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    Let Me Sum Up

    City stops selling the golf course like a southern Dallas savior. Plus: EvilDing Dong makers!

    Eric Celeste
    Dec 10, 2012 | 9:10 am
    • Ty Webb asks his Caddyshack pals where he can spend a billion dollars nearby toget some good grub.
      fogsmoviereviews.com
    • Al Czervik and Mr. Wang are the sorts of developers who we assume would play around and then spend a billion dollars nearby.
      rottentomatoes.com
    • Mayor Mike Rawlings is now only pretty sure that some sort of development wouldprobably happen near or at least somewhat near the southern Dallas golf course.
      Mike Rawlings for Dallas
    • Hostess was reportedly taking money intended to go into employee pensions andusing it to cover operating costs.
      Photo courtesy of Hostess

    I know you’re sick of the golf course. I’m sick of it, too. But one more column to detail why I think it’s important to discuss it — not because the course isn’t a good idea, but because the way it’s being sold (and now unsold) is the epitome of bad urban planning.

    The Trinity Forest Golf Course, planned for an area of southern Dallas between near Loop 12 between I-45 and U.S. Highway 175, was initially touted as a win-win proposition.

    The city has to clean up the area anyway, so why not partner with some nonprofits and corporations and build a world-class golf course there, spending about what we would have to for the clean up.

    The idea that a golf course would magically spur development because Al Czervik and Mr. Wang played 18 on Sunday morning was always insane.

    Also, it was initially promised, this would help sell a neglected area to the sort of rich people who can make development decisions — the “if you build it, they will build it” plan.

    The first part of the plan makes total sense. Gotta spend money, sure, let’s put up a kick-ass course and get the rich North Dallas golfers to play there.

    It’s the second part that makes no sense. The idea that this would magically spur development because Al Czervik and Mr. Wang played 18 on Sunday morning was always insane.

    This was finally acknowledged yesterday in a DMN piece where Mayor Mike and others backed away from the grand pronouncements.

    Here’s the money section:

    Despite the talk of economic development, the proposal doesn’t include plans for resorts, expensive subdivisions along the fairways or even trendy mixed-use developments. Most of the adjacent property couldn’t be developed for various reasons, including the location in the floodplain.

    “To predict that [related development] right now, it’s naive at best and probably very unwise,” Rawlings said. “People will discover on their own what the right ways are to invest and develop that part of the city.”

    Economic incentives would be available, but Rawlings said the business community would need to take the lead in steering development.

    If this had been said from the beginning, no one would have had a problem. Because everyone knows the one thing that drives development is density (which is another way of saying “money”), not good intentions.

    Also, it’s fairly insulting to southern Dallas to suggest otherwise. It’s like telling the uncoordinated kid he’s doing fine at basketball as he watches shot after shot get slapped back in his face. Everyone wants southern Dallas development, but it needs to be organic, well planned, and realistic, like it does anywhere else in the universe. As the CEO of ClubCorp said of this plan: “It strikes me as more political than economic.”

    (As an aside: Good luck with trying to fund this with 400 high-dollar memberships alone. Ignore for a moment that recent feasibility studies have suggested that won’t work. Just realize no other new course in the U.S. is trying to make it with that model.)

    What sort of southern or central Dallas development plans make sense? The city-aided Jefferson Avenue redevelopment plan — a simple, welcome smart-growth idea — and Jack Matthews South Side expansion are good examples.

    They’ve been in the planning stages for years, they’re responding to the city’s organic growth patterns, and they’re not feel-good efforts that ignore financial reality. In other words, nothing like the golf course plan.

    Elsewhere
    Michael Young is leaving the Texas Rangers for Philadelphia, and the team is sad, says Evan Grant.

    The McKinney Avenue trolley says ridership has gone up since Klyde Warren Park opened. Last Thursday at 4 p.m. there were only three riders, but I believe ’em. And I do think ridership will increase once the new extension/loop is completed.

    The Wall Street Journalreports that Hostess was taking money intended to go into employee pensions and used it to cover operating costs (via the Dallas Business Journal). So not cool.

    Retweets
    No it is not, Josh.

    @ericceleste Couldn't have done it without your cheers. Worthy of a mention in Monday's Let Me Sum Up? runningblog.dallasnews.com/2012/12/the-ne… cc: @timmytyper

    — Josh O. S. Hixson (@BareFootHixson) December 10, 2012

    Snowacane finally ends!

    Oh well. RT @grantjnbc5: That's all she wrote.Snow has ended across #DFW.Still very cold though.Wind chills in teens!

    — FW Star-Telegram (@startelegram) December 10, 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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