Five stories that have North Texas talking: Whole Foods sells rabbit meat, but not in Texas; T-shirts feature Gov. Perry鈥檚 mugshot; a look back at the first day of school; and more.
Rabbits have long been cute and cuddly 鈥� and they鈥檙e starting to appear on dinner plates. Austin-based Whole Foods is generating controversy for selling rabbit meat at select stores across the country. There have been protests in recent weeks. Earlier this month, House Rabbit Society staged demonstrations at dozens of Whole Foods, Rabbit meat isn鈥檛 sold at Whole Foods鈥� stores in Dallas-Fort Worth or Texas, a spokeswoman told 四虎影院. 鈥淲hole Foods, which offers about half of its 373 U.S. stores the option of selling rabbit, said it 鈥� has no plans to stop selling the meat,鈥� Reuters says. More than 17,000 people have that asks Whole Foods to stop selling rabbit. Whole Foods says it鈥檚 developed standards based on four years of study to address 鈥渨elfare issues in rabbit production.鈥� Rabbits are becoming more popular on dinner plates, 鈥淚n an era when game meats and nose-to-tail eating are redefining fine dining as food sport, rabbit is both familiar and exotic enough to appeal,鈥� the Times says. KUT, Austin鈥檚 NPR station, In other Whole Foods news, the company will no longer accept personal checks in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas starting Labor Day,
- Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins鈥� spending of government funds is being questioned yet again. he spent more than $18,000 in state asset forfeiture funds last year to pay his legal bills 鈥� and some are questioning whether that鈥檚 legal. John Helms, a former federal prosecutor, that it 鈥減ushes the envelope鈥� and that the DA鈥檚 office should have gone to the attorney general for its opinion. The DA鈥檚 office said Watkins has 鈥渂road discretion鈥� over using the forfeiture funds and he did 鈥渘othing illegal or improper.鈥� The legal bills came after Watkins was in court and was held in contempt for 鈥渞efusing to answer questions about allegations that his office indicted an oil heir in order to benefit a friend and longtime political benefactor.鈥� News of the $18,000 expenditure comes after WFAA first reported that Watkins used $50,000 from the asset forfeiture fund to pay a settlement over a car accident that he caused while driving a county-owned vehicle. that Watkins' office spent more than $32,000 on "outside counsel in the fiscal year ending Aug. 31, 2013."
- Gov. Rick Perry鈥檚 smiling mugshot ricocheted across the internet last week 鈥� and now it鈥檚 on a T-shirt. RickPAC, the governor鈥檚 political action committee, , which features Perry鈥檚 mugshot and says he鈥檚 鈥渨anted鈥� for 鈥渟ecuring the border and defeating Democrats.鈥� The back of the shirt features an earlier mugshot of Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg. She had been arrested for drunken driving. The shirt says she鈥檚 鈥済uilty鈥� of 鈥渄riving while intoxicated and perversion of justice.鈥� Read more
- Monday was the first day back at school for most North Texas students. A team of 四虎影院 reporters hit the streets to capture the big day. Stella Chavez explored what it was like DoualyXaykaothao profiled Bill Zeeble featured a . And Dianna Douglas chased after an energetic Here鈥檚 a look back at the And the teachers are nervous, too 鈥� we who鈥檚 not new to teaching but is new to Dallas.
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- Lake Highlands鈥� St. Vincent gets more publicity, this time from across the pond. She told GQ about a 鈥淚 just read a book called Love Me Back by a woman from Dallas, Texas called Merritt Tierce. It's excellent. It's fiction but it seems to be cut pretty close to her life: she talks about her life in the food service industry (which sounds like it could be a very boring premise) but it's an awesome book. It's especially poignant for me reading it because I knew every restaurant she was talking about in Dallas: they remind me of a time in my life. I remember when you were 14 and you'd used to go to [Chili鈥檚] to hang out on a Friday night and think it was very wild. All the tchotchke Americana on the walls: amazing!鈥�
