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Leading Off (2/22/11)


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Published Feb. 22, 2011 at 12:56 p.m.

Dwaine Caraway Will Be Dallas’ Next Mayor. Interesting story about how some on the City Council tried to oust Caraway as mayor pro tem so that he won’t get the big office when Tom Leppert steps down early (which the smart money says he will). You can guess why the ouster failed. Yup. Racial politics. [ ... ] ...

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Former Pizza Hut CEO runs for Dallas mayor


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Published Feb. 18, 2011 at 12:00 a.m.

A longtime Dallas businessman has joined the Dallas mayoral race — and has Roger Staubach as a supporter.Mike Rawlings, former CEO of Dallas-based Pizza Hut announced on Thursday that he's running for mayor, according to media reports.Rawlings said he'd bring strong city leadership and put taxpayers and citizens first. He is the chairman of the Dallas Parks Board.He joins former Dallas police chief David Kunkle and Dallas City Council member Ron Natinsky in the race to replace Mayor Tom ...

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Mayor asks street be renamed for Kelleher


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Published Feb. 17, 2011 at 12:00 a.m.

Mayor Tom Leppert has proposed that Southwest Airlines Co-Founder Herb Kelleher have a namesake road in Dallas.The proposal is for a portion of Cedar Springs Road at the entrance to Dallas Love Field Airport to be named Herb Kelleher Way. The name would run from Mockingbird Lane to Contrail Lane, the street just before the airport's parking garages.If the proposal is accepted by the city council, the change would be phased in over two years to allow businesses located along the roadway to ...

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Mayor Caraway? Up to Council, Leppert Says, Not Me


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Published Feb. 16, 2011 at 8:18 p.m.

Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert isn’t saying whether he’ll run for Kay Bailey Hutchison’s U.S. Senate seat, or whether he’s OK with the prospect of Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway as the city’s mayor.Buttonholed at today’s annual meeting and luncheon of DowntownDallas Inc., Leppert questioned a press report saying he’d already made up his mind to [ ... ] ...

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Proposed tax could hurt Southwest, American


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Published Feb. 16, 2011 at 5:00 a.m.

Dallas-based Southwest Airlines Co. and Fort Worth-based American Airlines Inc. could be impacted by a proposed increase in passenger-ticket taxes being considered by President Barack Obama.In Obama’s proposed fiscal 2012 budget, there will likely be a cut of $1.1 billion — or 31 percent — of federal grants for airport construction projects, according to media reports.Obama may also suggest the passenger facility charges included in airline ticket prices be increased from $4.50 a flight

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Perry touts low taxes as reason for high exports


Published Feb. 16, 2011 at 5:00 a.m.

Texas continues to lead the nation in exporting for the ninth year in a row, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce.Texas’ exports in 2010 totaled more than $206 billion, up 26.7 percent from $162 billion in 2009, and outperformed overall U.S. exports, which grew by 20.9 percent last year.By far the top recipient of Texas’ export goods was Mexico with $72.3 billion. The next closest was Canada with $18.6 billion, followed by China with $10.2 billion, Brazil with $7.1 billion and South

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News Flash: There’s More than One Candidate in Addison Mayor Race


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Published Feb. 14, 2011 at 8:56 p.m.

The Dallas Morning News does much good work, and everybody of course makes mistakes. But if you’re going to go behind a paywall with much-ballyhooed “exclusive” content, you’d better have credible info– or, failing that, you’d better be nimble enough to revise or correct stories quickly. Which is why this weekend’s DMN article (subscription required) [ ... ] ...

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Miller Likes Two Candidates in Dallas Mayor’s Race


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Published Feb. 11, 2011 at 8:26 p.m.

Former Dallas Mayor Laura Miller likes more than one horse in the Dallas mayoral race. Asked at D World Headquarters yesterday for her take on the campaign–whose announced candidates so far are Dallas City Council member Ron Natinsky, former Dallas police chief David Kunkle, and Dallas Park Board president Mike Rawlings–Miller replied, “I like Kunkle [ ... ] ...

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In Defense of Dwaine Caraway


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Published Feb. 11, 2011 at 4:35 p.m.

Michael Davis — the vice chair of the City Plan Commission and self-proclaimed “social media beast” — has an interesting theory about why Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway has been taking so much heat lately. No, it’s not because he calls the chief of police when he gets into a spat with his wife (still [ ... ] ...

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Amazon to close Irving shop in tax dispute


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Published Feb. 11, 2011 at 5:00 a.m.

Amazon.com Inc. will close an Irving distribution facility because of a tax dispute with the state, killing plans to add additional operations there that would have created 1,000-plus jobs.In a filing with the Texas Workforce Commission, the Seattle-area business said the move will affect 119 employees.The state last year asked Amazon for $269 million in sales taxes that the business has supposedly failed to collect. Amazon is fighting the request before the State Office of Administrative ...

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