Money-saving Monday off at Dallas City Hall confuses people

by PegNews wire

DALLAS — Dallas City Hall's first money-saving furlough day confused people who came to Young Street on Monday/today to get their usual driver's licenses etc. without realizing the city had mandated the day off. The furlough confused a blogger at the Dallas Morning News, too, who typed "who's" when he should have typed "whose." As in:

"Who's bright idea was this?" asked Danny Broomfield, who had ridden DART from Oak Cliff to get his driver's license replaced.

Surely, that "who's" should be "whose." A lot of people think that a possessive always has an apostrophe. But hey, at least they were down there, reporting on the one-day closure. Admittedly, City Hall is like three blocks from the newspaper office, but they left the building, they hit the pavement, they did the hard reporting, so let's not be so hard on a little "who's" that should have been "whose."

Shutting down for a day will supposedly save $1 million. Wow, the city costs $1 million per day to run? That doesn't include police officers or firefighters.

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Jesus Valadez says:

I thought it was $1.7 million which really made me go "wow, we're not cheap to run"

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alexander troup says:

Yea if they did this every Monday for the rest of the year they could get out of debt and have a new swimming pool over by the Trinity river next to the toll road...A/T, Born in Dallas what a drag..born in Oak Cliff what a Hobo's Hip...