Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\nAlthough Dallas\u2019 City Hall is better looking than Boston\u2019s, it has serious design flaws and deferred maintenance that will probably cause problems again in the future. There is also a lot of wasted space in the building for the massive atrium. I would never recommend a building with that much unusable space. Let it go.<\/p>\n
Marsha Hayes Walker, Grand Prairie<\/p>\n
Build but maintain, Dallas<\/p>\n
I saw a quote from acclaimed independent filmmaker Werner Herzog that made me think of the current controversy over the fate of Dallas City Hall. It reads, in part: \u201cWhether something lasts or not has nothing to do with whether it\u2019s made of stone or steel or wood or fabric. A house built all in wood can be a monument that lasts for hundreds of years because it seduces people to live in it, to use it and maintain it. Eternity depends on whether people are willing to take care of something … no building can be neglected entirely.\u201d<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s where we are with many iconic structures in Dallas (Fair Park, anyone?). This I.M. Pei-designed building that Dallas is so fortunate to have must stand as part of Dallas history, just as the Old Red Courthouse has and Reunion Tower, to name just a few. (Is Dallas even Dallas without Reunion Tower as part of the skyline?)<\/p>\n
Build beautiful and unique, but above all maintain. Other places do it, for centuries and millennia in many cases, yet it seems Dallas wants the new and shiny every 40-50 years. <\/p>\n
Borrowing an opinion from the great film critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, \u201cthumbs down\u201d on that.<\/p>\n
Sara Miskimins, Dallas\/Lake Highlands<\/p>\n
AG spends wastefully<\/p>\n
Re: \u201cPaxton sues Islamic center \u2014 Filing becomes latest effort by state to stop Muslim-centric project,\u201d Sunday Metro story. <\/p>\n
This guy just can\u2019t stop himself from filing frivolous lawsuits and wasting large sums of money. Money that you and I pay in taxes. If you want to look at wasteful spending, look no further than the attorney general\u2019s office. <\/p>\n
Myriad possibilities exist for a better use of the attorney general\u2019s office than what this partisan politician can dream up. Can we please open our eyes to the obvious and finally get rid of him, or are we completely blinded by our political leanings?<\/p>\n
Erol C. Orer, Dallas<\/p>\n
Wild in Dallas, too<\/p>\n
Re: \u201cA little bit of Texas frightens me \u2014 On a friend\u2019s ranch, I learned you have so many reasons to wear boots,” by Christopher de Vinck, Saturday Opinion.<\/p>\n
I really enjoyed de Vinck\u2019s column about the wildlife in Texas. As a Dallas native, I can relate having spent 10 years in South Texas. It seems everything either poked, bit, stung or stabbed me in the beautiful wilds of Texas. <\/p>\n
Interestingly, I now have coyotes and bobcats in my yard in East Dallas. What\u2019s next, a javelina?<\/p>\n
Nancy Turner, Dallas<\/p>\n
New Jersey has critters<\/p>\n
De Vinck\u2019s fine column understated New Jersey\u2019s natural hazards. The Garden State has plenty of venomous snakes including rattlers and copperheads, plus bobcats, and one native cactus, the prickly pear. Maybe no javelinas or chiggers, but plenty of ticks, black widows and other mean little critters \u2014 and rip tides.<\/p>\n
Also, like Texas, New Jersey still has some beautiful rural scenery and even some night skies free of light pollution.<\/p>\n
Peter Haskel, Lewes, Del.<\/p>\n
Get behind Talarico <\/p>\n
All the other Democrats should get out of the race, like we did with Beto O\u2019Rourke, watch the Republicans fight it out in the primary and let James Talarico run against the Trump Republicans. Talarico is a proven winner, and if Colin Allred and O\u2019Rourke couldn\u2019t beat Ted Cruz, you know the rest of the story.<\/p>\n
Andrew Goldsmith, Irving<\/p>\n
A job or an education? <\/p>\n
Re: \u201cWhat are they teaching?\u201d by Rick Williams, Thursday Letters.<\/p>\n
Williams writes that in undergraduate and graduate classes he took \u201cmath, chemistry, English, accounting and finance.\u201d Hopefully he also took courses in philosophy, ethics, world history and fine arts as well. <\/p>\n
Otherwise, although Texas A&M and the University of Texas gave him a meal ticket, they did not give him an education.<\/p>\n
Holmes Brannon, Plano<\/p>\n
Put blame where it belongs <\/p>\n
Our president has stated that immigration is the leading cause of dysfunction in our country. I must disagree. A political policy of hatred, scorn, revenge and ignorance is the leading cause of dysfunction in our country. One must look no further than the Oval Office.<\/p>\n
Jan Schroeder, Lucas<\/p>\n
Wake up on age limits <\/p>\n
The Democrats had Sleepy Joe and the Republicans have, among other things, Dozing Donald. Any thoughts for age limits for public office?<\/p>\n
T.P. O\u2019Mahoney, Dallas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Let City Hall go Re: \u201cA tale of another city hall \u2014 What can Dallas learn from Boston\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":435007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,3425,1596,14841,90,18880,7281,80,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-435006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-animals","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-dallas-city-hall","12":"tag-elections","13":"tag-ken-paxton","14":"tag-letters-to-the-editor","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-texas","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":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435006","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=435006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}