By Maxine Shaoiro, KERA 90.1 Business Commentator

Dallas, TX – April may be full of springtime showers, but it is also a month when we're asked to focus on worthwhile matters. Here's a few. I'm Maxine Shapiro with KERA Marketplace Midday.

By Maxine Shapiro, KERA 90.1 business commentator

Dallas, TX – Anger is a very unhealthy emotion. It causes polarization and dissent, not to mention an inner turmoil that no one wants to live with. Yet what do I do about these feelings concerning many corporate executives? I want to just throw a pie in their face. I'm Maxine Shapiro with KERA Marketplace Midday.

By Suzanne Sprague, KERA 90.1 reporter

Dallas, TX – Suzanne Sprague, Reporter: The image most visitors to Fort Worth, and indeed many of its own residents, have of the city's North Side - is the Stockyards. Country music lilts over loudspeakers as modern-day wranglers pose for tourists. But the surrounding neighborhoods make a quiet contrast. They are mostly moderate to low-income areas with an aging homes. And their families are often first-generation Americans, which Councilman Jim Lane says is the district's strongest link.

By Bill Zeeble, KERA 90.1 reporter

Dallas, TX – Bill Zeeble, KERA 90.1 reporter: With Winslow Homer's 53 fishing-expedition watercolors hanging in two Amon Carter galleries, the museum's Curator of Painting and Sculpture says these rooms stop being large, sterile spaces. For Patty Junker, these paintings transport her.

By J. Lyn Carl, GalleryWatch.com

Austin, TX – A whoop went up from the House floor at 10 p.m. Wednesday as it was announced that the last of several dozen remaining amendments to HB 1 had been withdrawn. The three days of wrangling over the House version of the state's budget bill had at long last ended.

By Maxine Shapiro, KERA 90.1 business commentator

Dallas, TX – It's Friday, so "It's Only Money," a review of the big and not-so-big stories of the week. I'm Maxine Shapiro with KERA Marketplace Midday.

By Maxine Shapiro, KERA 90.1 business commentator

Dallas, TX – It's the end of the week for the markets. All exchanges will be closed tomorrow for Good Friday. So now that the focus returned to corporate earnings and the economy, how's it looking? For KERA Marketplace Midday, I'm Maxine Shapiro.

By Suzanne Sprague, KERA 90.1 reporter

By Maxine Shapiro, KERA 90.1 business commentator

Dallas, TX – Boy, have we become a spoiled society. Businesses expect all kinds of special treatment when moving to a new locale. Executives who threaten to leave a company receive bigger and more lavish bonuses. And now, universities are joining the corporate world of allurement. I'm Maxine Shapiro with KERA Marketplace Midday.

By J. Lyn Carl, GalleryWatch.com

Austin, TX – "Right now this bill is not good enough for Texas," said Rep. Garnet Coleman (D-Houston) of HB 1 after members of the House Appropriations Committee and Appropriations subcommittees laid out the general appropriations bill before the full House Monday evening.

With 484 amendments to the bill pre-filed by last Saturday's deadline, Coleman began the late Monday evening and early Tuesday morning process by bringing up the first amendment.