Speed Cushions
Most folks call them speed bumps. The City of H-Town calls them speed cushions. I got a letter from the City of H-Town yesterday informing me that the North Norhill neighborhood is requesting to participate in the Neighborhood Traffic Management Speed Control Program with 20 proposed speed cushions. See the featured photo of a map the city sent. The proposed speed cushions are the black squares. The circles are existing cushions. North Norhill’s boundaries are Studewood, N. Main, and Pecore. I live just outside of Norhill on the west side of Studewood.
The city wants folks to comment on the proposed cushions before they decide. In reviewing the map, I rarely travel on the streets where the cushions are proposed.
I get why the request has been made. There are a lot of knuckleheads who speed down our neighborhood streets.
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Don’t take the bait. Commentary is talking about this write-up in the Chron:
When Lina Hidalgo first ran for Harris County judge in 2018, she said she was disappointed with the county’s tepid response to President Donald Trump’s leadership, including his stringent immigration policies. Her eventual victory made the 27-year-old rookie a rising star in the Democratic Party and a beacon of hope to anxious liberals during Trump’s first term.
“I saw local government of such a powerful county, of such a powerful state, failing to stand up to policies I knew were dangerous,” Hidalgo told the Houston Chronicle in 2018. “So, I decided this is what I needed to do.”
Last Monday, on the first day of Trump’s second term, the president passed a series of executive orders taking his crusade against immigrants even further, attempting to ban birthright citizenship, vowing to send troops to the southern border and shutting down refugee and asylum programs.
But this time around, Hidalgo, a Colombian immigrant herself, has not publicly addressed Trump’s immigration crackdown since he retook office — and she’s not the only one.
The Houston area’s top Democratic lawmakers have been largely silent on immigration since Trump has begun to put his plans into action, despite denouncing his positions on the issue throughout the campaign season. Mayor John Whitmire, who offered words in support of immigrants in the days leading up to Trump’s inauguration, has not publicly addressed Trump’s immigration initiatives since he retook office last week either.
“In a city like Houston, we would like to see leadership take a strong stand and defy working with an unjust system that Trump is proposing,” said Cesar Espinosa, executive director of immigrant rights group FIEL Houston. “Unfortunately, we are still very incredulous whether that’s going to happen or not.”
Here is the entire read: Houston Democrats quiet on Trump immigration orders.
Nope. It sounds like the Chron wants a war of words. Too much is at stake. The last thing H-Town leaders need to do is call out Trump. All that will do is put H-Town in their sights and ramp up the roundups in our community. Don’t take the bait. Let’s see how this plays out first.
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The World Cup comes to H-Town in 499 days. Opening Day at Daikin Park is in 58 days.
