1. Get ready for a string of these stories: Because of the Dallas budget crunch, a number of city services are on the chopping block. For example, Dallas may dramatically scale back the number of immunizations and health-care screenings it provides this year.
2. Barbara Hilliard is 82, but if you bring a sword at her, she will whip your tail. Doubt that? I believe a little something called the National Fencing Championships (being held in Grapevine) prove me right.
3. As Wick noted, Rick Perry has an early lead in the polls against Kay Bailey Hutchison. That could be a referendum on them as personalities, but it also could be an outcome of their strategy: Hutchison is running against the powers that be in Austin; Perry is running against bureaucrats in D.C. Guess which one gets voters more fired up?
