Recycling campaign signs; DMN blog count

The Nightly Build

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The Indefatigable Pris Hayes

Full disclosure: I endorsed Pris Hayes for re-election to her Richardson City Council seat.

I was taken by the fact that, on election day, Pris Hayes' twittered: "VOTE! & then attend Animal Shelter ADOPTATHON Festivities 10a-4p." Which other candidate, on the most important day of any politician's life, election day, would give equal time to the animal shelter?

Now, after her close loss to Bob Macy for the Place 5 seat on council, she twitters, "plastic campaign signs often no. 5's, so those local candidates who did not want them returned, asked me to recycle (over 200). The 4 R's!"

Pris Hayes, still concerned about the environment, finds gold in the tailings of a lost election campaign. Or, if not exactly gold, at least something that can be recycled. Pris Hayes brought something unique and necessary to the Richardson City Council. Her defeat leaves a hole on council that I'm not sure who, if anyone, is going to fill.

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Can You Have Too Many Blogs?

Zac Crain, on FrontBurner, has blog size envy. He once joked that The Dallas Morning News had 50 blogs. Someone counted and reported that it was *only* 38. Evidently, someone on FrontBurner has been sneaking peeks at the DMN because Zac Crain tells us today that the blog count over there is now 52.

I applaud the DMN on its latest additions to its blog roll, including a blog devoted to Richardson. Every town should have a blog. Every newspaper should blog about the communities it hopes to sell product into. The Dallas Morning News is late. Let's hope it's not too little, too late.

By the way, FrontBurner itself used to be a blog. Not any more. Real blogs have reader comments.