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Worthy project
If Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz and Rep. Beth Van Duyne painted Amtrak trains gold and changed the name of the Fort Worth-Oklahoma City service to the Trump Heartland Express, would Congress save our rail service?
Heck, just repaint all Amtrak trains gold and rename it Trumptrak, and maybe our federal passenger service could get billions without congressional approval. Install gold toilets just to be sure.
Seriously, many depend on the Heartland Express. Make America great again by keeping and promoting it.
- Gabrielle Gordon, unincorporated Tarrant County
Land heritage
The idea that the Fort Worth school district should lease the Farrington Field parking lot isn’t much better than selling it. Strong insider real estate powers would prevail when the time came for renewal, and the money gained would quickly be gone.
Public land in the Cultural District can never be replaced. We must oppose this further diminishing of the people’s land heritage.
- Charles Dreyfus, Fort Worth
Cornyn’s character
I have known Sen. John Cornyn since 1998 and have always found him to be a man of character. And that is what the Republican Senate runoff is all about. Cornyn has been tested and is at risk of losing to a person of questionable character.
Cornyn has attracted numerous major endorsements, including from the National Border Patrol Council, the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas, Texas Alliance for Life, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the Republican Jewish Coalition, the Texas Farm Bureau, the National Association of Realtors and many more. Individuals such as former Gov. Rick Perry and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich back him.
We need senators of character, and John Cornyn is such a candidate.
- Bill Melton, former Dallas County treasurer, Cedar Hill
Shameful legacy
May 14 brought the 600th execution since Texas resumed the death penalty in 1982. (May 17, 11A, “Man who wrapped ex-TCU professor’s head in 36 feet of duct tape is put to death”) The killing of Tarrant County Black men is a shameful legacy and has bookended these execution milestones.
Tarrant County executed the first Black man of this era, Charlie Brooks, in December 1982. No. 600, Edward Busby, was also a Black man and sentenced in Tarrant County. As noted by the Texas Defender Service, Tarrant County is an “extreme outlier” compared with the rest of Texas in killing people of color.
This shameful legacy should cause concern in our vibrant and growing community.
- Bob Michael, Grapevine