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Month: October 2017

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Nontransparent, unaccountable quasi-government follies: Uptown TIRZ edition

October 26, 2017 Kevin Whited

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

Guest Commentary

King: Uptown cannot keep its story straight

October 26, 2017 Editor

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

Commentary

Frazer: Houston’s Proposition A = Extend and Pretend (again)

October 25, 2017 Kevin Whited

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

Commentary

Flooding in Houston for the 21st century and beyond – Part 2 (Hurricane Harvey edition)

October 3, 2017 Neal Meyer

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

Commentary

Governor Abbott effectively hands City of Houston a $50 million advance

October 1, 2017 Kevin Whited

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

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