Cat is back in Waco

"We looked at several locations, but the top spot in my mind was Waco. It's a great place to live and work, and I'm just a bit jealous I'm not moving here myself."—Larry Holt, Vice President Operations, Caterpillar Work Tools and Services Inc.

Wham, bam, no new taxes, ma'am

"The era of trapping and trading gone, I guess it's the kin of bringing home the beaver pelts." —John Young, Opinion Page Editor, Waco Tribune-Herald, on the 2005 Session of the Texas Legislature

Leadership group to help chart Waco's future

"Most of the time, you don't hear teenage pregnancy and economic development in the same breath, but we did today, and it is a problem for which we need to find a solution." —Waco City Manager Larry Groth following presentation by J. Mac Holladay on economic development study by Greater Waco Chamber of Commerce

North Texas suburbs are finding their own style

As Dallas throws money at developers to bring life back to downtown, mini-downtowns are popping up in empty fields on the suburban fringes of North Texas.
—Michael Landauer, Dallas Morning News