How Dallas leaders plan to solve poverty, Sharon Grigsby on Plano Tomorrow lawsuit: Your Wednesday morning roundup

November 28,  2018 By Dom DiFurio and Carla Solórzano Good morning! Here is a look at the top headlines as we start the day. 🌞 Weather: Sunny skies. High around 70 degrees. 🔎 Prefer the online view? It's [here](. Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings discussed the Mayor's Task Force on Poverty on Tuesday at the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library. (Ryan Michalesko/Staff Photographer) Dallas Here's how Dallas leaders plan to deal with the third-worst child poverty rate among major U.S. cities Nearly one in three Dallas children — more than 115,000 kids — grow up in poverty. But [some of the city's biggest public and private organizations want to cut that number in half]( within the next two decades. During a meeting of his Task Force on Poverty on Tuesday, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings unveiled a new nonprofit, the Child Poverty Action Lab, created solely to address that issue. The effort, born in part from the task force and Rawlings’ GrowSouth initiative, will take a similar approach to other collaborations pushed by the mayor in recent years to address homelessness, education issues and other problems. CPAL aims to combine the clout of leaders and CEOs from nine of the city’s major institutions and systems — including the City of Dallas, Dallas ISD, Parkland Health and Hospital System, and Dallas Area Rapid Transit — with other partners working on different aspects of poverty across Dallas. Also: Former Dallas City Attorney Larry Casto [wants to be future Dallas Mayor Larry Casto](. And: Longtime Dallas diocese leader and ['witness to history' during JFK assassination dies at 90](. opinion Plano deserves answers after Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office pulls support in Plano Tomorrow lawsuit Columnist Sharon Grigsby: For a moment, Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office appeared to be taking a righteous stand in Plano’s legal fight with residents over the city’s comprehensive development plan. Until [less than 24 hours later when the AG’s office offered a new opinion](: never mind. In an unusual change of heart, Paxton’s legal team filed a motion Nov. 20 to withdraw an amicus curiae brief it had submitted just a day earlier to the Texas Supreme Court on Plano’s behalf. All Paxton’s office will say about the brief is the few words contained in the filing — that it was “erroneously submitted.” I asked a spokeswoman to elaborate, and she replied by email, “The filing speaks for itself.” If that’s the case, the attorney general’s operation doesn’t look too sharp. [Read Sharon Grigsby's full column hereÂ]( Editorial: [Dallas may have laid out its best plan yet to fight poverty](, and the country should take note. Commentary: Dallas drives our region’s success, [but we need these tools to keep growing](. courts Novus co-founder reaches plea deal with prosecutors in $60 million health care fraud scheme The former vice president of marketing and co-founder of a shuttered hospice company [has reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors for his role in a $60 million health care fraud scheme](. Samuel Anderson has agreed to plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, according to court documents. Anderson was one of the co-founders of Novus Health Services and of Optim Health Services, which essentially operated as one company with the same employees and an office in Frisco. He is the seventh defendant in the criminal case to reach a plea deal. Nine others are tentatively set to go to trial in federal district court next year. They are accused of defrauding the government of more than $60 million by submitting false claims for hospice services to Medicare and Medicaid, recruiting people who were ineligible for hospice care and falsifying and destroying documents. In some cases, investigators allege, patients got high doses of medication to hasten their deaths. Also: A federal judge in Fort Worth ruled in favor of a fossil enthusiast in a trial deciding whether [a large dinosaur skull should remain with him or be returned to Mongolia](. And: A Texas man was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in prison after he [threatened a mass shooting during an NFL game in Pittsburgh](. EDITORS' PICKS - Oklahoma: Once dubbed 'America's most beautiful city,' [Tulsa is now offering $10K if you'll move there](. - Food: Lark on the Park [is the latest Dallas restaurant to close](. - UT vs. A&M? A Texas lawmaker is doing his part [to restart the state's biggest dormant football rivalry](. - That's ruff: [A microchip mix-up has lead to a custody battle over a corgi-Chihuahua pup]( in an Addison shelter. - Sports: New Kansas coach Les Miles [was involved in football-related discussions with UT-Arlington](. - Holiday shopping: Some North Texas malls confirmed shoppers were in a spending mood, [reflecting more disposable income](. (From left) Eugene Treadwell, Monique Patricia Stone and Hannalore Rosinki Finally... DNA testing allows Dallas woman to find her birth family after 50-year search From Norma Adams-Wade: Dallas resident Monique Patricia Stone says she felt she didn't know who she really was until she completed a more than 50-year search for her birth parents. That journey [reached another plateau a few days before Thanksgiving](, when more than 20 members of her newly discovered birth family gathered for dinner at a relative's home in Dallas. The new family plans to gather Dec. 23-24 at a relative's home in Lockhart. Stone has documented her search and life experiences and uses them to inspire others trying to fill a missing link in their past. Piece by piece over a half-century, Stone, now 60, learned that her birth name was Ulrike Elisabeth Rosinke and that she was born in 1958 to a black soldier, Eugene Treadwell, and a white German mother, Hannalore Rosinki, in Aschaffenburg, Germany. [Read the full story here]( 👋 That's all for this morning! For up-to-the-minute news and analysis, check out [DallasNews.com](. Share the love! If you like this newsletter, please forward this email to a friend and [check out our other newsletters here](. Do you have feedback? 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