refuse to rename a tiny nub of Harwood Street <\/a>that dead ends at Woodall Rodgers Freeway is such an ugly snub at the people who are actually driving wealth for the future of this city.<\/p>\nIt wouldn\u2019t have hurt anyone to have that tiny stretch of road renamed 1 Exchange Place as a way to acknowledge the new Texas Stock Exchange (TXSE) that will make a home there.<\/p>\n
The vote against came from council members Paul Ridley, Cara Mendelsohn, Bill Roth, Adam Bazaldua and Paula Blackmon.<\/p>\n
The name change required the vote of at least 12 of the 15 council members, so it failed.<\/p>\n
We can\u2019t figure out all of the strange brew of reasons for this vote. It was cutting off your nose to spite your face.\u00a0<\/p>\n
We can say there are times when some unusual mix of populism unites the minds of Mendelsohn and Bazaldua, who are on opposite ends of the political spectrum.<\/p>\n
Mendelsohn revels in the maverick role, even when it makes no sense. She apparently is holding this name change hostage against any plan to move out of Dallas City Hall, as if it\u2019s ever appropriate to punish one group to get your way on an unrelated issue. She also had a swipe at \u201crandom billionaires and business owners and former mayors coming down.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bazaldua told us the process was \u201cdone in a vacuum and didn\u2019t follow our normal protocol\u201d and that he doesn\u2019t \u201cbelieve there\u2019s any significance to Exchange as the name when we have actively been branding it as Y\u2019all Street.\u201d<\/p>\n
Just to check ourselves here \u2014 business owners are the reason we have a city at all. Business owners created Dallas and continue to create the wealth that makes Dallas possible.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve said it before, and we say it again. Dallas is succeeding despite its government. What happens at 1500 Marilla St. has become a sideshow and an embarrassment.<\/p>\n
We hope a future council corrects this error and demonstrates that we welcome wealth creators in our city.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A smart city knows you welcome jobs and investment with open arms and especially high-paying jobs that promise…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-446940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}