1. It’s too much for me to handle. First the Stars give Mike Modano the boot. Then Mike Snyder signs off from Channel 5 after 30 years. It’s too much change. Next I suppose you’re going to tell me that Tom Hicks will get out of the sports business.
2. Funeral-gate continues. Now the city has hired an independent investigator to figure out who’ll pay for the decision to provide police escorts for the funeral procession of Chief David Brown’s son (who, of course, had killed a cop). James Ragland makes the observation that the city manager and the police chief have a big mess on their hands. Indeed.
3. Speaking of cops in trouble, Officer Jeffrey Thorn was accused of sexually assaulting a woman while he was on duty. Now he’s no longer a cop.
4. You’ll recall that Rep. Linda Harper-Brown has been taking heat for driving a car owned by a company that does business with the state on issues Harper-Brown has worked on. Well, now she says she is no longer driving the car. I like Democratic Party spokesman Russell Langley’s take: “She can’t undrive the car and think that the taking of it in the first place was ethical or legal. She can’t unring the bell, undrive the Mercedes, or unaccept a bribe.”