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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…

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…