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Jackie Sherrod was an institution at The Dallas Morning News, covering the Texas sports scene for decades. His weekly notebook, which hit on a wide variety of topics, always started with the phrase in our headline above.
It’s in that spirit that I offer these observations, five months into ownership of The Chronicle:
* Arriving at the peak of the snowstorm in late February told me a lot about the town right away: an indomitable…