FW CanDo!

What criteria do you use to judge the merits of a livable city? What matters most? Clean air? Certainly. A well-educated populace? A definite plus. The following brief reports (for the literacy challenged) should get a rise out of any breathing and/or thinking person:

1) This one will kill ya'. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram recently posted, 8 Simple Rules for a Healthier 2008. All good advice that I highly recommend. However, I was taken aback by the Curious Connections between #3 and #5.

When the Mayor and head cheerleader of Arlington, Texas, home of Six Flags Over Texas and the Dallas Cowboys, urges Metroplex residents to flee our polluted region, you know things are bad. You think having 1,000 gas wells in the city with many more on the way might be a contributing factor? One doesn't run into this kind of irony every day.

http://www.star-telegram.com/408/story/387517.html

2) In the latest of many forthcoming, Dubious Honors for Dirty Ol' Town, a detailed study of the literacy rate of America's larger cities, ranked Fort Worth 45th out of 69. (Arlington is 62nd?!) Coincidentally, Fort Worth is also the largest city in the study to allow gas drilling in neighborhoods.

Hmmmm. Makes total sense to me.

http://www.ccsu.edu/AMLC07/Overall_Rankings/Top10.htm

3) Late Breaking News: Star-Telegram columnist, Bob Ray Sanders, a man some people love to hate, has made an outspoken video that raises questions about urban gas drilling. Irony is breaking out all over!!!!!!!:

http://startelegram.typepad.com/barnett_shale/2008/01/mad-minute-more.ht...

DY

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