Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\nDallas Morning News, please review the next concert on Dec. 15 at Southern Methodist University\u2019s Caruth Auditorium. At least let your readers know what they are missing. <\/p>\n
Mark Perkins, Dallas<\/p>\n
Work for truth and reason<\/p>\n
I\u2019m grateful to The Dallas Morning News for being a lighthouse of truth and reason in our current political situation\u200b through its editorials. Especially \u200b\u201cAn Unpardonable Pardon\u200b\u201d for Juan Orlando Hernandez, who is a convicted drug trafficker; \u201cWill Trump Punish all Immigrants?\u200b\u201d (they certainly aren\u2019t all guilty); and \u200b\u201c\u2018Kill Everybody\u2019 Is Not Who We Are\u200b\u201d on targeting drug boats.<\/p>\n
I was just at a religious service where a prayer was made on what was advised in the editorial on the drug boats: \u201cIt\u2019s critical that Congress get involved and it appears that at least some bipartisan movement is in that direction.\u201c<\/p>\n
May our politicians start working together and make a bipartisan effort for truth and reason on these and other issues.<\/p>\n
Rebecca Bertoni, Lantana<\/p>\n
Make wiser investments <\/p>\n
Re: \u201cBillionaires donate $6.25B to \u2018generations to come\u2019 \u2014 Funds to be deposited in federal investment accounts for children,” Wednesday news story.<\/p>\n
Think of Michael and Susan Dell as financial godparents to children ineligible to receive $1,000 from the federal government at birth. These Trump investment account recipients must have a Social Security number and have been born in the United States between Jan. 1, 2025, and Dec. 31, 2028.<\/p>\n
This seemingly commendable gift puts a Band-aid on systemic economic problems that will ensnare these savings account holders the same way they trap their parents. <\/p>\n
As long as food prices continue to rise, as long as workers are not paid a living wage, as long as public schools are decimated, as long as health care costs soar, as long as affordable housing remains out of reach for far too many Americans, this lovely parting gift deserves nothing more than a thank-you note.<\/p>\n
Billionaires like Michael and Susan Dell should know how to make a wiser investment.<\/p>\n
Barbara Chiarello, Austin<\/p>\n
Build, neglect, tear it down<\/p>\n
Re: \u201cRepair costs ballooned \u2014 Estimates totaled about $90 million nearly 10 years ago,\u201d Nov. 29 Metro & Business story.<\/p>\n
Build it. Neglect it. Tear it down. That\u2019s the Dallas way.<\/p>\n
Lane Adamson, North Garland<\/p>\n
Dallas a can\u2019t-do city<\/p>\n
Does it matter that the repair cost to the I.M. Pei-designed City Hall was $90 million in 2016? Does it matter almost 10 years later, estimates range from $345 million to $500 million? I ask because the city of Dallas is infamous for failing to take proper measures to maintain key infrastructure.<\/p>\n
If not for the private sector \u2014 raising billions of dollars from philanthropists \u2014 this city would lack popular structures and features.<\/p>\n
Whether it\u2019s our city government structure, or the wrong people making up our civil leadership, Dallas has become a can\u2019t-do city in a can-do state.<\/p>\n
Bye-bye, AT&T. Bye-bye, Dallas Stars, Dallas Mavericks, Neiman Marcus, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Trammell Crow, Invesco, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, etc.<\/p>\n
Thanks to all the private investors and developers trying to revitalize downtown. But if the city of Dallas continues to fall on their face with feeble efforts on upkeep, what was once the heartbeat of Dallas will soon become flatlined.<\/p>\n
Dallas, either lead, follow or get out of the way.<\/p>\n
Guy Mercurio, Dallas<\/p>\n
Historical culture deteriorating<\/p>\n
Re: \u201cWe cannot let truth go out of style \u2014 To heal our land, we have to turn away from comfortable lies,” by Peter Johnson, Nov. 16 Opinion.<\/p>\n
Johnson\u2019s column regarding truth is well said and accurate but deals with the symptoms, not the cause. In my view, we have a society today where our historical culture is in a state of deterioration and with it, our form of government\u2019s bipartisan structure. <\/p>\n
I refer him to a quote from John Adams: \u201cOur Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.\u201d<\/p>\n
Douglas Potter, Dallas<\/p>\n
To those at Pearl Harbor<\/p>\n
Today we honor the courageous service members who made the ultimate sacrifice defending our country during the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. We owe a debt of gratitude to those who put their lives on the line to protect our freedoms at home and abroad.<\/p>\n
Paul Bacon, Hallandale Beach, Fla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Chamber Music Society When \u201cworld-class\u201d is misused, it is little more than a boast. It is a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":430595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,14841,90,8734,975,1269,7260,256,80,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,36790],"class_list":{"0":"post-430594","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-city-hall","11":"tag-elections","12":"tag-higher-education","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-opinion","15":"tag-performing-arts","16":"tag-philanthropy","17":"tag-politics","18":"tag-texas","19":"tag-tx","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa","26":"tag-veterans-and-military"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430594","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=430594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}