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HUD emissary cabinet part of Ron Sims has quite the résumé, but what does any of it have to do with the Trinity River?

​Unintentionally waggish object in The Dallas Morning News today: “Council’s Frustration Spills Over,” by Rudy Bush on the Metro front, in which legislature part of standard value Ron Natinsky asks a emissary cabinet part of of the Department of Housing and Urban Development if he can assistance get the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers off the city’s behind on the emanate of Trinity River wharf repairs.

KVUE and KXAN down in Austin ran pieces final night about how the city of Austin unequivocally wants to keep Austin PD’s tip cop, Art Acevedo, one of the 6 finalists for the Dallas Police chief’s job. City officials have offering to strike his income to close to $200,000, which would have him the second-highest-paid arch in the state, at the back of Houston, to that he said, Nah. Acevedo was in locale yesterday for his pursuit interview, that did not go down like this. The KXAN inform follows.

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Clearly, Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo Really Wants Top Cop David Kunkle’s Gig

​Cleared out the TiVo final night after examination American Idol for DC9 and satisfied I only haven’t been examination sufficient of the CW of late. I had all longed for that the 14th cycle of America’s Next Top Model was set to premiere. And that, Friends, is unheard of in my reality-recapping world.

So …

Long story short: Tyra Banks and her posse slight down the list of wannabes from 49,308 to twelve in Los Angeles, with the tip dozen creation the outing to New York, where they’d encounter Lucky Number 13. Weird. Whatever. Doesn’t matter. What does? The 13th indication was nothing alternative than 22-year-old Ren Vokes from Grand Prairie, yet she was ID’d as a Dallas girl.

​Bike Friendly Oak Cliff was the initial locally to have discuss yesterday of the actuality Google Maps right away offers bike trails — that’s the immature line you see on the map at right. (Writes Jason Roberts, “It’s a great approach to see a birds-eye perspective of the route system, and will hopefully assistance when skeleton rise to finish the extensive bike/ped map for the city.”) But PC World blogger David Coursey, a Dallas native, takes one demeanour at the map and finds it incomplete and, for now, not wholly utilitarian — at slightest not compartment that immature line gets crowdsourced. For now, he writes …

My hometown, Dallas, Texas, has 365 miles of sealed bike routes on city streets and an additional 150 miles that have been unsigned. All were referred to by cyclists and I have ridden many of those miles myself. Google Maps doesn’t appear to know anything about these bike routes, display usually tangible bike trails in parks.

​KTVT-Channel eleven only sent word: The CBS affiliate, and KTXA-Channel 21, has a brand new headlines executive and clamp president, Adrienne Roark, who comes to Dallas from South Florida. Roark replaces Scott Diener, who was summoned to Cali in January and who, in 2007, replaced the not-well-liked Regent Ducas. The Google Machine tells us Roarke ain’t screwin’ around:

As a journalist, I am a storyteller, a tape deck of history, a couple in the world, a guardian of ethics and ideals, a defender, and a menial to the people in my community. As you can tell, I take this really seriously. I felt it vicious to share stories about what we face as journalists. You see most people right right away feel they do not need us. They have been wrong. Now some-more than ever, reporters have been needed; have been critical. We face an meaningful time right away and ahead. We need people who have been advocates for the voiceless, for the down trodden. That is what being a publisher means; to give voice to the voiceless; to quarrel for what’s right; to be an disciple for the people. This all might receptive to advice corny. But it’s what I believe, and what I live each day.

​First, my apologies to any one perplexing to entrance and leave comments on Unfair Park final night and in to the diminutive small hours of this sunrise — a company-wide server emanate led to a little astonishing downtime. But this conflict hire is, once more, entirely armed and operational again. For now. Far as you know.

If zero else, the mangle in the movement gave me the event late final night to review each final line in the council’s bulletin for today. And when I review this …

Back in Aug 2007 we destined your courtesy to a doc-in-progress about Robert Crawford — or, right, Bob as he’s well known in East Dallas and ’round downtown. (Schutze knows him as “Bob with the keyboard.”) Looks similar to the movie about the New Hampshire local and “spiritual savant” is eventually finished: Though we’ve nonetheless to get a list of movies personification in the USA Film Festival, which kicks off at the finish of Apr at the Angelika, Christina Hughes Babb records which it’s been supposed in to the fest. Here, then, the many new trailer.