"These are balanced budgets." Those are Richardson City Manager Bill Keffler's words Monday evening at a public hearing on th...

The City of Richardson has been recognized for transparency and rightly so. But transparency is not like pregnancy. You can't be a littl...

balanced budget: noun. A budget is balanced when current expenditures are equal to receipts -- Dictionary.com balanced budget: Government...

From 2011 Football On a hot summer night, the average lifespan of a mosquito is one to two hours. The Skeeters of Mesquite High School l...

From 2011 Football Still hotter than blazes. But it's late August. You know what that means. High school football returns. Thursday n...

The City of Richardson's Statement of Goals has always been a grab bag. Part vision and mission statement, part job description for city...

How do you count 50,000 trees? How do you count 3,000,000? Recently, I blogged about Richardson's "Tree the Town" program (go...

Yesterday, I cited Texas jobs' data as the perfect example of how data can be cherry-picked in different ways to tell two completely d...

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." " 'Lies, damned lies, and statistics' is a phras...

Jon Huntsman, the 2012 GOP candidate for President, tweeted , "To be clear. I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warmi...