Rockin on the River

Wonder if they will they be serving gator this year?

The alligator was found by game wardens in the Trinity River at a location between Eagle Mountain Lake and Lake Worth.

WHAT'S in the Trinity River?

On one end of town THEY spend lots of taxpayer dollars telling YOU to "Jump on in"! 

On the other end of town THEY tell YOU where the storm/sewer drains to. 

Ironic?  Idiotic?  Irresponsible?

Right on the Money

A letter in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram speaks volumes.  There's no abundance of water but while the city goes broke, the Tarrant Regional Water District and the Trinity River Vision Authority seem to have an abundance of money.  Someone should ask the gas drillers and the politicians where they got it? 

Trinity travails

Tubing on the Trinity, skiing on the Trinity, wakeboarding on the Trinity, kayaking on the Trinity -- we have all this while area lake levels are dropping at what should be an alarming rate.

Please tell me I'm not the only lifelong resident of Fort Worth who remembers when crossing the Trinity most summers meant not getting your feet wet.

The Trinity River Vision in conjunction with the Tarrant Regional Water District is wasting our most precious resource by creating the illusion of an abundance of water in downtown Fort Worth.

By now, economic development by the water district should be considered a clear conflict of interest. How do you draw new business into a region where lake levels are at double-digit lows, where they will be soon, and where future water resources are a question mark?

Tubing on the Trinity is not the answer.

-- Keith Charles, Fort Worth

TRV aka - Kay's Swamp

That is the title of the email we received.  Read along and remember, it could happen to YOU.

TRV HAS WON! After being near downtown for 58 years...

ALLIED FENCE IS MOVING ON JUNE 17, 18, 19th.

I have served my country, worked for my dad, Bill, all my life in the fence business.  The pressure and loss of sleep has taken its toll on me.  TRV will pay for one move, not two!  They will not give me time to build a new place.  TRV says, "Go, Go, Get out now".  So now I will be out about $50,000 to move, they don't care - get out!!  This is what you don't see in the paper or on the news.  Why not??

Good question.  WHY doesn't the "news" report on the existing businesses being railroaded by the Trinity River Vision?  Ask them.  NOW.

Cheers and Jeers

Interesting one of each in Saturday's Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

First a follow up on the Jeer for the Trinity River Vision Authority tube events.

Cheers: To Al McCluney's Oct. 2 jeer about floating down the Trinity River. He nailed it! Grabbing an inner tube and floating down the Trinity? What's next, asking us to jump off a cliff? No thanks!

-- Rick Pokluda, Fort Worth

We second that!  Don't forget, they'd charge you to jump off the cliff.

And now a Jeer that made us ask, off duty from what?  Being a human?  While we proudly support our local law enforcement, this is a sad example of the reason some do not.

Jeers: To the Arlington police officer who would not hold a door open for me. I served in World War II and the Korean conflict and now use a three-wheel scooter. I asked him why he didn't hold the door and his answer was, "I'm not on duty." He was in uniform.

-- Maurice Mitchell, Arlington

We don't know Al...

But we like him.

Read his Jeers in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.  Just so you know, Lone Star has asked local media about the Trinity River Vision "Authority" touting this as safe, have YOU seen anything on the news?

Jeers: To anyone who invites people to float down the filthy Trinity River. When Mayor Mike Moncrief, the City Council, U.S. Rep. Kay Granger or Trinity River Vision Authority Director J.D. Granger float on it, then you might consider it semi-safe.

-- Al McCluney, Hurst