It seems to me, year after year, that the medical profession is trying harder and harder to force a show down.Bad enough that costs have sky rocketed, forcing many who need certain care to have to opt to go without it.But now we have doctors at war with insurance providers. One well-known Dallas
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01/29/2009
If Congress really wants to turn the economy around quickly: 1, Require credit card banks to reduce interest rates on all existing and future credit extensions to 200 basis points above their cost of Fed Funds, regardless of the perceived risk of the cardholder. 2. Immediately and for the next
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01/27/2009
Four times this weekend, with the last concert to begin Sunday at 2:30 PM at the Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas residents and visitors have had a perfect opportunity to see and hear a musical package that is as close to an anomaly as I have experienced since my childhood. <<--Leonard Salatkin T
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01/24/2009
I was born at the beginning of World War II. That, I suppose, does seem to most like a long time ago, but it really isn't. Not even a century has passed. Yet, I knew many black men and women who could not read or write. And I knew many who could not sign their name. And twenty years later, of
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01/18/2009
I was wondering yesterday how many times over the years that a co-op agent has told me this: "Another agent has someone very interested in the property, too, and I expect their contract Saturday morning." It's a nonsense statement to begin with. It's sole purpose is an attempt to spook me into e
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01/16/2009
One of my longtime friends, New Mexico banker Susan Olson-Phillips, sent me this cartoon, and it really appeals to my sense of humor. More often than not, this lady's opinion is right on target.
01/14/2009
The financial industry -- especially the major commercial banks -- continues to take huge write-offs for under collateralized loans, and it is expected that the next serious hit to them will come from haircuts they'll take from business bankruptcies that are sure to multiply this year. Money that
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01/13/2009
Tonight our Dallas PBS station broadcasted an extremely well-done documentary showing performances of Elvis, primarily in Las Vegas. It was titled the 25th Anniversary. In addition to the actual performances, it is an interesting montage of the show's work throughout those years, many of the bac
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01/10/2009
My hometown is Galveston, Texas. It's on a barrier island just off of the Great State of Texas. I've not lived there in more than three years, but I still remain homesick. Galveston, with some frequency, is hit by hurricanes. The one that everyone talked about until 2008 was the famous 1900
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01/10/2009
Gaither Homecoming gospel music singer and my friend, Janet Paschal, sent this in an email today. She said she didn't know who wrote it. She had inadvertently neglected to include the author's name when she jotted his thought down years ago. Nevertheless, it is exactly precisely correct, and I
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01/09/2009