From attempts to legislate who goes into what bathroom to strident anti-immigration efforts, the worry is rising in Texas boardrooms that those who hold power have lost sight of what is good for Texas' economy. It isn't just about social issues, either.

The doors are finally locked -- at least for now -- at J's Food Mart, the staging ground for much of the crime that has infested the Whitehurst-Skillman area of Lake Highlands. The convenience store's interior is empty of everything but a few bare coolers, and its parking lot is clear of sketchy loiterers and open-air drug deals.

Another vulnerable girl duped on the internet into a relationship with a man who, in turn, sold her body time and time again. But this particular story had a twist, a twist that should give us hope that the scourge of human sex trafficking - a scourge that is all around us in Dallas - is something we can fight and we can defeat.

Women are making more progress these days as politicians than as conductors of orchestras and opera companies. But the Dallas Symphony Orchestra has announced new initiatives to appoint female principal guest conductors and composers-in-residence.

About 50 volunteers and approximately $52 million worth of equipment and resources arrived at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center mid-October to start building SCinet. Volunteers unpacked, inventoried, installed, configured, and tested all equipment and prepared to move the equipment racks into the Dallas Convention Center.

At 3:25 a.m., officers were called to a wreck at the intersection of Regal Row and John W. Carpenter Freeway in Dallas. Investigations revealed that vehicle one was traveling southbound on 9300 John W. Carpenter Frwy when vehicle two collided with vehicle one's right passenger side, forcing it to spin.