Archive for March 2024

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

From the Chron yesterday: Mayor John Whitmire’s administration is weighing all options, including hiking the city’s property tax rate and charging residents a garbage collection fee, to help pay for its landmark settlement with the Houston firefighters union, according to City Attorney Arturo Michel. “I think everything is on the table,” Michel said after a court hearing Monday,…

This is from the hard copy of today’s Chron: A group of pro-Palestine demonstrators protested Mayor John Whitmire‘s appearance at the annual Houston Iftar dinner Sunday, calling for the mayor to support a cease-fire in Gaza after his refusal to do so prompted some Muslim leaders and organizations to boycott the city’s premier iftar event. Sporting red…

Commentary tries not to talk about 11th Street in my neighborhood. It brings out heated exchanges on Next Door. I rarely get on 11th Street since they did away with two lanes.  Now see this from the Chron: Houston Mayor John Whitmire is reevaluating several street infrastructure projects for effectiveness, including the completed 11th Street redesign despite the…