Instead of spewing negative racial arguments, here’s something councilwoman Hill can do that’s positive for South Dallas

During her briefing today on Resource Flow Control, Sanitation Services Director Mary Nix spoke about a Resource Recovery Facility that was constructed on a site that was a landfill in Roseville, Calif. When it was a landfill, there was not much else in the neighborhood. However, since the landfill has been replaced by this “materials recovery facility,” as it is called there, a subdivision featuring homes in the $300,000-$500,000 range have been constructed there. A university campus is now another neighbor. And currently under construction less than a mile away is a Thunder Valley Casino.

Ka-ching! So instead of blatantly and embarrassingly using irrelevant racial arguments to try to stymie Resource Flow Control, what Dallas City Councilwoman Vonciel Hill and the rest of her South Dallas colleagues (hell, recruit the entire council for this effort) should be doing is scheduling meetings with the pro-gambling interests in Texas — and, trust me on this, there are many of them and they have deep pockets — to plan a presentation to the next legislative session on why, in these crumbling economic times when the state needs all the money it can steal, gambling should finally be legalized in Texas.

Then they should be preparing a site, perhaps near the soon-to-be South Dallas Resource Recovery Center, for a Harrah’s, a WinStar, a Bally’s, a Bellagio, even a Thunder Valley Casino. Now wouldn’t that be a shot in the economic arm for the area!