Business
January 21, 2013
JFK Hearse For Sale
The ambulance that carried JFK's body from Parkland Memorial Hospital to Love Field is going up on the auction block next month in Scottsdale.
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Business
January 21, 2013
A Q&A With S. C. Gwynne
The senior editor on understanding Southwest Airline’s culture, hearing jokes about plane crashes from a flight attendant, and making a business story interesting to the average reader.
Business
January 21, 2013
Luv and War at 30,000 Feet
Somehow, as every other major airline went bankrupt, slashed its workforce, or grounded planes, Southwest Airlines kept flying high. Today, Southwest is the country’s largest domestic carrier. So how does a feisty underdog vanquish its competitors and dominate a thoroughly beleaguered industry? One Kick Tail-a-Gram at a time.
Business
January 20, 2013
Store Wars!
Two luxury retailers: Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue. One desirable market: Houston. The fight for the hearts and credit cards of couture clotheshorses like Lynn Wyatt and Carolyn Farb officially begins next month, but already the fur is flying.
Business
January 20, 2013
Making Dr Pepper
David Thomas on making Dr Pepper.
Business
January 20, 2013
A Boy and His Airline
No kid ever had more fun with his favorite toy than Herb Kelleher has in running Southwest Airlines.
Business
January 20, 2013
Understanding Dr Pepper
“Once I get Dr Pepper down their throats, and tell them about it, I’m in business.”
Business
January 20, 2013
The Mildcatters
The lessons of the eighties boom have been internalized by today’s energy entrepreneurs, who seem nothing like their risk-loving forebears. They’re happy playing it safe, which is why their preferred commodity is gas, not oil.
Business
January 20, 2013
Son of Oil Bust
Scenes from the new oil bust.
Energy
January 20, 2013
New Oil: The Giddings Gamble
Oil patch old-timers said to stay away from the Austin chalk. But a few feisty newcomers refused to listen and cashed in for millions.
Business
January 20, 2013
Life After Oil
Midland’s energy companies are still laying people off a decade after the bottom of the bust. But—surprise—the city’s economy is booming again.
Business
January 20, 2013
Briscoe’s Bounty
Dolph Briscoe used to govern Texas. He still owns a bigger piece of it than any individual in the world.
Business
January 20, 2013
An A for Bea
Skip Hollandsworth talks about finding story ideas, getting people to open up, and interviewing Bea Salazar, who started an after-school program that helped hundreds of low-income Hispanic immigrant kids succeed.
Business
January 20, 2013
I Want My SUV
Is the Suburban here to stay? S. C. Gwynne talks about mega SUVs, GM’s plant in Arlington, and hybrids.
Business
January 20, 2013
The Ups and Downs and Ups of the National Car of Texas
When GM declared bankruptcy last year and moved all production of large SUVs to a single plant in Arlington, it looked like the end was near for the Suburban and its brethren. Instead, they came roaring back to life.
Business
January 20, 2013
Heir Jordan
Among all athletes with endorsements, Michael Jordan is still king. But Sheryl Swoopes of the Houston Comets is scoring in her own way—and she's having a ball.
Business
January 20, 2013
Game Changers
How Lamar Hunt and Clint Murchison Jr. cooked up the first Super Bowl.
Business
January 20, 2013
The Best of the Texas Century—Business
Paul Burka on Santa Rita No. 1, Jordan Mackay on Humble Oil, and Brian D. Sweany on the inventor of the century.
Business
January 20, 2013
Wheels of Fortune
For automakers in the U.S. and overseas, Texas is the very best market for the pickup truck. And for Texans, the pickup truck is the very best vehicle—if only for what it says about who we are. Or who we'd like to be.
Business
January 20, 2013
Thanks a Million 1999
What do Tom Hicks, Jerry Jones, and Charles Barkley have in common? They’re all good sports — and they were three of Texas’ top philanthropists last year.
Business
January 20, 2013
The Texas 100: Introduction
The one hundred richest people in Texas.
Business
January 20, 2013
The Texas 100: The Son Also Rises
The moral of Tex Moncrief’s story: Father knew best.
Business
January 20, 2013
The Texas 100: Revenge of the Nerd
He made his first million before many kids finish college. Less than a decade later, Michael Dell continues to confound conventional wisdom.
Business
January 20, 2013
The Texas 100: Money Becomes Electra
As a bitter family feud drags on, Electra Waggoner Biggs if fighting to keep her fortune—and her ranch—intact.
Business
January 20, 2013
The Texas 100: Survey Results
Ross Perot (who else?) tops our annual survey of the wealthiest Texans.
Business
January 20, 2013
Beating the Good Ol’ Boys
Sharon McCoy sells more Suburbans than anyone else in the world.
Business
January 20, 2013
Red McCombs
Driven to succeed.
Business
January 20, 2013
The Next Frontier
How has the state’s most storied ranch managed to survive and thrive in the twenty-first century? By operating in a way that its founder, Captain Richard King, would scarcely recognize.
Business
January 20, 2013
The Dark Knight
Inside the fantastic rise and catastrophic fall of Sir Allen Stanford—that high-flying egomaniac with the offshore bank, gold helicopter, Caribbean island, and knack for disposing of other people’s money.
News & Politics
January 20, 2013
Capital Campaign
Why the Bush campaign is good for the Texas economy.
News & Politics
January 12, 2013
The Budget Battle: Week One
Republicans will spend more, but they don’t want to spend it on schools.
Business
January 11, 2013
Texas Business Report: Google Invests $200M in Panhandle Wind Farm
The Spinning Spur Wind Project generates enough electricity to power more than 60,000 homes.
Business
January 1, 2013
Dialed In
How Randall Stephenson plans to lead AT&T in the age of wireless.
Business
January 1, 2013
Green Is Good, Green Is Right
The founder of Whole Foods Market on conscious capitalism and eating healthy.
Business
December 21, 2012
Texas Business Report: Could Electric Cars Crash the Grid?
According to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, the state's struggling power system would likely support even a widespread adoption of the vehicles.
December 12, 2012
The Widening Scandal Surrounding Texas’s Cancer-Fighting Agency
Five things to know.
Business
November 30, 2012
Texas Business Report: Austin Tries to Woo Visa to City
Visa would create nearly 800 jobs in Austin over 10 years.
Business
November 27, 2012
Texans Are Getting Richer!
Cities across Texas boasted impressive personal income growth in 2011, government data shows.
Business
November 16, 2012
Texas Business Report: BP to Shell Out $4.5B to the Feds
The energy giant agreed to pay the Department of Justice and the SEC the hefty sum to settle the criminal cases associated with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
November 9, 2012
Texas Business Report: The Rockets Get Into the ‘Moneyball’ Game
The basketball team's general manager plans to hire two statistical analysts to help build a winning team around Jeremy Lin.
Business
November 2, 2012
Texas Business Report: Chuck E. Cheese’s Ad Campaign Flops
The chain's parent company's strategy of investing more in a digital media campaign targeting moms seems to have backfired, with profits dropping 33 percent.
Business
October 31, 2012
Con, Baby, Con
What Joseph Blimline's oil and gas Ponzi scheme tells us about financial regulation.
Business
October 19, 2012
Texas Business Report: Bumpy Skies for Southwest Airlines?
Southwest Airlines announced it will slash spending by at least $100 million after the airline's third-quarter numbers were lackluster.
Business
September 28, 2012
Four Texas Cities Are Best in America, According to “Bloomberg Businessweek”
Have you ever wondered what the best cities in the US are based upon arbitrarily weighted real estate data? Bloomberg BusinessWeek has you covered.
Business
September 28, 2012
Trouble in Round Rock?
Dell's stock hit a three-year low this week.
September 21, 2012
Texas Business Report: Disney Launches Cruise Ship From Galveston
A Disney cruise set sail from Galveston under new a deal that is “guaranteed to create a minimum of $2.4 million in gross revenue for the Port of Galveston.”
Business
August 31, 2012
Cell! Cell! Cell!
As cancer hospitals in Dallas try to compete with Houston’s M.D. Anderson, the medical technology arms race is heating up. Is that good news for patients?
Business
August 31, 2012
Texas Business Report: Hurricane Isaac Could Set Oil Companies Back $1 Billion
"Damage to fixed, floating and underwater assets” including offshore platforms and pipelines could shut down 95 percent of production in the Gulf.
Business
August 30, 2012
More Jobs Created in California Than Texas
New numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that California added some 142,000 more jobs than Texas in the last twelve months.
Business
August 24, 2012
Samsung Pumps $4B into Austin Plant
The technology giant's investment is “the largest in size to be made by a foreign company in Texas.”