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Leading Off (2/4/21) The stench of urine makes facts hard to follow. By Kathy Wise Published in FrontBurner February 4, 2021 4:39 am Dallas City Council Considers Code Amendments to Crack Down on Panhandlers. Nobody likes urine in the median, but that’s about where the clarity and consensus stopped during yesterday’s council briefing. According to the Dallas Morning News, city staff received 500 complaints about people asking for money last year. Just over half of the complaints came from the city’s four northern districts, although the majority of the incidents occurred along three ...

Leading Off (1/21/21) Get your walk in early today. Things won't get prettier. By Kathy Wise Published in FrontBurner January 21, 2021 5:30 am In One of His Last Presidential Acts, Trump Commutes Sentences for Dallas Attorney’s Two Clients. Brittany K. Barnett, a former corporate attorney with Winstead and former associate general counsel with Orix, co-founded The Buried Alive Project to obtain clemency for nonviolent drug offenders who have been sentenced to life without parole under outdated federal laws. You can hear Terry Gross’ fascinating interview with her here. Barnett found out ...

Montgomery County COVID-19 Statistics for Jan. 13, 2021 The Maryland Department of Health reported 353 new COVID-19 cases in Montgomery County Wednesday morning. The county’s cumulative case count is 52,368. Montgomery County recorded 14 new coronavirus-related fatalities Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 1,160. Coming nearly three weeks after Christmas, this number of deaths reported in a 24-hour period is the highest during the second wave of the pandemic. The same pattern was seen three weeks after Thanksgiving last year, when on Dec. 17 the county reported 14 deaths. As of Wednesda...

Novel Coronavirus In Nevada: Tuesday, January 5, 2021 6:12 p.m. | January 5, 2021 Washoe County Reports 24 COVID-19-Related Deaths Since Start Of New Year There have been two dozen COVID-19 deaths in Washoe County in just the first five days of the new year so far. More than 500 lives have been lost since the start of the pandemic in Washoe County, and more than 3,200 statewide. Over the last two weeks, there have been an average of 1,600 new daily cases in Nevada and the test positivity rate remains high - at around 20% - and has for about a month. There are nearly 1,900 pat...

Leading Off (12/10/20) Clear skies and a high of 79 today. Rain comes tomorrow. By Kathy Wise Published in FrontBurner December 10, 2020 5:26 am City Council Approves $8 Million for Ammo, Tear Gas, and Rubber Bullets. The money allows the city to enter into another 5-year agreement with law enforcement equipment company GT Distributors Inc. Council members Lee Kleinman and Adam Bazaldua were the only two to vote against the proposal. Kleinman cited concerns about the federal TRO that was issued over the summer banning the city from using less-lethal weapons on protesters, and he questioned t...