Trump's Phoenix rally, Dallas Animal Services, Central Market buys land in Oak Cliff: Your Wednesday morning roundup

August 23,  2017 By Nicholas Friedman Good morning! Here is a look at the top headlines as we start the day. 🌦️ Weather: [Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance for scattered showers and storms.]( Low: 76 degrees. High: 90 degrees. 🔎 Prefer the online view? It's here. U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a "Make America Great Again" rally in Phoenix, Arizona, on August 22, 2017. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP Photo) politics Trump threatens government shutdown over border wall, hints at pardon for Sheriff Joe President Donald Trump [threatened a government shutdown]( to force Congress to fund construction of a border wall, using a raucous Phoenix rally on Tuesday night to blast the news media and insist that he hasn't gotten credit he deserves for denouncing neo-Nazis. His defense of his comments about a violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., glossed over the fact that he also assigned blame on "many sides" -- setting, in the minds of critics in both parties, a moral equivalency between those chanting anti-Semitic and racist slogans and protesters who turned out to oppose them. For more on Trump's Phoenix rally, [head here.]( Also: Stay away from Cancun, Los Cabos, [State Department warns U.S. travelers]( Advertisement Isabella greets a visitor through the window of her pen at Dallas Animal Services, 1818 N. Westmoreland Road in Dallas, which is getting a new director. (Louis DeLuca/Staff Photographer) dallas Dallas has new top dog to lead Dallas Animal Services Ed Jamison, the former chief animal control officer for Cleveland [will be heading up]( the Dallas Animal Services Department as its new director, the city announced today. The announcement comes after a nationwide search by the city whittled down the finalist to six top candidates last month. The position has been filled in the interim by Deputy Police Chief Rob Sherwin and police Maj. Barbara Hobbs, the latter of whom was a finalist for the permanent position. Jamison told The Dallas Morning News that animal welfare is tough no matter where in the country someone is, but Dallas appealed to him because “I don’t want to walk into a place that has it all figured out.” And: Plano lawmaker Van Taylor [officially starts GOP bid]( to replace Sam Johnson in Congress. Also: Capital murder indictment [reveals new details]( in killing of Plano woman. Central Market opened a store at the corner of Preston Road and Royal Lane in Dallas in 2012. (Regency Centers) business Exclusive: H-E-B's Central Market buys land in Oak Cliff H-E-B’s Central Market [has its sights set]( on Oak Cliff’s Bishop Arts District, as the specialty grocer bought property at the northeast corner of West Davis Street and North Beckley Avenue. The company’s director of public affairs said the purchase was made “in anticipation of our future expansion needs.” While some might imagine an Oak Cliff Central Market on the horizon, there are currently no firm plans to develop the property, but the company made clear that if it was used in the future, it’d be for Central Market -- not H-E-B. Commentary: Neighborhood segregation in America [didn't happen by accident](. Oh look! Here's the vacant lot where Dallas City Hall [flushed $5M]( chasing Trinity toll road. Advertisement Bowling for Soup lead singer Jaret Reddick records the newest episode of his podcast "Jaret Goes to the Movies" at his home in Prosper. (Jason Janik/Special Contributor) Photo of the Morning A popular Dallas-Fort Worth-based podcast combines The Howard Stern Show and Siskel & Ebert. And it [comes from a famous North Texas guy](: Jaret Reddick, of the pop-punk band Bowling for Soup. In "Jaret Goes to the Movies," Reddick and co-host Rich Coleman discuss a movie while irreverently discussing their own lives. Around The Site - The fight: Here’s where [you can watch]( the Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor UFC fight in Dallas-Fort Worth. - Name the game: Naming rights for ballpark in Frisco up for grabs after Dr Pepper [pulls back.]( - Making fun: Cowboys O-lineman Joe Looney [absolutely nailed]( his Dak Prescott, Ezekiel Elliott impressions. - Voting: A challenge to Texas high school principals -- [register your seniors to vote.]( - Sentenced: A former Fort Worth high school teacher [has been sentenced]( to 20 years in federal prison on a child-porn charge. - Unsolved: Widow of slain Dallas man [searches for answers]( to who shot her 'first and only true love'. - Police shooting: Fort Worth police [shoot man]( who they said had knife while standing in traffic. The Carter High School and Oak Cliff community watches the premier of "What Carter Lost," an ESPN 30 for 30 documentary about Carter's legendary 1988 football team, at the Texas Theatre in Dallas. (Tom Fox/Staff Photographer) Finally... The Dallas Morning News culture critic Chris Vognar [takes a look]( at When Carter Lost, an ESPN 30 for 30 film about the beleaguered 1988 Carter High School football team, which airs this Thursday on the network. “The task for most documentaries is pretty simple. Find the story, and tell it with a degree of suspense and humanity,” Vognar says, but What Carter Lost faces a different challenge: finding a way to tell two tragic, interconnected stories about the same subject. Advertisement 👋 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? Send your thoughts, questions, praise and corrections to [newsletter-feedback@dallasnews.com](mailto:newsletter-feedback@dallasnews.com?subject=). 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