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    Let Me Sum Up

    Big Tex or a mosquito as Texan of the Year? Brilliant! Plus: BOOMER

    Eric Celeste
    Dec 3, 2012 | 9:33 am
    • DMN columnist Steve Blow's nomination of Big Tex as Texan of the Year wassubversive and brilliant.
      Photo by David R. Tribble
    • Jacquielynn Floyd went with West Nile mosquito for Texan of the Year.
      Wikipedia
    • Nicole Small, CEO of the Perot Museum, is Michael Sorrell's pick for Texan ofthe Year.
      Photo by Spencer Jay
    • Gary Griffith, holding check at left, works to raise money for law and ordergroups like the Dallas Police Department and the DA's office.
    • Ron Kirk is set to golf today with President Obama and former President Clinton.

    The Metro columnists for the Dallas Morning News, Steve Blow and Jacquielynn Floyd, sparked much anger yesterday with their nominations for the DMN’s Texan of the Year — respectively, Big Tex and the West Nile mosquito.

    Blow’s column especially struck a nerve. No surprise that D Magazine editor Tim Rogers was appalled. “Steve Blow makes me embarrassed to live in Dallas,” Rogers tweeted. “This [column] actually appears in a major newspaper.”

    But when you’ve got Channel 8 reporter (and DMN cheerleader) Brett Shipp tweeting his incredulity (“Seriously?? […] Not enough true heroes in our state? BIG Tex?”), you’ve got issues.

    I disagree with the naysayers. I think the columns were wonderful. They were a brilliant, subversive mockery of the very idea of the award itself.

    This is a good thing. Because the paper should never again name a “Texan” of the year, for three reasons:

    1. The DMN doesn’t cover Texas. (You think it’s up on all the great candidates from Abilene?)
    2. Because of this, the award carries no weight. (Quick, who won last year? The year before? The year before? Remember the year the city of Houston won?)
    3. To once again reach a level of relevance, it must be proud to focus on Dallas.

    A Dallasite of the Year would be taken seriously and engage the community in the discussion. Blow and Floyd must know this and therefore made the most ludicrous choices available to bring into focus the absurdity of the current process and the enterprise.

    Who should win a Dallasite of the Year contest, then? There are a few good choices already in the pool of nominations. The paper is currently in the throes of a week-long ink-gasm over the opening of the Perot Museum, so Michael Sorrell’s choice of its CEO, Nicole Small, makes sense.

    Here’s my suggestion: Gary Griffith.

    Don’t know who that is? That’s because you’ve got the attention span of a teenager. Griffith is a Republican businessman, which means our voting records and bank accounts don’t align. He’s a former city councilman who for the past five years has been president of Safer Dallas Better Dallas, which works behind the scenes to raise money for law and order initiatives. (I’ve done a tiny amount of nonpaid consulting with the group.)

    Check out its website to see what the initiatives the group has started with Dallas Police Department, including funding DPD efforts in “hotspots,” the most-troubled crime areas in town. Or read today’s paper to see the latest effort it’s help engineer — funding the first year of a new Animal Cruelty Unit in the DA’s office.

    You won’t see Griffith’s name in many of the news stories about these efforts. That’s because he goes into the meetings with his partners and says, “What do you need to do your job better, and once we raise the money, we’ll make sure you get the credit.” I know — I’ve been in meetings where it’s happened.

    I think that’s one example of a Dallasite doing great work behind the scenes. I’m sure if the paper focused on its city and not its outsize ambitions in designing its award, its nomination process could find several more local people just as deserving. Pretty sure even its Metro columnists could do that.

    Elsewhere

    The DART blue line launches today. And, with it, another day of me wondering why I took light rail every day in Atlanta but am too lazy to do so here (even though I live above a DART station downtown).

    Former Mayor and current U.S. Trade ambassador Ron Kirk is set to golf today with President Obama and former President Clinton. Obviously, he is Golfer 3. (Joke for two people.)

    I said last week there was a scenario where Texas A&M would play BOOMER SOONER in the Cotton Bowl, and I was roundly mocked by my friends. So … suck it?

    If you missed Unfair Park's Joe Tone clarifying people’s problems with the southern Dallas golf course, please read it now.

    Retweets

    They don’t know when they’ll file, but if you’re not at the gate when they do, sorry, you missed it.

    #AmericanAirlines seeks more time to file bankruptcy plan bizjournals.com/dallas/blog/mo… via @dallasbiznews

    — Dallas Biz Journal (@DallasBizNews) December 3, 2012

    Also says if you tell him when you’re coming to the museum, he’ll sing a song and tie a balloon for you.

    Dallas Museum of Art's @maxandersonusa says the DMA is all about openness, conservation dallasnews.com/entertainment/…

    — Christopher Wynn (@christopherwynn) December 3, 2012
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    Animal News

    Hunt County man arrested for animal cruelty to puppy from Dallas

    Teresa Gubbins
    Jun 20, 2025 | 5:33 pm
    Jacob Paul Nichols
    SPCA
    Jacob Paul Nichols arrested for animal cruelty in Hunt County, Texas.

    On Tuesday, June 17, a resident of Greenville, Texas was arrested for animal cruelty after allegedly letting a puppy starve to death.

    According to a release, Jacob Paul Nichols was arrested and charged with Texas Penal Code 42.092, Cruelty to Non-Livestock Animals (b)(1) after allegedly torturing his puppy over a span of several months, causing unjustifiable pain and suffering which ultimately resulted in her death — a felony of the third degree.

    Nichols was located and arrested in Johnson County where he was booked into Johnson County Jail and held on a $200,000 bond.

    On June 6, SPCA of Texas’ Animal Cruelty Investigations (ACI) Unit Chief Investigator was contacted by the ever-diligent Hunt County Sheriff’s Office in reference to a deceased puppy that was discovered inside a dumpster at a Greenville apartment complex.

    The small tan puppy was found lying on her side in a medium-sized crate. She was emaciated and had sharp, overgrown nails.

    An SPCA of Texas Investigator took the puppy to the SPCA's Russell E. Dealey Animal Rescue Center for a forensic necropsy. The exam showed the puppy was 5.5 months old and weighed only 7.6 pounds when she died. She perished due to long-term starvation and dehydration, and had suffered for a prolonged period of time.

    The puppy had a microchip, which revealed that she had been adopted by a Dallas resident from a North Texas animal shelter in January 2025. The puppy, named Sandy, was rehomed to Nichols on February 13 through a rehoming website that allows potential adopters to be screened prior to rehoming. (The release does not identify the adopter or explain why the adopter was dumping the puppy after only a month of ownership.)

    Nichols signed a contract stating that he agreed to “care for the pet in a humane and responsible manner and to provide him/her with clean and adequate shelter, food, water and veterinary care.”

    The SPCA of Texas ACI Unit confirmed with Nichols that the dog had been in his care. Interviews with Nichols and other witnesses revealed evidence that the dog had been neglected over a span of months and left to die in the crate without food or water.

    “No animal deserves to suffer in silence the way this puppy did. The evidence indicates that she was trapped, neglected and ultimately starved to death over a span of months,” said SPCA of Texas’ ACI Unit Chief Investigator Courtney Burns, CAWA. “The level of cruelty in this case is staggering, and the SPCA of Texas and Hunt County Sheriff’s Office are committed to ensuring justice is served.”

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