C'mon Get Happy

Doesn't add up: David Fryar, hired to lead DISD's new one-man Office of District Integrity, quits after the Morning News reveals that he claimed on his résumé to be a certified public accountant despite having his CPA license revoked in 1996. Fryar was hired in response to the scandal involving the district's lax oversight of credit card use. Superintendent Hinojosa announces the creation of a new division to oversee the hiring of the new integrity officer. It will be called the Office of Let's Stop Doing All This Stupid, Embarrassing Shit.

Set them free: The county auditor's office reports that the Sheriff's Department paid $9.4 million in overtime last fiscal year to staff its overcrowded jails. Sheriff Valdez blames the record high costs in part on paperwork errors that resulted in 27 jailers being mistakenly locked in the Lew Sterrett Justice Center for six weeks over the summer.

Cheap shot: SMU becomes the likely home of the future George W. Bush presidential library as the president and first lady enter into "exclusive" discussions with the school. Some SMU faculty members fear the link to the Bush administration might mar the school's standing as a nonpartisan institution, but administrators dismiss their concerns. "With the Kennedy monument downtown, the Bush library is a natural for Dallas. Now we'll have two facilities honoring brain-dead chief executives," a school spokesman says.

Jim? Jim who?: Weeks after the U.S. Justice Department issues a scathing report about poor inmate health care, understaffing and overcrowding at the Dallas County jail, Democratic County Judge-elect Jim Foster gets a first-hand look at the problem during a tour led by Sheriff Valdez. Foster vows to make fixing the jail's woes a top priority for his administration. Valdez in turn, promises to locate and free the MIA Foster from the jail in time for his swearing-in this month. "We know he's still in here somewhere; we just misplaced him somehow," Valdez says.