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Law.com reports this morning that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is co-authoring a book with Dallas’ Bryan Garner, whose LawProse, Inc., is HQ’d on Sherry Lane. Garner’s written some 20 books — among them, The Elements of Legal Style, Black’s Law Dictionary and, easily the most important of them all,…

Now I remember why I stopped listening to National Public Radio in the morning — stories like this one this morning, about how Texas is all plugged into the national conversation about energy consumption and climate control. I mean, really? Texas is the nation’s largest energy hog because it has…

For several weeks, the car-lovin’ Web site Jalopnik has been obsessing over the story of Farmers Branch-based Unique Performance, which had a deal with racing great Carroll Shelby to manufacture “official” knock-offs of the legendary 1967 Shelby GT500E. It began earlier this month, when KTVT-Channel 11 ran a story about…

Back in June, Firehouse.com wrote a lengthy profile of Parkland Memorial Hospital’s Alex Eastman — “the first physician who’s every day job is to be on a major metropolitan SWAT team,” as the good doctor explained at the time. More than a year earlier, Eastman was among the doctors who…

This note tonight, from Camp Taji in Iraq — where it’s just like home (complete with fast-food eateries and workout facilities) and so not at all like home. While the atmosphere at the dining facility was festive, it just wasn’t the same as being home for many Soldiers who said…

Ole’s at it again. Ole Anthony and his cohort at the Trinity Foundation are behind Senator Charles Grassley’s current investigation of six prominent televangelists. As a ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, Grassley has sent letters to Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland, Paula White, Joyce Meyer, Bishop Eddie Long and…

Dear Very Important Person: On behalf of UT Southwestern Medical Center’s staff, I wish to offer our sincere apologies for The Dallas Morning News’ recent publication of our list of 6,400 people guaranteed special treatment in the event they become patients at any of our facilities. We want to assure…

Cry Me a River Don’t listen to the 47 percent who say they are going to move to Seattle or wherever (“Cool Dallas,” by Jim Schutze, November 15). I have said the same thing on about 647 different occasions. Actually I am in school in San Antonio right now, and…

Some years ago, I was fortunate enough to be an integral part of important research being done at a site in Tarrant County. It was an ongoing excavation project, already in progress for several years before my team arrived. While much data had already been collected, I recall well the…

Dirk Nowitzki was lost. And he was starting to stink. He had come this far, deep into the Australian Outback, and now that it was dark, he didn’t know where he was. Not exactly, anyway. He’d ended up on a patch of wind-swept dirt, surrounded by sagebrush and stiff yellow…

There, Jack E. Jett — this better? ”The only thing that will make a soufflé fall is if it knows you are afraid of it.” Thus spoke James Beard. Restaurateur Mark Maguire admits he had a fear of soufflés. When amateur gourmet Hedda Gioia Dowd — founder of the French…

ABC News/Good Morning America Rev. Rickie Rush and Isaac Booker appeared on ABC this morning. The things you miss by not watching morning shows. Good Morning America today hosted Rev. Rickie Rush of the Inspiring Body of Christ Church on South Westmoreland Road. And he was joined by a congregant,…

Dallas resident Brandon Friedman, vice chairman of VoteVets.org A couple of times in recent months, I’ve mentioned Brandon Friedman, a Dallasite who served as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division in Afghanistan and Iraq. He’s currently vice chairman of VoteVets.org and the author of the awfully…

This Peanuts strip fetched a small fortune at auction last week; you can print this version for nothing. Called it. After selling one of Charles Schulz’s original Peanuts strips earlier this year for $77,675, Dallas-based auction house Heritage Auction Galleries obliterated that figure by nearly 40 thou with the iconic…

It was nothing short of a Major Event when Minyard Food Store opened a 50,000-square foot grocery at Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert B. Cullum boulevards in the Fair Park area in the September 1995. “I can’t believe we finally have what most people have in their communities,” a…

On September 4, we posted to Unfair Park an item about the smoking cessation drug Chantix, which Carter Albrecht’s girlfriend, parents and bandmates blamed on his erratic, violent behavior the night he was killed. Every other day since then, someone has posted a comment to that item. Only last week…