1. Jillian Smith knew in the sixth grade that she wanted to be a cop. She accomplished that goal. Then, less than a year on the force, the Arlington police officer was killed in the line of duty. The Morning News brings us a touching profile of what sounded like a special person.
2. I don’t quite get all the hubbub over the city’s efforts to eradicate graffiti in advance of the Super Bowl. Blogs carried the story yesterday; the paper has it this morning. First, is there really that much graffiti around Dallas? Second, are Super Bowl visitors really going to have a lousy time if they see it? Third, by crowing about the “sodablaster” and how awesome it is at eradicating graffiti, aren’t city officials essentially issuing a public challenge to taggers, who will redouble their efforts to spread Super Bowl-related graffiti around the city? And, finally, I was disappointed to learn that the sodablaster doesn’t shoot RC Cola.
3. A body was found early this morning in the Design District. The man’s throat had been slashed. That’s the kind of sight, seems to me, that would leave a Super Bowl visitor with a bad impression of Dallas.
