Smart Growth Birds: El Paso neighborhood project fails poop test

An El Paso, Tx, retired judge's deal with God, promising to feed Smart Growth neighborhood birds in exchange for better personal health, runs afoul when neighbors complain about large amounts of bird poop causing health problems. Responding to a demand the feeder be removed probes the quintessence of the connection between God, an individual, and the environment.

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Dan Bodine is a retired Justice of the Peace from Presidio County in far West Texas now living with his wife, Noemi, and teen daughter, Maiya, in El Paso. Previously he spent 20 years in Texas newspapers as a writer, editor, and later, weekly publisher, and earned many writing awards.

He is a veteran of the U.S Navy and earned a B.A. in Journalism from North Texas State University (now UNT), and a M.A. in Political Science from the University of Texas at Arlington.