I'm totally addicted to the blog for our local East Dallas magazine. I can't wait to check it out every night. The magazine itself is a fun little read with human-interest stories and event coverage centered on our part of the city. But the blog gets much more in depth with local political issues. And the editor had a wonderful post about the city council's recent discussions about the downtown convention center hotel plans. In a nutshell, some city council members are recommending that the CITY build, own and operate a multi-million dollar hotel. I'll keep my outrage in check and not rant too much (and not even bring up the whole "buying overpriced land" issue involved in it too). I'll just give you the link here (scroll up if it pops you in the middle of the post):
Remember the Movie "Dumb and Dumber"?
It's a little long, but I promise by the end you will also be rolling your eyes and asking "what the hell are they thinking?" Sheesh.
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Fort Worth wanted to do this a couple of years ago, when they started remodeling the convention center. It took a grass roots petition to get it on the ballot, where the planned city-owned hotel was shot down big time. If a hotel is going to work there, wouldn't you think one of the big ones would jump at the chance to build and run it?
In a similar move over here, the city is trying to force a vote to redo the Trinity River along the north side of downtown with all sorts of fancy plans (none of the Dallas big-name bridges, but still big things for us) in with the bond election we will vote on this coming Saturday. They refused to make it separate ballot items, so there is a good bet the whole thing will be shot down and our streets will remain in sorry shape.
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