{"id":118245,"date":"2026-01-10T16:58:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T16:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/118245\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T16:58:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T16:58:06","slug":"plano-has-had-some-great-success-and-other-quotes-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/118245\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Plano has had some great success,\u2019 and other quotes of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cPlano has had some great success with Toyota [North America] moving here, Liberty Mutual, Capital One, Boeing \u2026 Frito-Lay, PepsiCo, all those have come here for a reason.\u201d – Plano City Council member Rick Horne, talking about the announcement that AT&T will be moving its global headquarters there. (Monday, The Dallas Morning News<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery time we lose a major commercial player downtown, it certainly doesn\u2019t help.\u201d \u2014 Ari Lowenstein, the owner of Ari\u2019s Pantry, an Italian market at the corner of Ervay and Main streets, lamenting the news about AT&T\u2019s move out of downtown Dallas. (Tuesday, The Dallas Morning News<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\u201cColombia is very sick, too. Run by a sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States, and he\u2019s not going to be doing it very long.\u201d \u2014 Donald Trump, referring to Colombian President Gustavo Petro. Two days later, they had a friendly conversation. (Monday, The Hill<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the United States were to choose to attack another NATO country, then everything would come to an end. \u2026 The international community as we know it, democratic rules of the game, NATO, the world\u2019s strongest defensive alliance \u2014 all of that would collapse if one NATO country chose to attack another.\u201d \u2014 Denmark\u2019s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, commenting on President Donald Trump\u2019s talk about Greenland, a Danish territory. (Tuesday, The New York Times<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe U.S. has such a free hand in Greenland that it can pretty much do what it wants.\u201d \u2014 Mikkel Runge Olesen, a researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies in Copenhagen, talking about a 1951 agreement that gives sweeping military access to the U.S. (Wednesday, The New York Times<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels like these data center companies have just put a big target on our backs. We are all asking: Where are the people we elected who promised to protect us from these big corporations trying to steamroll us? The people who are supposed to be standing up and protecting us are standing down and caving.\u201d \u2014 Kyle Schmidt, leader of the newly formed Protect Sand Springs Alliance, in Oklahoma, where there is growing concern over sprawling data centers. (Tuesday, The Washington Post<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\u201cI never assumed he would be running for Office again, and certainly not as a Democrat. \u2026 And now, despite doing him by far the greatest favor of his life, 20 years of FREEDOM, I am fighting him for his seat in Congress.\u201d \u2014 President Donald Trump on Truth Social, complaining about U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar of Laredo, who filed for re-election as a Democrat despite receiving a full pardon from Trump for bribery and money laundering convictions. (Tuesday, The Houston Chronicle<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\u201cRenee was one of the kindest people I\u2019ve ever known. \u2026 She was extremely compassionate. She\u2019s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.\u201d \u2014 Donna Ganger, the mother of Renee Good, who was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. (Wednesday, The Minneapolis Star<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\u201cWith boots on the ground and eyes in the sky, Abbie was located and recovered safely. \u2026 A huge thank you to every agency involved for showing up when it mattered most.\u201d \u2014 A social media post from Final Victory Animal Rescue after drone technology found Abbie, a 9-year-old golden retriever mix. (Wednesday, The Associated Press<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cPlano has had some great success with Toyota [North America] moving here, Liberty Mutual, Capital One, Boeing \u2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2353,160,162,161],"class_list":{"0":"post-118245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-commentary","9":"tag-plano","10":"tag-plano-headlines","11":"tag-plano-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}