Nathan
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5 years, 1 month agoNathan's comment on:
A convention center hotel will bring more business to Dallas
“The Dallas Convention Center remains underutilized due in part to the lack of an adjacent hotel which remains as a requirement high on the priority list of today’s convention meeting planners,” said Rod Clough, MAI, Managing Director of HVS Dallas. “If the convention center headquarters hotel is not realized, the rebirth of the downtown Dallas landscape will be short-lived.”
^This quote makes the whole study a little hard to swallow. Any body got a flask?
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5 years, 2 months agoNathan's comment on:
Local U.S. Reps score a D for anti-poverty voting
I'm sure if they had included corporate welfare, they would have all gotten an A+!
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5 years, 2 months agoNathan's comment on:
The time is now - a message to my young Dallas readers
Isn't Michael Davis part of the "establishment" now?
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5 years, 2 months agoNathan's comment on:
Comments on Obama from Adelfa Callejo should draw scrutiny from Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert
Shawn, I highly doubt that Mrs. Callejo was appointed because of her outstanding ability to select judges. But, lets not ask to much of the Mayor anyhow, he is trying really hard to spend you money on a hotel.
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5 years, 3 months agoNathan's comment on:
Mayor Leppert plans to market Dallas on Mexico trip
I'm not sure if the "inland port" is going to more like a port, or more like a giant Flying J.
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5 years, 5 months agoNathan's comment on:
Van Halen tour adds second Dallas date on March 3 at American Airlines Center
Now let's see if they can make it through the whole tour without breaking up.
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5 years, 6 months agoNathan's comment on:
Southern Dallas neighborhoods lack access to healthy foods
I am confused by Michael Davis' posts. Sometimes I hear about how neighborhoods are held hostage by crime, sagging pants and buildings that need to be knocked over. Then I hear that it's all a matter of perception and the crime is really no big deal.
There is some great development going on a Westmoreland and Illinois. Wynnewood is also getting some new retailers. This proves that Southern Dallas is capable of supporting new development. Perhaps if the Souther Dallas council members were as interested in getting new development as they are about getting a toll road built in a floodway, then we would see more development.
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5 years, 6 months agoNathan's comment on:
Arlington reinstates police officer who used steroids
If memory serves, former "Mr. Universe" Ronnie Coleman was a Arlington police officer. Now that guy was on some juice!
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5 years, 6 months agoNathan's comment on:
Dallas radio station stunt raises questions about stereotypes
I'm sure the conservative exec's over at Clear Channel feel just awful about this.
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5 years, 6 months agoNathan's comment on:
Cockrell Hill approves sale of alcohol
The folks on Industrial Blvd are going to be upset now that the Oak Cliff residents will be going to the Hill to get their booze. Maybe Dallas will wake up and get rid of the stupid liquor boundaries.
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5 years, 6 months agoNathan's comment on:
UPDATED: Dallas County election results
Rawlins, I had no idea that you lived next to the Great Trinity Forest. Do you walk in it every day?
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5 years, 6 months agoNathan's comment on:
UPDATED: Dallas County election results
There are a lot of good things in the works for Dallas. The new Dart expansion, UNT Dallas, Fair Park renovations and downtown revitalization. I still believe that this is bad transportation policy and that this road will prevent the Trinity River Project from becoming a 'world class destination', but you don't win em all.
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5 years, 6 months agoNathan's comment on:
Trinity River pro and con camps hit Dallas churches on Sunday to plead their case
I wonder if Dwaine and Tom mentioned to the southern Dallas voters that the NTTA might lop off the exits at Jefferson/Houston, Corinth and MLK to keep the price tag at 1.3 billion? I wonder where the economic development would go then?
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5 years, 7 months agoNathan's comment on:
Southern Dallas needs to replace Southern Sector
Furthermore, the term 'South of the Trinity' does not accurately describe Southern Dallas or the 'Southern Sector.' Pleasant Grove and South Dallas are north or east of the Trinity.
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5 years, 7 months agoNathan's comment on:
Trinity referendum: Who funded the campaigns?
Whats the matter with you mainbrain? Don't you want Dallas to be one giant truck stop?
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5 years, 7 months agoNathan's comment on:
Discussion about the Trinity Referendum Vote
Is Pegasusnews going to create a list of contributers to the Trinity PACs like it did for the Mayoral races? That would be cool if you guys did.
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5 years, 7 months agoNathan's comment on:
DMN runs Trinity Plan editorials by Angela Hunt, Wick Allison, Tom Leppert
Wick, when I want to know who attended the latest Dallas fashion extravaganza and how fake their trophy wife looked, I will look no further than D Magazine. When I want to get an opinion on a municipal election, I think I will consult somebody who actually lives in that city and will use the park with all of the other commoners.
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5 years, 7 months agoNathan's comment on:
Trinity “Vote No” rap produced by Dallas rapper Dooney
Michael, Whether it is country, salsa, rap or polka, radio ads are directed at the uninformed. The American public should be very insulted every November of an even numbered year. Then again, there are ALOT of dumb Americans. I think that this vote will be a litmus test as to how dumb Dallasites are.
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5 years, 7 months agoNathan's comment on:
Video: League of Women Voters of Dallas debate on Trinity referendum
Leppert came off O.K. although you can tell when he gets mad. The 'voteno' crew need to cut Veletta loose, she does them no favors. I think the best point was made by Hunt when she questioned the wisdom of running yet another freeway through the most congested part of the metro.
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5 years, 7 months agoNathan's comment on:
Gloves are off as Trinity vote looms
Rawlins, Army Corp projects do not have the highest success rate. Recent articles in Time and National Geographic have pointed to some flaws in the way flood control projects are funded and executed. Do you think it wise to build a freeway in a flood way? Are you supporting the project as is because you feel that it will be completed faster with the 'inside the levee' alignment or do you believe that we need a traffic solution and the Trinity River happens to provide a right-a-way that will work? (I strongly doubt the later.)
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5 years, 7 months agoNathan's comment on:
Gloves are off as Trinity vote looms
"Actually, to affirm 'yes' on the Trinity project and vote down the referendum, you must (stupid yes?) vote 'NO'. Go figure. In other words: VOTING 'NO' means proceed and start breaking ground ASAP."
Rawlins, do you really believe they will break ground 'asap' if you vote no. Remember, there is still no secured funding for the road, many of the park features are unfunded as well. The NTTA still has no EIS and there is no final design with a final price tag. The video that the Mayor boasted was just some pretty graphics that more closely resembled the 2003 plan that the Army Corp has disallowed.
Dallas has a dozen freeways, none of which ever solved traffic. We don't have a centrally located park for our downtown revitalization. And, no, there is not 10,000 acres of parks. Much of that will be wetlands and forest, much different from a downtown park.
By the way, speaking of the forest, somebody tell the guy who writes for D magazine that the Great Trinity Forest and Bexar St is NOT in Oak Cliff.
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5 years, 8 months agoNathan's comment on:
No money to fix jail, but Dallas Sheriff says she can afford new SWAT team
Thats OK, the county is forking over taxpayer money for a suspension bridge over the 'mighty' Trinity(!) that we never voted on. Hopefully the tollroad will be voted down and the county can send that money over to East and South Dallas for some much needed road repair. Then Lupe's SWAT team can travel through the city with ease on their way to all of the burger barns and taco stands.
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5 years, 9 months agoNathan's comment on:
Tollway rates getting a hike starting September 29
The NTTA is about to tackle the Trinity Toll Road and the new 121 face lift. They need to start raising some cash, especially for the Trinity Toll Road. It will not generate enough traffic to pay for itself. It does take you toward Seagoville after all. All you PGB and DNT riders start forking it over!
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5 years, 9 months agoNathan's comment on:
TxDOT's list of structurally deficient bridges includes two in Dallas
Thanks.
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5 years, 9 months agoNathan's comment on:
Let the Trinity toll road games begin
Rawlins, Are you convinced that we need a new road to meet the trasportation challenges of the coming years? First, we already have several alternatives that are underutilized. Communters that want to bypass downtown between Tom Landry and Stemmons have the option of taking Loop 12 or better yet the much less used Westmoreland, Hampton Road or Canada Drive (yes Canada could use some inprovements but the others are six lanes and currently have very little traffic in west Dallas). When the DART construction is complete Harry Hines will be a great reliever route, oh and did I just mention DART?
In about 5 years we will have THREE train lines that serve this corridor! The TRE, the green line and the orange line. Collectively they will serve Parkland Hospital, DFW (major employer), Love Field, Farmers Branch, Carrolton, Irving, Los Colinas Urban Center, HEB area, and Downtown Fort Worth. These lines will REMOVE automobiles from our freeways instead of diverting them only a few blocks to the west and INTO A FLOODPLAIN. Just leaving Industrial/Irving Blvd as a well maintianed six lane city street would also help give commuters an alternative to Stemmons.
Additionally, we need more buses. If I want to take DART somewhere other than next to a Rail station. I have to take at least two buses, if not three or four. The time that it takes to transfer routs can be upwards of 40-50 minutes. I think that our city should pressure DART into shaving this wait. The money that it will take to pay for this road, before a single toll is ever collected would be well spent on increasing the size of the DART bus fleet.
What about the cars that bypass Downtown Dallas everyday? They will have to use the existing freeway, or the new freeway after Project Pegasus. Project Pegasus can be completed without a reliever route, just like Central was, just like the High 5 was, just like Fort Worth's downtown mixmaster was.
As far as the buisnesses on Irving/Industrial Blvd/S Lamar. The city has plans for that area. The new zoning is called 'Cedars West', 'Mixmaster Riverfront' and 'Old Trinity Industrial'. This rezoning process is sure to favor the newer realestate interests and none of the current businesses that occupy the area.
http://www.trinityrivercorridor.com/p...
As far as the cost? Look at the FAQ page from 'savethetrinity'.
Scroll down to the table and you will see that they have the Industrial options printed but do not have the price tag for the new floodplain alignment. I think that our city council mommies and daddies are lying when they say that it is 'prohibitively expensive'. I wish it were the case because then a 'Yes' vote this November would in fact 'kill' the road because this road should in fact be dead.
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The title "What Do You Think" means nothing. The cops aren't going to enforce any ordinance against rooster noise as long as Mexicans are th