Following a nationwide search, Texas A&M University-Commerce President Keith D. McFarland has announced the hiring of Carlton Cooper as its new athletic director. Cooper, who has spent the last nine years working for the athletic department at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, comes with...
After a one year hiatus, Real Men Cook Dallas came back in a major way on Father's Day at the Dallas Convention Center. Terry Allen produced the local version of this nationwide event. There were over 1,100 tasters who weathered Sunday's rain to celebrate African-American fathers and men. Men from...
Dear 7-11, I hate to bother you guys over in your new digs at One Arts Plaza, but I was hoping you might be able to do me a solid. It seems this big storm blew through town on May 2, and we got hit pretty hard down in Oak...
It's been ten years since I left the campus of Texas A&M. Soon after my departure, the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum came to town. The library quickly became a university fixture and tourist destination. . Friday happened to be my first time visiting the library. Due to a...
I've gotten a few requests for the conference call info for Rep. Johnson's Town Hall Meeting. Per her office here you go. Who: Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson What: Telephone Town Hall Meeting on Immigration Reform When: Tuesday, June 26th 2007, 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. (CST) How: Call in number:...
Dallas Progress has information regarding the destruction of Timber Creek, a plan for which Ed Oakley cast an affirmative vote. According to Mike Davis, developers will remove 1,000 trees and fill a creek with sand while displacing 2,000 apartment residents. See Dallas Progress' full story here. Friend of the environment...
I had my radio locked on 104.5 this morning because I knew that Skip and the crew were scheduled to speak to their audience about the station's decision to fire Nanette Lee and Wig. Murphy called the segment Real Talk, and in teasers leading up to the discussion he promised...
Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson today announced that she would be holding a telephone town hall meeting on immigration reform on Tuesday, June 26th at 7:00 p.m local Dallas time. Congresswoman Johnson will be listening and commenting on her constituents questions regarding the current immigration reform bills pending in the U.S....
Day baseball always sounds like a good idea -and it is- as long as you don't live in Texas. I've had today's game circled for a long time, but as the temperature has risen over the last week or so I thought about bowing out gracefully. Yet and still my...
BY WILLIAM HENDERSON The Father/Son Golf Outing was first initiated on Father’s Day Weekend in June 2003. The concept of the “Outing” was to promote companionship, camaraderie, networking and an all around good time amongst family and friends. The other purpose of the golf outing was to celebrate and show...
