Jeers: To Gov. Rick Perry for renting a house for $9,900 a month for the past nine months. He should be ashamed of spending taxpayer money like that. A very nice home at a third of the cost would be better. Just imagine the good that the money could have done each month had it been spent on children, healthcare or education.

Cheers: To Dale Nay, an off-duty Horseshoe Bend firefighter who, as he drove by, noticed smoke behind my daughter’s house and stopped just in time to help her escape before the house was engulfed. Cheers also to his wife, who gave my daughter her own shoes.

Cheers: To Ruby Lillian Howard, who was recently honored at a retirement reception at Waverly Park Elementary School. Ruby was a teacher with passion, commitment and love for her students and the profession. I was honored to have taught with her years ago, and my son was enriched to have her as his preschool teacher. Special cheers to Principal Mary Jane Marshall for being a supportive administrator!

Jeers: To anyone who exited eastbound Interstate 30 at Cherry Street in Fort Worth after 10 p.m. May 19 and drove by a 1991 white Chevrolet against the guard rail on the left. My nephew was pinned between the driver's door and guard rail for at least three hours. After a week, he lost his battle for life. He died because car after car just passed by. If only someone had stopped sooner, my nephew probably would have lived to see his 30th birthday.