1. Big news out of DISD. In the runoff election for the school board, Bruce Parrott beat incumbent Leigh Ann Ellis, and Bernadette Nutall bested Sally Cain. The election was decided by only 4,500 voters, but it looks to shake up the school board. The two new trustees are seen as being critical of the district’s administration and will change the balance of power on the board.
2. Speaking of the district’s administration, Patricia Viramontes, DISD’s executive director of information technology, was fired yesterday. No one is saying why she was let go, but the district’s annual financial report, released last month, pointed out that Viramontes’ IT system was a total mess. Too, critics had charged that Viramontes (who made $126,041) got her job through nepotism. Her husband is the district’s chief of staff, Arnold Viramontes.
3. There was much debate here yesterday about what constitutes the Knox-Henderson area, which the DMN identified as the location of a kidnapping. Well, the News is reporting that police are questioning three men in connection with the attack — which the paper now says happened in Old East Dallas. (Geographic matters aside, let’s hope the cops have the right guys. They need to go to jail for a very long time.)
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Another confounding quibble – most of that “Old East Dallas” area actually is zoned to North Dallas High School.
In fact the zone goes all the way down to I-30, which some of us oldtimers call R.L. Thornton: http://www.dallasisd.org/demo/schoolinfo/highzones2009/NorthDallas2009.pdf
This happened two blocks from Barcadia / Blue Collar / Louie’s / Cafe San Miguel. Knox Henderson? I guess it’s like calling Al Biernat’s “Highland Park.” It’s not, but it’s close enough.
#3. I was unable to find an appropriate segue for this.. but a recent DMN email ad pleads with me to return as a subscriber with the phrase “It’s a no brainer” featuring a character with a hole in its head. Is it just me? Or does this convey the idea that DMN readers have no brain?
The whole Knox/Henderson thing is a huge pet peeve of mine. Knox/Henderson is an exit on 75. Knox is on the west, Henderson is on the east. If I ask you where Tei Tei is, don’t tell me it’s on Knox/Henderson. It’s on Henderson. It’s not that difficult…