Archive for January 2024

It looks like we are fixing to leave the hard freeze behind.  I have not been in my car and driving since Saturday.  This is my third straight day wearing a turtleneck.  Yesterday and today’s newspapers were delivered this morning as seen in the featured photo. I survived. _____ Folks know Commentary lives in State…

Commentary knows a little about politics. I know something about campaigns. Let’s see. Donald Trump got 51% last night at the Iowa GOP caucuses. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis got 21.2% and says he got his ticket punched. Huh? Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley got 19.1% and now says it is a two-person race. Huh?…

Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day and both parades have been postponed. _____ Here it comes. Commentary is talking about misery. H-Town can’t handle sustained freezing weather. It didn’t help that we lost power in February of 2021. December of 2022 was also a miserable one right before Christmas.  The owner of John Moore…

Commentary said this on Monday: Commentary is glad to see these two letters-to-the-editor in today’s Chron hard copy. I too was disappointed the Chron didn’t include my friend Frumencio Reyes, Jr. in the notable H-Town leaders that we lost in 2023 article that ran at the end of the year.  There also wasn’t a story…

The featured photo from the hard copy of the Chron today is an editorial cartoon from Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Nick Anderson.  It is about the U.S. Secretary of Defense. You should know the story by now. Commentary thinks he should be fired. The USA is involved in a couple of major wars right now…

Fresh from the let them eat cake department.  H-Town is celebrating the return of the Texans to the NFL playoffs while the team owner’s family are at the courthouse. See this from the Chron: One of the sons of Houston Texans owner Janice McNair has asked a Harris County probate court to declare her incapacitated and appoint…

I just watched a Houston METRO TV ad whose focus was on safety. On Sunday night, a fella was stabbed to death on the Metro Red Line. Got it? _____ Local Telemundo will air the Texans and Browns game this Saturday afternoon in Spanish. Telemundo got one Wild Card round game and it happened to…

Commentary is glad to see these two letters-to-the-editor in today’s Chron hard copy. I too was disappointed the Chron didn’t include my friend Frumencio Reyes, Jr. in the notable H-Town leaders that we lost in 2023 article that ran at the end of the year.  There also wasn’t a story on Frume’s passing. Local Chron…

Commentary has been wanting to post the featured photo for a few years now. I guess it is now appropriate to accompany a Chron article today on City of H-Town garbage pick-up, err late pick-up.  My green bin was scheduled for pick-up yesterday. You got it. It is still out there this morning. If you…

Here is how the Chron E-Board starts their take today: Collaborator. Team player. Consensus builder. These are not qualities one might associate with the mayor of Houston. After all, this is a city where the term “strong mayor” characterizes not only our unique heliocentric style of government, but the manner in which we expect our…