Image: Montgomery County Judge Mark Keough lost his temper at Montgomery County Sheriff Rand Henderson, when the Commissioners Court voted to use $2 million of American Rescue Plan Act funds for Courthouse security rather than to give those funds to Keough to spend as he wanted. The Golden Hammer Staff Reports Conroe, April 27 – […]
Image: Woodlands Township Board Chairman Gordy Bunch piercingly criticized the Montgomery County government for its failures to reimburse the Woodlands Township for COVID-related law enforcement and fire department expenses during the pandemic in an exclusive interview with The Golden Hammer. The Golden Hammer Staff Reports The Woodlands, April 20 – Woodlands Township Board Chairman Gordy Bunch […]
Image: This shark, representing the Woodlands Township, fed upon a dead whale, representing the free spending faction in control of the Township’s Board. The Golden Hammer Staff Reports The Woodlands and Austin, April 18 – Last Wednesday, April 13, 2022, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton put to rest the dispute over whether the Montgomery County […]
Image: Six Conroe Independent School District Board members should shoulder all of the blame for the $6.6 million turf debacle, left to right, Dale Inman, Datren Williams, Stacy Chase, Ray Sanders, Theresa Wagemon, EXCLUDE Scott Moore, Skeeter Hubert. Moore is the only Board member with the courage to buck the school district administration and support […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Home-district projects for members of Congress are back, sprinkled across the government-wide $1.5 trillion bill President Joe Biden signed recently. The official tally shows amounts modest by past standards yet spread widely around the country — and that understate what lawmakers are claiming credit for. The bipartisan measure, financing federal agencies this year, contains 4,975 […]
Image: 418th District Judge Tracey Gilbert, shown when he appeared before Commissioners Court on January 12, 2021, led the effort to maintain the independence and integrity of Montgomery County Auditor Rakesh Pandey at the Friday, April 1, 2022, Board of District Judges meeting. The Golden Hammer Staff Reports Conroe, April 4 – The Montgomery County […]
The Golden Hammer Staff Reports Conroe and Magnolia, March 31 – The Montgomery County Toll Road Authority (MCTRA) continues to lose a fortune every year on its money-losing “Decimation of Hope Highway,” the moniker taxpayers dubbed the unpopular TX-249 Tollway. When the Montgomery County Commissioners Court approved their Consolidated Annual Financial Report (CAFR) on Tuesday, […]
Image: Conservative Republican political activist Jennifer Eckhart, March 29, 2022. The Golden Hammer Staff Reports Conroe, March 30 – Several citizens, whom conservative Republican political activist Jennifer Eckhart led, complained to the Montgomery County Commissioners Court about their proposed action to hire five people in the new Payroll Department after the Commissioners Court voted three […]
The Golden Hammer Staff Reports Conroe, March 29 – Montgomery County Judge Mark Keough has proposed establishment of a newly formed committee, with at least one illegal member, to provide a list of how to spend the $$117.96 million in federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) stimulus funds Montgomery County will receive. The problem with […]
The Golden Hammer Staff Reports Conroe, March 28 – When the Montgomery County Commissioners Court made a secret closed-door deal on March 8, 2022, to take away the payroll function away from Montgomery County Treasurer Melanie Pryor Bush and put it under Phyllis Martin, who needs a job because her current boss, Precinct 4 Commissioner […]