LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mike Garcia grew up a single-minded kid from Southern California: He just wanted to fly fighter jets. His decision to enter national politics wouldn’t come until decades later, after he had seen one California election too many. A career as a Navy aviator would lead to a decade in the defense […]
Image: Typical Montgomery County government employee in Montgomery County Judge Craig Doyal’s perfect world, as he envisions it. Conroe, June 9 – The Golden Hammer has confirmed that Montgomery County Judge Craig Doyal and his “chief of staff” jim fredricks have instructed County Department Directors not to provide information to or participate in the deliberations of […]
Conroe, June 6 – The Citizens Budget Committee has invited the Montgomery County Department heads of sixteen County Departments to come before the Committee’s meeting on Wednesday, June 6, 2018, at 5:30 p.m., at 112 Academy Drive, in Conroe, to explain their budget proposals. One interesting Department Director, Lorena Garcia, the Wayne Mack protege who […]
Conroe, July 28 – Wayne Mack, a Marc Davenport puppet, unleashed a rant against citizens who would dare to criticize elected officials whom he places on a pedestal. According to Mack, anyone who would dare question the massive spending and wastefulness within County departments is his version of “a few angry unelected ‘want a be’ […]
Conroe, July 27 – The Montgomery County Commissioner Court “Budget Workshop” continued on Thursday, July 27, 2017, with County Judge Craig Doyal and the Commissioners. For the taxpayers, it was a depressing affair all the way around. Precinct 1 County Commissioner Mike Meador has obviously never found a program on which he would restrain himself […]
July 26 – Montgomery County Custodial Maintenance Department Director Lorena Garcia proclaimed that adoption of the Citizens Budget Committee Report’s recommendation to reduce her Department’s salaries would lead to “catastrophic” impacts on Montgomery County, even announcing her fear of “sick building syndrome” and mass layoffs of custodial staff. Garcia, of course, failed to consider the […]
SADIE GURMAN, Associated Press DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Less than a week after President Donald Trump fired James Comey, the administration has interviewed at least eight candidates to be FBI director and Trump has said a decision could come within days. Trump, who is scheduled to leave Friday on his first overseas […]
Conroe, April 26 – With no guidance for any particular method to find budget cuts, the Montgomery County Commissioners Court has left the County Department heads completely in the dark about the specific manner in which they are to find “across-the-board” budget cuts to propose in accordance with the 2017 Budget Packet which asks County […]
DOUG FERGUSON, AP Golf Writer AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Justin Rose had a back-nine charge so common at Augusta National. Sergio Garcia finally caught a good break in a major. Jordan Spieth got his name high on those famous white leaderboards, the only spot he has ever occupied on the weekend at the Masters. Saturday […]
PETE IACOBELLI, AP Sports Writer AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Fans of dominant, wire-to-wire performances and runaway winners, this Masters is not for them. Forget a Tiger Woods’ style blowout. Unlike that performance 20 years ago, Augusta National has a traffic jam atop the leaderboard that will likely take the entire weekend to untangle. Sergio Garcia […]