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It is the hub of the highly touted Metroplex. The city is often publicized as a chic yet robust metropolis with no end to its growth in sight, and a place with no fences where opportunity has no boundaries. But the Dallas first report points out that there are limits here. The city is landlocked in more ways than one. It is surrounded by incorporated municipalities, five of them with the population of more than 100,000 each. In fact, during the past ten years, the city of Dallas has grown at a much slower pace than its suburbs. The report shows that for two years during the last half of the 1980s, Dallas actually lost population. And while the suburbs continue to gain population, they also continue to gain new businesses.

Although the headlines often proclaim that a new business giant is relocating to Dallas, more often than not that new business is coming to Irving, or Plano, or Richardson, or any Metroplex town except Dallas. The Dallas first report concludes that in spite of the city's perceived dynamism, the city of Dallas has a lot of problems, and that its real competition is not with Houston Atlanta, Denver, Phoenix, or Orlando, but with its own suburbs. Thank you.

As more new businesses go to the suburbs, so do new jobs, and a large attack space for the suburban cities. During the last 20 years, the city of Dallas lost more than 25,000 manufacturing jobs, while the suburbs had significant gains, and according to the Dallas first report, in the next ten years the employment trends will continue to favor the communities which surround Dallas. For example, between now and the year 2000, the projected average annual increase in employment for the city of Dallas will be only 1.2%, whereas for Garland it will be 1.8%.

2.9% for both Carleton and Irving, 3.8% for both Plano and Richardson, and a 5.4% increase in employment for Addison. Last year alone, according to the report, 29,000 jobs were generated in the Metroplex through business relocations and expansions, but only 4,600 of those jobs were in the city of Dallas proper. The others went to Los Galinas in Irving, the Richardson Plano area, Centerport near Dallas Fort Worth Airport, Fort Worth's New Alliance Airport, and Ellis County, the site of the proposed superconducting supercollider. We are excited about having the SSC in Texas. In addition to the overall job loss, those coming into the workforce in the city tend to be less skilled than those leaving Dallas for the suburbs. To help offset the loss of tax revenue, the report recommends some form of metropolitan tax-based sharing,

where Dallas would benefit from increased property valuations caused by new business which relocate in its neighboring cities. Thank you. Thank you. GTE, Kimberly Clark, Caltech's Petroleum, all came to the Dallas area, but not to Dallas.

They're now based in Irving, Fujitsu picked Richardson as its new home, and Plano got JC Penny. In addition to those big names, two large Dallas-based companies, EDS and Frito-Lay, left town and headed for the suburbs, where all these companies running to something special, or where they all running from something bad. The Dallas first report suggests that while companies want the cultural amenities of the big city of Dallas, they want to avoid its declining infrastructure, what many consider a substandard educational system, and the growing minority and underclass population. The study recommends that the city first has to invest in itself, even if it has to borrow money to do so. That would include revitalizing downtown.

In order to revitalize downtown, the researchers say there should be the restoration of Fair Park, redevelopment of farmer's market, construction of a downtown baseball stadium, completion of the Dallas Zoo, and expansion of passenger service and industrial facilities at Love Field. And to improve education, the study recommends freedom of choice for students in the Dallas School District, greater autonomy for principles and teachers by the Central Administration and School Board. More involvement by the Dallas Business Community with curriculum design in the DISD, it suggests a Fort Worth program as a model, and the reopening of the now-closed Bishop College as a state-supported four-year college, emphasizing the training of urban teachers. Thank you.

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A rivalry so the seeds for Fort Worth cultural district, insulted that Dallas would host the 1936 Texas Centennial, Fort Worth newspaper publisher and patriarch,

Amenji Carter, sought justice. Fort Worth built its own tribute to the state's 100th birthday, a theater and sports and entertainment complex. Carter named the complex for comedian Will Rogers, a good friend who died the year before. 54 years later, the complex anchors a 950-acre cultural district that includes four museums, three theaters, and scenic parks. The district has become world-renowned, but its architectural roots are dying. The tiled front of Will Rogers Auditorium reflects state-fried, the inside reflects city neglect.

Architect Gilson Reakin is the cultural district's planning director. Well, the tiles and the netting are probably one of the more obvious ways in which you can see that there's deterioration. It's acoustic ceiling tile that's really coming loose, and in many cases it's the plaster behind it that is rotten and also coming loose. This all started a couple months ago with the tiles started to fall, and that's the only way that they can really keep it from landing on people. In the basement. Yeah, then there's more dressing room spaces, another dressing room here. It's cheap, but it's cheap because of the condition it's in, too. The city council wants to save the auditorium's facade and rebuild the rest as a performance hall for Fort Worth Ballet, Symphony Orchestra, and Opera. My name is Elaine Petrus for those of y'all that don't know me, and I am chairman of a group called Citizens for Fort Worth Performance that was appointed by the mayor to direct and support the bond election campaign. It's an exciting opportunity for the city and improving the quality of life.

The auditorium itself is not today too much more than just a hall interior with a stage. There really isn't room to adequately house, for instance, a symphony on the stage where Rogers has a success. Next month, Fort Worth voters will decide the building's future in a $20 million bond election to repair Will Rogers Auditorium. How do these conditions get to where they are now? How do these buildings, the city, and put the money in that needed to be put in? I guess I'm pretty sure the other issue, how we prevent that from happening on the new facilities. Well, part of it is that there will be an endowment that will help take care of that. These facilities, by their very nature, don't make money. So the endowment is there to try to make sure that the money is there that's needed to be there to do that equipment. The complex is in councilmember Bill Meadows District. Meadows supports the bond sale, but originally he opposed it. Early on there was some criticism and concern about, is this going to be an exclusive facility? Oh, this is an elitist facility that's going to be limited just to a certain aspect realm in the society.

You know, that could not be further from the truth in the sense that number one, this is a city of Fort Worth facility. It is owned by all the citizens of Fort Worth. I still, I hate to disagree with that because I'm not sure it's for everyone. Revie Carey, formerly sat in the state legislature and on the Fort Worth school board, representing the southeast side of Fort Worth. Well, there are many objections to it. First of all, the city council continues to continue the same part of the exclusion, and that is the exclusion of blacks and Hispanics from the initial planning. Carey also speaks for the minority leaders and citizens council made up of members of more than 50 organizations. This month, they voted to oppose the bond election. But by opposing this, I mean, you might put a piece of Fort Worth's history at risk. Well, we already at risk in this city as far as the minorities of concern, because we are most time as if we don't exist. Carey is disillusioned, although minorities are on the bond planning committee. Also, the Hispanic and black chambers of commerce have endorsed the bond plan.

I think when we talk about, you know, is that a good investment? You know, I'm convinced that it is. What excites city officials is that their $20 million investment will buy $50 million worth of repairs. Foundations, art patrons, and business leaders are to match city money with $30 million to fix the auditorium, a connecting tower, and the Scott Theatre. Casa Manana Theatre, which has a leaky roof, and bad lighting and sound equipment, will get $7 million for extensive renovation. A city appointed management board will ensure all groups will have access to the auditorium. The contributors of $30 million, they're going to control the coal industry. I mean, control it as they do everything else. Besides exclusion, Carey's group worries about broken promises. Fort Worth still has nearly $1.5 million from bond sold eight years ago to repair the auditorium. I feel that money had been used and used well, and according to a state of purpose of, you know, renovating wheelerages, then we wouldn't have this problem.

The million and a half dollars wouldn't have solved the problems. What that might have done is it would have been for the past eight years or so a little bit prettier inside, but we would still be faced with the same dilemma of how to make the hall work in a way that would really work well for the city. Freaken adds money from the previous bond sale was to be matched by private dollars. The bonds were sold, increasing the city's debt, but the private money didn't come in. City officials learned a lesson, and won't sell the cultural district bonds until the private money is raised. If we have a motion before we hear the second, did you wish to speak to this out, sir? The July 10th bond election happens a month before the city begins wrestling with the reality of a $19 million shortfall. Our ad valorem tax base has remained basically stable as opposed to grow. In fact, in some areas, it's probably, in some segments, it's undoubtedly declined.

I think that it's no secret to what's happened in the Texas real estate market. The Fort Worth City Council doesn't begin its formal budget review until August, but already the city has a hiring freeze and has asked for 10% across the board budget cuts. These are the same hard decisions that local governments across this country are facing. I mean, it's just, it is a reality. Another early casualty was the neighborhood health clinic at the Riverside Community Center in East Fort Worth. No, we don't give the shots here anymore. We have to go to one of those centers. The city has cut back services at the clinic while promoting nursing these buildings back to health. It is a legitimate question to be raised. You know, is this a prudent thing to be done? Those kind of expenditures do have ripple effect through the economy that ultimately benefit the taxpayers. The bond election includes a second $20 million proposition to rebuild more than 70 deteriorating inner city streets.

Are you ready to go to work? All of us working together for what to add the finest culture district for any city of our size in the world, and to add the finest roads to get us here. But the street bonds were an afterthought. Insurance against a threatened defeat by allied communities of Tarrant, a powerful coalition of church and neighborhood groups. The point is, you know, both of those programs are, are, will, will a narrative benefit of the citizens, and both are necessary at this time. And how we got to that point as far as I'm concerned from where I sit now is really irrelevant. I mean, the point is that we've got to have both the programs. That's almost the insult to, to, to, to eye intelligence because, first of all, we will get streets in another bond issue anyway. The coalition carry represents may do little more than prick the conscience of city leaders. The minority council has yet to organize its opposition campaign.

The pro bond campaign is steamrolling ahead with such widespread support, it will probably pass. But city leaders aren't taking any chances, like evangelists at a tent revival. They're stirring up emotions to ensure support at the polls. This is not a bond election. It is a bonding election. It unites it from here. We take risks for vision and for life. When we risk on behalf of the human community and the creation that God has given us, God will give us the power to do that, which is good. So, it's a really important thing to do with the

and the and the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the except the the the the the the the , the the the by Asian immigrants. Their presence in this predominantly African-American neighborhood has to stir up some residents, including Councilman Eugene McCray, who believes Asians are taking opportunities

that should belong to blacks. They're stopping all the economic resources out the community, and in the same time they're not putting anything back into it. The cry is way back in the back of some of the mind of some of the people is that we missed this opportunity because of other opportunities were not available. The Asian immigrants moved to Fort Worth because they saw good opportunities. Many of them, like Hollow Trend, rebuilt, burnt out or boarded up buildings. He and his families settled in Richardson 12 and a half years ago after leaving Vietnam. Six years ago, they relocated to Fort Worth. I like the Fort Worth. Fort Worth is beautiful for me to do in the business. He's been so successful that he's built four other stores in the neighborhood, like this Fast and Go.

He sold this one eight months ago to Troy Tran and his family, no relation. They too are from Vietnam, where Troy Tran worked as a banker. Sun Lam says the family is doing well. Although these Asian immigrants are aware they are a minority in the neighborhood, they say living among others has not been as difficult as they thought. But we have our similarity and we have our differences with these people. Because we understand the racial tension and we try to get along with each other as well. It's easier for us to get along with these people. These shopkeepers haven't experienced the type of racial problems occurring in other major

cities such as New York, where black residents have boycotted two Korean supermarkets, or in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Chicago, where there have been boycots and violence against immigrant Asian grocers. Although most of the grocers don't speak of it, there is an air of tension. If I were a small mountain park grocery store, and you guys came up in the interview with me and said, well, how's relationships with the blacks or the Hispanics in this community? The first thing I would say is everything is fine. Dr. Morrison Wong, a sociologist at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, says life may not be as rosy as the shopkeepers claim. And part of that is maybe a combination of a partly culture where you don't rock the boat. You're told, you know, just conform, don't rock the boat, be nice, be, you know, smile, and that's the way it goes. How trans, 20-year-old daughter Diana, says her family has received derogatory comments from customers and salespeople.

They firmly think that, you know, you're in this country to make a fast buck, and you leave, and you want to leave, but that's not the case. They tend to say, oh, you're a chief, you know, like all Asians, you know, that's not true. Have any positive, like customers calling you names or asking you about yourself? When all else fell, that's where they go to. When all else fell, if they fell to, I mean, you're going to attend to get customers that want to have a bad day, and now they're taking it on you, and if they can't dent your armor in any way, they go for the last resort, and which is racial stuff. How do these communities come together to live in a mutual understanding? You're assuming that they do. I'm not sure that they do. I think maybe it may be a mutual tolerance, so you have a sort of relationship, an economic dependence, if you want, which leads to a certain amount of tolerance.

This is an economically depressed area, and despite the amount of tolerance, long warrants that Fort Worth could be sitting on another Bensonhurst. If we start hitting bad times, as Fort Worth is hitting bad times, at least the Fort Worth government is hitting bad times, it could have repercussions on the community. There's been studies that have linked lynchings with economic depressions, and a number of lynchings go down when we start hitting better times, and if Fort Worth ever hits a bad time economically, there could be another Bensonhurst. While there have been no organized activities against the stores, some community residents have considered boycotting the stores, and ask Councilman McCray to step in and help. From time to time, I get feedback from different individuals saying that they'll come in the end and we need to do something about it, but I'm not the one to really get out and push it. It's what a community do on, it's what I'm for. If the community don't want them here, they get together, they organize, and then I see

what I can do as they come from District 5. But it's not my job as Councilman District 5, but one person that kind of me and said they don't like to stay in the store for me to go and try to pull their store down. Some of this resentment has been a result of misperceptions about Asians. They are perceived by some as model minorities who've been successful in business and able to get the government to help them. Is this a true stereotype? No, I don't think so, because I think everybody's, I mean, all people are the same. It's just where you tend to work harder, that's all. Some of the residents in a district shop at these stores because they are the only ones around. While they agree that the Asian market owners are nice and have a right to make a living, they're still not comfortable with them. They are nice. But I do think it would be nicer if you could see blacks, where blacks are, you know, in the neighborhood.

I think that it's fine for anybody to open a business, but I would just like to see more blacks open businesses in their own community. I think it helps to, you know, to bring the community together and also, you know, keep the money within your own community. We're sure they're resentment, those who can afford to, who have cars and who can afford to by going out of the community to the shop, rather than shop in the community. I don't know if anything, they can fit me two words, boys club or YMCA, I care of these different organizations. Now, one does be watching like trying to steal some of my time, but you know, it's cool. They need to get here to start hiring more blacks, you know. The shopkeepers tend to hire their family members, but they have attempted to reach out in the community. Anthony Stills, who often enjoys a video game before reporting to work, is employed by three of the Asian markets. I love working for organized people, you know, people that come here and some of them be like, you know, I wouldn't work for them, but you know, don't bother me.

You know, I'm not prejudiced in no way people are people. They treat me nice. They treat them nice and to heal what anybody else like for that go. All these people are waiting in line to get an autograph, a handshake, or just a real good look at a man whose name has become a household word across the country. But long before Jim Lara became a nationally known news commentator and author, the people

of Dallas, Fort Worth had already taken a good look at him. I'm Jim Lara, and this is Newsroom, a program of local news analysis, an opinion. Our coverage of the desegregation of the country. Twenty years ago, Lara was the host of a new news program on Channel 13, a show whose opening theme was The Beatles Here Comes the Sun, and a show which many believed changed journalism in North Texas. It was an absolutely exhilarating show for my point of view. Good evening, welcome to Newsroom, a program of local news analysis and opinion. I'm Lee Clark. Lee column known as Lee Clark, then, was one of the original reporters for the program. Now editorial page editor with the Dallas Times Herald, she would become host of newsroom after Lara went to PBS in 1972.

Of course, what made it unique when it went on the air in 1970, if you can believe this now in 1990, was that women had never appeared on the air in a news program. Blacks had never appeared on the air in a news program, neither had a spanning, neither had men with beards, neither had environmentalists, or consumer affairs advocates. So we offered all of these things, and it caused quite a stirrer. Yes, go ahead, Greg, I was running till you got a lot of heat that we're anti-establishment, anti-business, extremely left wing, and those would be the consistent charges that were made against us. Robert Poulson was channel 13's Young Station Manager at the time, and the man responsible for bringing Lara from the Dallas Times Herald to public television. The newspapers weren't that good at that time. The television stations weren't that aggressive in their coverage, so we had an opportunity, we thought, by the kinds of coverage that we would do on newsroom to stand out and

offer another dimension of coverage. In those days, you could kill a story with three phone calls, the Dallas Morning News Zone Channel 8, Channel 5 was owned by the Fort Worth Star Telegram, Channel 4 was owned by the Times Herald, and only took three calls to make sure a story never saw the light of day. Well, here was newsroom, funded by the Fort Foundation, going ahead and telling the story of people were shocked. Let's begin with Harlan Cohen, who will lay out exactly what the situation is in Oak Cliff, in terms of Judge Taylor's ordered Harlan. Jim, as you mentioned, a tremendous amount of last night's feedback. The newsroom concept was developed a year before during a San Francisco newspaper strike. While the strike was going on, the Fort Foundation funded Public Station KQAD to allow the striking newspaper reporters to continue to cover their beats and then come on television each night to tell their stories. The Fort Foundation would later fund three newsrooms across the country, including one in the most unlikely place of all, Dallas.

One of my favorite stories, and it just kind of scared the wits out of me at the time, I was only 27 or 28, and I was called by one of the big wigs downtown to come and see him. I went to his office within the first few months of newsroom being on the air, and this man said three things had to happen if Channel 13 was to survive. I had to leave town, Jim Lehrer had to leave town, and newsroom had to go off the air, and then what I'm just kind of sitting there and kind of frozen, and he said, and as a matter of fact, I've been calling every Ford dealer in North Texas, and telling them that they should withdraw their support from newsroom, and of course, he got the Ford dealerships mixed up with the Ford Foundation.

The Foundation money and the concept of newsroom allowed Lehrer to hire some of the area's most seasoned journalist, along with some young idealists with a mission. Senator, how do you feel about what Dr. Dunn had to say about the poor, being the ones who used the racetrack, and therefore? Decision makers felt compelled to appear on the program, and it was the only show in town which gave viewers a voice through feedback. I read the Jack Parre refused to have you on as a regular on his new show, because you outpriced yourself, please comment, are you interested in being on a late-night talk show of this kind? That's true. You came free to us. Yeah, well. I'm easy in town. Okay. Did you outprise yourself? I think I did. I'll price myself for Jack. I didn't even live in New York anyway. Gentlemen, this is directed at all of you. It says, what do you want the solution to be in relationship to the four or five that have been laid out? I think that there would still be room for something like newsroom, and with the right team of people, I think that the station could still do more of a service to North Texas than perhaps it's being done.

Of course, that takes money, but someone could raise it. Gentlemen, we thank all four of you for being with us tonight. We're out of time. Thank you and good night. Copy them and have a good day. We all have a good day. grants from the Wiley Foundation and the Ford Foundation. For happy day, or happy day, or happy day. For happy day, or happy day.

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