Street Parking

Like since forever, when Commentary goes to The Yard for a ballgame, I do street parking. After 6 pm, parking is free on the street. Nowadays, I have the ParkMobile app, see the featured photo, that makes it easy. I no longer have to feed the sidewalk gizmo my credit card, cash, and license plate…

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Siete

Commentary said this yesterday: I got my mail ballot for the May 4, 2024, election which includes the State Senate District 15 Special and the Harris Central Appraisal District Board of Directors races. See the featured photo. Only Molly Cook and State Rep. Jarvis Johnson are listed on the ballot for SD 15. I guess…

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Mail Ballot

Commentary said this after the Democratic Party Primary about three and a half weeks ago: For what it is worth, according to the Texas Secretary of State website, Michelle Bonton, Molly Cook, State Rep. Jarvis Johnson, and Todd Litton were the only ones to file for the May 4 State Senate District 15 Special Election…

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Good Friday

Here is a headline from a Chron front page story today: Abbott’s order targets campus antisemitism While he is throwing around orders, why not one at his own GOP. _____ I got a letter from CenterPoint yesterday. They informed me that next week they would be doing some work in my neighborhood, and we would…

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World Series Run

Former U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman left us yesterday. I met him when he was on the ticket with Vice President Al Gore back in 2000. I was working for the DNC on the campaign and helped put together a Sen. Lieberman visit to a colonia in the Rio Grande Valley. The purpose of the visit…

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Dirty Cop

How does this dirty cop get off the hook? See the featured photo. See this from today’s Chron: A Harris County judge on Tuesday quashed two felony murder indictments against retired Houston Police Department officer Gerald Goines, potentially throwing a long delay until he could face trial in the deaths of two people in a botched 2019 drug raid. It could…

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Astros Opener

I woke up this morning and had on the flat screen when NBC News came on with breaking news. It was the devastating collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. Unbelievable tragedy.  _____ The Chron E-Board today addresses the Harris County constable contract deputy program. If your neighborhood has the dough, you can…

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Four Years Ago

Some dumbarses with the Donald Trump campaign came out with the old “are you better off today than you were four years ago?” This was first posed by the Ronald Reagan campaign against then President Jimmy Carter back in 1980. The featured photo is from four years ago around this time. It is an assortment…

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Metro Pick

President Joe Biden was in H-Town yesterday and it looks like Mayor John Whitmire and Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo welcomed him at Ellington Field and got to visit the President on Air Force One. Pretty cool. _____ The Metropolitan Transit Authority, err METRO has a nine-member board of directors comprised of members appointed by…

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Scam

This is kind of scary. I got a call yesterday from a fella who claimed to be a sheriff deputy saying I had failed to show up for jury duty at the federal courthouse. In the back of my mind, I wondered why a sheriff deputy would be involved with the feds. The deputy said…

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