Housing efforts beat Dallas<\/p>\n
Re: \u201cBeware of Political Housing Promises \u2014 Texans know that making it easier to build homes is the answer, not New York price controls,” Tuesday editorial. <\/p>\n
Your assessment of Zohran Mamdani\u2019s victory in New York City misses the mark. The editorial board first scoffs at Mamdani\u2019s idea of taxing the wealthy and corporations because those policies incentivize wealthy people to move out, despite studies demonstrating otherwise. Additionally, I understand concerns over rent freezes, though there are ways to design such policies better. <\/p>\n
But I also ask that we look at our own city, where we hardly try to make housing affordable (Public Facility Corporations and Housing Finance Corporations are a start but not enough). Our own housing prices have risen exponentially over the last few years, and we see increased concerns about displacement. <\/p>\n
Opinion<\/p>\n
The board can scoff at the idea of more social housing, but I have not seen better concrete solutions from the Dallas City Council on creating deeply affordable homes for our lowest income residents. <\/p>\n
I appreciate that the board is anti-NIMBY (in fact, so is Mamdani, who favors upzoning and other YIMBY reforms \u2014 give him credit!), but the board seems to think Dallas has fully solved the housing crisis by building more. That Dallas\u2019 growth has slowed as working people move out shows otherwise.<\/p>\n
Brinda Gurumoorthy, Dallas\/North Oak Cliff<\/p>\n
Teach our whole history<\/p>\n
Re: \u201cTexas approves Native studies \u2014 Officials find subject doesn\u2019t fall within DEI, CRT state bans,” June 30 Metro story.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople talk about us like we\u2019re gone \u2014 but we\u2019re not. I\u2019m right here. My brother and I are Cherokee kids growing up in Texas, and we want people to know our culture and our history,\u201d said 10-year-old Will Dougherty. The fact that a student voiced those feelings is a sad indictment of our school systems, the school curriculums and our society in general. <\/p>\n
All cultures and races forming the people of the United States should be reflected in textbooks and teaching at all levels of our educational facilities, but especially in history classes. No student should suffer \u201cbeing afraid of who I am as a Native American,\u201d or with any other applied label. <\/p>\n
Texas schools should not need a letter from the president\u2019s administration or the Department of Education to say a class in American Indian and Native studies is legal. <\/p>\n
State-approved Mexican American and Black American electives are better than nothing, but still do not truly explore or reflect the entire scope of so many races and cultures influencing the growth and development of the United States. <\/p>\n
Our whole history, the shameful and wrong as well as the good and right, should be taught in American history classes.<\/p>\n
V.C. Patterson, Carrollton<\/p>\n
Remember \u2018Hillbilly Elegy\u2019?<\/p>\n
Vice President JD Vance might want to take a moment to reread his own memoir, Hillbilly Elegy. In casting the tie-breaking senate vote in favor of the \u201cBig Beautiful Bill,\u201d he seems to have forgotten the economic struggles of the very people he once claimed to represent.<\/p>\n
JoAnn Williams, North Dallas<\/p>\n
Trash plan needs work<\/p>\n
Re: \u201cLet\u2019s Roll With Smarter Trash Plan \u2014 Those without front driveways would keep alley pickup for now but pay more,” June 30 editorial.<\/p>\n
I am in agreement with your statement \u201cAny change to a basic city service should come with clear benefits for residents, whether through better rates or improved service.\u201d However, Sanitation Director Clifton Gillespie\u2019s plan to eliminate all alleyway trash collection does not meet this criteria. Have the studies that Gillespie used to make his recommendations been validated, or do they just represent his expressed desire of wanting to eliminate all alleyway trash collection? <\/p>\n
I attended a packed meeting at Ridgeview Park, organized by Paula Blackmon and Gillespie, where he stated \u201cwhy should we provide this service to a privileged few when we don\u2019t offer it to all Dallas residents?\u201d <\/p>\n
I live in the Ridgeview area and have alleyway trash collection. My alley was probably built by the city when the area was developed in the 1950s, and is maintained by the city. I fall under the Americans With Disabilities Act, and it will be very difficult to roll out the trash cans to the street. I have no issue with paying the city a higher monthly rate for this service. <\/p>\n
Please use more caution when validating Gillispie\u2019s proposals.<\/p>\n
Charles P. Ripley, East Dallas<\/p>\n
Look at Texas priorities<\/p>\n
Over a 15-year period of travel, we increasingly found rail a more convenient, pleasant and often faster way to see the world outside the U.S. I moved to Texas in 1979 because anything and everything was possible in this state. <\/p>\n
Problems would be tackled. Central Expressway was going to be rebuilt any day and shorten my hour-plus long trip from then end of the world in Plano. The highways connecting the golden triangle were rebuilt on paper enough times that one could cover a couple extra lanes with the project studies alone. <\/p>\n
There have been several weak attempts at rail. Whom we elect matters. I gave my property tax break to the local food bank since Gov. Greg Abbott seems unaware that kids eat during the summer break.<\/p>\n
The latest legislative session was declared successful. Perhaps in slowing gummies and stopping gambling. Schools are ranked better than Mississippi, with more books banned here. The billion dollar gift for private education is meaningless when public schools are near the bottom of the funding scale.<\/p>\n
I am grateful for the great 45-plus-year run in Texas, but I don\u2019t see our current politicians with the vision\/skills to get us a 90-minute ride to Houston in this lifetime. We can do better.<\/p>\n
Robert F. Staebell, Richardson<\/p>\n
Ex-Aggie? Never<\/p>\n
Re: \u201cUpsets continue at All England Club \u2014 Gauff knocked out in straight sets; ex-Aggie ousts No. 3 Zverev,” Wednesday SportsDay story.<\/p>\n
In this story about Wimbledon, you state that an ex-Aggie upsets No. 3 Alexander Zverev. This is an error. There is no such thing as a former or ex-Aggie. Once an Aggie, always an Aggie. We have former students.<\/p>\n
Pat Murphy, Richardson<\/p>\n
Texas A&M, class of 1959<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Housing efforts beat Dallas Re: \u201cBeware of Political Housing Promises \u2014 Texans know that making it easier to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":45264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,392,1596,407,316,7265,7281,80,358,13877,522,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-45263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-culture","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-education","12":"tag-home","13":"tag-homelessness","14":"tag-letters-to-the-editor","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-texas","17":"tag-texas-am-aggies","18":"tag-transportation","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"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114810468618003369","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45263","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=45263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}