Comments on: Thursday Roundup: Wait, I Have a Blog?

By: El Rey

El Rey — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:05:17 +0000

I do some crimewatch duties in my part of Buckner Terrace and if you eliminate the Walmart shopping center on I-30 and Buckner and the apartments near Skyline High School, we have some of the lowest crime stats in the city. Needless to say, Buckner Terrace hates being lumped into the same statistical pool as Pleasant Grove.

By: Rawlins Gilliland

Rawlins Gilliland — Fri, 29 May 2009 04:20:33 +0000

Yours was an excellent EXcellent article. Beautifully diagramed. But Mr. McDaniel’s home on Southeast Dallas was several miles NORTH of ‘Pleasant Grove’ and in fact in Buckner Terrace (just south of RL Thorton / I-30). A common mistake but one I was counting on you not to make.

FYI: You might, for use going forward, want to check the map linked in the DMN editorial day before yesterday, Tuesday May 26th. I helped supply the data used to show the comprehensive breakdown on the SE Dallas neighborhoods and their approriate names; PG being the most southern and largest, Buckner Terrace SE Dallas’ most northern.

And on June 8th, my DMN Op-ED should also itemize and trace this 50 year old misuse of the name ‘Pleasant Grove’ as the generic colloquial name for roughly 20% of Dallas. When if fact PG was the first-to-be-annexed (after WW2) and remains the most southern PART of what is today properly called, ‘Southeast Dallas’.

By: Phillip J Hubbell

Phillip J Hubbell — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:00:57 +0000

Do car dealerships….those not closed because of their Republican donations…still put their names on the cars they sell? I seem to remember once having a car that had a Lee Jarmon Ford logo on the back….is that subject to towing? It is more of an advertisement than a Marine sticker or two.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:39:56 +0000

The Eleventy Billionth blog has more coverage of the HOA FAIL, including contact info for the association and its president.

By: The RPD

The RPD — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:57:04 +0000

Trey, we just want you to know that we’re watching you, and plan to pull you over, hoping you’ll resist so we can destroy your credibility. That’s how we roll in Richardson.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:34:02 +0000

James McDaniel is the worst kind of scum imaginable — the absolute bottom of the barrel — but I don’t see how providing a consenting adult a fatal dose of drugs (provided that they themselves administered it) is tantamount to murder, as some people seem to feel. (Not the prosecutors, in this case, it would seem, at least formally; and yet that’s the angle they appear to be working.)

Unfortunately, with all due respect to the bereaved family, Meaghan made some very bad decisions that led to her own demise. It’s not like she couldn’t have, or wouldn’t have, found cocaine and oxycontin if it weren’t for James McDaniel. Almost certainly, in my mind, she OD’d and whomever she was with freaked out and dumped her body. That person is guilty of a serious crime, and has revoked his or her own status as a human, but there’s been no evidence that I’ve heard establishing James McDaniel as the culprit.

In short, it’s not so implausible to say he’s a scapegoat vis-a-vis the death of Meaghan Bosch. They’ll throw the book at him, though, on the charges they’re pursuing, and thank God for that.