Belo Will "Continue to Focus on Expense Reductions and Operational Realignment"

• Not to worry. Once they sell the north 40 -- gobs of Belo land immediately adjacent to and surrounding the proposed convention center hotel site - they'll be back in black ink. At Leppy's latest fire-side chats, he says developers are comin' runnin' with big plans for restaurants and retail. They're gonn'a buy all that north 40 for "fair market value." Please, vote Yes on Prop. 1.

• Robert, I really wish you would run as the DO coverstory a review of a couple of stories. You really need to re-run the facts concerning the USArmyCOEng. report on the levees vis a vis BELO and Leppert. I had a nasty visit with my dad once the hotel came up. He is city attorney for hire for the lesser munis. and was such in Dallas for near 20yrs. He asked how can all the city fathers support such a thing? I came back to the way this deal is structured, he likes Victory as a good deal. I don't disagree much here. I asked him about Leppert and Belo. The story of the levees is vital, and he thinks the discrepancy was trivial. Can we please review this report? Can we get a good critical review of the private hotel that was killed? Can you ask Harlan Crow what he'd want before he'd build a CCHotel? Can you get other assessments of what is holding back other private concerns from building such a hotel, what would it take? It would be interesting to query the "20 hotels who support the convention center hotel proposal" what they would ask before they'd be willing to build a CCH. I think my father's vote could be swayed. Hell, mine could be swayed too, I want an honest assessment of the facts of the levee report relative to the election and BELO. And, I think that is a no-brainer front page election guide for the DO. Thanks in advance, and in arrears for all the fine work you've done.

• @ kerry_okie, I thought that they did, or was it the other way ... wait,what..,I'm confused.

• How about the Morning News disclosing how much each City Council candidate and Proposition campaign specifically spent with Belo on advertisments and media buys, etc. and then look and see if there is a correlation on $'s spent with Belo versus who or what the paper endorsed. Might explain how they could justify endorsing a law breaking, non-voter, elitist, high spending Council seat buying and tax challenged Brint Ryan...especially when the News has specifically criticised other candidates in other Council races for these same issues (compare with some of their other endorsements, its laughably hypocritical) and in the past have been very self righteous and indignant about the very things they were so willing to conveniently ignore for Ryan. That new money smell must be too intoxicating...

• Belo, there's a guy out there with a list. His name's Craig. He's got your money.

• Hence the rumor passed on by Our Working Boy Spartacus in DMNCuts that <a href="http://dmncuts.blogspot.com/2009/05/sound-of-ghostly-chains-rustling.html">"the plans for the next round are already being made"</a>. Who's left? Oh, yeah.

• Maybe the city will buy them. No telling what we'll lose without Belo around to watch out for us.

• They lost $103,000,000! Wow! How many people do they need to cut-n-paste from the AP feed?

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