Big cities ramp up security ahead of New Year's Eve celebrations

[Igel]

2. "Big city" and "blue city" are nearly synonymous.

Dallas-Ft Worth (DFW) is an exception (per Ballotpedia) and it's reinforcing its security.

Just because it's not reported doesn't mean it's not happening. Just that the reporting's going to focus on the largest cities--which are all (D) controlled--and those of the most importance to the reporters and who they perceive their readership to be (and reporters for the last few decades, when surveyed, are not so much (R) as (D) or (I), and often the (I) isn't in between (R) and (D) but left of mainstream (D).

Thing is, while yes, DFW "a" large city, it's also not the subject of any national attention or focus. Rose Parade? National event in Pasadena. Times Square? Probably the most televised New Year's eve event in the US. NOLA is coming off of last year's surprise attack, while LA CA was put on notice by the FBI. And NYC is just NYC.

Once you're down from DFW, you're hobnobbing with the cosmopolitan, highly-enmeshed in the public consciousness OK City and Fresno, CA. Not to even mention the hustle and bustle of that finance capital, Mesa (that's in AZ, and it's mushed on the east side of PHX and Tempe, but west of Apache Junction and the awesome store The Good Apple).