It’s not unusual to see this kind of hurly bury from the editorial page or the metro columnists at Dallas’ Only Daily Newspaper, but from Gromer Jeffers, The News’ political reporter? "Though the average resident certainly won’t find the debate over the Trinity tollway scintillating. …"

I realize we aren’t as smart as everyone who works for The News, but we’ll figure out some way to make sense of all of this. (And I also thought the new plan to discredit the referendum was to shout fraud, not to accuse us of being stupid.)

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One more time, for Gromer and his colleagues: The toll road is a bad idea. So we don’t want it. That’s simple enough, isn’t it?