We Need a Boatload of Money for the Trinity, and It Ain't Coming
from Washington  We're screwed: Interesting story inside The
Dallas Morning News on Tuesday about cuts in the federal budget
for the Dallas Trinity River levee project. We're not saying the
Morning News story is any kind of propaganda. Just saying
there's more there than meets the eye.  Here is what is sort of
smooshed over in Morning News' account: Dallas has two distinct
and separate Trinity River levee issues.  The first is the big
Trinity River "Project," to raise the levees and build a highway
out between them. The second is more recent and has to do with
the levees we already have: Are they screwed because of poor
maintenance, with or without the whole raising thing? If we
never did the raising, would we still have to fix or replace
what we have now?  What's the difference, in terms of Tuesday's
story? Mega.  Maintenance of the existing levees is a city
responsibility, not federal. If the levees have to be
substantially rebuilt, it's a hit