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🐘 Former Gov. Rick Perry is back in state politics. He will serve as a senior adviser to House Speaker Dade Phelan. (Texas Tribune)
📞 Verizon plans to buy Dallas-based Frontier Communications for $20 billion. (Axios)
🏫 The Grand Prairie ISD superintendent was placed on administrative leave just weeks after starting the job. The school board declined to give a reason other than saying there is an outside investigation taking place. (DMN)
📻 Radio listeners have a new music station in Dallas-Fort Worth. Mix 104.1 FM will play what sounds like grocery store rock. (WFAA)
