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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…

Yesterday morning, Commentary attended the public swearing-in ceremony for Mayor John Whitmire, City Controller Chris Hollins, and the Houston City Council members. It looked like most seats at the Wortham Center were filled. The place was packed with the city’s political players and movers and shakers. Former mayors Annise Parker and Sylvester Turner were in…

Today is the public swearing-in for Mayor John Whitmire, City Controller Chris Hollins, and the Houston City Council members. It will be at 9:30 am at the Wortham Center downtown. I will be attending. Afterwards, the Mayor will conduct his first City Council meeting and he will announce his Mayor Pro Tem selection and council…

I was there last night, err, at midnight. See this from the Chron: Former state Sen. John Whitmire was sworn in as Houston’s 63rd mayor just after midnight Monday in a private ceremony with family and friends at City Hall. Judge Victor Trevino III conducted the ceremony, and Whitmire took his oath on his mother’s prayer book and Bible,…

This will be my final take in 2023. There were highlights and lowlights in 2023. 2023 started off with my Dad’s health deteriorating, having him in the ER, hospital, and a rehab center. He got COVID-19, that didn’t help, entered hospice care, and we lost him in February. He died at his home, just like…

Former U.N Ambassador and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley needs to brush up on American history. If she doesn’t know that slavery was the cause of the Civil War, then she is a dummy.  It is an insult to the 620,000 Americans who died of violence during the Civil War. Haley is a disgrace and…

Last night I went to my Tía Julia Campos’s rosary in Baytown. I saw family and old friends.  Her funeral is this morning. I will be there. _____ The Chron has a piece on the H-Town Mayor. Here is how it starts: For his final meeting as Houston mayor on Dec. 20, Sylvester Turner stepped into the…