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Area residents bring The Stupid. Hard.

dummy@example.com (yamadude) — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 02:30:46 +0000

Bring the wham bam train back to life!

Pro-regulation Parker Administration moves to criminalize charitable food service

dummy@example.com (MyHomeHouston) — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 05:00:45 +0000

So if there is a problem with cleanup it makes a lot more sense to make a law about litter. And if people feeding the homeless don't clean up you have a law in place to deal with the problem. Outlawing feeding the homeless seems to go beyond the problem (cleanup). I also want to point out that Jesus would have gone to jail over this law since feeding the homeless was something he prone to do.

How to skirt Mayor Parker's proposed "charitable food service ordinance"

dummy@example.com (MyHomeHouston) — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 01:43:33 +0000

That seems pretty bizarre. I don't understand what her priorities can be. What kind of screwed up world can you live in that you want to stop people from feeding people. I mean at the very least they are doing the job of Houston social services and probably lowering the burden on them.

Chron scrutinizes bogus Dome demolition numbers; Bureaucrats start to back away from same

dummy@example.com (Ken B) — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 00:56:50 +0000

I still don't understand why the deal to build the new football stadium didn't include money to either demolish the dome or go toward retrofitting it for other use. Doesn't the football team that uses the new stadium make a lot of money, and wouldn't this have been known when the deal was being worked out to ditch the Astrodome? How shortsighted can these politcians be? Oh, wait...

Let's translate "limited public participation"

dummy@example.com (Anne) — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:09:49 +0000

Just remember, if you keep it between $10 and $20 million, Houston's in:

"At first blush, I am pleased with the response to our RFQ, but we have a lot of due diligence to do before we are ready to make any recommendation for going forward," Ric Campo, Houston First chairman, said in a statement.
Houston First wants the potential hotel to be financed privately with limited public participation.

Link to post: http://www.bloghouston.net/item/8920

SLOW blogging ahead for a while...

dummy@example.com (Ken B) — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 01:42:21 +0000

How much money are are private businesses making with the football stadium? Did no one think to set aside some money to demolish the Astrodome? Why IS it that, yet again, the taxpayers are being bent over?

North Forest ISD will stay open for another year

dummy@example.com (missmsry) — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:24:42 +0000

Yep, heading them to HISD is really going to help those studen't education.

News and views roundup (19 March 2012 edition)

dummy@example.com (rorschach) — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 13:53:10 +0000

Swa is about cheap not comfortable. And given the number of seats crammed into widebodies these days I don't see much difference.

An expensive repository of crumpled Astroturf and trash

dummy@example.com (Factotum) — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 23:18:52 +0000

Several years ago a local Mothers Against Cancer motorcycle fund raiser started out in the dome, we formed up on the field, circled it twice and went on our way...it was a sad and decaying facility. Time to blow it to smithereens, sell the property and get it on the tax rolls. Auction the prop off with a reserve equal to existing debt we suckers are carrying.

Bazan: Revenue Reality vs Consultants on the Hilton Americas

dummy@example.com (Royko) — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 03:17:09 +0000

It likely is subject to a TPIA request.

Although, several years back, I tried to get information about the Aquarium, and the city Finance department insisted I get the information from Landry's. That was a joke. I could not get any return call from Landry's, and likely knew they would force me to file another complaint with the TXOAG, and they could drag that out for 120 days, and then file a lawsuit (I know this because METREAUX did that several times on my TPIA requests), which could easilly drag it out for at least one year in the best case.

Management district pushback in The Woodlands

dummy@example.com (rorschach) — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 04:59:48 +0000

So if they rented a room in the hotel within the district, which they did, how is that any different from renting an apartment? How long is long enough? How does that differ from H.w. bush "living" in the houstonian for a couple weeks a year if that?

Legendary former DA Holmes endorses Mike Anderson

dummy@example.com (rorschach) — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:53:21 +0000

Problem is, few people even remember who Johnny Holmes was, and of those, probably not a few have him confused with a certain pr0n actor.

KTRK: Housing Authority under scrutiny over truck, checks

dummy@example.com (Ross) — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:02:47 +0000

The folks in these agencies use the lawyers they hire mainly to make sure they aren't in actual violation of a statute. Without any real oversight, there's nothing to stop these unethical crooks from ripping us off. With any luck, they agency will be abolished soon. As for Ryan, I rather suspect he would have been very happy to find an actual crime, because that would make him look good at the expense of the Republicans.

New adventures in Houston trinket government, March 2012 edition

dummy@example.com (Factotum) — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 13:19:17 +0000

Show me the books for every biz in the 'market sq zone' and show them again 6 mos after this great steal goes thru. I'd bet there's not a dime of difference but someone sure got my tax money.
Enough of this crap. Biz must make decisions based on market potentials, not taxpayer loot.
Impeach Parker and every one of the cncl fools who approve this merde.

Houston establishment newspaper cheer on dinosaur park; local newspaper exposes boondoggle

dummy@example.com (Ross) — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:50:22 +0000

There is a long HAIF thread on this debacle http://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif … msearch__1