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- The Best Movies: 1947
- Recalling Inger Stevens
- The Best Movies: 1946
- There's going to be a fun football game in a coupl...
- It's getting to be that time of year when City Hal...
- A convincing argument for ending the Bush tax cuts...
- Food violations at Jonestown
- A strange sense of balance in the world
- If you ain't got that do-re-mi
- James Bond and the Dragon Tattoo
- On Doris Day and other old bags
- Oh, great! Transportation Department depending on ...
- To be released tomorrow on DVD
- The Best Movies: 1945
- Cornyn's position on Supreme Court nominees
- The solution to Dallas' budget problems: Fire ever...
- The Best Movies: A Mulligan
- For those who communicate the old fashioned way
- To be released tomorrow on DVD
- Once again Cornyn sacrifices statesmanship for par...
- Steve, Archie and LaBron: A study in character
- Outlaw Pete: Can you hear me?
- S.M. Wright arguments sound familiar
- Frontier Ruckus is neither
- To be released tomorrow on DVD
- The Best Movies: 1944
- Wake up, basketball America! LaBron & Co. have pla...
- Brown by Schutze
- Da Mayor taps his successor
- Could Rangers Wednesday win prove prophetic?
- A way for DART to get the money it needs
- The Chief re-assumes command
- Something for all former mop tops to ponder
- Fine calls "Ghost Writer" No. 1 so far
- My worst nightmare
- We got the good Vlad
- To be released tomorrow on DVD
- The Best Movies: 1943
- "Let Me In" has the right look
- Which is the bigger casting news: Garfield or Streep?
- One-way streets in downtown Dallas: Who do these g...
- The Boss to give more "Darkness" for Christmas
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About Me
- Pete Oppel
- I have scratched together a living, in one way or another, as a writer for more than 60 years now. I was a free-lance writer during the early stages of the Vietnam War. I was the Southwest Division Overnight News Editor for United Press International back when UPI was a legitimate news gathering organization. Following that, I went to the Dallas Morning News where I became the first person to write about rock 'n' roll on a daily basis for a Texas metropolitan newspaper. I later became the News' entertainment editor. Following some stints with a couple of prominent PR firms, I had the extraordinary good fortune to team with two communications legends, Ken Fairchild and Lisa LeMaster, as part of one kick-ass media consulting/crisis communications team. That was followed by stints as a department head with the City of Dallas (and its public information officer); the Dallas Northeast Chamber of Commerce where I had the good fortune to meet and work alongside some of this city's business and political titans; and editorial director for QuestCorp Media until that company went out of business. Now officially retired, concentrating on this blog.
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