On Tuesday, Houston voters will decide the fate of roughly $1.5 billion of proposed bonds, in the form of Propositions A through E. Proposition A will authorize roughly a billion dollars of borrowing (in the
This past week brought some wonderful news for a beleaguered Houston in the form of the Houston Astros winning their first Major League Baseball World Series in the 56-year history of the club franchise! Congratulations
Earlier this week, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner tweeted about an appearance he made on the “Houston Matters” radio program, in which he asserted that Houston MUST be smarter about development post-Harvey: “It doesn’t make any
At the Texas Monitor, Trent Seibert has published an interesting report on John Breeding, the president of the Uptown TIRZ, apparently behaving badly when it comes to public transparency and accountability regarding the latest money
UPTOWN CANNOT KEEP ITS STORY STRAIGHT by Bill King For over two years, the Uptown TIRZ has been promoting spending about $200 million on its bus lane project on Post Oak. About $120 million of
Bill Frazer, a Certified Public Accountant and a superior (based on qualifications and knowledge) but unsuccessful recent candidate for City Controller, has weighed in against Proposition A, the “Pension Obligation Bonds” ballot initiative that is
As the entire world knows, the Houston metropolitan area (indeed much of the Texas Gulf Coast from Corpus Christi to Lake Charles Louisiana) was pummeled during the last week of August 2017 by Nature in
On Friday, Governor Greg Abbott arrived in Houston to hand over what effectively amounts to a $50 million advance draw on state funds for Hurricane Harvey relief, killing Mayor Sylvester Turner’s plans to enact an
Three weeks ago, Hurricane Harvey ripped through our state and dropped an extraordinary amount of rain on the Houston area in a very short time. Aside from District G, which experienced additional flooding thanks to