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- Wash bears most of the blame for Rangers’ failure
- The “You-Don’t-Say” Dumb Headline of the Month Award
- My Top 25 College Football Teams
- Anything for a smile after the Rangers blow it twi...
- If I were an all-day college football couch potato
- Available on DVD: “Carlos”
- Herb Wyans comes out of the closet. Any way we can...
- Not buying LaRussa’s communications story
- My Top 25 College Football Teams
- Available on DVD: “Bride Flight”
- Want more representation on the council? Then vote!
- No. 1 on my Must See list
- My Top 25 College Football Teams
- Available on DVD: “True Legend”
- Republican serial killers
- Who is this guy?
- Major Oscar predictions for the second week in Oct...
- Voter fraud is a myth
- My Top 25 College Football Teams
- Available on DVD: “Incendies”
- Thoughts for the weekend and beyond
- Good news for the Big 12
- Downey as Perry Mason
- “My Week With Marilyn” trailer
- Meet the new boss, the same as the old boss
- Sarah Palin decides not to run
- Dallas City Council: It’s now White + Latino vs. A...
- One final nod to a dying breed: the great newspape...
- I get choked up just looking at the trailer
- My Top 25 College Football Teams
- Available on DVD: “Meek’s Cutoff”
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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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