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Every Last Word
Dallas Innovates’ signature series capturing what leaders across North Texas are saying — in their own words — about innovation, impact, and what’s next.
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The Last Word: Texoma Semiconductor Tech Hub Leaders On Climbing the ‘Ladder of Success’
by David Seeley | Apr 26, 2024
With all of the recent news about chips in Texas—including the Samsung $6B+ billion funding announcement by the Biden administration and North Texas’ anticipation of a new TI award—the Austin American-Statesman examined a claim the President made earlier this month.
by David Seeley |
Apr 25, 2024
The WNBA's Dallas Wings have played at College Park Center in Arlington for the last eight seasons and will be hooping their there through 2025. But thanks to a Wednesday vote by the Dallas City Council, the team will finally be playing in the city emblazoned on their jerseys starting in 2026.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Apr 24, 2024
North Texans took the stage at Texas Venture Gala & Forum last weekend in Austin.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Apr 23, 2024
Fort Worth is the top city in Texas, and three other North Texas cities made the top tier.
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Rendering of a Texas Central bullet train traveling over a viaduct. [Image: Texas Central Partners]
The Last Word: Amtrak’s ‘Train Daddy’ on Leading the Charge for the Dallas-Houston Bullet Train
by David Seeley | Apr 19, 2024
If you've followed the up-and-down journey of Texas Central's $30 billion Dallas-Houston bullet train project, you know it's offered high-speed dreams and at times challenging headlines. You also may remember that last August we told you the project might be back on track, after Amtrak and Texas Central announced they were partnering to explore advance planning and analysis on the proposed 205 MPH high-speed rail project.
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by David Seeley |
Apr 18, 2024
From the early 2000s to 2013, something illegal got baked up at Corsicana-based Collin Street Bakery & Cafe—a relentless embezzlement of nearly $17 million by the bakery's comptroller, Sandy Jenkins.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Apr 17, 2024
Dallas-based HundredX, a mission-based data and customer insights provider, partnered with Forbes to create the newly released 2024 Best Brands for Social Impact list. Powered by HundredX data, the list recognizes the top 300 brands for social impact based on over four million pieces of consumer feedback on more than 3,000 businesses during the past year.
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by David Seeley |
Apr 16, 2024
The Dallas Public Library's J. Erik Jonsson Central Library in downtown Dallas—one of America's largest—was built in 1982 across from Dallas City Hall, and many agree it could use an overhaul. That especially includes library officials and consultants they brought in for a report on the building's future, among other needed investments in the city's library system.
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Detail of book cover from Talmadge Boston's "How the Best Did It: Leadership Lessons From our Top Presidents."
The Last Word: Talmage Boston on How Being a Litigator and Historian Go Hand in Hand
by David Seeley | Apr 10, 2024
Dallas-based commercial litigator Talmage Boston has another avocation as an historian, and writes that his dual discipline "has made me a better lawyer and vice versa, since both callings require the same skills"—meaning researching, writing and rewriting, interviewing and interrogating, and public speaking.
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by David Seeley |
Apr 4, 2024
"All of that will happen at our Arlington operations center," Holzer adds in our story about Munich-based Sportec Solutions establishing its U.S. headquarters in Arlington.
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by David Seeley |
Apr 4, 2024
Kansas City Chiefs fans love their football team—but they hate taxes more. Jackson County, Mo., residents voted down a proposed 40-year, three-eighths of a cent sales tax that would have helped fund an $800 million renovation of Arrow Stadium. Now Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson has invited the Chiefs to come back home to Dallas.
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by David Seeley |
Apr 3, 2024
The New York-based nonprofit NPower has launched Path2TECH, which it calls "the first data-driven tech training course designed to help 2.7M women from under-resourced communities across the U.S. transfer existing skills from current tech-enabled jobs into pure tech positions." Classes for the program began in March in Dallas and other cities.
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Dallas Sports Commission Executive Director Monica Paul [Image sources: Dallas Sports Commission, FIFA, DI]
The Last Word: Dallas Sports Commission’s Monica Paul On World Cup Strategy — ‘Like an Onion We’re Still Peeling’
by Quincy Preston | Mar 28, 2024
NTXIA's new Urban Resilience Fellowship Program, launched in partnership with UT Arlington and UT Dallas, connects students from universities and higher education institutions across Dallas-Fort Worth with community and industry partners. The pioneering initiative "aims to nurture emerging leaders and equip them with the knowledge and skills needed to address critical challenges facing the North Texas community."
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by Quincy Preston |
Mar 27, 2024
NTXIA's new Urban Resilience Fellowship Program, launched in partnership with UT Arlington and UT Dallas, connects students from universities and higher education institutions across Dallas-Fort Worth with community and industry partners. The pioneering initiative "aims to nurture emerging leaders and equip them with the knowledge and skills needed to address critical challenges facing the North Texas community."
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by David Seeley |
Mar 26, 2024
NTXIA's new Urban Resilience Fellowship Program, launched in partnership with UT Arlington and UT Dallas, connects students from universities and higher education institutions across Dallas-Fort Worth with community and industry partners. The pioneering initiative "aims to nurture emerging leaders and equip them with the knowledge and skills needed to address critical challenges facing the North Texas community."
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by David Seeley |
Mar 25, 2024
Today, "the newest uranium producer in the United States" ventured to the heart of New York City to ring the opening bell at Nasdaq and hold its first-ever Investor Day.
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