Trump to visit El Paso, Dallas Fed focuses on digital divide: Your Wednesday morning roundup

 [Morning roundup]( 08/07/2019 By Mallorie Sullivan and Carla Solórzano Good morning! Here is a look at the top headlines as we start the day. 🌞 Weather: Mostly sunny and hot. High of 100. 🔎 Prefer the online view? It's [her]( A sign written to President Donald Trump at a makeshift memorial in El Paso calls for no more acts of racism, hate or terrorism. The president is scheduled to visit the city today. (Vernon Bryant/Staff Photographer) EL PASO SHOOTING [While some in El Paso not happy about Trump visit, others hope city can teach him something]( President Donald J. Trump is scheduled to visit this heartbroken city Wednesday, despite calls from many local residents and political leaders to cancel his trip. Ever since Saturday’s mass shooting carried out by a white supremacist from North Texas, some have blamed Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric for whipping up hatred.  [They fear his visit would only make it worse.]( "Stay home," said Pablo Lucero, 59, directing his words to the president "Don’t use us as your photo op. Your words have done enough harm. You’re not welcome. If you really want to come, apologize first." Lucero, along with an endless stream of residents impacted directly and indirectly by the shootings visited a makeshift memorial behind the El Paso Walmart Supercenter Tuesday, site of the massacre that left 22 people dead and dozens more injured.  Also: An El Paso high school [is mourning the death of a 15-year-old student]( who was killed in Saturday's Walmart shooting.   Commentary: The El Paso shooting dims the hope I draw from the diversity my children experience in Dallas ISD, [writes contributor Jennifer Wang](.  ADVERTISEMENT INVESTIGATIONS [U.S. senator calls Texas Medicaid contractor callous, orders more oversight to protect vulnerable patients]( The ranking member of the U.S. Senate health committee has complained for months about the Trump administration’s failure to look into Medicaid contractors that have reaped big profits while sometimes failing to provide crucial patient services. So last week, Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., called in the top boss of Centene, the nation’s largest Medicaid managed care company. He wanted to question the company about reports in The Dallas Morning News that its Texas subsidiary denied life-sustaining care to sick and disabled children — in one case, leaving a baby in foster care to suffer a catastrophic brain injury. [The meeting with longtime Centene CEO Michael Neidorff did not go well, according to Casey.]( "I thought they would try to persuade me that they were going to do better, but they didn't seem interested in that at all," Casey told ProPublica and The News in an interview. "I just couldn't believe it."  Also: Two University of Texas at Dallas professors [will not be punished by the school president]( for a credit transfer arrangement deemed inappropriate.  BUSINESS [Some residents don't have reliable internet access. The Dallas Fed wants to change that]( Dallas-Fort Worth is one of the country’s fastest-growing regions. It boasts a hot real estate market and is home to two dozen Fortune 500 companies. But on Tuesday, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas spotlighted a problem that jeopardizes the upward mobility of some of the region's residents: [a sharp divide between people who have access to reliable internet service and those who do not.]( About 160 city officials, nonprofit leaders, business executives and educators gathered at the all-day Digital Inclusion Summit in Dallas. The event focused on the importance of reliable, affordable, high-speed internet — and solutions that could help expand access to everyone. "When you look at broadband today, it is the tool of opportunity," said Hugh Miller, the city of Dallas' chief innovation officer. "And if you don't have affordable broadband that has a decent amount of speed, you are going to miss out on today's opportunities."  Also: American Airlines [is spending $90 million to put its name]( on the plaza outside the new Los Angeles Rams and Chargers stadium.   And: Self-driving trucks [are cruising down I-45 between Dallas and Houston](.  ADVERTISEMENT EDITORS' PICKS - Hot in here: [These are the hottest days of the year]( historically, in Dallas-Fort Worth. - Sports: Cowboys DE [Robert Quinn suffered a fractured left hand]( during Tuesday's practice. - Dallas City Hall: Dallas' growing number of [emergency medical responses have fallen far short of the national standard](. Texas DPS troopers make a traffic stop at Pennsylvania and Myrtle, near the intersection of Malcolm X Boulevard and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, in South Dallas on Thursday. (Smiley N. Pool/Staff Photographer) FINALLY... ['We don't want to be seen as the occupying force': Texas troopers, South Dallas find tentative peace]( From city columnist Robert Wilonsky: Monday night [brought another meeting at the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center about the state troopers dropped on South Dallas like an anvil.]( David Pughes, Dallas' acting chief of police until who knows when, was there with several other commanders and Jeoff Williams, a regional director of the Texas Department of Public Safety. So, too, was a small group of activists. The only thing missing were the gaggle of reporters who captured last week's tumult, which was borne of the mistrust that comes with having troopers suddenly camped on every corner in black and brown neighborhoods. This time, the made-for-TV drama was absent. The hourlong get-together was the calm after last week's storm, the reasonable after the rage sparked by Chief U. Renee Hall's decision to accept Gov. Greg Abbott's help in smothering a crime wave — and then remain mute about where the state troopers would go, what they would do, to whom they would answer. This was the first gathering of what activists and officials call a working group. South Dallas resident Daniel Davis Clayton, who organized the event moments after the conclusion of last week's raucous meeting, said participants wanted an open dialogue without worrying about having it transcribed or misinterpreted. He asked me to wait out in the hall. Afterward, Pughes said what Clayton and others later confirmed: It was a thoughtful, productive conversation. Pughes explained to them how the troopers landed in South Dallas — something Hall and Williams declined to discuss in early June. When crime began to spike in May — "when it exploded on us" — Dallas police officials began to examine the violent-crime data, said Pughes, who took over recently after Hall vanished for medical reasons.  👋 That's all for this morning! 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