Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\nIf Sheriff Marian Brown and her team are this intent on mistreating people who want to help their inmates, it\u2019s not hard to imagine what they\u2019re doing to the inmates themselves. <\/p>\n
Laura Miller, Dallas<\/p>\n
Dallas, where\u2019s the money? <\/p>\n
Dallas is talking of closing community pools, closing libraries and eliminating alleyway trash pickup. In every case, the reason given is that there is no room in the budget for these services. Yet, these have all been provided for many decades, and Dallas\u2019s revenue is now higher than it has ever been. <\/p>\n
Our government owes us an explanation as to where on earth our money is going if they have to eliminate amenities the city has always provided while taking in record taxes.<\/p>\n
Stephen McKeown, Northwest Dallas<\/p>\n
Review wasteful spending<\/p>\n
The city of Dallas is going through the budget process. Might I suggest that the city council and staff spend some time reviewing the long history of the city\u2019s wasteful spending? Perhaps if we didn\u2019t spend millions due to neglect, incompetence, fraud, etc., we could pay for the services we actually need. <\/p>\n
A few reminders: 1. The building purchased for $14 million to house city permit staff that needed extensive work. Did anyone get fired for that fiasco? 2. The hospital purchased for $6.5 million to house the homeless \u2014 no public discussion\/involvement and it finally went to auction. <\/p>\n
3. The police and fire pension shortfall. Now we pay for that. What a joke! 4. The building permit fee error which cost over $8 million due to a staffing error in calculations. Are those staff gone? Not in Dallas!<\/p>\n
5. Remember the Dallas Wave? Millions spent on a dangerous Trinity River feature finally removed for millions more. 6. No records of where over $6 million HUD funds went that were supposed to go to housing.<\/p>\n
The above are just a few examples of how the city of Dallas continues to fail. Very sad.<\/p>\n
Cindy Burr, Dallas\/Casa View<\/p>\n
In search of conservatives<\/p>\n
I consider myself a liberal. However, I\u2019m pretty sure that what this country really needs right now is a viable conservative party \u2014 President Donald Trump\u2019s GOP is anything but.<\/p>\n
In the past month or two, he has: 1. Negotiated a \u201cgolden share\u201d of U.S. Steel. As a result, the board (and the owners of the company) are free to do whatever the president wants. 2. Enabled the Department of Defense to buy a 15% stake in the rare earth metals company MP Materials (becoming the largest shareholder).<\/p>\n
3.After telling chipmakers Nvidia and AMD that they could not export their chips to China, he negotiated a 15% export tax (hey, who needs Congress for these things) on their now legal exports to China. 4. On Aug. 22, after tweeting that the CEO of Intel was \u201chighly conflicted\u201d because of his investments in China, they met, and somehow the U.S. is now a 10% owner of Intel (the largest shareholder). Oh, and the CEO is now \u201cthe Highly Respected Chief Executive Officer of the Company.\u201d<\/p>\n
A lot of this feels like Fidel Castro in Cuba or Hugo Ch\u00e1vez in Venezuela. But some of it also feels like, \u201cHey, you\u2019ve got a nice business here \u2014 I\u2019d hate to see it burn down.\u201d<\/p>\n
Both Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater are spinning in their graves.<\/p>\n
Brian MacKay, Coppell<\/p>\n
Doing the voting for us<\/p>\n
Thank heaven I have been living in Texas for nearly 60 years now. I want to let Gov. Greg Abbott, Ken Paxton and all their loyal followers know that without them and their friend in D.C., I would not know how I vote, who I voted for, why I voted and how my vote came out and how successful it was. <\/p>\n
Thank you, Gov. Abbott for dictating (bad choice of words) all my fondest wishes and the time you saved me because like yourself, I am in a wheelchair and mail-in-voting is such a hassle. You make things so easy for disabled persons like myself. <\/p>\n
And you saved the state the cost of postage. Guess you can use for other worthwhile causes such as your re-election campaign.<\/p>\n
David Mclintock, Dallas\/Lake Highlands<\/p>\n
More revisions for Paxton<\/p>\n
Re: \u201cIs there a revision pending?\u201d by Bill Devitt, Monday Letters.<\/p>\n
I think Devitt is a little short in assessing how many commandments Ken Paxton could post in schools. There are several more he would have to worry about. Besides adultery, false witness, stealing and worshipping Donald Trump ahead of all others come to mind.<\/p>\n
David Barber, Arlington<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inertia at the jail It\u2019s no surprise that the Dallas County jail has once again failed state inspection.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":127360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,7290,90,18880,7281,80,358,5524,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-185669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-county","11":"tag-elections","12":"tag-ken-paxton","13":"tag-letters-to-the-editor","14":"tag-politics","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-texas-politics","17":"tag-tx","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115114345963573009","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}