APD Chief Lisa Davis came to Austin from Cincinnati. Her department then created a new role in Austin, "Chief of Strategic Initiatives," and gave it to Maris Herold, another longtime Cincinnati cop. Maris's SPOUSE, Tamara Herold, has been paid $256,750 in no-bid APD consulting contracts for some reason. Also: Robin Engel, a Cincinnati colleague of both Davis and Maris, has been paid $241,750 for the same kind of deal. Odd.

EXC: A taxpayer-backed operation recruiting landlords to house refugees kept running after Trump suspended its State Department funding. Separate, existing HHS funding kept part of the project operating. The program is Refugee Housing Solutions, run by Church World Service. One HHS award committed nearly $2 MILLION to expanding its work. Its partnership with rental platform ReHome reported recruiting 15 landlords and property managers offering more than 1,000 available housing units in six months. And look at the financial assurances offered in one Philadelphia placement described in its case study: A resettlement agency paid the security deposit. Paid the first month’s rent. And promised to “cover the full rent amount” if the refugee household couldn’t pay. The case study doesn’t identify who funded that particular guarantee. Federal support for the landlord-recruitment project itself is documented. Before the freeze, the project also used State Department support to research incentives including prepaid rent insurance and a proposed $500 lease-renewal bonus. Then, in March 2026, it published another update about working with landlords. The State Department award was suspended. Taxpayer support for the operation survived through another federal agency.

Rioters at French high school in Beaugency chant lyrics to Boro700’s MRH - a rap song which glorifies the ISIS terrorist attack on the Bataclan as well as a jihadist terrorist who executed an 8 year old French Jewish girl by shooting her in the head. Lyrics: “Bataclan, they played dead, lie down, I’m gonna shoot one in the eye.” “Like Mohamed Merah, dodging the cameras at the Bataclan, I shot him with my eyes, manhunt, Salah Abdeslam.” Mohammed Merah executed three French Jewish children aged 3, 5 and 8 years old. He chased the 8 year old French Jewish girl and grabbed her by the hair, paused to reload, then shot her in the head. Salah Abdeslam meanwhile was the only surviving member of the 10-man ISIS cell that carried out the November 2015 Paris attacks including the massacre at the Bataclan. Murdered 130 people, injured more than 490.