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The Last Word: The Charles Gets a New Look in the Dallas Design District

by | Feb 12, 2026
The Charles opened in the Dallas Design District in 2018 as the first-ever concept from Dallas-based Duro Hospitality. After a brief closing recently to enable a redesign, the restaurant has reopened with a new look and new menu offerings and "is stepping confidently into its next era."
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The Last Word: Retail Guru Steve Dennis on Agentic AI—And Why This Time Is Different
by | Feb 5, 2026
The Dallas-based SageBerry strategist is out with his annual list of retail predictions for 2026. He doesn't claim to be a retail prophet, but they are, as he puts it, provocative.
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The Last Word: Frost Bank CEO on Why He Feels Good About 2026—and DFW’s ‘Unmatched’ Growth in Texas
by | Feb 3, 2026
“It’s hard to argue that North Texas isn’t the strongest market right now. The scale of growth in the DFW area is unmatched in Texas.”

Phil Green
Chairman and CEO
Cullen/Frost Bankers Inc....

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The Last Word: ISHIR CEO On Why Founders Should Love the Problem More Than the Idea
by | Jan 22, 2026
His new Texas Venture Studio helps startups build what customers actually want.
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The Last Word: Texas Women’s Foundation CEO on New Census Data Showing DFW’s Gender Pay Gap

by | Jan 20, 2026
“So what’s incentivizing us if we are going to make considerably less than our male counterparts the more educated we get?”

Karen Hughes White President and CEO Texas Women’s Foundation … on newly released Census data showing D-FW has the widest gender pay gap among U.S. metros with populations over 5 million, via the Dallas Morning News....

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The Last Word: A Dallas AI Entrepreneur’s Take on Robotics’ ‘ChatGPT Moment’ at CES 2026
by | Jan 14, 2026
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declared it "the ChatGPT moment for robotics," Worlds CEO Dave Copps says. But all those dancing, boxing, laundry-folding bots? They're only as smart as the environments they operate in.
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The Last Word: Gardenuity CEO and Co-Founder Rings Nasdaq Bell to Close Out Wellness Week
by | Jan 13, 2026
Donna Letier took her gardening-as-wellness message to Times Square on Jan. 9.
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The Last Word: Weitzman’s Bob Young On Why Grocers Are Racing to Build in DFW
by | Jan 8, 2026
“Retail follows rooftops, and today’s grocers are expanding.”

Bob Young
Executive Managing Director
Weitzman
…on why Dallas-Fort Worth leads the nation in new retail construction, speaking at Weitzman’s 36th annual retail forecast at the George W....

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