Dallas School Board Talks Taxes. Dallas ISD needs more money. How much more money? Trustees will decide today which of three tax plans should go to voters this fall. Or, as was the case last year, they’ll fail to get anything on the ballot at all. Here’s a cogent analysis of what’s at stake for 158,000 schoolchildren.
Some Lawmakers Want to See Dallas’ Confederate Statues Gone. State Sen. Royce West and four Democratic state representatives from Dallas told Mayor Mike Rawlings in a letter that they support his plan for a task force to study the issue, as long as it ultimately results in the removal of the controversial monuments. Sen. Ted Cruz, speaking Thursday in Addison, said we should not “sanitize history” by taking down the statues, but that the decision should be left to individual communities.
Doctor Accused of Serial Drive-By Flashing, Definitely Guilty of Having Terrible Vanity Plate. A Keller doctor suspected of sharing too much of himself with people in Deep Ellum and the parking lot of the Cityplace Target faces a misdemeanor charge of indecent exposure. Police said the vanity license plate on Dr. Reginald James Newsome’s BMW, “ISPINE,” also the name of the pain control clinic he works at, helped ID the alleged exhibitionist.
Police Try to Ease Concerns About SB4. Cops in Grand Prairie and elsewhere in North Texas are “waging a public relations campaign” and holding public meetings over the new immigration law, which goes into effect Sept. 1.
Your Texas Rangers Beat the White Sox, 9-8. And get back to .500. Still in this thing, baby. Keep hope alive.
