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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.
Rachel Racz, Head of Listings for Texas, Southern U.S., and Latin America at Nasdaq [Composite illustration: DI Studio, Istockphoto, courtesy photo]
The Last Word: Nasdaq’s Rachel Racz on Being Public-Company Ready
by Quincy Preston | Nov 20, 2025
At a private dinner at the Petroleum Club ahead of the Venture Dallas Startup Awards—and just weeks before Nasdaq announced its new Nasdaq Texas exchange—Rachel Racz delivered a message that landed in a room full of high-growth founders.
by Quincy Preston |
Nov 19, 2025
In a LinkedIn post, the TXSE global managing director pointed to a recent article from The Daily Economy, a publication of the American Institute for Economic Research, which analyzes the upstart exchange's potential to shake up the capital markets landscape. As the article explains, "Exchanges are the plumbing of capitalism—the place where savings become investment and new industries find their footing."
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Nov 18, 2025
The outgoing Dallas Regional Chamber chief executive received the Dallas Business Journal's Lifetime Achievement Award after 12 years of helping elevate the region's economic standing.
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by David Seeley |
Nov 13, 2025
Dallas’ first skate park south of the Trinity River is one ollie, kickflip, and grind closer to coming to life, thanks to the closing of a $400,000 private fundraise, which will lead to $400,000 in matching public dollars. According to a report by the Oak Cliff Advocate, that $800K will be added to $1 million in 2024 bond funds and will cover design and construction of the Westmoreland Park Skate Park.
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Former Dallas ISD teacher and football coach Harold Hogue, who founded social impact firm CoSpero Consulting in 2017, took to LinkedIn to share what he’s seeing across the nonprofit landscape. [Composite illustration: DI Studio; Sources: Annaspoka/iStock, Harold Hogue/LinkedIn]
The Last Word: On Unprecedented Pressures Testing Nonprofits — and the Call for Reinforcements
by Quincy Preston | Nov 6, 2025
CoSpero Consulting’s Harold Hogue issues a call to action as nonprofits “stand in the gap in ways most folks don’t see.”
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by Quincy Preston |
Nov 5, 2025
Cait Brumme says the event at Dallas' Pegasus Park on Nov. 6 will explore the technologies and economic forces defining the future for entrepreneurs and innovators.
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![Social entrepreneur Byron Sanders, a former nonprofit exec, is CEO of Arete Health, launched in January 2025. [Photo: Michael Samples]](https://s24806.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/27_ByronSanders-STEM-STEAM-STREAM-970_courtesy_Oct2019-1-360x203.jpg)
by Quincy Preston |
Oct 28, 2025
Creatives Care Dallas brings virtual care, behavioral health, 2,000+ medications with zero copay, and more to Dallas County's gig workers. The community initiative is powered by Arete Health Shield in partnership with the Dallas Music Office.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Oct 22, 2025
Fort Worth’s film industry has boomed with nearly $1 billion in impact, 50,000 jobs, and Taylor Sheridan's 101 Studios planning to move its HQ to the city, NBC DFW reports.
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Andrew Senior [Composite image: Photo, courtesy; DI Studio]
The Last Word: Cushman & Wakefield Researcher On Why Dallas’ Office Market Is Having Its Best Year Since 2019
by Quincy Preston | Oct 8, 2025
Andrew Senior shares 5 "fast facts" for Q3 2025.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 7, 2025
Kane co-founded Dallas-based Show Tote with Deborah Bowles, after both of them ran into trouble getting their handbags past security and into concert events. Now their new company offers bags that "follow the rules and turn heads," including the Clear Envelope design seen above.
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by David Seeley |
Oct 2, 2025
Hats off to Garland, the Cowboy Hat Capital of Texas. It got that title from the Texas Legislature in 2013 in recognition of the city’s three hat manufacturers, HatCo, Master Hatters of Texas, and Dorfman Milano. Together, they roll out more than a million cowboy hats each year with labels including Stetson, Justin, Resistol, and Scala. The city only needed one more thing—a really big hat—and now it's got that, too.
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![ABC 20/20 co-anchor Deborah Roberts (left) in conversation with moderator Sara Madsen Miller at the "Leading the Lone Star State: Texas Women in Public Service Summit." Roberts shared hard-earned wisdom with the audience: "Be self-assured. Know your story. Don't doubt who you are." [Photo: Leo Gonzalez/TWU]](https://s24806.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Sara-Madsen-Miller-Deborah-Roberts_TWU-event-092025-360x203.jpg)
by Quincy Preston |
Oct 1, 2025
Roberts and NY Times best-selling author Jen Hatmaker headlined the Jane Nelson Institute for Women's Leadership summit in Denton on Sept. 19. The conference brought together women in public service and featured an award for retired Texas Rep. Myra Crownover.
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Rendering of Hampton House Dallas [Image: Parker Hospitality]
The Last Word: On the New Members-Only Club Hampton House in Downtown Dallas
by David Seeley | Sep 24, 2025
Last March, we told you about the new four-story Hampton Social, a see-and-be-seen dining and socializing destination at 1520 Main Street in downtown Dallas. Now Chicago-based Parker Hospitality says one of those floors will open on October 1 as Hampton House, an invitation-only members club. “Hampton House is the darker, sexier alter ego of The Hampton Social,” says Brad Parker, founder and CEO of Parker Hospitality.
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by David Seeley |
Sep 23, 2025
The Last Word above ran through Friedman's mind in 2019, when he was seeing "Hamilton" on Broadway. The Plano-based plastic surgeon didn't just muse about it—he put his own music talent to work, collaborating with Laura Goodenow to create "cleaVage," a comedic musical "inspired by the trailblazing surgeons and brave patients who shaped the spectacular rise, equally spectacular fall, and ultimate resurgence of silicone gel breast implants—which were invented in Texas in 1962."
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by Quincy Preston |
Sep 17, 2025
What does the Federal Reserve’s rate cut really mean? American National Bank of Texas CEO Robert Hulsey, who sits on the Dallas Fed board, weighs in.
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![NYSE Texas Launch: Texas Governor Greg Abbott rings "The Closing Bell" at AT&T Stadium in Arlington with Lynn Martin, Jerry Jones, John Stankey, and Texas founding members on August 20, 2025. [Photo: NYSE]](https://s24806.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/NYSE-Texas-CB-Photo-20250820-CC-PRESS-03-970-NYSE-Group-360x203.jpg)
by Quincy Preston |
Aug 20, 2025
NYSE president says Texas tops all states in listings with $4 trillion market cap, as Abbott rings the bell from "Y'all Street."
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