A better Baylor, Trumpy Bear, Amazon's missed opportunity: Your Thursday evening roundup

November 15,  2018 By Wayne Carter and Todd Davis Good evening! Here is a look at the top headlines of the day. Prefer the online view? It's [here](. Baylor President Linda Livingstone, on the job for 18 months, sat down for an interview in Dallas on Tuesday. (Rex C. Curry / Speical Contributor) OPinion After its sexual assault scandal, has Baylor changed? Why I have hope From Metro columnist Sharon Grigsby: Eighteen months have passed since Baylor President Linda Livingstone took on what is among the toughest rebuilding programs in academia. Multiple investigations and lawsuits drag on. Wounds are still raw. Warring factions too often get the spotlight. Big personalities — among them Livingstone’s board bosses — cause trouble. Amid all the tumult, Livingstone has a school to run, academics to improve and funds to raise. And most important is making sure Baylor is now a safe campus for all of its students. Has Baylor University really changed? It’s too soon to know. But [I believe Livingstone is telling us the truth]( about the state of the school, and I believe in her ability to get my alma mater straightened out in the aftermath of its sexual assault tragedies. Watchdog: A Dallas man showed how to fight for a new city park, [but he will never get to see it.]( Editorial: Neighbor helping neighbor [is the secret to uniting North Texas.]( advertisement [ Business Amazon’s missed opportunity: Failing to put part of HQ2 in a red state From business columnist Mitchell Schnurman: Amazon has been an aggressive advocate for diversity. That includes providing strong support for immigrants, minorities, the LGBTQ community, people with disabilities, the military, women engineers and more. When the company was searching for a second headquarters, it made diversity a key issue. To achieve long-term success, Amazon said last year, the winning city must have a diverse population and a community that supports it. Does that also mean diversity in politics, geography and even home prices? Apparently not, because Amazon chose two locales — New York City and Washington — [that have a lot in common with its hometown of Seattle.]( Postgame analysis: Mark Cuban explains [why Dallas wasn't selected as Amazon's HQ2 location.]( Turnaround trials: J.C. Penney's sales dropped 5.4 percent, and its new CEO and CFO [said they need more time to assess the business.]( dallas Northwest Dallas deserves better than a gift from a gas station, but I'll take it From Metro columnist Robert Wilonsky: The city long ago should have done something to make the east side of Bachman Lake more accessible. The city long ago should've followed through with the recommendations of the 1999 Northwest Highway Urban Design Study, which offered a road map that "links neighborhoods to open space, provides a positive commercial identity and builds on the potential for redevelopment in the area." But the city didn't. And it was never going to for the foreseeable future. Because, for lack of a better reason, this is northwest Dallas. This is the land of the "leftovers," said council member Omar Narvaez, whose West Dallas district stretches into the Love Field area. Said Narvaez, "downtown and other areas are getting all the money." And development. And love. The best we can come up with is a gift from a gas station. [Read more about QuikTrip's trailhead]( Fair-weather customers: Rainy days hit State Fair of Texas in the coupon books, [as sales drop by millions](. What's up? A new Uptown Dallas [office tower project]( is in the works. advertisement [ (Ashley Landis / Staff Photographer) Photo of the Day A Christmas tree decorated with ornaments made by elementary school children is displayed in the courtyard outside a Christmas exhibit at The George W. Bush Presidential Center and Library on the SMU campus in Dallas. [The annual holiday exhibit opened Thursday and centers around the 2006 theme](: "Deck the Halls and Welcome All." As visitors walk through the center, they'll get a look at how different rooms in the White House were decorated that year. EDITORS' PICKS - "We wasted so much time:" Dozens of Fort Worth cops search all night for man's missing child, only to learn [she doesn't exist](. - A new look: [The Dallas Museum of Art](acquired 7 major artworks of the African-American south - No laughing matter: [Amy Schumer's Dallas show tonight is postponed]( after the pregnant comedian was hospitalized. - A final say: [The debate over TxDOT's remake]( of East Dallas' '3G' intersection intensifies. - Another shot at this: Three days after [Parker County authorities]( said a hunter shot a deputy, they now say the deputy was shot by his own gun. Finally... Yes, Trumpy Bear is real, and it's sold by a Dallas company Inside a Dallas warehouse are stacks and stacks of Trumpy Bears — great American grizzlies, teddy bears who fear nothing. Trumpy Bear, a teddy bear designed with a shock of blond hair and bushy eyebrows like President Donald Trump's, has been on the market since 2017, but it has become a sensation this week because of a Twitter post that went viral. A lot of people have wondered whether the widely shared commercial is a spoof, but its creators say Trumpy Bear is not a joke. [It’s a real product, sold by a real Dallas-based company, Exceptional Products Inc.]( Trumpy Bear may be based in Dallas, but its inventor is a New Jersey woman, V.L. Lange, who says she designed the bear in Trump’s image after he was elected. 👋 That's all for this evening! For up-to-the-minute news and analysis, check out [DallasNews.com](. Share the love! If you like this newsletter, please [check out our other newsletters here](. Do you have feedback? 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