A new report released by INRIX, the leading provider of real-time traffic information for many popular GPS devices, found Dallas to be the 5th most congested market in the country. According to the INRIX National Traffic Scorecard, traffic congestion across the U.S. increased nearly 2% in 2007 over 2006 and...
I woke up a little bit later than usual for a Sunday morning. I still had four more Not Yo’ Mama’s Banana Puddings to make for the Real Men Cook event later that day. I tracked up the stairs trying to remember if I needed more whip cream or cream...
Mike Soraghan from The Hill.com reports that Senator Barack Obama will meet with the Congressional Black Caucus this week in order to shore up support for the upcoming general election. Here are some of the highlights from the report about the presumptive nominees meeting with the CBC. Sen. Barack Obama...
Senator Barack Obama and his family spent Father’s Day at the Apostolic Church of God on Chicago’s South Side. Any fool can have child, that doesn’t make you a father. Senator Barack Obama I heard Kyra Phillips on CNN asking whether or not Obama would take heat for his comments,...
I’d like to congratulate Jack Matthews, Jeff West, and Matthews Southwest for being selected to build the Dallas Convention Center Hotel. Matthews Southwest is responsible for the South Side on Lamar Lofts as well as the soon to open Beat Condos. Dave Levinthal of the Dallas Morning News reports that...
Tonight, Al Gore will endorse Senator Barack Obama for President of the United States. “A few hours from now I will step on stage in Detroit, Michigan to announce my support,” Al Gore says in an email to Obama supporters. “Over the next four years, we are going to face...
Did Tiger have another red golf shirt in his suitcase for today’s playoff or did he have to drive his Buick over Foot Locker and pick one up?
Starting tomorrow (Tuesday), I will commence a series of posts titled “Why”. Here is the line up of topics that I’ll discuss. Tuesday – Why Sunday was the best Father’s Day ever Wednesday – Why I always celebrate Juneteenth Thursday – Why I’m a Bad Dad Friday – Why we...
CHICAGO, June 10 /PRNewswire/ — Concern is building among African-American professionals about how the downward shift in the economy will affect them. Statistics prove they have good reason to be scared. Black median income had risen to a historically high ratio of 63.5 percent of white income in 2000, and...
It took me .01 seconds to decide who I was going with when I saw this week’s Old School Friday theme. For me in the category of female artists, there is Mary J. Blige and then there is everybody else (sorry Jill). MJB came on the scene by way of...
