Well wasn't that nice?

[PDittie]

The Dallas Morning News named Houston as its Texan of the Year.

For resilience, resourcefulness and good old Texas neighborliness on a scale that did the whole state proud, Houston is the 2005 Dallas Morning News Texan of the Year.

To this day, an estimated 150,000 survivors of hurricanes Katrina and Rita call the Houston area home, and surveys show that most of them plan to stay. When Katrina hurled them, battered and destitute, onto Houston's doorstep, Houston met the challenge with the largest shelter operation in the nation's history. Singling out Houston is no slight to the scores of other communities that opened their arms to the storms' victims, including those right here in North Texas. They, too, performed nobly and deserve vigorous applause. But the demands on Houston, by dint of simple geography, were of a stunningly higher magnitude.

Talk to the people at the center of the relief effort, and, over and over, you'll hear words that echo those of Issa Dadoush, the city of Houston's director of building services: "These are Americans. They're our neighbors. If not Houston, who else?"

Or, as Harris County Judge Robert Eckels said, "We had no choice. It was just something that needed to be done."

Nice article, breaks down the logistics.

You know, all of us in Big Greasy have always liked all y'all up in Big D, too, even despite the Cowboys. :evilgrin:

[crispini]

1. Hee!

Well, as fun as it is to poke fun at ya'll's town, when push comes to shove, there's nobody better than our Houston Dems. :loveya:

[merci_me]

2. Yeah, til I read the last paragraph...............

"In 2003, the paper gave the accolade to President Bush. White House aide Karl Rove was named last year for master minding Bush's re-election."

I guess we fall between those accolades and their coming endorsement of Rick Perry, where they will tell us what a fantastic job he did of master minding during Hurricane Rita, getting the inbound highway lanes switched and getting gas where it needed to be.

[PDittie]

3. Heh. You're too young to be so cynical.

I'm guessing we, collectively, will have a much better year than the two previous award winners.

[sonias]

4. You are infinitely better than the two prior winners

Looks like DMN actually voted for good behavior this year, as opposed to being in the news. Based on their prior year awards they could have chosen Tom DeLay. So it's a good thing they got this Texan of the Year vote back on the good side of the tracks.

Congratulations Houston!
:applause::applause::applause:


Sonia

[TexasThoughtCriminal]

5. I think y'all Houstonians should

flood the DMN with letters of disgust and outrage that they would put you in the same company with kkkarl and chimpy. :evilgrin: Maybe they'll think twice before they honor another evil-doer with Texan of the Year.

[CoolOnion]

6. I think they got flood of outrage last year over Rove

On the editorial blog, they've been defensive about it all year, reminding readers that Texan of the Year doesn't have to be likeable, just influential. I suspected they were leaning towards Tom DeLay, but then decided to do something uplifting instead.

Glad they made a good choice this time--congratulations, Houston!!

[TexasThoughtCriminal]

7. Maybe they should change the title

With Texas pride and all, "Texan of the Year" sounds like an honor. How about the more generic-sounding "Person of Interest of the Year". Certainly Karl Rove qualifies as a person of interest these days.

[CoolOnion]

8. Good idea!