Future Dallas: Making Strides, Facing Challenges. If you opened the plastic bag full of ads in Sunday’s Dallas Morning News, you found the special report. If not, it’s here, examining the state of Dallas 10 years after it published its “Tipping Point” report. The results then were that Dallas ranked poorly in crime, education, and economic growth. Ten years later, the DMN reports, we’ve improved in one area–public safety.
Where’s the Perot Museum’s Climate Change Exhibit? Well whoops. The nature and science museum’s VP of programs is saying that a 4-by-2.5-foot panel addressing the subject was lost before the museum opened. Now, more than a year later, they’re ordering a temporary panel be hung in the earth sciences hall while they wait for the permanent piece to arrive. Turns out they didn’t realize the panel was missing until reporters started poking around. Hmm.
Josh Brent Released From Jail. The former Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle served time for intoxication manslaughter following the car crash that killed his friend and teammate Jerry Brown. No word on whether he’ll try to be reinstated in the NFL.
Patient Abuse Reported at Parkland. In March, a psychiatric patient spat at nurses and was subsequently restrained and gagged with a toilet paper roll. It took more than three weeks for the hospital to report the incident. One of the nurses involved was also involved in a 2011 incident in which a psychiatric patient was restrained and died.
