Well on their way to another banger of an 8 and 8 season, the Cowboys decided to keep trying and traded a (guys, come on) 2019 first round draft pick for now-former Raiders wide receiver Amari Cooper, finally replacing Dez Bryant, who is still at home tweeting, so he’s basically me, except even I don’t tweet that much anymore. Who is Amari Cooper? Let’s find out!

• His first name is Amari, which has African-Yoruban origins and means “strength.” It’s similar to Amar’e Stoudemire, who played for the Mavericks for one season and last played for [checks notes] Hapoel Jerusalem of the Israeli Premier League, which exists.

• He was the No. 4 pick in the 2015 draft out of Alabama.

• He went to high school in Florida with Teddy Bridgewater.

• Cooper has fumbled four times in his career and lost one of them.

• He was good for two seasons, then not really at all for one and a half.

• He can run and jump faster than I can. We are even on hands. I’m a little bit better at running routes.

• Amar’e Stoudemire really did play for a team in the Israeli Premier League. It’s a little thing called research. Here is a recent picture of him trying to blow a shofar.

Yesterday was a historic day in Dallas County: The Texas Secretary of State’s office reports that 59,389 people voted in person on day one of early voting. That is more than during the 2016 presidential election, when 58,775 voted here on day one. It is also way more—four and a half times—than the first day turnout during 2014’s midterms.

Turnout was high across the state. In Tarrant County, 40,414 people voted yesterday. In Collin County, 33,350. And in Denton County, 19,045. Harris County paced the state with 63,188 day one voters.

So far in Dallas County, 6.12 percent of registered voters have fulfilled their civic duty either in person or by mail. That compares to 5.47 percent in Tarrant, 7.33 percent in Collin, 4.96 percent in Denton, and 4.94 percent in Harris.

Toni Pippins-Poole, elections administrator for Dallas County, told me that some polling locations were experiencing wait times as high as an hour and a half yesterday. She suggests checking the county’s map to get a sense of the wait before you leave your home or place of work. Seems smart. Here’s the map.

On Thursday, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram published a cartoon that is racist and transphobic. Dallas lawyer Lee Merritt called it out on Twitter, and then we posted here. Things took off, and the lack of editorial judgment touched a nerve among the newspaper’s alumni. A group of 54 former employees signed an open letter to the newly installed editor of the paper. That editor, Steve Coffman, has since written a short apology, which was posted online Monday evening and ran in print this morning. Here it is:

The editorial cartoon we ran on Oct. 18 has attracted a lot of criticism.

While we want the Star-Telegram’s editorial page to showcase opinions from divergent points of view, we also strive to maintain a high level of respect and quality of thought.

The cartoon we published on Oct. 18 did not fulfill that aspiration. I take full responsibility and apologize for the decision to publish it.

Moving forward, we will work harder to maintain the highest standards of sensitivity and fairness on our pages that the readers of the Star-Telegram expect.

The open letter was penned by historian and author Michael Phillips, a reporter in Fort Worth in the late 80s. Phillips says a reduced version of it will run in the Star-Telegram on Wednesday. The alumni call out the depiction of the trans woman in the cartoon as well as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (who was drawn wearing a headdress), saying the former “reduced the entire community to a punchline” while the latter “is nothing more than redface minstrelsy.”

Here is the letter in full:

Booster

Diego Netto, a member of the Sharks in Plano West Senior High School’s 2007 production of West Side Story, is better known for co-founding Booster, a multimillion-dollar fuel service company that brings the gas to your car. The concept—brought to life with the help
of Ross Perot Jr.’s AllianceTexas incubator—is simple: small tanker trucks deliver fuel directly to your car. There is no charge for the service, and gas rates are comparable to, if not cheaper than, the pump. They will also clean your windshield, inflate your tires, and replace your wiper blades upon request. How it works: Currently the service is limited to corporate parking lots and retail locations—places with a sufficient density of vehicles to make the service cost-effective, such as Frito-Lay, Fossil, and UTD. If your company is signed up, all you need to do is download the app and indicate when you’re ready to fill up. Booster CEO Frank Mycroft says the company hopes to expand to more locations in the area and, eventually, move beyond fuel. “I think the future that we get excited about is things getting delivered to a mobile address, a location that is convenient for you, convenient for the delivery provider, and more secure, more efficient,” he says. “For us, that’s a car. I can deliver things to your trunk almost as easily as
I could to your fuel door.”

Cherry

It took two Dallas businesswomen comparing the sad state of their manicures on a flight to San Francisco for inspiration to strike. Amber Venz Box, co-founder of rewardStyle, and Whitney Wolfe Herd, founder of Bumble, didn’t have the time or inclination to spend hours in the salon every week. But they wanted to look polished and professional. If you can’t bring the CEO to the pedicure chair, they figured, why not take the pedicure to the CEO? Or the stay-at-home dad. Or the mom-to-be. Or anyone, really, who would prefer to have the salon come to them. How it works: Select the services you would like (anything from a basic pedicure to a gel manicure), and enter your service location. A vetted technician (aka Cherry Pro) armed with a selection of Essie polishes will meet you there. All treatments are waterless, but you will need an accessible electrical outlet for gel treatments. Basic services start at $30.

In a press release for the season opener of Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel, which airs tonight at 9 p.m., HBO says they have exclusive police dash-camera and body-camera footage, as well as crime scene photos, that they have used to re-create the night 15-year-old Jordan Edwards was tragically shot and killed by Roy Oliver, a Balch Springs police officer. You can watch the preview below.

This was really cool. pic.twitter.com/Ej1dMzPyt3

— Bobby Karalla (@bobbykaralla) October 23, 2018