Dallas Growth

No Fan of the Ban: Why We Are Paying 5 Cents Per Bag Starting Jan. 1

By Candy Evans / January 2, 2015 /

If you went to the store yesterday, you probably noticed that you were charged 5 cents for each plastic bag you grabbed to bag your groceries. Even worse: if you use the auto check outs like I do, the system was still a little messed up as it tried to determine the weight of your…

Dallas 100 Gives a Nod to Small Real Estate Brokerages

By Joanna England / November 25, 2014 /

  If it seems like the lists of top-performing companies in national business magazines are populated by industry mammoths and impossibly large corporations, it’s because they are. Sure, economies of scale can help a company realize success relatively fast, but these lists leave the real, tangible successes of small businesses in the shadows. Recognizing that…

Dallas Public Schools: Committed, For Now

By Bethany Erickson / November 24, 2014 /

Last week, I wrote about the decisions we have coming up regarding real estate, and our son’s education. And I love, love, love all the reader feedback and comments. This week? This week I’d like to talk about our thought process thus far. My husband and I are products of public schools – albeit not…

Ebola Update: Texas Health Presbyterian Issues Statement On the Death of Ebola Patient Thomas Duncan

By Candy Evans / October 9, 2014 /

This is a Real Estate blog, but many of us have concerns — and maybe even some panic — over our home, Dallas, now being Ground Zero for treating and burying the first Ebola victim in the United States. In New York, airplane-cabin cleaners for a Delta Air Lines Inc. contractor at LaGuardia Airport have…

Water, Water … Nowhere? Texas is Nearing Critical Conditions For Water, But Will We Reach California-Level Drought?

By Joanna England / June 30, 2014 /

The latest issue of Governing magazine has a story that all Texans should read, and then read again. The story’s title is self-explanatory — “Drought-Plagued Regions Struggle to Conserve Water and Make Money” — an issue with which much of North and West Texas are intimately familiar.