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It borders on cliché or hackneyed, but the numbers don’t lie: a lot of Californians have packed up their belongings and fled the West Coast to make Texas their new home.

Saying it borders on cliché, but the numbers don’t lie: A growing number of Californians are packing their belongings and making Texas their new home. You see it in the businesses that have moved their operations here, in the employees who follow those companies and in the increase in home prices and rents that induce sticker shock among locals but seem cheap compared with the Golden State.…

If you were a younger person living in Dallas in the late 1800s, Mayer’s Garden might have been one of your hangouts. According to archived stories from the

If you were a younger person living in Dallas in the late 1800s, Mayer’s Garden might have been one of your hangouts. According to archived stories from The Dallas Morning News, Mayer’s Garden  was described as an “early pleasure resort of Dallas.”…

It was around 46 B.C. when Julius Caesar decided to fiddle with the calendar and made January 1 the start of the new year.

It was around 46 B.C. when Julius Caesar decided to fiddle with the calendar and made January 1 the start of the new year. The month of January was named after the god Janus, a two-faced deity who Romans believed symbolically looked back at the previous year while looking ahead to the new year.…