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    Let Me Sum Up

    John Wiley Price needs to chill. Parkland will hire a CEO when it is good and ready

    Eric Celeste
    Feb 21, 2013 | 9:50 am

    Let me tell you a story about being the bad guy. When I went to Atlanta for a year to run the weekly newspaper’s editorial side, I was the designated bad guy. It was pretty clearly laid out to me by higher-ups in the company: The paper is for sale, coming out of bankruptcy, there may need to be staff turnover, culture change is required, etc.

     

    I’m a big boy. I know what that meant: You’re not going there to be liked. You will probably have to fire people. It will be chaotic.

     

    All of those things came to pass. The paper was sold. Pretty soon after that, I left. Now they have a longtime staffer in my place, someone who is well-liked by the employees and readers. Bad guy’s job: completed.

     

     

      There won’t be a CEO for a while, because there is still more bad-guy work to be done. And no good candidate is going to take the job until that unsavory work is finished, or close to it.

     
     

    I tell you this as a prelude to answering County Commissioner John Wiley Price’s question that he asked this week, which was (paraphrasing slightly) the following: Why in the hell hasn’t a new CEO of Parkland Memorial been hired yet?

     

    Answer: Because the bad guy’s job is not yet complete.

     

    JWP was angry the other day, quizzing the Parkland board president on why it was taking so long to find a replacement for longtime CEO Ron Anderson.

     

    Two things about this. One, it’s not that I believe Price was really angry. He was grandstanding because he’s still ticked that the former board president, appointed by him and who had proven herself loyal to JWP over the years, was no longer there. So he likes to make it seem as though things are a hot mess right now.

     

    But JWP knows full well that, point No. 2, there won’t be a CEO for a while, because there is still more bad-guy work to be done. And no good CEO candidate is going to take the job until that unsavory work is finished, or close to it.

     

    What sort of work are we talking about? Well, that’s somewhat debatable. I’m not going to rehash the years of Dallas Morning News reporting on Parkland. (CultureMap also did an exclusive interview with the whistleblower.) Suffice to say, if you’ve got a vacation coming up, and you’re all done with the Fifty Shades series but not with the whole anal fisting narrative, you can read the paper’s entire patient-crisis series here. That’s not a value judgment on the series, which the hospital itself and D Magazine have criticized. I’m just saying, you know, you read it and you think about this scene.

     

    Just understand that because of those stories, and because of the hospital’s concurrent failures to show adequate patient-care oversight during federal inspections, the really unpleasant turnaround work is still being done. It takes time to restructure the bureaucracy, purge folks who are resistant to change, identify and eliminate systemic obstacles to providing acceptable patient care, reimagine the hospital’s relationship with UT Southwestern, rework and scale back the plans for a new building given money concerns, and so on.

     

    No new CEO is going to step into that hornet’s nest. Which is fine, because it’s better for everyone if the bad guy does all this dirty work. (Guys, really: The interim CEO is in place, but really everyone is taking their cues from the monitors who are ensuring the hospital meet federal patient-care criteria.) I’ve talked to folks who’ve been part of the CEO search committee, and none of them is surprised that it is taking this long, nor do they think the process should be sped up.

     

    “Who the hell would walk into that job without solid assurance that they could be successful?” one source told me. “I’m guessing that if any of the candidates are in negotiations with Parkland, they are demanding those assurances. I sure would.”

     

    So it’s going to to take time. Nothing wrong with that. The Parkland board has to get this hire right. Say what you want about former CEO Ron Anderson’s performance during the past decade (even D’s Wick Allison called for his ouster nine years ago), but for the first 20 years on the job, he was exactly what Parkland and the city needed. And remember: He turned the job down three times before finally taking it.

     

    So chill out, JWP. Let the bad guys do their dirty work. Then worry about which CEO you wanna hire. Because the best ones want to make sure they have at least a shot of being seen as the good guy.

     

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    We were busy. Cleaning our guns takes time.

     
     

    Backgrounder: Texas ranked 47th in voter turnout in 2012, 50th in 2010. For period 1978-2010, 49th. #triblive #txlege

    — Michael Li (@mcpli) February 21, 2013
     

     

    No good CEO candidate is going to take the job at Parkland until all the unsavory work is finished, or close to it.

      
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    Flood News

    More rain brings risk of further floods in Texas as death toll tops 80

    Associated Press
    Jul 7, 2025 | 6:01 am
    Death Toll Rises After Flash Floods In Texas Hill Country
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    With more rain on the way, the risk of life-threatening flooding was still high in central Texas on July 7 even as crews searched urgently for the missing following a holiday weekend deluge that killed at least 82 people, including children at summer camps. Officials said the death toll was sure to rise.

    Residents of Kerr County began clearing mud and salvaging what they could from their demolished properties as they recounted harrowing escapes from rapidly rising floodwaters late July 4.

    Reagan Brown said his parents, in their 80s, managed to escape uphill as water inundated their home in the town of Hunt. When the couple learned that their 92-year-old neighbor was trapped in her attic, they went back and rescued her.

    “Then they were able to reach their toolshed up higher ground, and neighbors throughout the early morning began to show up at their toolshed, and they all rode it out together,” Brown said.

    A few miles away, rescuers maneuvering through challenging terrain filled with snakes continued their search for the missing, including 10 girls and a counselor from Camp Mystic, an all-girls summer camp that sustained massive damage.

    Gov. Greg Abbott said 41 people were unaccounted for across the state and more could be missing.

    In the Hill Country area, home to several summer camps, searchers have found the bodies of 68 people, including 28 children, Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha said. Ten other deaths were reported in Travis, Burnet, Kendall, Tom Green and Williamson counties, according to local officials.

    The governor warned that additional rounds of heavy rains lasting into Tuesday could produce more dangerous flooding, especially in places already saturated.

    Families were allowed to look around the camp beginning Sunday morning. One girl walked out of a building carrying a large bell. A man whose daughter was rescued from a cabin on the highest point in the camp walked a riverbank, looking in clumps of trees and under big rocks.

    One family left with a blue footlocker. A teenage girl had tears running down her face as they slowly drove away and she gazed through the open window at the wreckage.

    Searching the disaster zone
    Nearby crews operating heavy equipment pulled tree trunks and tangled branches from the river. With each passing hour, the outlook of finding more survivors became even more bleak.

    Volunteers and some families of the missing came to the disaster zone and searched despite being asked not to do so.
    Authorities faced growing questions about whether enough warnings were issued in an area long vulnerable to flooding and whether enough preparations were made.

    President Donald Trump signed a major disaster declaration Sunday for Kerr County and said he would likely visit Friday: “I would have done it today, but we’d just be in their way.”

    “It’s a horrible thing that took place, absolutely horrible,” he told reporters.

    Prayers from the Vatican
    Gov. Greg Abbott vowed that authorities will work around the clock and said new areas were being searched as the water receded. He declared July 6 a day of prayer for the state.

    In Rome, Pope Leo XIV offered special prayers for those touched by the disaster. The first American pope spoke in English at the end of his Sunday noon blessing, saying, “I would like to express sincere condolences to all the families who have lost loved ones, in particular their daughters who were in summer camp, in the disaster caused by the flooding of the Guadalupe River in Texas in the United States. We pray for them.”

    Desperate refuge and trees and attics
    Survivors shared terrifying stories of being swept away and clinging to trees as rampaging floodwaters carried trees and cars past them. Others fled to attics, praying the water wouldn’t reach them.

    At Camp Mystic, a cabin full of girls held onto a rope strung by rescuers as they walked across a bridge with water whipping around their legs. Among those confirmed dead were an 8-year-old girl from Mountain Brook, Alabama, who was at Camp Mystic, and the director of another camp up the road.

    Two school-age sisters from Dallas were missing after their cabin was swept away. Their parents were staying in a different cabin and were safe, but the girls’ grandparents were unaccounted for.

    Warnings came before the disaster
    On Thursday the National Weather Service advised of potential flooding and then sent out a series of flash flood warnings in the early hours of Friday before issuing flash flood emergencies — a rare alert notifying of imminent danger.

    Authorities and elected officials have said they did not expect such an intense downpour, the equivalent of months’ worth of rain for the area.

    Kerrville City Manager Dalton Rice said authorities are committed to a full review of the emergency response.

    Trump, asked whether he was still planning to phase out the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said that was something “we can talk about later, but right now we are busy working.” He has said he wants to overhaul if not completely eliminate FEMA and sharply criticized its performance.

    Trump also was asked whether he planned to rehire any of the federal meteorologists who were fired this year as part of widespread government spending cuts.

    “I would think not. This was a thing that happened in seconds. Nobody expected it. Nobody saw it. Very talented people there, and they didn’t see it,” the president said.

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