After founding and running the Metroplex Civic & Business Association (MCBA) for the past three years, I...
Opinion: HB 2127 Takes the Handcuffs Off Local Businesses
House Bill 2127 goes into effect Friday, September 1st. To the Metroplex Civic & Business Association...
Opinion: Dallas’ Tax Rate Trojan Horse
The Story of the Trojan horse is first mentioned in the Odyssey. It tells a tale of how the Greek Soldiers...
Opinion: Change is Hard
My parents recently traveled to Australia. One of the minor things that they noticed was, that, when walking...
Opinion: Chat GPT Even Knows Crime Causes Cities To Fail!
The Metroplex Civic & Business Association is launching its new crime statistics comparison between...
Opinion: You Live in the USA! Still Ripe With Opportunity!
Recently, relatives of mine went on a cruise in the South Pacific. One of the places where their ship made a...
Opinion: Are We Headed to Open Range?
In the 2004 movie, “Open Range” starring Robert Duvall and Kevin Costner, the heroes are two cattlemen who...
Opinion: The Energy Supply Challenge
It’s February 1st as this is being written. The Metroplex is under a Winter Storm Warning with temperatures...
Opinion: Building Things Builds Wealth
A great change took place during the late 1700s and mid 1800s in Great Britain, the United States, and in...
Opinion: Of, By and For
My father once told me about how life was back in the ‘60’s when he was a teenager. The early sixties were...
Opinion: Can We Talk to Each Other?
Are you able to discuss current issues with friends or relatives who you know disagree with your view of...
Opinion: How Different Are We?
A majority of people know who their parents are. Most also know who their grandparents are, or at least who...
Opinion: What the Battle of Midway Teaches
June 4th, 2022 marked the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Midway in World War II. More well known are...
Opinion: High Crime Hurts Businesses
Are there places you do not hesitate to visit? Are there places you would tell someone, “You couldn’t get me...
Opinion: Why DFW is Growing
As stated in Wikipedia, a Metropolitan Statistical Area (or MSA) …”is a geographical region with a...
The Risk That Changed My Life
According to the stories handed down to me by my father and grandfather, five generations ago my great-great...
Teaching Students How to Think!
One of the most critical pieces of our collective ‘experiment’ of having the citizens of the country, rule...
Helping Those That Want Help
Two millennia ago, the most powerful civilization in the Western World was the Roman Empire. Many customs,...
Are You a Risk® Taker
When I was a young child, I played the various video games available at that time. I played Donkey Kong®,...
Employer vs. Employee… Doesn’t ring true.
If you have noticed subtle, almost subconscious, narratives being slowly and methodically spread through...
