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Wally Pryor

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  1. Ugh.

     

    Former Texas A&M walk-on Luke Laufenberg, son of ex-Cowboys quarterback Babe Laufenberg, died Thursday morning after losing a valiant fight to cancer. He was 21.

    Laufenberg had battled a rare form of leukemia, Burkitt, since being diagnosed with the disease the day after Christmas in 2017. Laufenberg was deemed cancer free in May 2018, but has dealt with further health issues since this spring.

    "Today we lost a son, a brother, a friend, and a warrior. Have never seen a person battle like Luke Laufenberg, but he lost his fight with cancer. He was truly inspirational. The hole in our hearts will never be filled. You are my hero. RIP my sweet Luke. See you on the other side," Babe Laufenberg wrote in a tweet Thursday morning.

  2. 4 hours ago, ChickenSandwich said:

    And that could have been done much cheaper in a much better location. 

    See Home Depot they already own on I35

    The Banister location may well end up being the optimal site, who knows?  Kitchen said at the council meeting on the 20th that upwards of 100 different sites, 30 owned by the city, were reviewed as possible locations for the first shelter.  Assuming Kitchen's #s were accurate, I would love to see what those sites were and how they were evaluated, at least the majority of them. 

    But that was another piece of this process that was just glossed over and wasn't going to happen, primarily because almost zero time was allocated to dialogue and discuss all the important issues at hand.   

  3. It's almost all about how the facility was shoved down the throat of the stakeholders.  There was literally almost no time to react, discuss and dialogue.  In early June the news outlets began reporting on the existence of a new shelter but the location was being kept under wraps.  On / around the 10th the location was divulged.   On the 20th (that's June) the location was approved by the city.   There may be a day or two +/- in either of those timeframes but they're about right.

    It's absolutely comical, and at the same time pathetic, that such a big decision was acted upon so quickly.  No one is contesting that the homelessness issue has to be addressed.  But the manner in which this particular piece was handled was and is a first-ballot induction into the city council's hall of lunacy.  

  4. 1 hour ago, Nicole44 said:

    RIP Cedric! You will be missed!

    RIP to his passenger, recent UT graduate Aamna Najam. T&P to family and friends of both. This just sucks. My heart aches for them both. 

    Two people lost their lives and thoughts go out to their loved ones. 

    The lady driving the van isn't getting off easy.   It doesn't sound like she did anything wrong but will still have to live with the accident for the rest of her life. 

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