Dallas ISD bond signs are planted outside Whitney Young Elementary School school in Dallas on April 10. If the $6.2 billion bond passes with voters, the district plans on building 26 new replacement schools, including Whitney Young Elementary, and renovating and modernizing all campuses.
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A fan of Dallas ISD bond
Re: “Voters to weigh $6.2B bond — Ask is bigger than the last proposal and it comes with a tax hike,” Tuesday news story.
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Sometimes, diction is everything. When the deck to the headline states, “Ask is bigger than the last proposal and it comes with a tax hike,” it exudes somewhat of a negative connotation to an issue that is, in fact, extremely positive for the students of Dallas ISD.
What if the deck said, “For less than a cup of coffee a month, Dallas could have 26 new schools” or “Bond will result in the elimination of all district portables”?
The students of Dallas ISD are deserving of support and of the school replacements outlined in the 2026 bond. We know there is a direct correlation between the environment in which a student learns and their ability to maximize their learning potential.
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The superintendent and those in charge of our bond program are also deserving the support of our taxpayers for the achievements made in the 2020 bond.
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Todd C. Howard, downtown Dallas
A plan for power plants
This is about the Texas Legislature on April Fools’ Day.
No fooling around was the message from the Senate Committee on Business and Commerce to the Public Utility Commission in an April 1 meeting: Make sure the large data centers pay their fair share of the cost of added electric transmission lines, so other Texans do not subsidize them.
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The need for new dispatchable generation plants was brought up by the committee. The ERCOT CEO acknowledges that market design changes are needed to get power plants built.
My plan to get power plants built and minimize scarcity pricing is the only plan that has been submitted to the PUC in docket 58777.
It was first proposed by me to the Senate Banking and Commerce committee on March 4, 2025, in testimony on Senate Bill 388 and in prior filings with the Public Utility Commission of Texas dating back to 2022.
Time has run out for a decision.
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Thomas L. Darte, Greenville
Tax refunds for seniors
I just finished filing my 2025 federal tax return and true to his word, President Donald Trump delivered to this senior citizen. My wife and I had no significant difference in our net incomes from 2024 to 2025. We both receive basic Social Security benefits, and I have a meager pension.
We went from having to pay $1,000 in 2024 to getting a refund of $200 this year. I’m not an accountant, but that would appear to be a net increase of $1,200 to our annual yearly budget.
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Nowhere on the tax form does it require you to state your political preference, so whether you voted for Trump or not, supported representatives who voted against the Big Beautiful Bill or not, millions of tax-filing senior citizens should be sharing in similar results. Too bad we don’t hear more about this good news.
Sanford LaHue, Arlington
An upside-down world
Are we living in Alice in Wonderland’s upside-down world? The vice president of the most powerful democratic country campaigns for the quasi-dictator of a sovereign European country, which has less than 10 million people. And that incumbent candidate was the preferred choice of both Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.
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What would President Ronald Reagan have thought about the evolution of the “evil empire”?
Rishiyur K. Mohan, Flower Mound
He sees a pattern
Re: “Trump vs. Vatican: Who wins in rhetorical holy war? Tensions reflect clashes over morality, policy,” by Benjamin J. Dueholm, Tuesday Opinion.
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I think I see a pattern here.
First, President Donald Trump unleashed his billionaire hatchet man, Elon Musk, to destroy the Voice of America, which for 80 years brought vital news to millions of people trapped inside dictatorships.
Trump also launched tirades against world-famous American entertainers like Taylor Swift, claiming she was “woke” and “no longer hot” after he said he hated her. Bruce Springsteen also got whacked, with Trump calling the Boss a “dried-out prune of a rocker whose skin is all atrophied.”
Now, Trump has picked on even bigger targets, snarling at the first American Pope, Leo XIV, calling him “weak on crime” and even claiming that Leo was chosen as pope to placate Trump. “If I wasn’t in the White House, Leo wouldn’t be in the Vatican,” Trump said.
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See the pattern? VOA was the original Voice of America. Swift and Springsteen have millions of fans all over the world who listen (and sing and dance) when they speak. Pope Leo is the Chicago-born voice of a billion Catholics. But for the narcissist-in-chief, there is room for only one Voice of America — his.
Chris Tucker, Richardson
Like Barry Gibb?
How anyone could mistake the image in President Donald Trump’s post as Jesus is difficult to understand. Everyone knows Jesus looks like Barry Gibb.
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Frank Taylor, McKinney
Advice for the pope
Hey, Pope Leo XIV, turn the other cheek.
Paul Gieseking, Far North Dallas
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Release the AI prompt
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President Donald Trump claims that his recent picture release portrayed him as a doctor healing the sick. But it sure looks like a blasphemous illustration of him as Jesus.
I challenge the president to release the AI prompt that was used to create the image, so the media can check his claim by recreating the image.
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Harold Cronson, North Dallas