Re: HP Says No to Toll Road

I hereby withdraw my acknowledgment that the Dallas Morning News beat us to this story. What writer Ian McCann refuses to acknowledge in his veiled retraction in today’s paper is that town administrator George Patterson made it clear at last night’s Town Council meeting that there was no serious consideration of tolling by the town leaders after last August.

In other words, this was a story from a year ago, which was decided against a year ago, but that DMN apparently decided to put on page 1A in order to exploit negative stereotypes against Highland Park. Meran Dadgostar, the town engineer who served as the primary source for McCann’s original story, told our own Cassie Clark that he had his conversation with the reporter about the possibility five months ago.

Something’s fishy about the way this story was put together