Be there tonight

Got something to say about the streetcar?  Seems everyone does.

Read the Letter to the Editor in today's Fort Worth Star-Telegram. 

Then come tonight and be heard.

Remember as you're reading the letter that not all letters get published in the paper.  Ask WHY?

Ignoring the little guy

Mitch McConnell says the main Republican goal for the next two years is to make sure President Barack Obama isn't re-elected. Isn't that what they've been doing for the last two years?

Now they want to allow tax cuts for the top 2 percent of wage earners while voting against extending unemployment benefits. What is being done about unemployment, Wall Street reform etc.? It is clear the ordinary citizen is a low priority for Republicans and pacifying the rich is a high one. Of course, rich people are the ones who get them elected.

Meanwhile, the Fort Worth City Council is considering spending $88 million on a 3-mile streetcar system. Why isn't that money being spent on roads, infrastructure, paying off debt etc.? Once again, it appears the benefits go to the rich and the ordinary citizens are left in the cold.

-- Maria A. Gibson, Fort Worth