1. James Ragland, Zac’s new BFF (scroll down in comments), suggests, in light of the fact that Dallas is experiencing a baby boom, that we give ourselves the nickname The City That Can’t Sleep (No Matter How Hard We Might Try). My suggestion: The City That Copulates. It’s snappier.
2. In previous years at Grand Prairie High School, black students did poorly on the TAKS test and dragged down the school’s rating. So principal Joseph Showell called 60 black students into a meeting and challenged them to improve their scores. Everyone knows you can’t do that. If you’re gonna call a meeting, you’ve got to call everyone together, the good test-takers and the lousy ones, black, white, and Hispanic. Then you’ve got to talk around the issue, be vague about it, say how every student needs to improve his or her scores.
3. In case you missed it yesterday, the Financial Times of Germany reported that Hillwood might default on its Victory debt. Steve Brown reports today that Hillwood is negotiating with its German lenders to perhaps change the terms of its obligations. I’m just spitballing here, but if I were Ross Perot Jr., I’d get Pete Delkus in on those negotiations. That guy’s got moxie.
