Jon Anderson
An award-winning columnist, Jon has earned silver and bronze awards for his columns from the National Association of Real Estate Editors in both 2016, 2017 and 2018. When he isn't in Hawaii, Jon enjoys life in the sky in Dallas.
Last night’s Oak Lawn Committee meeting was a little more precise with their Robert’s Rules than prior meetings. Given the past few tense months (here, here), I’m not surprised that precision is being used to combat disruption. However, while not disruptive, one member seemed hell-bent on chucking the evening’s projects through the chute by calling…
The 2018 World Happiness Report named Finland as the world’s happiest country. In fact, the top four of the 156 countries measured were all Nordic – Finland, Norway, Denmark and Iceland (“unhappy” Sweden popped in at number nine. The good old US of A? Eighteenth. The 2018 report is a cumulation of 2015-2017 while the…
Cambridge Analytica-Facebook, Mossack Fonseca’s Panama Papers, Saudi Arabia’s corruption crackdown, and the lesser known, but equally telling Paradise Papers, all have one thing in common – the exposure of a global system rigged against the 99.999 percent of us little people. In case you missed these exposures, all occurring in the past 12 months, private…
In response to other cities’ invasive species eradication ordinances, it’s nice to see University Park (of all places) nurturing trees and other greenery in their sewers. This unwanted herbage has been allowed to take root sneakily out of sight in sewers and gutters. All these migrant saplings ask for as they work tirelessly, without rest…
Yesterday, the U.S. Census released their latest numbers tracking population growth and distribution. Surprise, surprise! Six of the top 10 largest-gaining counties were in Texas. Surprise, surprise, surprise! Four of those were in the Metroplex – Collin, Dallas, Denton, and Tarrant. Totted-up, from July 2016 to July 2017, the Metroplex added 146,238 new residents, the…
