Trump Claims Irving-Based Boy Scouts Org Said His Jamboree Speech Was the “Greatest.” President Trump told the Wall Street Journal that he “got a call from the head of the Boy Scouts saying it was the greatest speech that was ever made to them, and they were very thankful.” The Irving-based organization, however, has done little more than apologize for Trump’s political rhetoric at the jamboree over the past week and told Time Magazine they are unaware of this phone call.
Southlake’s Sabre to Lay Off 9 Percent of Workforce. The travel technology company Sabre Corp., showed a second-quarter loss of $6.5 million and shortly thereafter announced it will lay off 900 employees, including several hundred at its Southlake headquarters in order to become a “more nimble, faster moving and focused organization.”
Here’s What the College Kids Are Up To. Concealed carry is now permitted on community college campuses. Some El Centro students, still reeling from the July 7th attack last summer, are not too pleased. And over at SMU, Young Democrats and Young Republicans are coming together to protest the administration’s decree that a 9/11 memorial must be moved to a less prominent area of campus. SMU’s reasoning is sketchy and the administration seems to be currently changing its story. (The school, at first, wrote that the decision involved avoiding “messages that are triggering, harmful, or harassing,” but has since updated its language to be slightly less ridiculous.)
How Many Rapes Could Have Been Prevented? When Roy Gutierrez was arrested for sexually assaulting a woman in Deep Ellum in June, authorities discovered that his DNA matched a 2006 attack on a woman named Wendy Birdsall. The most upsetting part of this story is Gutierrez’s DNA was matched to Birdsall’s case a couple years after her assault, but she was never informed and no cases were filed against him until now. In all, Gutierrez is suspected in seven attacks, several of which could have been prevented if he had been locked up for the rape of Wendy Birdsall.
