Catching up on a variety of things while I was out of town on business:

• Dallas’ Only Daily Newspaper fired the first salvo in the Trinity funfest — only seven weeks to go!, it wrote — with its Sunday story. My favorite quote came from council member David Neumann, talking about how the park and the road aren’t mutually exclusive: "That’s like saying I like the trees in my neighborhood. So let’s not have any streets. Let’s just have trees." Thanks, councilman. I appreciate that insight. Why do the pro-toll road types insist on talking to those of us who disagree with them as if we are small children who are running around the house with scissors?

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• Neumann and the rest of the pro-road folks need to read the comments to Jim Schutze’s post on the Observer blog last week. Those comments come from people who are passionate, committed and intelligent — hardly the kind who act like children running around with scissors. (It goes without saying that the comments here, from all sides, are always intelligent.)

• I wasn’t going to mention this, but the second reference in The News made me grind my teeth. It’s the old copy editor in me. A building that is across the street from the Lakewood Country Club and in the Lakewood Shopping Center is in Lakewood. So why does The News continue to insist that the bank that was the site of the armored car robbery a couple of weeks ago is in Old East Dallas? Hence the picture, so the people at The News will have a frame of reference.