I think its overkill to take the art bears off the street. They should grandfather in current art and send any new art through the "art committee." While the bears aren't First Friday elite art, I find them cute and amusing and have never been offended by or tripped over one. Don't larger cities like Chicago have bigger and more successful animal art shows?
The sidewalk "obstruction" reasoning to take them up is like the creative "blight" rulings to get people tifs. I don't have faith the city council will do anything but accept the committee decision. I don't know if this group has ever questioned each other or Haslam. At least with this current ornery commission, you at least know people will question things. I'm glad city council feels the love, but too much isn't good.
If we must get rid of all things that obstruct, start with the water tower or the Sunsphere.

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After counting primary delegates and caucus delegates in Texas, Obama wins Texas 99 delegates to Hillary's 94 delegates, according to CNN. (counting superdelegates, Obama wins 109-104.)

Does this mean, in Hillary's eyes, that Texas is:

1. no longer a big state;
2. a state that doesn't matter?

Headlines could also read "Hillary Loses Texas After Caucus Votes Are Counted." But I bet you won't see many like that.

Earlier Mark Siegel wrote on how the Democratic party presidential nomination process is broken. I was reminded of that post when reading this: