Jonathan Stickland, UPS will use Dallas trash, Frisco's population boom: Your Wednesday evening roundup

On a recent stormy night, inside the Capitol where he’d massacred countless ideas, some for good reason and others just to watch them die, the self-styled “bill killer” was finally hoping to pass one.  [Evening roundup]( 05/22/2019 By Chelsea Watkins Good Evening! Here is a look at the top headlines of the day. 🔎 Prefer the online view? It's [here.]( Texas Representative Jonathan Stickland District 92 (R-Bedford) listens to proceedings from his desk during the 86th Legislative Session at the Texas Capitol in Austin, Texas on Wednesday. (Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News) TEXAS LEGISLATURE ['No one has talked more and done less.' Texas tea party Rep. Jonathan Stickland becomes caucus of one]( On a recent stormy night, inside the Capitol where he’d massacred countless ideas, some for good reason and others just to watch them die, [the self-styled "bill killer" was finally hoping to pass one.]( "I’ve been waiting a long time for this moment," the man from Bedford said, pumping a single fist into the air. A whoop rang up from the back of the House as thunder rattled the chamber’s windows. "Seven years." "But the people of Texas have been waiting a longer time than I have." On the opposing dais gathered the other lawmakers, both Republicans and Democrats, united by a common trauma: Having seen the legislation they studied, drafted and nurtured for months stalled or scuttled by the bearded man across the floor. [So they did their best to torture Jonathan Stickland]( the tea party bombast from North Texas, who was explaining his ban on red light cameras. Also: The Texas Senate voted to expand medical marijuana law [amid worries that it will become 'the next opioid crisis.']( Pain & Profit: A giant insurance company argued that a [brain-damaged toddler and his mom are stifling its freedom of speech](. ADVERTISEMENT BUSINESS UPS plans to fuel its shipping fleet in part with Dallas' trash UPS is making what it describes as the largest purchase of renewable natural gas in U.S. history to fuel its shipping fleet. The shipping company is working with Clean Energy Fuels Corp., co-founded by Dallas oil and gas mogul T. Boone Pickens, to buy the equivalent of 170 million gallons of renewable natural gas to power its national fleet over the next seven years. The move is part of the company's mission to increase its consumption of alternative fuel to 40% by 2025. "We would've done it sooner had the supply been there," said UPS fleet procurement director Mike Casteel. UPS has been working on the infrastructure behind the renewable energy effort for years, investing more than $1 billion since 2009, according to the company.   American Airlines CEO: 'I don't know ... that any amount of marketing' [can calm traveler fears about flying 737 Max jets.](   Economy: Is there a recession ahead? [Yes, but probably not soon](.  EDITORIAL [Were the Founders in favor of immigration? Yes]( From the Dallas Morning News editorial board: In the Rose Garden last week, President Donald Trump unveiled his administration’s long-awaited immigration-policy overhaul, designed by his son-in-law Jared Kushner to unite Republicans on the issue before 2020. The president, in a rare display of eloquence, said he wants the U.S. to "become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind." Wait a minute. [That was George Washington, America’s first president, the general and military strategist who led the colonies in a successful eight-year rebellion against King George.]( Our nation’s most heroic founder believed that immigrants "whatever nation" or station of life they may come from should be welcomed in the newly formed United States and allowed to "settle themselves in comfort, freedom and ease in some corner of the vast regions of America." What Trump said in the Rose Garden was this: "Democrats are proposing open-borders, lower wages, and frankly, lawless chaos. We are proposing an immigration plan that puts the jobs, wages, and safety of American workers first." So much for what Washington called the "persecuted part of mankind."  Commentary: President Donald Trump's promised 'unpredictable' [foreign policy is throwing off his own administration]( writes Carl P. Leubsdorf.   Commentary: Everybody hates switching to daylight saving time, [but the alternative is even worse]( writes David Prerau.  ADVERTISEMENT (Michael Hamtil/Staff Photographer) PHOTO OF THE DAY Officials will have to wait at least another day for the cleanup of several train cars that derailed Monday night in Old East Dallas. Four of the 14 cars in on the Dallas, Garland and Northeastern Railroad train, which was carrying a variety of materials, were leaning off the track. One of the train cars had isopropyl alcohol on board, but none of the hazardous material has been released and that car was secured, a company spokesperson said Tuesday. [No injuries were reported]( Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesman Jason Evans said. After 4 rounds of voting and 8,328 votes cast, we finally have a winner. [Click here to find out]( which restaurant won the Readers' Choice Best in D-FW: Best Brunch category. 🗳️ Enter to win two tickets to attend A Conversation with Martha Stewart. Get the whole scoop from Martha herself and hear how she went from a twenty-something model and stockbroker to the cultural icon we know today. Details: Winspear Opera House | May 29, 2019, at 7:30 p.m. [Click here to attend the conversation]( EDITORS' PICKS - Rosé all day: An organic French rosé wine for $13.99? [We're stocking up](. - Change of plans: High water will force some Dallas-Fort Worth lakes and parks [to close before Memorial Day](. - Crime: [A man trying to rob an apartment resident]( died in a shooting on SMU Boulevard in northeast Dallas. FINALLY... [Frisco is booming, but here’s what keeps its city manager up at night]( From metro columnist Sharon Grigsby: If you spend any time in Frisco — much less work, live or play there — it’s difficult to imagine this boomtown ever winding up in the trash heap of urban history. Yet that’s the doom-and-gloom scenario a recent Manhattan Institute policy director posed in his "North Texas must stop building disposable suburbs" essay, published a few weeks ago in The Dallas Morning News. Michael Hendrix, who grew up in Arlington in the 1980s and now works in New York, described Dallas-area suburbia as cities that "stagger on, zombielike, as bills pile up" [for aging roads, malls and housing because of bad design and even worse financial planning](. Hendrix also forecast that residents and business owners will burn through the best years of cities such as Frisco, Prosper and Flower Mound, [then forsake them for the next shiny locale.]( 👋 That's all for this afternoon! 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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