Civics

How sublimated do references or symbols of the Confederacy have to be before they are deemed inappropriate?

Until the Beasley Plan is translated into engineering schematics, until those schematics get the thumbs up from federal authorities, and until there is a concrete funding strategy that is signed off on all the invested parties then we can’t really say for sure what anyone plans to pursue in the Trinity River floodplain.

After his sweeping victory to a second term in last Saturday’s mayoral election, Mayor Mike Rawlings declared that what residents voted for was a “vision for Dallas.”

A mailer from the Trinity Commons Foundation arriving just days before the election makes no mention that there is an election.

What started as a presentation of the plan the mayor’s urban design “Dream Team” created for the Trinity River morphed into a workshoping of byzantine parliamentary procedure.