Leading Off

1. Read this DISD story, and your takeaway is “not a scandal,” standard accounting procedures, this is normal financial housecleaning that every company goes through. But most will just read the headline: “Audit may imperil Dallas schools’ bond vote.” If accountants out there want to correct me, please do so in the comments, but this appears to be nothing more than a new accounting company classifying items in a different manner than the previous accounting company.

2. I may have read this story, about how Texas can add a $5 surcharge onto the cover charge at strip clubs, too quickly, but I think that this story has made Annette Burrhus-Clay “really excited.”

3.  After 30 years of Republican representation, District 97 (southwest Fort Worth and Benbrook) elects a Democrat, Dan Barrett, to the Texas House. Barrett focused on the shenanigans of House Speaker Tom Craddick, while his (losing) opponent focused on illegal immigration. Hope stays alive.