Category: Business

Free* Quickbooks Pro 2009 at Staples Monday only

Free* Quickbooks Pro 2009 at Staples Monday only

On Saturday, I learned that Intuit will offer the Windows version of QuickBooks Pro 2009 for free* at all Staples stores on Monday, Dec. 22, for one day only. I called my local Staples today to verify the validity of this event. They confirmed that this information is true. What...

Congresswoman Johnson comes out hard against Inland Port Master Plan and JWP

Congresswoman Johnson comes out hard against Inland Port Master Plan and JWP

  When talk of a Master Plan at the Inland Port in Southern Dallas came up, I was skeptical.  I mean the Allen Group had gotten the port off to a great start and I haven’t heard one negative thing about what they are doing out there.  They have 6,000...

James “Bird” Guess: Are Black Americans Really Ready for a Black President?

James “Bird” Guess: Are Black Americans Really Ready for a Black President?

I’d like to introduce a new guest blogger to Dallas South, James “Bird” Guess President & Founder of the School of Money & Wealth LLC. You can also catch his financial wisdom at TheBlackEconomy.com. By James “Bird” Guess Are we really ready for a black President? What we must understand...

Bridge Terminal Transport Selects The Allen Group’s Dallas Logistics Hub for Container Facility

Bridge Terminal Transport Selects The Allen Group’s Dallas Logistics Hub for Container Facility

DALLAS, Texas, (Nov. 25, 2008) — The Allen Group, developers of the Dallas Logistics Hub (DLH), a 6,000-acre multi-modal logistics park in Southern Dallas County, announced today an execution of a lease with Bridge Terminal Transport (BTT), one of the largest marine container haulers covering all major port locations and...

Historically underutilized businesses invited to register at UNT-Dallas procurement seminar

Historically underutilized businesses invited to register at UNT-Dallas procurement seminar

DALLAS – Historically underutilized businesses – those owned by women and minorities – will have the opportunity to register with the State of Texas at a free HUB vendor procurement seminar and expo at the University of North Texas Dallas Campus from 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. on Nov. 14.   The...

TATTOO REMOVAL CELEBRATES ELECTION 2008 BY OFFERING FREE TATTOO REMOVAL TO NORTH TEXAS VOTERS

TATTOO REMOVAL CELEBRATES ELECTION 2008 BY OFFERING FREE TATTOO REMOVAL TO NORTH TEXAS VOTERS

A Dallas medical clinic specializing in laser tattoo removal, in celebration of an election season filled with calls for “change” and “reform”, is offering free treatments to tattooed voters on November 4, 2008.  New Look Laser Tattoo Removal is opening their clinic on Election Day from 9am to 9pm for...

On Dallas Inland Port: Dallas Morning News Recommends Master Plan

On Dallas Inland Port: Dallas Morning News Recommends Master Plan

The Dallas Morning News Editorial Board has recommended that the International Inland Port of Dallas take up a Master Plan.  The effort for the Master Plan is being lead by Commissioner John Wiley Price. It is also supported by the North Texas Council of Governments. The Allen Group, by far...

Buy ‘Monopoly’ and teach your children about the financial crisis.

Buy ‘Monopoly’ and teach your children about the financial crisis.

Do you remember board games like Monopoly and Life? I think back on getting ‘Life’ for Christmas one year.  I don’t remember all the spaces that you could land on, but I do remember one thing: the more kids you ended up with in your car, the more it cost. ...

Dallas Convention Center Hotel Referendum to join three failed efforts

Dallas Convention Center Hotel Referendum to join three failed efforts

Strong Mayor – Failed Not so strong Mayor – Failed Trinity Toll Road – Failed Three referendums put forth to the Dallas voters and three big NO’s.  Now they’re getting the crew back together for another comeback tour. I don’t doubt that opponents of the Convention Center Hotel will get...

Shawn Williams (Dallas Morning News): Securing the Cotton Bowl’s Future

Shawn Williams (Dallas Morning News): Securing the Cotton Bowl’s Future

Here is an article that I wrote that appears in Sunday’s Dallas Morning News Opinion section (Points).  Thanks to Nicole Stockdale for the opportunity. On a sunny and mild afternoon – a day that would have been great for football – the city of Dallas and Mayor Tom Leppert unveiled...