Slideshow: DFW’s Top Nonprofit Organizations

Slideshow: DFW’s Top Nonprofit Organizations: Baylor Health Care System with local revenue figures of $3.8 billion finished at the top of the listing of the Largest North Texas Nonprofit Organizations.

Baylor, at 612 E. Lamar Blvd. in Dallas, was a narrow winner over Texas Health Resources of Arlington. THR finished with $3.17 billion to gain the runner-up position.

Flip through the pages of the slide show to see more information about these and the others who were among the top five Largest North Texas Nonprofit Organizations.

The list of the Top 25 Largest North Texas Nonprofit Organizations appears on page 16 in this week’s Dallas Business Journal print edition…

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How Dallas-Fort Worth Lured American Airlines to Town, and What It’s Meant to the Region Since

How Dallas-Fort Worth Lured American Airlines to Town, and What It’s Meant to the Region Since:
Seeing that Businessweek quoted Ray Hutchison about how “very, very disappointing and sad” is the American Airlines bankruptcy reminded me of the story that the Vinson & Elkins lawyer (and husband of U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison) told us for our 35 Biggest Moments in Modern Dallas History issue last year about an attempt to prevent the air carrier from moving its corporate headquarters in 1979:

It was essential to the move that tax-exempt DFW Airport revenue bonds be issued to finance the costs of a new national corporate headquarters for American. Though such financings had been closed at airports all across the country, suddenly, the IRS, behind the scenes, prepared a proposed ruling that would have declared retroactively that bonds issued for the offices of an airline would not be tax exempt. It quickly became obvious that New York had put its political clout to work in the Congress in Washington and in the IRS, and that all political muscle had been flexed to stop American from moving its headquarters.

North Texas leaders won that fight. You can read Hutchison’s whole article (scroll down the page a bit, or read Jim Wright’s account of the birth of the Wright Amendment too) as a reminder of what American has meant to the region.

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Dumped water causes frustration in Plano

Dumped water causes frustration in Plano:
Normal winter maintenance led to the dumping of 750,000 gallons of water.

With Stage 3 water restrictions in place, some Plano residents were shocked to see the city dumping nearly 750,000 gallons of water Wednesday afternoon. The water was dumped from the water tower near the intersection of Rainier Road and Spring Creek Parkway.

Gerald Cosgrove, the city’s director of public works, said the water dumping had to occur because the city needed to repaint the inside, as well as…

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The Dallas Half-Priced Food and Drink Calendar

The Dallas Half-Priced Food and Drink Calendar:

Dallas loves its half-priced food and drink deals, and we’re no different. That’s why we built the above calendar of half-price food and drink deals, listing the restaurant and time under each…

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Oak Cliff to get its own film festival in June 2012

Oak Cliff to get its own film festival in June 2012:
It will showcase “brave and independent filmmaking of all stripes.”

Oak Cliff gets its first-ever film festival: The Oak Cliff Film Festival will take place June 14-17, 2012 at the Texas Theatre, Kessler Theater, Bishop Arts TeCo Theater (formerly the Bluebird Theater), and the Belmont…

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Tunk – In Da Trunk f. A.Dd+

via 2dopeboyz by Shake on 10/7/11

I personally admit I’ve been un-rightfully sleeping on A.Dd+. That is until I came up on their recent collab with Black Milk and vibed out to it for a day straight. I proceeded to download When Pigs Fly and now they have been dominating the iPod ever since. On the track below they link up with fellow Dallas emcee for the first single off his upcoming No Defeat EP, due out next month.
DOWNLOAD: Tunk – In Da Trunk f. A.Dd+ (prod. Breeze)

Tunk – In Da Trunk f. A.Dd+

via 2dopeboyz by Shake on 10/7/11

I personally admit I’ve been un-rightfully sleeping on A.Dd+. That is until I came up on their recent collab with Black Milk and vibed out to it for a day straight. I proceeded to download When Pigs Fly and now they have been dominating the iPod ever since. On the track below they link up with fellow Dallas emcee for the first single off his upcoming No Defeat EP, due out next month.
DOWNLOAD: Tunk – In Da Trunk f. A.Dd+ (prod. Breeze)

Southlake top DFW city among nation’s most affluent

via Dallas Business News – Local Dallas News | Dallas Business Journal by Lance Murray on 9/13/11

While the national economy may be down and national unemployment up, there are still plenty of affluent communities in the country, and several Dallas-Fort Worth area cities are among them. On Numbers looked at median household income in the 14,214 places with 1,000 or more residents as reported by the U.S. Census Bureau. Southlake was the highest ranked city in the area hitting No. 51 in America with a median household income of $181,930. Highland Park was next at No. 58 with a median household income of $176,375…

10 Most Beautiful Women in Dallas: The Final Vote

via FrontBurner by Raya Ramsey on 9/12/11

It is Day 1 of the very last week of voting for the 10 Most Beautiful Women in Dallas 2011. Check out the landing page, and you’ll see all the finalists from the last four weeks of voting. We know you worked hard, checking out lots of beautiful women and casting your votes during the last month, but the hard work isn’t quite over. Check out the final lineup of 13, and vote for your favorite(s) once a day, every day until end of the day on Monday, September 19. The women with the most votes will become the 10 Most Beautiful Women in Dallas in 2011.

A.Dd+ – Can’t Come Down

via 2dopeboyz by Meka on 9/13/11

The song, based on a true story (“Shout out to Aegis Communications,” says Slim Gravy), tells the tale of young man battling his need for employment with his love for weed.

I know some of you mucklucks can relate to that.
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