Does the Dallas Observer ever have anything good to say... (hotels, cinema)

[Manni_Fress]

about city development?

[EDS_]

Originally Posted by Manni_Fress

about city development?

No. It's a POS rag that publishes maybe one or two good stories per year. It's been a waste of time for about a decade.

[Manni_Fress]

Originally Posted by EDS_

No. It's a POS rag that publishes maybe one or two good stories per year. It's been a waste of time for about a decade.

I try to be objective but all I read from them are stories about bashing Dallas development. I remember when the Cowboys were looking to build a new stadium at Fair Park and they bashed that idea. It's like Laura Miller is the editor of that paper. God I miss Ron Kirk.

[EDS_]

Originally Posted by Manni_Fress

I try to be objective but all I read from them are stories about bashing Dallas development. I remember when the Cowboys were looking to build a new stadium at Fair Park and they bashed that idea. It's like Laura Miller is the editor of that paper. God I miss Ron Kirk.

I believe The Observer's "leftist urban cynic" thing has run its course.

[Manni_Fress]

Originally Posted by EDS_

I believe The Observer's "leftist urban cynic" thing has run its course.

I use to read the Observer awhile back but the constant bashing is to much.

[TrueDat]

Originally Posted by Manni_Fress

It's like Laura Miller is the editor of that paper. God I miss Ron Kirk.

Laura Miller was a reporter for the Observer before she became a politician.

[BigDGeek]

Obviously it's not a popular source with the 'keep the dirt flying' crowd, but at least they provide a different point of view.

[Macbeth2003]

They rarely have good things to say about the city spending massive amounts of money on building projects. Which is fine by me. because I feel the same way. I've always felt that until we stop zeroing out funding for fixing and maintaining roads, and stop talking about shutting down swimming pools, we don't need to build showplace bridges, and hotels at public expense. Actually we had relatives visiting years ago who found it funny that in Dallas the alternative, "liberal" paper was against the big city building projects, while the "conservative" government and newspaper were all for them.

[Cowboys fan in Houston]

I guess one positive is that (thanks to the Observer) I know where all the Asian massage parlors are.

[EDS_]

Originally Posted by Macbeth2003

They rarely have good things to say about the city spending massive amounts of money on building projects. Which is fine by me. because I feel the same way. I've always felt that until we stop zeroing out funding for fixing and maintaining roads, and stop talking about shutting down swimming pools, we don't need to build showplace bridges, and hotels at public expense. Actually we had relatives visiting years ago who found it funny that in Dallas the alternative, "liberal" paper was against the big city building projects, while the "conservative" government and newspaper were all for them.

That last part is fairly simple. In this case The Observer is anti-business unless that business is a topless club, bar, restaurant, alternative cinema or escort service.


The various Dallas City Govs over the years, like it or not, have left us a fiscal/physical and pro business vibe that leaves Dallas as one of two or three best positioned big cities in the US.