SocraticGadfly
Joined Dec. 12, 2006
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1 month, 1 week agoSocraticGadfly's comment on:
Exclusive discount Halloween tickets from Pegasus News
When Today Newspapers was still open, we got freebie tix to some places. Of course, it was a swapout for free ads, perhaps part of why Today is now closed.
And, of course No. 2, it was more than we needed, but we never thought of selling the surplus.
I don't know if there's been a swapout here, but it's possible...
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1 month, 4 weeks agoSocraticGadfly's comment on:
UPDATED: Ellis County publisher learning tough lessons about hardball rhetoric, InterWebs publishing
Mike, at least at the end, after the long overview, you realize what a schmuck Dauben is.
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9 months, 2 weeks agoSocraticGadfly's comment on:
Bell murder stuns Permenter 'family'
I corrected the incorrect information about an apartment and just two, not three daughters, in a news brief in the next issue. (Sorry, we don't post briefs like that to our website, and I don't have the hardcopy.)
That said, the story as written says the daughters were Bell's partner's children, not her own.
And, Volleygurl, I'm curious as to what caught your attention 11 months after the story?
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9 months, 2 weeks agoSocraticGadfly's comment on:
Bell murder stuns Permenter 'family'
I did an update/correction to the original story on our website, and in hardcopy, in brief, the next week.
Steve Snyder Editor, Cedar Hill Today
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1 year, 4 months agoSocraticGadfly's comment on:
Cedar Hill town meeting gives latest on Loop 9, student employment, etc.
Michael, yes, but JWP gets around, you know.
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1 year, 9 months agoSocraticGadfly's comment on:
Lakewood Whole Foods decision has many up in arms
CGrover, hell, we need one south of the Trinity. Whole Foods or Central Market, whichever comes first. We've got plenty of people here, and other higher end stores now coming to Cedar Hill.
My purchasing? The bulk bin items like brown rice, whole wheat berries, etc? WF is cheaper and has a little more variety?
Spices? CM has much more variety.
Coffee? CM has more variety, including organics, fair trades, shade growns, and is cheaper.
Cheeses? WF is less expensive for sure; CM has slight edge on variety. Neither carries Vella's five-year old raw milk cheddar, even though CM, at least, carries other Vella cheeses.
Bread? Neither one is fantastic on store-brand pre-wrapped. As far as bakery, I lean CM.
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1 year, 9 months agoSocraticGadfly's comment on:
Lancaster school board receives 5-year report
Lewis has said in the past that half the elementary campuses would be "recognized," and also that the district would be a "recognized" district.
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1 year, 10 months agoSocraticGadfly's comment on:
Dallas Weekly's 25 to watch in 2008
Where is Leslie Jutzi with The Allen Group, the folks building the huge intermodal transportation hub in the would-be "inland port" area of south Dallas/southern suburbs?
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2 years, 4 months agoSocraticGadfly's comment on:
Lancaster ISD Board votes to approve 4-day school week
Well, we know how well those walking tours worked on bond elections.
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2 years, 5 months agoSocraticGadfly's comment on:
Correction to our weekly email: Perry did not have a record number of vetoes in this session
Don't worry, in a week or so we'll see just how bad he can be this time around.
I'll even give you 1-3 odds, if not more, that he vetoes the Trans Texas Corridor "compromise" bill and the Texas Senate winds up looking like a bunch of idiots for not having the conejos to override his veto of the original no-TTC bill.
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2 years, 6 months agoSocraticGadfly's comment on:
Lancaster ISD meeting raises suspicion
Sheila, I'm not even going to try to argue with you further. You obviously have preconceptions that it isn't worth my time to try to change. And, I doubt you did read Lancaster Today that regularly.
Oh, and hello, Marjorie. :)
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2 years, 6 months agoSocraticGadfly's comment on:
Lancaster ISD meeting raises suspicion
Several comments:
First, canyouhearme: Why don't you ask orchestra director Theresa Dobbs about the money for additional cellos that Browden later reappropriated? Why don't you ask her how many supplies she and the two other orchestra teachers have to buy out of their own pockets?
While you're at it, why don't you ask the district office if it ever recovered that violin stolen last fall? Or all the other stuff stolen from the high school?
Oh, and while I'm at it, I talked directly to Larry Lewis on many things when I was there, including all of this that I was told on the record, whether quotably or not.
And, as for local coverage of sports, high school music, etc., did you ever subscribe to Lancaster Today before it went out of business, going out of business precisely because people like you didn't read it? We had plenty of it. If you didn't read my paper, then stop whining.
Second, Sheila: Ross Taylor hasn't been running the educational foundation since last September. That also was in Lancaster Today.
Fact is, LISD actually didn't want ROSS in the first place. Supposedly, they actually wanted his executive assistant in Duncanville, and they hired Ross just to bring her along for the ride. (This was long enough ago I think off-the-record shelf dates have expired.) But, D-ville gave her a raise (but not Ross' title) and got her to stay.
Interested Citizen: Has it already been almost four years down the road toward that "Five Year Plan"?
I want back in a metropolitan area, but am glad I'm no longer there, even though small-town BFE journalism -- and its life in general -- is about to drive me stir-crazy.
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2 years, 7 months agoSocraticGadfly's comment on:
Belo reports results for first quarter 2007
Well, not that I like the Snooze in any particular way (though the Chron is far worse), but EVERY newspaper is "obsessed" about the price of newsprint. It's the single biggest expense. That's why the News is 10 percent narrower than it was at the start of this decade. That's why it's paper stock is at least 5 percent lighter. And, that's what's happened at most papers around the country.
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2 years, 7 months agoSocraticGadfly's comment on:
Convicting innocent people a 'badge of honor' under old mentality, says Dallas DA
Scott, the double-blind idea, especially, is great, and should be a national standard.
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2 years, 7 months agoSocraticGadfly's comment on:
Dallas Voice: Inland port represents major economic boost
I've said it before... if oil prices go high enough, the idea of shipping so much from China will start changing.
On farmland... we've been a net food importer since 2005.
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2 years, 7 months agoSocraticGadfly's comment on:
New logistics hub to open in Lancaster, bring up to 60,000 jobs
Sorry, Castle Hills, but I'Ve read a lot Peak Oil. I didn't just invent that idea out of my head. Several Peak Oil blogs have commented on how oil prices could cause a "logistics tipping point" somewhere above $100/bbl.
Point is, if oil, and gasoline, gets high enough, companies will do less of both trucking AND rail shipping... they'll find it's less expensive to build more stuff locally/regionally.
And you DEFINITELY don't know Jeff Melcher, who has apparently had a personal grudge against me for almost a year, which he conflated with my professional work, calling personal vacation time "gallivanting."
Yes, Jeff, I'll fight fire with fire if you continue to insist on starting the fires in the first place. Doubly so if you want to continue the snide attitude that started with that "gallivanting" comment last summer.
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2 years, 7 months agoSocraticGadfly's comment on:
Perry moves to consolidate intelligence gathering in Governor's office
What do you expect? Gov. Helmethair is just repeating the lessons he learned from his master and former CEO governor.
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2 years, 7 months agoSocraticGadfly's comment on:
New logistics hub to open in Lancaster, bring up to 60,000 jobs
We'll see about 60,000 jobs.
First, Alliance ain't going to just lie down while some new boy comes into the territory.
Second, does D/FW really need THAT MUCH warehousing space? I mean, Alliance is less than 40 percent developed.
Besides that fact, in south Dallas/southside suburbs, you have: A. The warehousing space south of I-20 to the west of Hampton; B. The Argent/ProLogis business/logistics park whose first building is now being built, in Lancaster; C. A similar project in Dallas, on Hampton just south of 20, slightly ahead of Argent; D. A similar project in Dallas, I-35 at Danieldale, somewhat behind Argent.
Folks, there's simply no way the area needs all that.
Third, if oil goes over $100/bbl in today's dollars, a number of economists think that's a "tipping point" for folks like WallyWorld to rethink their just in time delivery AND for many of its suppliers to think about how much they outsource overseas -- in other words, to seriously tip the logistics apple cart.
Fourth, if Lancaster continues to have more and more criminal problems... what level of companies will come to a place like the Dallas Logistics Hub?
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2 years, 7 months agoSocraticGadfly's comment on:
James Baker to discuss "A New TXU" in Dallas appearance
Would that be the NEW new TXU, the titty babies that are threatening to close power plants?
Speaking of "new TXU," where is KKR (other than its penchant for 'chainsawing,') going to get this buyout money from, especially since a UK paper reported they're also signed on for a $50 billion, record setting, private buyout of Dow?
The heck with the Texas PUC getting its panties in a wad over not being properly stroked on this deal. The SEC or FTC or somebody seriously needs to ask where KKR is going to get all this money.
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2 years, 8 months agoSocraticGadfly's comment on:
Dallas picked as first city in the country for clean-air initiative
Not enough.
GM makes hybrid buses (bet you probably didn't know that, since they refuse to make a hybrid passenger car).
Why isn't this in the mix?
And "encourage" construction of energy efficient homes? How does the govt propose to get the D.R. Hortons of the world to stop building their ugly, crappy big boxes?
Instead, here's two real ideas.
One, let's start replacing EVERY incandescant bulb in the area with a fluorescent bulb replacement. That will negate the need for any new power plants.
Two, let's have the EPA get real about TXU. (Not TXI, TXU down there in Ennis.) Shove Smokey Joe Barton in a stack, if needed.
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2 years, 8 months agoSocraticGadfly's comment on:
Lancaster City Council
I can't believe this city council hired one Ricky Childers from Longview as its new city manager. Here's some of my concern:
First, isn't it a step down to go from a city the size of Longview to one the size of Lancaster? Of course it is, and, Mayor Tillotson, Lancaster City Council and Childers, let's not otherwise spin it?
But, if it a step down, then why is Childers "stepping down"?
First of all, this HUGE and "Nixonian" OOOOPPPPS, long before the possibility of his stepping down!
Fingerprinting your own city staff in Longview??? Sources say in March of 2000, while serving as the city manager of Longview, Childers ordered a number of city employees and department heads to undergo fingerprinting by the Longview police department. Why? Childers reportedly received a letter critical of his administration. He called the police who found a fingerprint on the letter. Childers then ordered certain city employees be fingerprinted to see if they had written the letter. Reached by phone, Childers refused to comment.
http://www.kcbd.com/Global/story.asp?...
What the heck are you doing??
At about 55 years old, he sounds like he would want to remain a consultant; if he wanted to move to Dallas, I would think he could pick up consulting gigs without being a full-time CM.
Otherwise, if it walks, talks and quacks like a duck slumming downward, it probably is. That is proof No. 1.
Also, and back to the present day, according to this online newspaper/bulletin board, several people thought he was stiffing Longview police on pay scale/salary. The Longview City Council also allegedly hired him as a consultant, plus gave him six months’ severance, rather than go through the work of firing him.
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2 years, 8 months agoSocraticGadfly's comment on:
UPDATED: War protesters blocking Mockingbird-75 overpass during rush hour, moved on by 5:45
kphagen: "Rebuilt"? "Turned around"?
Ahh, your dictionary must just be the "W" dictionary, not "Webster's." I'll have to get out my translator's dictionary to make real-world sense of it.
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2 years, 8 months agoSocraticGadfly's comment on:
UPDATED: War protesters blocking Mockingbird-75 overpass during rush hour, moved on by 5:45
Grayhawk... 95 percent of the ppl in the Middle East can't do this in part because we've propped up their regimes with arms sales, etc.
And, actually, despite our government's despizing it, and even attempting to kill some of its reporters in Afghanistan, al Jazeera IS making a difference in the Arab world.
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2 years, 8 months agoSocraticGadfly's comment on:
UPDATED: War protesters blocking Mockingbird-75 overpass during rush hour, moved on by 5:45
Damn, I wish I had been there to participate.
And, the "sheep" are actually those like the poster immediately above me, who's still following the Preznit's lead.
Hey, move on... you're blocking mental traffic up there.
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2 years, 8 months agoSocraticGadfly's comment on:
Rangers drop Ameriquest, rename ballpark
If we want the same spirit, call the site the Ballpark of D.R. Horton, for cheap houses instead of cheap mortgages, or something like that.
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Launching it softly, with this post
Mike..maybe it just takes some time for it to show up under the Fans tab.