Todd Spivak reports in the Houston Press that one of the stranger priorities of the White Administration, a new downtown park, is off to some kind of start:
We walk the winding pathways together. Most benches are occupied by homeless people, lying on their backs with their shoes kicked off. During the course of a few minutes, we see a half-dozen rats scurry past. Along the sidewalk a large cloud of flies hovers over a pile of [feces].
Is that