Image: Montgomery County Judge Mark Keough, the “People’s Judge,” announced during the Wednesday, July 31, 2019, Commissioners Court meeting that he would not take a salary increase, even if the Commissioners Court votes to increase salaries across-the-board, as part of the Fiscal Year 2020 Budget. Conroe, August 1 – The Montgomery County Commissioners Court increased […]
Image: Always immensely prepared, Montgomery County Tax Assessor-Collector Tammy McRae presented the certified appraisal numbers to the Montgomery County Commissioners Court to begin the second day of the Fiscal Year 2020 Budget Workshop. The three members of the Commissioners Court who missed the first day of the Budget Workshop were able to find their way […]
Image: Precinct 3 Montgomery County Commissioner James Noack, Republican of The Woodlands, made clear on Monday, July 29, 2019, that he sought to restrict Montgomery County government spending to “the Constitutional and statutory reasons of why the government exists” and nothing else. Montgomery County Judge Mark Keough, the “People’s Judge,” agreed with him. The other […]
Image: Whenever Montgomery County Republican Party Treasurer John Hill Wertz thinks about the Ronald Reagan Wall Calendar and the great American President which it depicts, tears come to his eyes. Montgomery County, July 27 – For vigilant conservatives, the week ahead may very well be the most important political week of 2019. The largest taxing […]
Image: The Citizens Budget Committee presented their report to the Commissioners Court on Tuesday, July 25, 2017. Some of the members are in this photograph. Left to right, Ginger Russell, Bob Bagley, Kelli Cook, Bill O’Sullivan, and Reagan Reed. The aggressive citizen activism against Montgomery County government spending and taxation has had a profound impact […]
Image: Precinct 3 Montgomery County Commissioner James Noack engages the political advice and policy counsel of his senior advisor, Maverick Noack. Conroe and The Woodlands, July 18 – Precinct 3 Montgomery County Commissioner James Noack is spending long hours with his policy staff in his Precinct 3 Office preparing for the budget hearings for the […]
Image: The truth. Conroe, July 14 (Bastille Day) – If the Fiscal Year 2020 Budget for the Montgomery County Government is higher than $361,106,553.17, then Mark Keough, Charlie Riley, James Noack, James Metts, and Mike Meador have imposed a TAX INCREASE on Montgomery County citizens, regardless of whatever deceptive terminology they may choose about “tax rates” […]
Image: Alex in the 1971 film, A Clockwork Orange, obviously portrayed the budget methodology of the Conroe Independent School District in this scene involving the “Ludovico” technique of brainwashing. Rather than examining school district departments, conducting zero-based budgeting to determine whether expenditures have any purpose, or brainstorming novel ideas about methods of reducing overall spending, the […]
Conroe, May 28 – The Montgomery County Commissioners Court will hold a showdown in the morning of May 28, 2019, at 9:30 a.m. over the State High 242 flyover tolls and over several spending items. After Montgomery County Judge Mark Keough, the “People’s Judge,” argued for removal of the flyover tolls at the April 9 […]
Conroe, April 9 – Secretive facilities planning and other County government spending proposals present perils at every turn for taxpayers during the Tuesday, April 9, 2019, meeting of the Montgomery County Commissioners Court. Montgomery County’s government continues to merit its reputation as “the most corrupt County government in Texas.” Facilities spending: budget breaker? Despite assurances […]
