So I get why the enviros don't trust Richard. Nothing about this process has been remotely kosher and both city and county officials rolled over way too easily. But better to talk to him, bc Watson made sure w/ the TIRZ agreement that the city basically can't tell them squat.
Why is Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot doubling down on forensic hypnosis, of all things? There's no junkier junk "science" www.texastribune.org/2026/06/10/t...
He once came to my house to make a bunch of promises to neighborhood folks on behalf of a developer of condos behind me. Spent a coupla hours on my back deck hearing them out, they committed to a half dozen concessions to avoid the neighborhood's opposition, then later reneged on all of them.
I certainly hope this is right, but nothing current D leadership has done makes me think so.
I don't trust anyone involved in this -- the feds, Musk, or the state of Texas -- to care one whit about whether swapping preserve land on the river for other land 10 miles away from it is a fair deal. It's almost certainly not. Everyone involved is a bad faith actor and a liar.
Homan makes this claim repeatedly, but it is not factual.
Local jails have a list of people detained in them publicly available on the internet. ICE agents can literally look it up. (So can you!)
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The riverfront shd definitely be the focus. A lot of enviro opposition has been framed the same way as fights over developing the Edwards recharge zone -- in part bc it's the same developer frontmen like Richard Suttle and ppl relitigate old battles -- but it doesn't hit the same on that spot.
Left to its own devices, I think the river would reclaim the area and it would become a delicate ecosystem again. OTOH, all the people moving to Austin have to live somewhere, we don't want them all over the Edwards aquifer recharge zone, and this bypasses gentrification.