Articles for September, 2009
DFW Companies Get Gold Stars on Green Issues
Newsweek’s out with its inaugural “Green Rankings” of companies that are good on sustainability issues. Among the local outfits that made the cut: Texas Instruments, J.C. Penney and Kimberly-Clark.
UP Mom Denies Prostitution Charges
Read Cynthia Martinez’s side of the story here. Spoiler Alert: she moved to the Park Cities for the schools.
Newt Gingrich Doesn’t Want to Party With Topless Bar Owner After All
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.
Downtown Dallas To Be Attacked by Sinister Helicopter-Flying Bad Guys Tonight
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.
Carty Optimistic on Virgin America Capital Plan
Don 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.
D Magazine Logo Bedazzles Downtown Dallas, Ctd.
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.
How to Get Rich Off the North Texas Super Bowl
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: (more…)
The Numbers Behind the ACS-Xerox Deal
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?
Only Watch This Video of the Dallas Stars Ice Girls If You’re a Sexist Pig
I find this video of the Dallas Stars Ice Girls offensive. (h/t Unfair Park)
Leading Off (9/30/09)
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 Chåvez (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.
Cowboys Fans Celebrate Win With a Bang (NSFW)
… in the “Hall of Fame Level” bathrooms at the brand new broken in Cowboys Stadium in Arlington. No joke. Two fans clad in Michael Irvin throwback jerseys decided that all the excitement of a thoroughly lackluster win by Romo and the Boys could only be sated by a quickie in one of Jerry’s marble-tiled handicap bathroom stalls.
This definitely NSFW link will take you to the Deadspin post that includes video of the pair drunkenly going at it. The video is very short, but in IMHO the dude was over served and lacking in the imagination department. Is it wrong that I hear Brad Sham’s voice saying, “Irvin loves Irving Irvin,” every time I watch it?
Also, check out photographer Eliot Boney’s website. He’s the guy with the apropos name taking credit for the masterful camera work. No word yet on who the two Irvin wannabees are. My question: Where was security while this was going on?
Comments are on like Donkey Kong. Who’s got the best Chris Berman play-by-play?
A Tardy Recap of the Bridging the Trinity Party
I know, I know. I’m way late with this. But on Friday there was this party on the Continental Bridge. If you want a real, honest to goodness recap of the night’s proceedings, I suggest you read John P. Meyer’s well-written account. Thing is, I took photos. They’re only iPhone shots. Nothing special. But I feel compelled to share them, if for no other reason than sharing them allows me to delete them from my phone. So a few observations and pics after the jump.
Park Cities Prostitute Busted
Park Cities People has details of the arrest in University Park.
From the Great Headlines Department
An alert FBvian draws our attention to this story on NBC Channel 5’s website. It ain’t so much the story, which isn’t local, but the headline. The one on the website right now reads: “Self-Loving Trucker Flips Rig, Loses Load.” But check the URL. You can tell someone made the headline writer tone it down a bit. The original was: “Masturbating Trucker Flips Rig, Loses Load.” [standing, clapping] There are a couple gems in the story itself, too.
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