Leading Off (3/6/12)

New Development in John Wiley Price Case. It happened back in December, but ABC Channel 8 is reporting that federal agents intercepted a $50,000 payment to Price from a local contractor in a transaction that government records list as an “unlawful activity.”

Woman Makes Most-Wanted List. For the first time in a decade, a woman has made the Texas 10 Most Wanted list. Keep your eyes peeled for 33-year-old Damesha Roshun Traylor. She’ll be hard to miss. She’s 5 foot 4 and weighs 270 pounds. Also, she has “Sexy D” tattooed on her right wrist. And she has a tramp stamp that says “Playa Made,” which I was totally going to get until I found out Traylor already had it.

Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher Gives Wall Street a Tongue Lashing. I find a couple of things interesting about this Forbes account of Fisher’s “unusually blunt and frank speech” in which he said Wall Street has become “hooked on the monetary morphine” that the Fed delivered during the financial crisis. First, the writer, Agustino Fontevecchia, calls Fisher “slightly arrogant.” Second, as an aside, Fontevecchia mentions that Fisher owns $1 million in gold and $250,000 in platinum. I wonder if he keeps it in his sock drawer.

Radiohead Debuts New Song. Did you miss the Radiohead show last night at the AAC? Here’s a video of the band performing a new song called “Skirting the Surface.”