Apartment problem; rodeo music; rent-a-rep

Apartment problem

Good for Fort Worth Councilman Cary Moon! The public policy should always be first to protect single-family residential neighborhoods, and the burden always on the apartment developers to show that they’ll not harm those neighborhoods (“Councilman wants a change in approach to apartments,” July 17).

Unless it is a Sundance West or a Hillside, for the most part a new apartment complex is a new neighborhood blight that still has the smell of new paint.

It will quickly enough morph from a development issue at City Hall into a protracted code enforcement problem.

Councilwoman Ann Zadeh’s support of big apartment deals is not new, and so her opposition to Moon is not surprising.

She and Councilman Sal Espino have worked overtime to jeopardize the stability of the Oakhurst neighborhood by their reckless approval of big apartment deals.

Rodeo music

The rodeo band of the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo has been fired.

They will now be using canned music.

Not only does this destroy a lot of the charm of the Fort Worth rodeo, but it also takes away jobs that many professional musicians ,whom I might add are some of the best in North Texas, have relied on every year for many years.

This is an embarrassment to the rodeo and an embarrassment to our city.

If this is about money, then charge more. Find more sponsors!

I more than likely will never attend a Fort Worth rodeo performance again because the rodeo will now be like any other “podunk” rodeo you can find anywhere in Texas.

Fort Worth is where the West begins and tradition is alive. Let’s keep it that way.

In the meantime, good luck with your average rodeo.

Live music is always better.

Rent-a-rep

C’mon, folks, let’s rent our own representatives! What could it cost to out-bid the NRA? What are their annual dues? How many dues-payers do they have? You do the math; I’ll join!

When principle and money clash, never bet against the cash.

This story was originally published July 21, 2016 at 5:32 PM with the headline "Apartment problem; rodeo music; rent-a-rep."