Conroe, October 11 – On October 9, 2018, during the meeting of the Montgomery County Commissioners Court, the Publisher of The Golden Hammer, Montgomery County’s leading daily newspaper, spoke to the Court and suggested ideas for ethics reform so that Montgomery County might no longer be the “most corrupt County government in Texas.” It’s a shame […]
Conroe, October 8 – Montgomery County Auditor Phyllis Martin, the entire Montgomery County Commissioners Court, and Budget Office Director Amanda Carter intend to break Texas law flagrantly at the Commissioners Court meeting on October 9, 2018, by making at least thirty-nine (39) “budget amendments” as “emergency expenditures” “in case of grave public necessity” when, in […]
Austin, September 29 – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton submitted a Brief to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in support of Special Prosecutor Christopher Downey’s criminal prosecution of outgoing Montgomery County Judge Craig Doyal, whom a Montgomery County Grand Jury indicted in June, 2016, for alleged violations of the Texas Open Meetings Act (“TOMA”). […]
Image: Lame duck Montgomery County Judge Craig Doyal (left), who told lie after lie to the Magnolia Area Republican Women, on Monday, September 17, 2018, and real estate developer Sam Yeager who is directly benefitting from the TX 249 Tollway construction. Magnolia, September 19 – Lame duck Montgomery County Judge Craig Doyal told lie after […]
Image: The Texas Department of Transportation’s current depiction of the Decimation of Hope Highway, also known as the TX 249 Tollway. Montgomery County Judge Craig Doyal is the man who decimated the taxpayers’ hope. Before the end of calendar year 2018, the Montgomery County Commissioners Court should name the 3-mile, $107 million, section of the […]
Conroe, September 16 – On September 5, 2018, the Montgomery County Commissioners Court met and slammed the citizens of Montgomery County with two votes to set the budget at a stratospheric $344,381,573 for Fiscal Year 2019 which begins October 1, 2018, and ends September 30, 2019. After some very insightful comments by 9th District Judge […]
Conroe, September 11 – When Aeschylus wrote of the three Gorgon sisters, who had snakes for hair, he could have described the attitude of the Montgomery County Commissioners Court, meeting today, September 11, 2018, at 9:30 a.m., towards the citizens who foot the tax bill. The ancient Greek playwright wrote: “Near them their sisters three, […]
Image: Montgomery County Judge Craig Doyal and his vendor buddies want to trap incoming County Judge Mark Keough by forcing him to follow their decisions on capital projects to which they hope to commit the County government before Doyal leaves office. Conroe, September 9 – On March 6, 2018, voters repudiated Montgomery County Judge Craig […]
Conroe, September 8 – Montgomery County Sheriff Rand Henderson just barely squeaked by with approval from the Montgomery County Commissioners Court at its regular August 28, 2018, meeting to hire ten (10) new patrol deputies with funds he saved by not spending his full budget during Fiscal Year 2018. During the so-called “budget process,” the […]
Image: Precinct 3 Montgomery County Commissioner James Noack urged the Montgomery County Commissioners Court to reduce the County Auditor’s Budget by the amount of money set aside for the Budget Office, which took away some of the County Auditor’s functions. The Auditor, Phyllis Martin, fought against reducing the bureaucracy of her department. Noack’s motion passed […]