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Crime

UP Mom Denies Prostitution Charges

Josh Hixson
By Josh Hixson |

Read Cynthia Martinez’s side of the story here. Spoiler Alert: she moved to the Park Cities for the schools.

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Living in a Silo

Patrick Kennedy
By Patrick Kennedy |

I’ve talked about professions needing to get out of their silos, but wasn’t talking about this:

Before:
before

After:
after

h/t: Landy. And no, I don’t recall seeing this in Copenhagen.

You can read the full release after the jump. In September, Newt Gingrich’s outfit Americans Solutions for Winning the Future gave Dawn Rizos, owner of the Lodge, an “Entrepreneur of the Year” award for all of Texas and invited her to a private dinner in Washington — which was apparently a mistake. Rizos even called to confirm the award, and she paid a requested $5,000 to join Americans Solutions for Winning the Future. Then someone in Gingrich’s camp realized what they’d done. Oops.

Here’s the letter telling her about the award, and here’s another confirming that she ponied up the cash. I know Dawn Rizos. I bet she’s having a good laugh over this.

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The Dallas Police Department (twitter/DallasPD) just tweeted: “There will be low flying helicopters in downtown Dallas from 4pm to 10pm. The company has obtained appropriate clearances.” I could either call the po-po and ask what’s up or just invite the sinister bad guys to tell us their intentions in the comments.

Don Carty IMG_1032Don Carty, the ex-AMR CEO who’s now chairman of Virgin America, which was founded by Sir Richard Branson, says he’s “confident” the feds will OK a new investment group for the discount airline. Approval is important for Virgin, which targets business travelers, because it’s been dogged by controversy since two big U.S. hedge funds sold their 76 percent stake in the airline earlier this year. Virgin rivals say that means the California-based carrier is really controlled by Branson’s Virgin Group Ltd., which would be a violation of rules against foreign ownership of domestic airlines. So, is there a timetable for the U.S. Transportation Department to OK Virgin’s new shareholders? “God only knows,” Carty (pictured) joked last night, hosting a party for a local nonprofit at his home in Dallas. DOT’s plate is “pretty full” right now, he added, including with a pending decision on the American Airlines/British Airways alliance.

Here’s a better picture of the logo test we ran yesterday on the new building. Thanks to Gustav Schmiege for the snap. One problem with the test logo: when you put a “D” in a square, it makes the square look like a vertical rectangle. That’s why our logo is wider than it is tall, to make it look like a square. Anyway, as I understand it, the test logo was 24 feet tall. After yesterday’s experiment, they’ve determined that it can only be 20 feet tall. We’ll miss those 4 feet.DSign

Business

How to Get Rich Off the North Texas Super Bowl

Jason Heid
By Jason Heid |

Estimates I’ve heard about the direct economic impact of Super Bowl XLV on North Texas range from $300 million to $500 million. How to get yourself a piece of that pie?

The Super Bowl XLV Host Committee will host the first of three scheduled workshops for its Emerging Business Program on Oct. 27 at the Will Rogers Memorial Center in Fort Worth. This program is just for minority- and women-owned businesses that want to find out about the many procurement opportunities leading up to the big game at Cowboys Stadium on Feb. 6, 2011.

But be warned: “The Super Bowl is not the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow,” host committee executive director Tara Green told me she’s been telling organizations all over the region. Don’t count on the Super Bowl funding your retirement plan. So if you’re not already in the porta-pottie business (for example), now is not the time to start investing heavily in hopes of a mighty windfall.

If you own a business and don’t qualify as a minority or a woman, you can still contact the Host Committee about being included on a giant list of vendors that they’ve been adding to since almost the very moment that North Texas was awarded the game in May of 2007.

If you are qualified for the Emerging Business Program, you can register here. Details after the jump:

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Business

The Numbers Behind the ACS-Xerox Deal

Tim Rogers
By Tim Rogers |

Several people have complained in the comments about FrontBurner’s sauciness this morning. So here’s a very detailed examination of the arcane financial details behind the sale of ACS to Xerox. That balance things out? Happy?

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Quote for the Day

Patrick Kennedy
By Patrick Kennedy |

When great evils happen, I am in the habit of looking out for what good may arise from them as consolations to us, and Providence has in fact so established the order of things, as that most evils are the means of producing some good.

~Thomas Jefferson, 1802 letter to Benjamin Rush.

Know hope:
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Overcome:

connection with nature…
http://www.ci.temple.tx.us/images/pages/N329/Drainage.jpg

formula for safe traffic flow…


interconnectivity…


your own little piece of ground, unlike anyone else’s…

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1080/893633769_3ac512fd7d.jpg

engaging in neighborliness and community…
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vibrant markets for trade and wealth creation…
http://clawback.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/dead-mall21.jpg

Only thru this…
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/1390318.jpg

Can we have this…
http://wildlife.state.co.us/NR/rdonlyres/5DB4B173-27B8-435E-9AB5-1D7CEFD25629/0/wetlands2.jpg

Cities no longer can be associated with the stigmas that have plagued them in the past as pollution has diminished, sanitation systems developed, industry relocated and getting cleaner, and crime drifting towards the suburbs where it’s virtually impossible to monitor and police.

I find this video of the Dallas Stars Ice Girls offensive. (h/t Unfair Park)

Local News

Leading Off (9/30/09)

Tim Rogers
By Tim Rogers |

1. Michael Irvin was caught on cellphone video having sex in a bathroom at Cowboys Stadium. Or it was a guy wearing an Irvin jersey. Hard to tell. And if you’re offended by such material, you simply need not follow that link. But you’re going to follow that link, aren’t you?

2. Listen, you guys can rename me César ChÃ¥vez (hard to get those accents right). But can we just get over this already? I’m sick of hearing every month of another plan to name another road after the guy.

3. Remember yesterday when we told you that there’d been a rash of cheese overdoses at Parkland? We perhaps now know why. A grandmother in Rowlett has pled guilty to selling the stuff out of her home. According to the News, cops found eight guns, at least 9 ounces of heroin, and more than 3,000 capsules containing cheese. And the feds are want to seize her four cars: a 1978 Rolls-Royce, a Mercedes-Benz, a Jaguar, and a Cadillac Escalade.

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