Trending In North Texas: Mumps. Johnson County has diagnosed 48 cases in the past two weeks, most of those children, and Dallas County has recently seen eight adults with the untreatable, contagious disease. There usually aren’t more than 20 cases a year in the entire state, which is why you will see a lot of headlines using the word “outbreak.”
Just Another Pension Story. Imagine the Dallas Police and Fire Pension is a really big boat, police and firefighters are the crew, and the citizens of Dallas are the passengers. The crew realizes the really big boat is headed straight for an even bigger iceberg and votes to move the boat ever so slightly off its original course. But then a few of the crew members say (in unison), “Hey, you can’t change the course. It was sunny.” They sue. Well, yesterday the state’s appeals court ruled that turning the wheel away from the deadly iceberg is, in fact, constitutional. If you would like to read the non-metaphorical version with terms like “DROP interest rate,” then click here.
Here Are The Year’s Top Dog Names in Dallas. Max and Bella lead the pack. I was going to make a “basic bitch” reference, but it was such a dad joke, I couldn’t go through with it.