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- Redistricting map better than current one, but ...
- Banks getting ready to screw customers again
- Tear-jerker could be award winning for Sydow
- Angela Hunt defends her flow control vote
- A first for the City Council in this century
- Mayor Mike and Greg: Welcome to my Hall of Fame
- My Top 25 College Football Teams
- Another two-film Oscar race
- Steve Blow wins today’s Bad Taste in Print award
- A Republican can get in trouble for being compassi...
- Another glance at the dragon-tattooed girl
- Once again, a state government official over-reacts
- My Top 25 College Football Teams
- How many films will be Oscar nominated for best pi...
- Waste Haulers trying to scare City with idle threat
- Available on DVD: “Everything Must Go”
- One of those moments that makes you so proud you w...
- Not bad
- Available on DVD: “Wrecked”
- Available on DVD: “In a Better World”
- Mayor Mike makes me mad
- Perry’s real vulnerabilities exposed
- Good night, Cliff
- What’s going on with Dairy Queen
- It’s official: I’m an old fogey
- My Top 25 College Football Teams
- Hitting the trail
- Ginger at the park
- Golden Moss Park
- Sunset at Moss Park
- Caraway vs Johnson?
- Available on DVD: “I Will Follow”
- Photo of the day
- Cooperstein, Followill don’t understand Baylor’s a...
- Recommended slogan for Obama’s re-election campaign
- I see dead people
- Instead of spewing negative racial arguments, here...
- Shame on you, councilwoman Hill
- Australian for nose job
- Is it Leonardo’s turn?
- My Top 25 Collge Football Teams
- For your listening and viewing pleasure
- Available on DVD “Trollhunter”
- “You’re going to like the way you look. I guarante...
- Bush-Perry kill more than wars do
- Eddie Murphy to host Oscars?
- Conference re-alignments
- The dire predicament of our mail service
- Available on DVD: “The Beaver”
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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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