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Yes, We are "Freewheeling." And Free-Balling. Hey, Tomorrow's Election Day. We're Jacked.

By Robert Wilonsky, Friday, May. 11 2007 @ 10:00AM
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Categories: It's Gettin' All Political Up in This Piece

And wouldn't you just know it. If you want a glimmer of the actual truth about our fair city, all you have to do is read an actual newspaper: today's New York Times. In the National Report, correspondent Ralph Blumenthal has a very nicely put together story about Laura Miller as she leaves office. It mentions the Trinity petition drive, includes a photo of Angela Hunt and even talks about the Dallas Observer:

A current uproar is over the future of the Trinity River park project for flood control and recreation, which has yet to see any of the sailboat ponds and aesthetic bridges that were promised to voters in 1998. A toll road through the park’s flood control levees is under growing attack by critics, including the Dallas Observer, the free -- and freewheeling -- weekly newspaper where Ms. Miller last worked as a journalist.

A first-term councilwoman, Angela Hunt, whom the Observer likened to an early crusading Laura Miller, is collecting signatures for a ballot measure in November to kill the toll road, which was intended to relieve traffic congestion and provide revenue to build the park. Ms. Miller, who admits to doubts about how the road has grown, says that eliminating it entirely would doom the park as well.


Those are all things we would never expect from Pravda, would we? --Jim Schutze

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TrickyJoe says:

The toll road was never designed to "provide revenue to build the park." That's absolutely false.

The City of Dallas is GIVING the NTTA our Trinity land for free, and we get ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in return. No shared toll revenue. No leasing of the land. Nothing.

How long will it take people to understand that the toll road and park have absolutely no connection -- financial or otherwise.

Posted On: Friday, May. 11 2007 @ 11:09AM
Mark Spence says:

Will Roger reminds us with, "None of us are smart enough to remember all he knows."

So boys and girls, let’s not forget TrinityVote.com will be written about in our history books. Work the polls, have some fun making our future history.

Election Day May 12, 2007 -Dallas, Texas

Me? ...working the polls, of course.

Posted On: Friday, May. 11 2007 @ 11:23AM
Witness says:

The NYT, an "actual newspaper"*? Please. The NYT is just as pathetic, incompetent, and biased as the DMN.

They may or may not have gotten this one right, but to imply that, on a general basis, the NYT is any better than the DMN just shows that you probably don't read anything in it that's not related to local Dallas politics (which isn't surprising given your general myopia on that incredibly worthwhile topic).

*By "actual newspaper," you seem to really be saying "superior source of information and opinion." Given that newspapers are generally held in pretty low regard these days, it seems a strange locution.

Posted On: Friday, May. 11 2007 @ 11:36AM

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