1. Bill McNutt, the fruitcake scion who was arrested for mysterious reasons on SMU’s campus, has stepped down from the office of deacon at Highland Park Presbyterian Church. This leaves only the Dallas Country Club and Blockbuster as the only two influential Dallas organizations untouched by the scandal.
2. Is it legal? Hey, who cares? The city has tapped millions of dollars from the Trinity River bond funds to fix the sorry levees. Remember the Trinity lakes? The City Council is set today to snatch $4.75 million tagged for them and apply it toward the levees. And guess what? Councilman Dave Neumann says he thinks the levee repairs will require a bond election of their own. I love it when a plan comes together.
3. This is a great piece of journalism by Matthew Haag and Selwyn Crawford about Robert Mustard Jr., the troubled man who shot two financial advisors and then himself in a North Dallas office on Monday. The story takes a look at Mustard’s life, trying to explain his final act (Mustard is not expected to survive). One of the most curious details, to me, is this quote John Dycus, UTA’s retired director of student publications and former advisor to the student newspaper, the Shorthorn, where Mustard worked:Â “I know that he enjoyed newspaper work, and he wanted badly to be a professional copy editor on the big stage.”
