Saturday Morning Update

You may have noticed that LTJ's website was down for a bit on September 10th. The outage was caused by network problems at GoDaddy that took down thousands of websites. GoDaddy has apologized and assured us that at no time was any information compromised.

Lewisville's Fighting Farmers beat Irving in football action tonight, 24-10 .

A federal district judge has dismissed a lawsuit by the family of 9 year-old suicide victim Montana Lance, against the Lewisville Independent School District. Here's a copy of the ruling, if you want to read it.*

There were bomb threats Friday at the University of Texas, and North Dakota State University.

A Keene police officer arrested a 77 year-old woman who refused to identify herself when asked during a traffic stop. I think she deserved to be arrested. The officer lost his cool, but he eventually would have had to take her under arrest, if a bit more calmly.

Recent news from schools in Lewisville.

State Farm is seeking to raise homeowners insurance rates by 20%. The Tea Party types will wail and screech if your local government tries to raise your property taxes a penny or two to pay for fire and police, or educate your children. But when your state government lets shit like this slide through, well that's when you hear crickets chirping. You tell me which one of these will hit your house payment more.

Lewisville Code Enforcement is fighting mosquitoes by searching for and treating stagnant water sources.

When people use the term "low information voter", what they mean is people like this.

Now THIS is a tell-off letter, written in response to this sanctimonious jackass.

Item 8 on the Flower Mound Town Council agenda for Monday night is a change to their Town Ordinance to allow residents to keep poultry in their yards. I hope Lewisville is next. We all need some yard hens out there eating bugs and providing us with fresh eggs.

Friends of the Lewisville Public Library used book sale is this weekend:

Friday    11-2  Early Bird Sale for City of Lewisville Employees
Saturday  10-5  Open to everyone
Sunday 1-5 Open to everyone
 
The sale is in the community room and can be accessed through the children’s section of the library. FLPL raises money to support the Library in many ways, including purchases for the children’s library, etc.
 
Voters in Denton County to need to check their voter registration. We've had reports of people having messed up records with the wrong precinct. This is not the kind of thing you want to discover on election day, but our readers all do what we recommend and vote early, right? So it’s prudent that everyone check their information either via the Voter Registration Database Search or by calling Denton County Elections Administration at (940) 349-3200.
 
It would be terrible to go to vote only to discover you can’t because of an error in your voter registration record.

Wells Fargo mistakenly tries to clean out a foreclosure - gets the wrong address - twice.

Video from the Doggie Dive-in, held recently at the Sun Valley Aquatic center, right before they shut down for the season.



* The "not for printed publication" refers to the use of a ruling as precedent for other cases by publishing it in the case law. Most appellate court decisions these days have that notation. The ruling is public record and published here because it is newsworthy.