She's back...

We recently posted about Guelma Hopkins and a letter she wrote to the editor last year that is still relevant today.

Well, she's back. And we are glad.

Here's to Ms. Hopkins!

The City Council is closing the Wedgwood library because it’s little and it’s old. Well, so am I! But we oldies aren’t alone this time. We have a high school hero collecting signatures to save our little old branch. When I’m gone, I hope he’ll still be around to vote against any incumbent rash enough to run.

An Aug. 26 article telling us how sorry the City Council was to be closing the library was adjacent to a brief detailing the council’s vote to give $250,000 to an unnamed affiliate of Downtown Fort Worth Inc., presumably a nonpublic outfit.

That’s a quarter-million dollars taken from the public and given to one more downtown boondoggle. What promises to be the mother of all money-down-a-rat-hole projects is the Trinity River Vision, whose motto seems to be, "If it ain’t broke, break it." The Trinity River has not flooded since the 1950s. Leave the Trinity alone that the Father of Waters may flow unvexed to the sea (Robert Stone).

Burnett Park is being ripped up and re-landscaped — the second time that I can recall — and yet community park swimming pools are being closed. Before the next election, council members need to compare the number of voters in their districts to the number of voters downtown.
— Guelma B. Hopkins, Fort Worth