community has learned well and adopted from us Americans; a deep sense of entitlement.

• 1 year, 10 months ago
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  UCLA's Williams Institute releases new study analyzing data on same-sex couples in Texas

  Or girlfriend as the case may be...

• 1 year, 10 months ago
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  Gay-owned Jones Walker Furniture celebrates moving to huge new digs

  Does it really matter that it's "Gay-Owned"?

• 1 year, 10 months ago
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  UCLA's Williams Institute releases new study analyzing data on same-sex couples in Texas

  "The counties with the highest percentage of same-sex couples are Culberson County (1.05% of all county households), Presidio County (1.03%), and Hudspeth County (1.01%)."

  Has anyone been to these counties? They're practically empty, there aren't probably 5,000 people in the entire county, it's not that the concentration of same sex couples is high there it just there aren't hardly any people there at all.

  "Same-sex couples live in 99% of the counties in Texas and constitute 1.0% of coupled households and 0.6% of all households in the state."

  I guess that makes them the VERY vocal minority.

• 1 year, 10 months ago
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  Plans by Dallas group for creation science degree draw debate

  What's the harm? Every other university in Texas is teaching evolution, is it really going to hurt to have 1 that teaches both evolution and creation? I highly doubt it.

• 1 year, 10 months ago
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  Denton Recycled Books Records CDs housed in downtown square historical Wright Opera House

  I thought it was a great shop, alway plenty of good OKOM to be found in their CD selection!

• 1 year, 10 months ago
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  UPDATED x 2: Historic Hard Rock Cafe building in Dallas gets the axe

  I'm in commercial real estate as well, and currently involved in a development/expansion project in an area where the local homeowners associations and business owners are very organized and influental; they can make or break a deal. We paid $20mm for this deal and The first thing we did was meet with them and get their 'wish list', answer their questions, and get signed letters of support for our project before we went to the city planner for project approval. It went a long way towards building goodwill with the community and ensuring that the city planner wouldn't block our progress. We also committed to retaining all the current local retail operators at the center and committed 25% of the new GLA to local tenants versus nationals. All in all it's just business, we're there to make money, but there is a right way and a wrong way to go about it and I feel Mr. Landes went about it the wrong way and failed to utilize all the tools at his disposal to clearly communicate with the city leaders and community residents in this situation.

• 1 year, 10 months ago
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  Fort Worth council to consider ban on dog tethering

  But 40 lb. pit bulls chained to the burr oaks and pecan trees is part of the fort worth charm. Fort Worth just won't be the same without the live yard art.

• 1 year, 11 months ago
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  Quality of life in Dallas tied to dearth of affordable housing

  "There is no doubt that people would enjoy higher quality lives for themselves and their children if we learned how to create mixed income communities all across the city."

  I used to live in a "mixed income community"; apparently I was expected to mix my income with that of my neighbors as they wanted to run an extension cords from my house to theirs when they didn't pay their electric bill and would steal 2 gallon buckets of water from my front yard spigot to flush their toilets when they didn't pay their water bill...

• 1 year, 11 months ago
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  UPDATED: Fort Worth jumps onto "Pull 'Em Up," anti-pant-sagging bandwagon

  "A S-T article quotes Moss as saying that pants sagging prevents kids from getting jobs or being taken seriously and reduces them to stereotypes."

  Yup!

• 1 year, 11 months ago
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  Fort Worth Stock Show to feature Whiplash the Riding Monkey

  Slow news day, huh?

• 1 year, 11 months ago
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  Judge upholds moment of silence in Texas schools, despite Carrollton couple's crusade

  Why don't mommy and daddy love me?

  Why does mommy cry at night?

  Where does daddy go every night, and why is he so angry when he gets home?

  Why didn't santa touch me that way?

  Something smells funny?

  I wonder if the girl in front of me farted?

  Do girls fart? I've never heard a girl fart.

  Her fart smell different than mine, I wonder why?

• 1 year, 11 months ago
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  Dallas radio station 97.1-FM reverts to "The Eagle" rock format

  I just listent to 95.3 the range.

• 1 year, 11 months ago
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  Dallas monkey adventures

  Here are some more Monkey shananigans in Dallas. These were done at White Rock.

  http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fus...

  http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fus...

• 1 year, 11 months ago
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  DISD wants parents' help with student dropout rate

  How do they exclude students who transfer out of district?

• 1 year, 11 months ago
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  UPDATED: Dallas Deputy Pro Tem Mayor Caraway to urge youth to "Pull Yo Pants Up"

  chrisdanger, the billboards and ads were donated, so no tax money was used as far as I understand it.

• 1 year, 11 months ago
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  UPDATED: Idiot teens arrested after pretending to be police in Fort Worth

  Where was this!? What idiots.

• 1 year, 11 months ago
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  Dallas apartment complex to residents: Merry Christmas and get out

  It's a concept we call "highest and best use" in real estate... and as we say in the real estate business "time kills all deals" especially developments that are IRR driven.

• 1 year, 11 months ago
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  UPDATED: Dallas-based GodTube launches virtual prayer wall and Bible

  What's the difference between worshiping self, the earth, sun or an unseen God. Praying to an unseen god or relying on self/fate/or mother nature.... No matter what anyone says everyone does indeed believe in a god of some sort that they worship, the only difference is who or what they choose to elevate to that status... Most people just elevate themselves to that status. Atheists are the most arrogant, prejudice, and intollerant people on earth... jeez...

• 1 year, 11 months ago
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  Dallas apartment complex to residents: Merry Christmas and get out

  No Pavel, DART is evil because it rhymes with FART. .<;-)

  Just spreading a little holiday cheer!

• 1 year, 11 months ago
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  Dallas apartment complex to residents: Merry Christmas and get out

  I currently live (and own my home) in lake highlands and I (as well as many of my neighbors) disagree with your opinion.

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