Downtown retail incentive program winding down. Nancy Sarnoff. Chron.com - Final numbers? $2.2MM doled out to 11 (eleven) businesses over 10 (ten) years. And there's still $785M in the fund for the Downtown authority to
HER Ordinance, Racism and Houston bars. Danyahel Norris, Gray Matters. HoustonChron ($$$) - Given the relatively low intellectual bar for inclusion into the Gray Matters bloglet, I guess this is the best we can expect from them in regards to defending HER Ordinance: It's good because: Twitter.
Controversial bathroom access nixed from equal rights ordinances in other cities. Greg Googan, Fox 26 News - In other words, Mayor Parker could have avoided all of the HER Ordinance mess by omitting the controversial parts about gender self-identification and where to potty. But she chose not to in an overreach and is now paying the political price.
There is sanity missing from this argument.
George P. Bush trims more than 100 jobs from the General Land Office. J David McSwane, Austin American-Statesman
Bush runs Land Office with campaigners, family friends. Brian J. Rosenthal, Hearst Austin Bureau.
Having been slapped down on attempt number one to get a hit in on George P, Brian Rosenthal of the Hearst Austin Bureau is trying again. Now however Patterson has come out of exile and is fanning the flames. Revealing more about the TLSPM than he is George P.
FWIW - For someone who ran as a fiscal conservative cutting jobs would be in line with campaign promises. Second, when a new CEO enters a firm it's 100% expected that the Sr. officers around him will be let go and replaced with "their people." That appears to be what George P. is going here and it's not really all that unusual. IF you understand how business works.
On another note: I'm guessing the TLSPM won't go after THIS. - Because, Mayor Parker is a fave-rave in the ruling class. George P. is not.
Houston ISD Students take on the State of Texas. Andrea White, Gray Matters HoustonChronicle ($$$) - So wife of Former Mayor Andrea White writes a puff piece on a student who just happens to share a name with a former political ally and associate? Coincidence I'm sure.
As a note: The people's needs and historical preservation are not one and the same. - Quite frequently the knee-jerk need to preserve something of questionable historical worth runs counter to the 'needs' of an individual neighborhood.
"Important community issues being discussed". - Coming from Chris Bell that's probably not true.
The TLSPM gushing over the boy and the clock is starting to look silly in retrospect. - "He didn't build that" and it's possible that the entire thing was a set-up by an activist family. Understanding, of course, how the media and political elite deal with all things Islam.
Bill King gets his puff piece. - Granted, it's a little less puffy than others (the writer actually challenges some of his platform positions) but it's still pillow-soft.
On another note: the first comment to this is a municipal worker who, again, repeats the lie that pensions are not the problem. Never mind that almost everyone with any financial sense at all understands that they are, indeed, a large portion of the financial problem facing Houston.
Ceding the moral high ground in the name of multiculturalism. - This is just sad.
The Pope says that air conditioning, which has saved the lives of Millions in bad climates, is bad. - This Pope is so anxious to condemn everything that looks like wealth he's putting himself in some awkward positions. A/C after all saves Millions every Summer. Perhaps the Pope wants to see more elderly people and children die due to heat-related problems?
This is why you should not take your global economics advice from a man whose spent his entire life in the Church, and who's residence contains remarkable air-conditioning.
The TLSPM and TXDems are still after Sid Miller. - What they fail to understand is that their anger towards him is a boost to him with his supporters. (If you're angering the right people)
Falkenberg is either too lazy to view the unedited tapes, or is willfully ignoring them. - Either way it's a bad look for her. Not that we expect much but still.
Houston will spend a bunch on b-cycle expansion. - Supporters will compare this to freeway expansion costs, but will ignore the ridiculous issues of scale when doing so.
Alternate Fountain name: Houston Taxpayers take a bath.
And finally....
Battleground Texas on a slow, uphill race. Peggy Fikac, HoustonChronicle.com ($$$) - It has been very clear for a while now that the TLSPM really, really likes the folks who are floundering around over at BGTX and are going to give them every chance to fail their way to eventual victory.
