Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Within the last year, publicists and authors have mailed her books to review, she said. The ones she doesn't get around to reading, she promotes on the blog. At times, Jill also receives additional copies of the books, which she can donate to a local library or distribute through contest giveaways.
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
The air near a North Texas natural gas drilling operation had for short-term exposure, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports today. A official told the paper that the level "is the equivalent of a person sniffing a can of gasoline." Benzene can cause leukemia and other disorders. The air sample was taken near a tank that collects drilling byproducts. The tank was described as being seven miles...
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
The university garnered national attention for the issue when the SGA rejected a bill that would allow same-sex couples to run for homecoming court earlier this year. The SGA senate voted for a referendum that would allow students to vote on the issue after getting notable opposition from many on campus and around the nation.
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
It appears idyllic, but a closer look reveals that serious work is under way. This is SpiritHorse, which provides private equine-assisted therapeutic riding lessons. Clients include people with disabilities, at-risk youth, battered women, young people who have completed drug rehabilitation and abused children.
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
AUSTIN -- Texas transportation officials approved a $1.85 billion plan today to build or improve highways throughout Texas, rejecting protests from Dallas and Fort Worth that nearly all of the money will be spent in Houston and along Interstate 35 near Waco. Quickly brushing aside those complaints, the Texas Transportation Commission voted 5-0 to accept the spending plan that just one week ago had...
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Voting began Monday at the University of North Texas to decide whether same-sex couples should be allowed to run for Homecoming court. Polls are open until 5 p.m. on Friday. If the vote passes, UNT will be one of the first universities to allow the crowning of two Homecoming kings sans a queen, or vice versa. Also Online The Student Government Association’s bylaws at the university have stipulated...
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Sen. Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound, wrote to UNT Chancellor Lee Jackson on Friday expressing her "serious concern" over the system's decision to move employees and its headquarters out of Denton, where the university has been based for 120 years.
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Hundreds of photographs posted by the University of North Texas from the investigation of JFK's assassination won't solve any of the conspiracy questions that have endured for 46 years. Dallas Municipal Archives via The Portal to Texas History Gary Mack, curator of The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, says this photo of (right) with an unknown woman was 'undoubtedly' taken in Russia. More than anything,...
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
The best advice I ever received was:When you're down, it's not the end. It matters how you're going to finish. Are you going to finish strong? Because you will find that strength to get back up.
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Members of the governing board and other divisions of the UNT System will formally announce their relocation from Denton to the Universities Center in downtown Dallas on Friday evening in the center's lobby. The UNT System consists of the UNT campus in Denton, the UNT Health Science Center at Fort Worth, The Universities Center in Dallas and the UNT Dallas campus. Also Online Administrators and employees...
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
UNT is the latest four-year university and one of the first in this area to create a lifelong learning organization to accommodate older adults' intellectual curiosity. Nationwide, there are hundreds of such programs catering to people 50 and older who want to rekindle old interests or explore new ones.
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Voting is scheduled to take place online from Nov. 16 through Nov. 20 via the student government's Web site, www.untsga.com. The site gives no details on what the voting procedures will be -- whether, for example, any mechanism will be put in place in an tattempt to assure that people don't vote more than once.
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
The University of North Texas cleared the final hurdle in its drive to build a new football stadium on Thursday when the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board approved the $78 million project. UNT plans to break ground on a new venue that will seat more than 30,000 before its game against Army on Nov. 21. Construction is scheduled to begin in January. Courtesy art The University of North Texas...
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Dish leaders voted to spend $10,000 to study the town's air quality after years of complaining to industry and regulators about foul odors emanating from compression and metering facilities at the edge of town. About a dozen major gas-gathering pipelines converge in Dish. Five energy companies remotely operate plants between Tim Donald and Strader roads that prepare the gas for consumer markets.
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