Month: November 2004

Local election surprise of the night: Lupe Valdez — a lesbian Hispanic Democrat — was elected Dallas County sheriff.
I didn’t think Dallas County would be electing any Democrat sheriff any time soon, much less an out lesbian Hispanic one.

Apologies for the lack of posts. A technical problem prevented new posts from appearing for a couple days — they’re now below.
My story in today’s paper: “Wilmer-Hutchins schools weren’t on the ballot Tuesday. But they weren’t far from it. Outside polling places throughout the school district, a group of activists gathered hundreds of signatures on a petition to abolish Wilmer-Hutchins altogether.”

Yet Another Wilmer-Hutchins Story: Charles Matthews is out as superintendent of Wilmer-Hutchins schools, and his replacement says the Texas Education Agency probably will take over the district by the end of the month.

Sorry for the blog silence of late. Two stories of late:
– From Friday’s front page: You may remember this crabwalk.com global exclusive from Sept. 8: W-H accused of shredding files. Well, Wilmer-Hutchins Superintendent Charles Matthews (and an underling) were indicted for for felony document tampering on Thursday.
– From today’s paper: My column on the trouble with vision screening in public schools.