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Fort Worth Wants to Get Everyone Talking

By BJ Austin

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kera/local-kera-703708.mp3

Dallas, TX – Citywide town hall meetings were held in 1963 and 1992. But, Dennis Shingleton, who is the chief wrangler for Let's Talk Fort Worth 2008, says this project is bigger - with 9 or 10 smaller meetings before a BIG one in September at Will Rogers Auditorium.

Shingleton: "We want to be able to capture from far and wide across this city not only homeowners associations, but every business group. We want to capture their dream, their thought, their futuristic view of what Fort Worth should look like 10-15-20 years from now."

Shingleton says ALL of the comments will be collected and collated into a document to use as a springboard for city planning.