Having taken the Dallas Morning News to task last weekend for its giving short shrift to the legacy of Sen. Eugene McCarthy and main headline status to comedian Richard Pryor let me know provide the News with praise. Anyone who lives in the City of Dallas, or who owns property here, or does business here, should read today’s front page story about Mayor Miller’s relationship with affordable housing developers Brian and Cheryl Potashnik. The story, headlines “Developer ties hurt many, but not Miller” by Grommer Jeffers, Jr., and Reese Dunklin.” In this case “developer ties” shows a Mayor acting as a virtual business development officer for the Potashnik’s company while receiving $10,000 in contributions from same.

The Mayor is at her sanctimonious best allowing as how there was zero connection between the couple’s support for her and her support form them. Only her opponents would engage in such but never the Mayor. The Mayor protests that her multifaceted support was only given because the Potashnik’s are outstanding citizens and, gosh, surely everyone understands she only takes contributions from those with the best interest of the city at heart.

Readers of this story may also begin to understand how and why Rufus Shaw (see his past View from South of the Trinity) in his Dallas Blog can say that the city’s African Americans feel they are being unfairly targeted. Many white readers of DallasBlog.com have asked in amazement if the black community really feels the way Shaw says they do. When I answer “yes” they shake their heads in wonderment that anyone could really think that way. Read this story and you will understand why the black community feels their politicians are being unfairly singled out.

There a lot to this story (and a lot of this story) and it represents the type of outstanding work the city needs from its only daily newspaper. The Dallas News deserves unqualified praise.

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