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  • Texas Senate passes CPRIT reforms sends bill to governor

    Legislation to clean up the state’s troubled cancer-fighting agency was finally approved and sent to the governor Friday by the Senate. The measure by Sen. Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound, would restructure the leadership of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas and impose new conflict-of-interest prohibitions on agency officials, donors and grant recipients. The legislation ...

  • Safety traffic economic development among Arts Districts top goals

    Catherine Cuellar, executive director of Dallas Arts District. It may not be a sexy issue, but safety in the Dallas Arts District will be one of Catherine Cuellar's top goals as executive director of the district, she told me in a recent interview. Cuellar, who started her new job on April 15, said without a safe environment, nothing else matters. That refers to both crime and to the tension ...

  • Ballet Folkorico of Dallas 11th Annual Gala Celebration

    Celebrating 11 years of instruction and culture in the Metroplex. The dancers from the Ballet Folklrico of Dallas will take you on an adventure through the ancient times of the Mayan culture, A unique Dia De Los Muertos celebration up to the modern times of Jalisco. Saturday May 25, 2013 @7:00 pm, Doors Open at 6:30 ...

  • Plano tops Austin as most bikeable city in Texas

    Members of the "M&M" group of the Plano Bicycle Association enjoy a 50 mile ride from Plano to Wylie in Plano on June 2, 2007. As the birthplace of Lance Armstrong maybe it shouldn’t surprise anyone, but Plano has recently been named the most bicycle-friendly city in Texas. That distinction was given to the city ...

  • Dallas judge LULAC within its rights to keep Domingo Garcia from seeking top spot

    Domingo Garcia, at the time running for he 33rd Congressional District seats, prepares to address supporters gathered at the Kessler Theater on July 31 of late ...


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Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes

In playing the eponymous detective in Guy Ritchies Sherlock Holmes reboot, Robert Downey Jr. joins an extensive rank of actors that include such luminaries as Peter OToole, John Barrymore, Nicol Williamson, Peter Cushing, Jonathan Pryce, and, of course, the incomparabl ... ...

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  • Flexjet sees business take off as economy improves

    A Challenger private jet. Dallas-based Flexjet reported that new business grew 83 percent in the first quarter. Flexjet, the world's second largest fractional jet ownership services provider, said that sales of fractional shares grew 108 percent in the quarter and that new jet card sales grew by 48 percent. The company offers fractional aircraft ownership, jet card and whole aircraft ...

  • Your Dallas-Forth Worth GMC dealers support Carry the Load

    ? The non-profit organization was founded in 2011 by two former U.S. Navy SEALs - Clint Bruce and Stephen Holley - to help people celebrate a meaningful Memorial Day. Carry ...

  • Immigration law failures keep Dallas mother in jail without bond

    Verdusco's case is proof the current immigration system is badly flawed, and is more likely to punish and deport foreign nationals rather than give deserving individuals the chance to stay. Verdusco's family is receiving help from immigration activist Ralph Isenberg and his ...

  • 2 charged with capital murder in slaying of man who refused to give them a ride

    Two men have been arrested in the May 19 shooting death of a man at an apartment complex in Southeast Oak Cliff. Kendrick Mathis and Kevon Brown, both 19, were charged Friday with capital murder in the death of David Houston, 20. Mathis was already in custody on accusations that he was involved in a robbery slaying that occurred that same day. According to police, Houston was dropping off a ...

  • Atmos CEO talks shale boom natural gas exports

    Kim Cocklin of Atmos Energy Conventional wisdom would say that natural gas utilities love high gas prices. Thats not the case. This week, I talked to Kim Cocklin, CEO of Atmos Energy (NYSE: ATM), about the shale boom and how the price fluctuations of the past few years have affected his industry, which provides natural gas to 1.8 million customers in North, West and Central Texas. Utilities such ...

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