This past week, while Houston City Council was finalizing the City’s annual budget and capital improvement plan (CIP), Houstonians were greeted with the news that Houston City Council voted to siphon off $31 million from
The Cypress-Fairbanks community has always been vocal in their support for their children’s public education, and today they have spoken at the polls – Cypress-Fairbanks ISD superintendent Dr. Mark Henry, as quoted in the Houston
So, the 2014 Texas springtime political primaries have come and gone. This season was a rather interesting one. With governor Rick Perry retiring after 14 years of rule, regime change is in the air in
While waiting for some work to be done at a local business establishment recently, I started reading a fish-wrap edition of the Free Press Houston (FPH). While not a regular reader of the Free Press
Saturday, yours truly read a blurb in the news that the first ever running of bulls type event was coming to Houston. Now, like many, I’ve seen television shows about the running of the bulls
This week’s post will be a rather short one, as I missed posting this past week, and I’m not in that big of a mood to spend hours belting out a post. With that announcement
Fernando Herrera you have been against the train since you ran for Mayor of Houston. First off I am sure more than 1600 people are riding the train a month. 2) you have to look
This past week, a friend of mine who happens to be a stockbroker dropped me an email with a link. The link led to a press release from ExxonMobil that contained the energy giant’s annual
Poor apartment renter asks: Where is the father of your kids? In the Sunday, December 8th 2013 fish wrap edition of the Houston Chronicle, the editors ran a front-page story featuring a 27 year old
The frequent lament that American and British [political] parties are much alike, instead of representing different ideologies or, sometimes, classes, is thus a criticism of the voting rules rather than of our politicians. — Gordon