Texas
Existential Donkey
Unlike Harsh Toke, Soft Lions, and Prayers — San Diego bands that headlined at this year’s South by Southwest music festival — the Donkeys were one of many bands who made the trek to Austin ...
Issa's new beard and an aide's free travel
House member vies for rock star status, takes shots at Hillary at SXSW
An assistant to North County Republican congressman Darrell Issa — whose failed bid for a repeat term as chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has been chalked up by some to his ...
Vanity press
The La Jolla Light, owned by mega-millionaire Douglas F. Manchester, is out with a glowing filial profile of the U-T publisher and the hotel he is building in Austin, Texas. “For Manchester, the venture is ...
Papa Doug is hiring — in Texas
Austin help-wanted ad seeks VIP greeting and word processing skills
The meaning of last week's shake-up at Douglas Manchester's U-T San Diego, in which honcho Mike Hodges departed to head an internet design and marketing outfit, leaving editor Jeff Light to become president and chief ...
Manchester borrows $295 million for Texas hotel
Pope Benedict XVI featured in U-T San Diego publisher’s China funding pitch
With construction of U-T San Diego publisher Douglas Manchester's convention hotel in Austin, Texas finally underway, some details of its unusual non-bank financing have become public. As previously reported here, the hotel project broke ground ...
Escape from Texas
Southland Collie Rescue acquires 4 of 110 dogs rescued from terrible conditions
This past summer, in Tomball, TX, bankruptcy fillings for an optometrist, Dr. Elaine Kmiec, indicated she had a large number of collies on her acreage. She claimed to have only 35. Attorneys for Houston Collie ...
Texas is business-friendly — to Texans
San Diego's Allen Group has found out that Texas is friendly to business — particularly Texas-based businesses.
LaDainian Tomlinson's brutal history
Austin reporter writes about Tomlinson Hill cotton plantation in Texas
Tomlinson is a famous name in San Diego, thanks to the family's most noted member, former Chargers running back LaDainian Tomlinson. It's the same in Texas, but these days another who bears the Tomlinson name ...
Use brains, stay in California
Some companies move to Texas, but venture money flows to California.
Texas governor Rick Perry touts low taxes and wages, but the companies wanting brains stay in California.
How much did they pay you to move to Texas?
Recreation-software-maker Active Network going to Dallas
Active Network, which makes recreational software for golf courses, camps, and the like, announced today (July 3) that it is moving its headquarters from Sorrento Valley to Dallas, Texas. In a news release, Texas officials ...
Immigrant flights from Texas to San Diego canceled
Local border agents prepare during reprieve of overflow plan
Hours after U.S. Border Patrol San Diego sector chief Paul Beeson confirmed that planes carrying illegal immigrants to San Diego from Texas would begin Monday, June 23, the chief learned the flights had been canceled. ...
Big Bend Country, Texas
Exploring one of the least-visited national parks in West Texas.
Big Bend is a massive national park that most outside of Texas have heard little about. The whole West Texas area that bends into Mexico, between El Paso and San Antonio, is often called “Big ...
U-T hypes long-delayed Manchester hotel plan
Publisher/real estate magnate says Austin is “Texas’ finest city”
It will be a long, hot day at the end of Austin's typically hellish Texas summer when Douglas Manchester's “Fairmont Austin” convention hotel finally breaks ground. At least that's the latest prediction from the voluble ...
Texas two-steppin' in Fort Worth
Calling all cowboys, cowgirls and aspiring Texans.
Cowboy culture is alive and well in Fort Worth, a city of about 775,000 just to the west of Dallas (and often lumped in the same metropolitan area). Fort Worth's a colorful composite of cattle ...
Manchester rumored to drop Austin hotel
Experts say market saturated, move would be wise
The rumor is hot that Doug Manchester is not going ahead with his 1035-room, $350-million hotel in Austin, Texas. I could not get confirmation from Manchester or the owner of the property. The groundbreaking has ...
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