Archive for February 2025

The house across the street from me is finally complete. See the featured photo. Finally, after 15 months. The rebuild is over and new neighbors moved in yesterday. A couple from the Netherlands and they are expecting their first child. I met the soon-to-be-mom yesterday.  The hubby is in the energy business, and she is…

Get used to it, folks. Commentary is talking about the state of Texas’s lack of a major response to the measles outbreak. A tepid response at best. See this from the Chron today: The news on Wednesday that a child died from measles at a Lubbock hospital is something that infectious disease experts like Dr. Peter Hotez…

I am sure you saw the Southwest Airlines jet as in the featured photo avoid the smaller private jet on the runway at Midway yesterday. Wow. Now that was a close call. When you are flying and you touch down, you kind of think that you are safely landing. I don’t know what I would…

This is from the lead story on the front page of today’s hard copy of the Chron: Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday ordered the Texas Rangers to investigate the April 2023 Lotto Texas draw in which a single player guaranteed it would win a $95 million jackpot by purchasing virtually every one of the 25.8…

Commentary didn’t agree with the TEA takeover of HISD. It happened and I hope that our schools improve so we can get out from under TEA control. I found the following in the Chron interesting. See this: Houston ISD said Wednesday that 95% of the teachers who responded to a survey administered this month indicated…

The Trib tweeted this yesterday: Federal immigration agents raided a Los Fresnos bakery, arresting eight undocumented workers and charging the owners with harboring undocumented immigrants. This occurred in Los Fresnos, Texas, which is in Cameron County in the Rio Grande Valley. Cameron County voted for Donald Trump with 52.4% of the vote. That is what…

This is the headline of the online Chron E-Board take today on another challenge H-Town Mayor John Whitmire is facing: Houston audit reveals a bloated, inefficient city government. Now Whitmire must trim the fat | Editorial The featured photo is from the hard copy Chron. This is how the E-Board take ends: Whitmire is attempting…

I am talking about a big nope here. The Houston Texans are floating the idea of public financing for a new stadium. Good luck with that. I don’t even think there is support for public financing of major renovations over at NRG. The NFL makes a ton of money for Sunday games, Sunday night football,…

It looks like the Harris County Democratic Party has moved to a new location. I got this yesterday: We’re excited to invite you to our new space at 3302 Canal St., Houston, TX 77003. Join us on Sunday, February 23, 2025, to explore the new office and connect with fellow community members. The location is about four…

I found this quite baffling. This is on the front page of today’s Chron hard copy: Gov. Greg Abbott has asked the Texas Education Agency to investigate after a local Moms for Liberty chapter alleged that teachers at Houston ISD’s Bellaire High School have been “socially transitioning” a student. Has Gov. Abbott’s staff told him that TEA…