Local daily: today's idiocy report

According to the local daily, the Downtown Austin Alliance has lodged some sort of complaint with the City, claiming that its members were not aware that Congress would be blocked off starting at 7:00 am on Thursday for the Veterans' Day parade. Why they alone didn't know is a mystery, because it wasn't a secret. The information was available everywhere. What the DAA thinks was messed up is also a mystery. The only businesses open downtown between 7 and 9 in the morning are places frequented by pedestrians walking to the Capitol, places like a drugstore and coffee establishments, that probably did a better business than normal, courtesy of those there specifically for the parade. Let's not forget that customary weekday traffic would be extremely light because of closings by the City, State, and banks.