Quote Originally Posted by birdgirl73
Here in the Dallas area, this sort of super-heightened political-racial sensitivity is always making the news. The commissioner named John Wylie Price mentioned in the piece above is always making a racial mountain out of a non-racial molehill. He loves publicity and loves to play the race card if it'll get him on the news!

One correction, Daihashi, to your heading. The folks involved aren't on the Dallas City Council. They're the Dallas County Commissioners. So they're the administrators/keepers of the county DA's office, the JP courts, and the county hospital system, among other things. The county hospital is Parkland, where I just finished up my first third-year med school rotation and am about to start my second in ob-gyn. The county commissioners are always saying the county hospital is a financial black hole, too, which it is. The Parkland/UT Southwestern system provides medical care not only to Dallas County residents and indigents but to a vast number of citizens from the county directly south of Texas. Last year the county commissioners sent a bill to Mexico for nearly $6 million to try and recover some of the health care expenses Parkland and the county picked up for its citizens!
ack.. craziness. And thanks for the correction, it was a hasty post right before my bed time :thumbsup: