Fort Worth's Enviable Quality Of Life

Back in May I blogged about a weird announcement from the City of Fort Worth in which the city advertised that for the 3rd time in 45 years the city would hold a city wide conversation with its citizens.

In this morning's Fort Worth Star-Telegram there was a paid ad from the city of Fort Worth. I don't know if this counts as the Star-Telegram using the infamous "envy of" verbiage, due to this being a paid ad, but this is the first paragraph...

"In a recent city survey, residents agreed that Fort Worth is a great place to live, work and play. Such an enviable quality of life, though, is no accident."

The ad article goes on to talk about all the good the 2 previous city wide conversations accomplished . The 1963 conversation somehow resulted in Fort Worth's seldom used convention center and much used D/FW Airport. And resulted in Fort Worth being named an All-American City. Wow!

And then in 1992 Fort Worth's Ruling Junta Oligarchy deigned to listen to the citizens of Fort Worth again. This conversation resulted in a recycling program, the return of minor league baseball and the Bass Performance Hall. And once more, Fort Worth was named an All-American City. Wow, again!

It is interesting, to me, that this 1992 city wide conversation resulted in the downtown Fort Worth Performance Hall. I thought the Bass family initiated that. I'm impressed, I tell you, impressed, that the Bass's built that hall after listening to the good citizens of Fort Worth verbalize their desire to have a good performance hall.

Now, the 2008 city wide conversation is under way. Maybe this time all the talking will result in recycling occurring in my zone of Fort Worth. I'm not sure that that All-American City thing is still in operation. If so, I'm sure Fort Worth will be an All-American City again after the wonders produced by this 2008 city wide conversation between Fort Worth's citizens and the Ruling Junta.