Links on Sunday Afternoon

An LHS Killough North 9th grade student was caught with an unloaded gun at school on Tuesday.

The Star Telegram has a great set of photos of the new DCTA trains and maintenance facility.

Cross Timbers Gazette says The Town of Flower Mound has come out on top in its battle with Mockingbird Pipeline and Williams over easement condemnation and rule 37 encroachment of Town minerals.

Former Williamson County prosecutor, Ken Anderson, now a district judge, is accused of prosecutorial misconduct after he hid clearly exculpatory evidence that resulted in an innocent man being sent to prison for 25 years in a wrongful conviction for the death of his wife.

Lewisville ISD Superintendent Dr. Steve Waddell sat with some LISD middle school students to answer questions about fine arts. The videos are also an opportunity for students to learn video production.


George Will goes after Republicans for their rhetoric on Defense:

"The U.S. defense budget is about 43 percent of the world’s total military spending — more than the combined defense spending of the next 17 nations, many of which are U.S. allies. Are Republicans really going to warn voters that America will be imperiled if the defense budget is cut 8 percent from projections over the next decade? In 2017, defense spending would still be more than that of the next 10 countries combined.

Do Republicans think it is premature to withdraw as many as 7,000 troops from Europe two decades after the Soviet Union’s death? About 73,000 will remain, most of them in prosperous, pacific, largely unarmed and utterly unthreatened Germany. Why do so many remain? "