Miscellaneous thoughts on Wednesday Night

Ah let's see if I can enumerate all of the various crap flying around in my head tonight.

Congrats to Judith Ford
Congratulations to Castle Hills resident and blogger Judith Ford who has been accepted into the Texas Progressive Alliance for her blog, Castle Hills Democrats. Yes, it may be hard for some to believe, but there is a healthy contingent of progressives out in Castle Hills. (Lewisville, are you sure you want to annex them? ;))

She currently has a post up there by Melinda Cunningham entitled "Tired of Big Government", which I think is just a great piece of sarcastic satire. Which some folks just don't get...

Bad Dish
Mayor Calvin Tillman of ground zero Dish, TX - in Western Denton County has started a blog called Bad Dish where he chronicles his struggles to maintain some semblance of a livable city that just happens to sit atop a Grand Central Station of sorts for gas pipelines.

If you ever feel like you just want to trust that the oil and gas industry and their main regulator here, the Texas Railroad Commission want to do the right thing and have your best interests at heart, well - I just dare you to go visit Dish, TX and see what really goes on. Just please do it sometime before it becomes a huge smoking crater.

New City Logo

On Monday night, the Lewisville City Council (among many other more important things) approved the gradual rollout of the city's new logo and tag-line. The logo to the left is the old one, the new logo is on the right in purple-martin purple, and green.

The only complaint I have, and that I've heard from others, is that you can't read the tagline due to the small font of it

It's really hard to make out, but the city's new tagline is actually "Dark Roots, Hot Wings, Night Culture".

This just in: I'm being told that the logo actually says "Deep Roots, Broad Wings, Bright Future". Glad that's cleared up. Maybe the lettering will be large enough when it's painted on the water towers.

I kid, I kid - but the logo above right is one of the two approved sizes: 1 inch and 2.5 inches. I've used a 1 inch logo, and included .25 inch of white space around it as the style guide says. We might have to come up with a special web version of the logo that's easier to read.

Art Center

I can't wait to get our new $10 million Art center built in Old Town - right caddy-cornered from City Hall. It's going to be awesome. The construction contract was approved Monday night.

Our "Shadow Mayor"
Winston Edmondson, who ran unsuccessfully for Mayor of Lewisville this year is calling for a boycott of 7-11 stores if they don't start calling the police and having loiterers removed. Edmondson also somehow links himself to former Vice President Dick Cheney, and accepts his new role as "Shadow Mayor":

I was highly entertained, and at the same time honored, when I read a recent email from a Lewisville voter who asked if she could refer to me as Lewisville's Shadow Mayor. "It's better than telling my friends that I want them to meet Winston, the guy that just ran for mayor," she explained. That's fine. She can call me the Shadow Mayor if she wants to.

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So does the Shadow Mayor have any power? What can a Shadow Mayor accomplish? I'm a proud Lewisville citizen. With your help, what can't we accomplish? Who knows when the Lewisville city attorney, Ron Neiman, will see the light and start giving some of the legal solutions that are available to the city a thumbs up. Are we going to sit around and wait?

From Article I, Section 2, U.S. Constitution:
Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three years after the first meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent term of ten years, in such manner as they shall by law direct.