Author: Shawn Williams

DallasTexasRealEstate.com: We’ll answer questions from both buyers and sellers

DallasTexasRealEstate.com: We’ll answer questions from both buyers and sellers

If you are looking for free information on the Dallas Real Estate market, be sure to check out DallasTexasRealEstate.com where local professionals answer questions posted by buyers and sellers. Whether you want to see all the various Dallas homes for sale or need a deep dive on the Highland Park...

Lehman Brothers files for bankruptcy, Merrill Lynch sold to Bank of America over the weekend

Lehman Brothers files for bankruptcy, Merrill Lynch sold to Bank of America over the weekend

If this is a strong economy, I’d hate to see one in trouble. Over the weekend, Lehman Brothers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which is more fallout from the U.S. mortgage and lending crisis.  More than 24,000 employees at the 158 year old company may be out of work as...

OH…It’s Much Clearer Now…

OH…It’s Much Clearer Now…

 Here’s another gem that I got in my inbox over the weekend.   I’m a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight…..   * If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you’re “exotic” and “different.”  * If you grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers,  It is...

More Hurricane Ike updates: FEMA’s Houston/Galveston efforts struggling, still availble for help

More Hurricane Ike updates: FEMA’s Houston/Galveston efforts struggling, still availble for help

The folks I’m talking to in Houston say conditions are still tough.  FEMA has trucks with ice and supplies, but residents don’t know where to go to get them.  Officials are asking residents to boil their water before drinking, but it’s hard to do with no electricity. Cellphone batteries are...

Media does a disservice to Galveston/Houston’s bout with Hurricane Ike

Media does a disservice to Galveston/Houston’s bout with Hurricane Ike

Watching the media coverage of Hurricane Ike I couldn’t tell if they were relieved or disappointed that more people didn’t die as a result of the storm.  I kept hearing how things were not that bad and how Galveston and Houston were “spared.”    The folks that  I talked to in Houston...

Thoughts on the S.P./Charlie Gibson Interview

Thoughts on the S.P./Charlie Gibson Interview

My thoughts can be summed up in one word: NEW+KEW+LAR Doesn’t everybody remember what happened last time we elected someone who didn’t know how to say NUCLEAR? Sarah struggled, there’s no doubt about that.  Adding Canada and Mexico to the list of her travels.  Having never met a foreign head...

What will November 4th Tell Us?  Presidential Election or Popularity Contest

What will November 4th Tell Us? Presidential Election or Popularity Contest

By Jazzy of Because I Said So This election is beginning to remind me of the time I ran for my high school senior class secretary position (which I won, yeah me). That election was solely based on how many people knew your name, what they knew about you, and...

Old School Friday: Girl Groups

Old School Friday: Girl Groups

This category took me back, way back.  First I thought I’d share a song from the first cassette tape that I ever bought.  That’s right, it’s the Mary Jane Girls.  I knew they were birthed by Rick James, but I didn’t know where the “Mary Jane” really came from. Then...

JOINT STATEMENT FROM BARACK OBAMA AND JOHN MCCAIN

JOINT STATEMENT FROM BARACK OBAMA AND JOHN MCCAIN

John McCain and Barack Obama issued the following statement on coming together to mark the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks: “On September 11, 2008, we will join together to mark the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks at Ground Zero. “All of us came together on 9/11 — not as...

Dallas South on New York Post’s Elizabeth ‘Liz’ Payne/Jeremiah Wright “scandal”, former Friendship-West staffer

Dallas South on New York Post’s Elizabeth ‘Liz’ Payne/Jeremiah Wright “scandal”, former Friendship-West staffer

As anyone who has visited the site more than twice knows, I am a proud member of Friendship-West Baptist Church.  On yesterday, the New York Post reported that Dr. Frederick D. Haynes III’s former executive assistant -Elizabeth (Liz) Payne- was involved in a “steamy sexual affair” with Dr. Jeremiah Wright,...