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Thursday night at violate meeting the Dallas Independent School District (DISD) voted to not renew the contracts of hundreds of teachers throughout the system. There is a dispute on the exact number of teachers slated to receive non-renewal letters. Several outlets are reporting 440, however, WFAA Channel 8 claim an email received from district spokesperson [...]
BREAKING NEWS: Powerball Jackpot will be $925 million for the drawing on Wednesday, May 22, 2013, if there are no winners on Saturday, May 18, 2013. AUSTIN– With tonight’s drawing for an estimated $190 million Mega Millions jackpot, and Saturday’s advertised $600 million Powerball jackpot, lottery players across the country are playing for an unprecedented amount of cash this week. [...]
CEDAR HILL – In what is being classified as a clear parallel to the Penn State University and Catholic Church child sex scandals, parents in the Cedar Hill Independent School (CHISD) have asked the president of the Texas Southern Christian Leadership Conference (Texas SCLC) to lead an effort to “Repair the Breach” of trust and [...]
WESTPORT, Conn. — A baby’s birth day is the most dangerous day of life in the United States and almost every country in the world according Save the Children’s State of the Worlds Mothers report, released this week. More than 1 million babies die the day they are born yearly, according to the first global [...]
When selling a business, owners time their exits for many reasons: health, retirement planning, availability or lack of family successors, competition, technology change and many more. Yet overwhelmingly the question most often asked of financial advisors by entrepreneurial companies is “what’s my business worth?” Mark Van Mourick, CEO and president of Optivest, Inc., provides five tips [...]
By Ruth Ferguson, NDG Editor I love giving (and receiving gift baskets) and if I received one (birthday is around the corner – just saying!) these would be delightful items to find in a Mother’s Day gift basket. First, I received a couple of affordable beauty care products from Every Beauty. When I opened the [...]
The Texas State Teachers Association said the teacher retirement bill approved by the Senate today is significantly improved over previous versions. “This TRS bill passed today provides a much better balance of contributions from the state and educational employees than previous versions of the bill,” said TSTA President Rita Haecker. “We will keep working to [...]
DALLAS – Parkland Health & Hospital System released the following statement today in response to an article published in the Dallas Morning News containing inaccuracies: Under the headline New Hospital Over Budget, the Dallas Morning News wrote that Parkland was $156 million over budget on its new hospital construction and the system hid that overrun [...]
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