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Opinion Letters to the Editor — Readers make noise about leaf blowers, praise the AT&T HQ’s looks and cite some football fundamentals Raking sounds good, they write, and better for the environment. Second-grade students Jumoke Henry (left) and Jamyah Anderson raked leaves to be used for compost inside the teaching garden at the Meadows Elementary School.( ROSE BACA - neighborsgo staff photographer) Sounding off on leaf blowers ... Re: ‘Rake, don’t blow — Leaf blowers efficiently destroy important patches of nature along with our calm,’ by Peter Bahouth, Friday Opinion. Great idea...

KERA A new plan to make Fair Park more open to the public is underway. Part of that plan includes building a new 11-acre park that's free and community-minded. A new $39 million park is coming to Fair Park. It'll be free and open to the public. But can it lure people to the grounds year-round? Dallas’ Fair Park welcomes tens of thousands of Texans to the grounds every fall for the State Fair. And most of the year, it feels closed off to the general public. But there are plans to open up Fair Park to its nearby communities and to make it more accessible to greater Dallas.

Letters to the Editor — Distribution of vaccines, sedition, Supreme Court dismissing Texas lawsuit, hypocritical rhetoric, book reviews Readers worry whether vaccines will go to the correct people, explain what sedition means, justify the Supreme Court’s actions regarding the Texas lawsuit, are tired of false talk and hypocritical rhetoric and miss book reviews. VP and Chief Pharmacy Officer Jon Albrecht receives a shipment of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine arriving at Methodist Dallas Medical Center in Dallas on Dec. 14, 2020. The hospital is one of four sites across Texas receiving the sh...

D Magazine titled “Why is Dallas architecture so bad?,” Dallas Morning News architecture critic Mark Lamster revisits the question. How has Dallas progressed in the intervening years, and how might it remake itself for the better? Is Dallas architecture still so bad? We recommend reading Lamster’s answer first and then moving on to his list below of the best and worst architecture in Dallas today. BEST: LETTER OF COMMENDATION Fountain Place “The architecture of a tall tower is 99% logic and 1% art — but don’t you dare take away that 1%,” said Henry Cobb, architect of the prism...

Letters to the Editor Opinion Letters to the Editor - Reactions to the proposed fountain at Klyde Warren Park and the column about Christmas inflatables Readers mostly agree with Mark Lamster’s column on the Klyde Warren Park fountain and chuckle over the column on Christmas inflatables. (File 2014)(Oleg Albinsky / Getty Images) More could be done Re: “Fountain could overwhelm Klyde Warren — Park needs a water feature, but one that’s sensible, sustainable,” by Mark Lamster, Sunday Arts & Life column. Let me first say I think such a gesture is great. I just think there is so much m...