DTX-KRN: Impact 11/6/2025

A typo is at the forefront of an issue at the Tarrant Appraisal District.

A special meeting was called Nov. 3 by Chair Rick Barnes, who is also Tarrant County’s tax assessor-collector, regarding vote misallocation in the 2024 entity election.

A four-hour meeting ended with the board voting to hire an independent third-party to investigate any irregularities surrounding the 2024 and 2025 elections.

A motion was made to terminate Chief Appraiser Joe Don Bobbitt, but without a second, that motion died.

What happened? Eric Crile, a candidate last year who failed to earn a board spot, discovered an error in June. A firefighter for the city of Dallas, Crile chose to run again and noticed the taxable value for the Tarrant County Hospital District, or JPS Health, was pasted in the cell for Tarrant County College.

Tarrant County College had 307 during the 2023 election but had 505 in the 2024 election, according to the TAD website.

“I didn’t check that as closely as I should have,” Bobbitt said.

The Old Town Keller boutique, Swanky Chic, is closing its brick and mortar location to sell exclusively online. Co-owner and Realtor Courtney Mair said the location is closing after 9 years in Old Town Keller.

The details: Mair said the space received recent indoor and outdoor renovations in a social media post, and the space is for lease or sale.

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The big picture: Eleven Medical City hospitals in the Dallas-Fort Worth region recently achieved distinction for exceptional clinical performance in specialty care from Healthgrades, according to a news release. The hospitals were recognized with dozens of awards, including for cardiac, critical care, gastrointestinal care, orthopedics, pulmonary, surgical and vascular care, the news release states.

The details: Each year, Healthgrades evaluates risk-adjusted mortality and complication rates for over 30 common conditions and procedures at approximately 4,500 hospitals nationwide to identify the top hospitals in key specialty areas, per the news release. Medical City Denton was recognized as one of America's 50 Best Hospitals for Vascular Surgery and one of America's 100 Best Hospitals for Orthopedic Surgery.

What they're saying: “These national awards recognize our expert teams’ unwavering commitment to high-quality, compassionate and patient-centered specialty services delivered across our comprehensive system of care,” President Allen Harrison said in the news release.