Texas governor Rick Perry touts low taxes and wages, but the companies wanting brains stay in California.
August 27, 2014
Texas
Use brains, stay in California
How much did they pay you to move to Texas?
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 …
July 3, 2014
Immigrant flights from Texas to San Diego canceled
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. …
June 23, 2014
Big Bend Country, 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 …
June 12, 2014
U-T hypes long-delayed Manchester hotel plan
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 …
May 22, 2014
Texas two-steppin' in Fort Worth
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 …
April 28, 2014
Manchester rumored to drop Austin hotel
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 …
March 13, 2014
What's the delay at Manchester's Austin hotel?
Texas media are wondering what's holding up the beginning of Papa Doug Manchester's 1035-room hotel in downtown Austin, to be named the Fairmont. A headline in the Austin Business Journal this week asked, "Hotels abound …
February 1, 2014
Adam Sandler occupies Manchester’s Austin hotel site
This was supposed to be the month that Douglas Manchester finally broke ground on his latest mega-money development, the $350 million Fairmont in Austin, Texas, according to an announcement back in October of last year …
January 17, 2014
Hoppy trails in Austin
It's no surprise to anyone that Austin, Texas, is a hip destination, boasting one of the best live music scenes in the country, some fantastic barbecue, and the University of Texas. I was already aware …
December 20, 2013
Hillel Silverman – the Kennedy assassination's last insider
According to his rabbi, Jack Ruby was visited in jail after the shooting of Oswald by Joe Campisi, an Italian restaurant owner.
November 20, 2013
Ex-San Diegan Art Laffer goes to Texas, blasts California
Supply-side economist Art Laffer, whose Laffer Associates was based in San Diego until 2007, was part of a California hate-fest yesterday (Nov. 18) in Austin at a meeting of the conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation. …
November 19, 2013
Texan sues Jack in the Box for crotch burns
Altaf Abro claims in a court case that he was in line at a Jack in the Box in South Houston, Texas. He says that hot coffee spilled in his groin area, and he had …
October 29, 2013
Lone star big oil rover
In addition to his Pickens connection, mayoral candidate and city councilman Kevin Faulconer has been collecting big cash from others tied to the Lone Star state. City campaign disclosure records show that David M. Grimes …
October 23, 2013
The job-stealing scam — Texas is the biggest con
Today's civil war — states bribing companies to move — is a negative sum game for the nation.
May 22, 2013