The Dallas Morning News reported today that John McDaniel, a band teacher at a Colleyville Middle School has been arrested for soliciting a minor online and having an improper relationship with a student.  While this type of story pops up in the news pretty much on a daily basis, there are a couple of special notes about this one. First, John McDaniel was listed as Teacher of the Year going into the 2013 school year as printed in a school newsletter than has since been taken offline.  And secondly, the nature of McDaniel's relationship and actions with this teenage girl are really pretty shocking. From...


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Last week a new greenspace was opened in Downtown Dallas.  It is called Belo Gardens and I now get to walk through it each way, to and from, my weekly "Chick-fil-A Monday" lunch. It's a beautiful place.  Really an oasis of native trees, grass and flowers smack dab in the middle of concrete, well, everything...  It also features a fountain that grows out of the walkway.  The trick, cool thing about it is how it drains into the square blocks that make up the path without there being an apparent drain.  There a spaces just wide enough between them that the water falls away, almost mysteriously......


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