Business
The fun part of the city budget season is beginning, with council members scheduling "town halls" to discuss the issues with voters, take notes about what we want done wi[...]
24 Aug 2009
The Oak Cliff Young Professionals group is putting a spin on speed dating, in which people rotate through five-minute "dates." Their "speed networking" event at[...]
17 Aug 2009
We haven’t said much on Back Talk about the big city hall corruption trial because, luckily, our neighborhood council rep isn’t involved. But even if you haven’t [...]
13 Aug 2009
You may get a junk phone call this week, or may even have received one last week, from a Houston company offering burial and funeral services. They are apparently a well-known phon[...]
05 Aug 2009
Whole Foods CEO John Mackey is not shy in this podcast with the investment Web site, The Motley Fool. You can read a summary on the WineSpiritsDaily trade magazine blog. Mackey, of[...]
02 Aug 2009
Looks like we’re going to have to wait a few more weeks to find out the next Dallas street to become controversial because someone on the council has proposed changing its na[...]
02 Jul 2009
The folks who hosted and attended the Tyler Street Block Party this weekend had plenty to celebrate — after being help up by some zoning issues, the new Oak Cliff Bicycle Com[...]
29 Jun 2009
Sometime in July, the federal government is going to launch a "cash for clunkers" program, paying new car buyers up to $4,500 to trade in a gas-guzzling older car for a n[...]
26 Jun 2009
West Davis Dental has leased an office space at Bishop and Davis, next to Cafe Brazil. The dental office currently has a space in the Tudor revival style building on Davis between [...]
26 Jun 2009
Here’s the Cesar Chavez street-renaming update for today (check out Back Talk here for the background): According to a DMN story, a few council members are feeling a little b[...]
26 Jun 2009
Good news on the DART front: By 2013, we could hop a train from downtown directly to DFW airport via Irving, according to a DART board vote reported in the DMN. No mention of how l[...]
24 Jun 2009
Southwest Center Mall/Red Bird Mall has been in trouble for about as long as I’ve been in Dallas — there have been crime problems, occupancy problems and just the gener[...]
23 Jun 2009
