If your city’s drinking water has a nasty flavor and odor due to blue-green algae blooms mostly caused by dairy farm run-off into the water supply, wouldn’t the logical thing to do be to stop the cow poo from getting into the water? Not if you are the City of Waco!

Tom Conry, with Waco’s Water Utilities Department, said when it rains, the animal’s waste washes into the river and the chemicals in the feces help the algae grow. “The less algae, the better the water is going to taste,” Conry said.

Mr. Conry should take his thinking process one step further. The less cow poo, the better the water is going to taste. But no, they are going to add fish and plant-life to the water, and I bet in a few years the fish and plants will be causing some sort of problems.

And in other Texas news:

A couple of years ago, Round Rock voted for a bond to build a city recreation center. They’ve finally settled on a location, and there’s been a bit of an outcry about it.

“I think the main objective is the proximity of the rec center to the campus,” Dan Montgomery said.

Karen Raiford questioned letting the public on the school’s campus daily.

“How much better access could we give them?” she said.

The parents said their kids campus is open, they walk from building to building for classes and allowing anyone in the city access to use a rec center on the campus endangers their children.

There are two things I would like to note. The “kids” that need protecting from the terrible and evil “public” are in high school, and there’s already a public swimming pool in the same location as the proposed rec center. Oh, there’s a whole bunch of “Think of the children!” going on, mixed in with a lot of “Not in my back yard!” You’d think it was a prison and not a recreation center with security guards and cameras watching things! I’m left wondering if these people let their teenagers go anywhere by themselves. I mean … they might be exposed to the “public” who on the whole obviously wants to harm them!

Also possibly noteworthy is the fact the complaining parents are all of one ethnicity. Methinks it’s less about the public in general and more about certain –how shall I say it– colors and classes of the public that has them in a tizzy. And just reading the parents’ comments doesn’t do them justice. You really have to watch the video to hear the tone of voice, see the facial expression, and truly feel their panic about a rec center being anywhere near their precious, helpless, and nearly-adult children.