BREAKING NEWS! Conroe, July 29 – Three Montgomery County Commissioners failed to appear for the first day of the County government’s Budget Workshop on Monday, July 29, 2019, beginning at 9:30 a.m. Neither Precinct 2 Commissioner Charlie Riley, Precinct 4 Commissioner James Metts, nor Precinct 4 Commissioner James Metts attended the Budget Workshop at which […]
Conroe, July 24 – Montgomery County Judge Craig Doyal has bent over backwards to ensure that citizen participation will be minimal during his budget process. While the citizens are at the top of the organizational chart in the American system of government, Doyal has removed their participation altogether. Only County bureaucrats may speak to the […]
August 20 – The Montgomery County government’s head janitor, Lorena Garcia, clearly knew her comments about “sick building syndrome” by which she attempted to protect her Departmental budget through “fear-mongering,” were false, as documents The Golden Hammer obtained from sources inside the County government. Readers may recall that Garcia took great umbrage at the recommendation of the […]
Image: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1917. Conroe, August 12 – As we approach the one-hundredth anniversary of the horrific “October Revolution” which imprisoned Russia for three quarters of a century, we hear more and more from Montgomery County Judge Craig Doyal, Precinct 2 County Commissioner Charlie Riley, and Precinct 1 County […]
Conroe, July 30 – On Friday, July 28, 2017, the Commissioners Court completed a four-day “budget workshop” at the end of which they approved a $328,751,430 budget which includes higher County spending (other than debt service) than ever before in the history of the Montgomery County government. The only reason the Commissioners Court was able […]