Bye-Bye, Rich Connor

The Fort Worth Business Press ... sold! I guess that explains Rich Connor's column last week. I was hoping it was a change in editorial position on urban gas drilling in Fort Worth. Instead, it was just a change in editors.

Agreement from an Unexpected Source

Last week, I wrote this: "I believe we can't leave it all in the hands of developers who are more concerned with maximizing profit than making this a better community. The fact is that green space matters -- and I'm talking trees, not money."

In today's Fort Worth Business Press, someone wrote this: "You could say the Barnett Shale bonanza is a case of trading green for green. Somewhere along the way, it seems, the environment and the beauty of the Texas landscape in these parts loses as much as individuals and corporations gain."

Wow, sounds pretty similar. What right-thinking individual could that have been? Some other tree-hugging pinko in the Fort?

That person was Rich Connor, former Star-Telegram publisher and current publisher of the Business Press. Way to go, Rich. Now, how about helping us save some of Fort Worth?