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Things haven’t been good in the fast-casual dining business for a long while, as the slowdown in the semi-fancy burger biz started well before The Artist Formerly Known as the Economy went into the crapper — right, Bennigan’s? Today, CFO magazine looks to see what’s on the menu in coming…

In today’s breaking news about the scarcity of kosher beef around the country, this local connection: Dallas-based A.D. Rosenblatt Kosher Meats, run by COO Yaakov Rosenblatt, has had to up its production to meet the meat demand, going from three days a week to five. Also contained within the piece…

The day before Thanksgiving, Kansas-based Ash Grove Cement Company filed a suit against, among others, the City of Dallas, claiming that the city’s desire to go green will take the green right out of Ash Grove’s wallet. The lawsuit, which also names Plano and Fort Worth and Arlington and Tarrant…

The bleakest of Black Fridays at a New York Wal-Mart, where a temporary employee was trampled to death by bargain-hunters who didn’t so much as slow down while rescue workers tried to save the man’s life. Not so savage a scene at a Dallas Best Buy, where the Associated Press…

   You’ve probably seen Twilight. You likely watched at least some of HBO’s TrueBlood. And, considering it’s suddenly trendy to be all vampirey, you’ve at least tinkered with the idea of checking out the new Vampire Lounge over on Harry Hines.    But, have you ever seen a real vampire?…

What you see at top is the apartment structure at 104 S. Edgefield in Oak Cliff — or what remains of it, following a fire in 2005. Twice the city has tried to demo the building, for obvious reasons; it’s the very definition of what staff calls “an imminent threat…

Two weeks ago Plano-based Dr Pepper Snapple Group reported a third-quarter drop; right, who didn’t? Said Sgt. Pepper Larry Young on November 13, “Without a doubt, this is one of the toughest environments the beverage industry has faced in many years. With disposable incomes falling, consumers are thinking harder about…

On Wednesday, the same day it was reported that H. Ross Perot lost a bundle in a real-estate assets hedge fund now absent its assets and funds, Stephen J. Dubner put out the call: Who’s got questions for Ross Perot? The co-author of Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden…

For a brief moment, we considered getting up early to check out the Black Friday scene — and Steely Dan’s as far as we got. (And, for those in actual need of actual information, this compendium of online sales, sales, sales!) But former Observer-er Ann Zimmerman, now at The Wall…

Aware that J.D. Hayworth was poised to run against her, Governor Napolitano took a page from the anti-immigrant playbook and deployed the National Guard to Arizona’s border with Mexico. Consorting with anti-immigrant enforcers, indulging rank opportunism, and adhering to failed policies seem an unlikely recipe for change we can believe…

“Ye of Little Faith,” by Margaret Downing, November 13 The Real Fraud I read with great interest your article on Texas Mutual Insurance and Ms. Nichols’ comments that the “system” doesn’t need legal or judicial advice. As a practicing physician who has participated in the workers’ compensation system both as…

There goes the neighborhood: When Inclusive Communities Project Inc.’s lawsuit against the town of Flower Mound crossed Buzz’s desk last week, we had one of those “gambling in Casablanca” moments. ICP, a nonprofit that helps poor families use federal public housing vouchers to rent homes in non-minority neighborhoods, is accusing…

As I mentioned earlier, Ed Bark has retreived from the Wayback Machine this Thanksgiving must-see, which comes courtesy some YouTuber named “turkeybowler,” who rolled this strike back in June. As we’re trying to hustle out most of next week’s issue in advance of some holiday tomorrow, seems only fitting that,…

The missus reports this afternoon that the Preston Royal Shopping Center is getting a new tenant, according to the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission private-club permit application hanging in the window of the former Gap Kids in the Border’s parking lot. The name on the handwritten application: “Taco Mundo,” which surely…

Kristen Hayes at the Houston Chronicle writes today that there’s something eerily familiar about Dallas-based Blockbuster’s, um, blockbuster (?) announcement yesterday concerning its new $100 box that allows for on-demand rentals. Has to do with a turn-of-the-millennium deal between Blockbuster and Enron — yes, that Enron — which held hands…

Just to see what’s open and what ain’t these days, Texas Watchdog’s Jennifer Peebles sifted through a stack of November 12 rulings handed down by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott’s office concerning open records requests. Today, she posts the results.About half of the opinions concern requests generated from the Dallas-Fort…