Posted on February 3, 2008 at 1:35 a.m.

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

On Lone Star 92.5 fires legendary Dallas DJ Redbeard

Posted on February 3, 2008 at 1:18 a.m.

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?

On Dallas-based Reddy Ice Holdings' $1.1 billion buyout terminated

Posted on January 25, 2008 at 2:58 p.m.

Ahh, skool daze...

On Tax dollars hard at work at Lake Dallas High School

Posted on January 25, 2008 at 1:38 p.m.

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.

On Tim O'Hare running for mayor in Farmers Branch

Posted on January 25, 2008 at 11:54 a.m.

Or girlfriend as the case may be...

On UCLA's Williams Institute releases new study analyzing data on same-sex couples in Texas

Posted on January 25, 2008 at 11:36 a.m.

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

On Gay-owned Jones Walker Furniture celebrates moving to huge new digs

Posted on January 25, 2008 at 11:26 a.m.

"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.

On UCLA's Williams Institute releases new study analyzing data on same-sex couples in Texas

Posted on January 24, 2008 at 10:46 a.m.

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.

On Plans by Dallas group for creation science degree draw debate

Posted on January 24, 2008 at 10:29 a.m.

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

On Denton Recycled Books Records CDs housed in downtown square historical Wright Opera House

Posted on January 24, 2008 at 10:21 a.m.

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.

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