Year: 2007

On Chron.com’s City Hall blog, Matt Stiles posts an update on Mayor White’s “Boot the Mentally Retarded” revenue stream: the mayor has sent city councilmembers a five page memo explaining his position. Stiles points out

On Tuesday, both Harvey Kronberg’s Quorum Report and the Lone Star Times reported that Harris County Commissioners’ Court voted to end Harris County’s membership in the Texas Association of Counties. Here’s an excerpt from the

A few days ago, we noted Mayor White’s “Boot the Mentally Retarded Revenue Stream” proposal. Since then, the Center Serving Persons with Mental Retardation has launched a website to raise awareness of the White Administration’s

Slampo comes out swinging (again) on the city’s exciting new garbage-tax proposal. His earlier post on Mayor White’s proposed new garbage tax is here.

The Chronicle‘s Matt Stiles reports that the Mayor’s new trash-tax-revenue-stream officially has the cute name required of all such stealth tax initiatives: Nearly 500,000 Houston households getting city trash service would have to pay a

The Chronicle‘s Melanie Markley reports that the city is proceeding with plans to tear up its lease with a local non-profit group that houses the mentally retarded, so that it can deliver their prime River