Oh. Really. So this is what all the fuss is about? "This city has been wringing its hands for a century over what-to-do-with-the-river. It’s time to get the ball rolling on something besides self-righteous political warfare."
Thanks for that. We can all go home now. Cancel the referendum. What were we thinking?
Note to Belowatchers: I think this is, save for the immediate editorial, the first non-news story comment from Dallas’ Only Daily Newspaper since TrinityVote turned in its signatures. The paper’s blogs haven’t mentioned the toll road in three weeks, and none of the other columnists have, either. That Floyd was allowed to write this column means a couple of things: First, she is a rising star (see the memo the bosses sent after they got ripped by the Columbia Journalism Review, which praised Floyd).
Second, that The News is taking a new tack in its approach to the referendum. Instead of the snide, superior, we know better than you attitude that didn’t work, it looks like we’re going to see a let’s compromise, move to the middle sort of thing. Floyd is the perfect person for this, since she doesn’t write all that much about politics and lives in the suburbs. The catch, of course, is that there isn’t a middle here. We either build the road or we don’t, and we know how The News feels about that.
