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Who Is In Charge of the Trinity River Project?
The Trinity River is a civic project that has way too many agencies and organizations with their hands in the pie.
Business
Read Jon Bois’ Eulogy For RadioShack
If you didn't read this -- SBNation's Jon Bois writing about his days working for RadioShack -- when it ran last year, now is a good time to do it. A taste:
This is a consumer technology business that is built to work perfectly in the year 1975. The Internet comes around, and this, being a technology company, is expected to move on it aggressively and know what it's doing, except basically nobody really understood the Internet for a very long time. So they whiffed big a few times. Then the iPhone came around and rendered half the stuff RadioShack sold completely redundant. This company needed to become something radically different a decade ago. I just don't think it knows how to be anything else. It's like retracing the steps and doings of a drunk person: okay, here's where he keyed the cop car. Wait, why'd he do that? I don't know, but his pants are lying here, so this is before he stripped naked and tried to rob the library.ALSO: the CueCat makes a cameo.
Awesome Things
Does Mike Rawlings Know He’s the Mayor of Dallas, Not Dallas-Fort Worth?
Regionalism allows city leaders to ignore the true state of local economics.
Competence
Nothing Says Merry Christmas Like Santa Claus With a Gun
Fort Worth Gun is open until 3 p.m. on Christmas Eve, but is closed on Christmas Day.
Civics
Here Are the People Who May Decide Dallas’ Future
Mayor Mike announced, in Mark Lamster's words, his "rethink the toll-road squad" this morning. Tim, assuredly, will be along with additional thoughts on this later this morning. But here are the names on the squad, and what they may bring, Cliffs Notes version:
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Why Do We Need to Spend a Quarter-Billion Dollars on the Dallas Convention Center?
Wasn't the hotel supposed to have cured what ailed the place?
Competence
Dallas Cowboy Joseph Randle Arrested For Stealing Cologne
Randle will make at least $555,000 this year.
Competence
News Media: Stop Being Jerks to Vickery Meadow Residents
"Numerous reporters and photographers converged on a northeast Dallas apartment complex today, in which the Ebola patient was residing. We have received reports about overly aggressive behavior by some media representatives which has unnecessarily alarmed many of the residents."
Competence
There’s Gotta Be a Better Way to Say This, First Baptist
I ask then: Did God reject his people? By no means! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew. Don’t you know what Scripture says in the passage about Elijah—how he appealed to God against Israel: “Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars; I am the only one left, and they are trying to kill me?" And what was God’s answer to him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
Competence
The Observer’s ‘Dallas Needs More Bookstores’ Cover Story Is Lazy
The bigger problem, though, is that if Smart had interviewed Evans for this story, she would've found out that he's planning on opening a bookstore. In Deep Ellum. He's already negotiating it with a landlord.