Cedar Hill Chili’s Manager Put on Leave. Ernest Walker, you may have heard, had his free Veterans Day meal taken from him after another customer — a white guy wearing a Trump shirt — complained that Walker — who is black — wasn’t actually a vet. Walker turned his phone on as a manager questioned whether his service dog, Barack, was a real service dog and then took Walker’s food from him. Well, that unnamed manager has been put on leave.
Bushes Have a New Dog. The lead of the DMN story, published around 8 o’clock last night: “The Bush family just got a little bigger. Former President George W. Bush and Laura Bush adopted a new dog last week, an Australian Shepherd mix named Freddy, Bush spokesman Freddy Ford said Tuesday.” How do you not report whether the Bushes named their dog after their spokesman? And how do you report on Monday something that someone said on Tuesday? In any case, Freddy came from SPCA of Texas’ Jan Rees-Jones Animal Care Center. Nice job, Mr. President.
Reunion Tower Will Shoot Off Fireworks. AT&T and Hunt Realty are teaming up to ring in the new year with a bang.
Feds Seek Public Comment on West Texas Nuclear Waste Dump. The site is run by Waste Control Specialists, a company once owned by Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons, when he was still with us and before his widow gave enough money to the Trinity Park Conservancy that they want to call a proposed park between the levees the Harold Simmons Park. Well, the feds want to know what you think of it. The nuclear waste dumb, not the park.
