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I know, usually I give you a lot more resolutions to carry you into the new year. But frankly 2020 has been both a long and a short year. When March rolls around, we can all restart our internal clock but I think we can wait until 2022 to start counting birthdays again. My friends…
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It started to feel like Christmas around here in early December. I went to a business dinner that was half outside, all of us spaced apart, at the Second-Floor Exchange in the ATT Discovery District. It was a new restaurant, and the opening was (shocker) delayed. Fewer than half of us were in attendance. This…
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This year has been humorless. Experiencing the abject failures in dealing with COVID-19 at both the federal and state levels is only laughable in the darkest sense. So thank TxDOT for giving us something to truly laugh at — the Northwest Highway Feasibility Study. What? You haven’t heard of it? Not surprising since the 15-minute…
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Caven Enterprises is seeking to sell their Cedar Springs lands, which contain a string of well-known LGBTQ+ bars, to developer Mike Ablon who intends to build a pair of high-rises while leaving the bars in place (read the first story here, and the follow-up here). Caven has heavily spun the narrative that without this one…
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I don’t know about you, but I didn’t mind seeing holiday decorations go up before Thanksgiving this year … Usually, I mutter, “Why are they rushing it?” But I think we are all over 2020, clearly one of the most difficult years any of us will ever experience in our lifetimes. And yet, rushing any…
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