Image: Kathy Turner Jones (left), who has left her job as General Manager of the Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District, celebrating the end of her tenure with Conroe City Councilman Duane Ham (right), who attended her “going away” party at the Corner Pub in downtown Conroe on Wednesday, March 13, 2019. Conroe, March 14 – […]
Conroe, March 13 – Prior to the Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District’s (LSGCD) Board of Directors meeting last night, the San Jacinto River Authority (SJRA), through a letter from its General Manager Jace Houston, and its close ally, the Woodlands Joint Powers Agency, tried to put the scare into the LSGCD to continue to […]
BREAKING NEWS! Conroe, March 6 – Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District (LSGCD) Kathy Turner Jones resigned today, effective March 13, 2019, as General Manager of the District. Jones has served as the General Manager of LSGCD for over 16 year since the regulatory body began in 2002. Jones had served as a groundwater regulator previously. […]
Image: Aren’t you proud that the Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District is flushing your money, which you paid through high water bills, into programs to make themselves feel good? Conroe, February 18 – 88 days into office, the newly-elected Board of Directors of the Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District (LSGCD), which came into office with […]
Conroe, February 12 – One of the tricks of liberal pro-Big-Government activists is to convince representative political entities to adopt proclamations which are really guises for their liberal agenda. The Board of Directors of the Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District (LSGCD) will confront such a trick during their regular monthly Board meeting for the month […]
Publisher’s Note: The Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District issued this press release. It’s important enough that The Golden Hammer is publishing the release in its totality. CONROE, TX – On January 22, 2019, the Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District Board of Directors approved execution of a Compromise and Settlement Agreement with the City of Conroe (“Conroe”), […]
Conroe, January 24 – The Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District (LSGCD) Board of Directors again considered the hiring of a lobbyist to represent the district in the 86th Legislative Session. After several citizens appeared before the Board in opposition to the proposal, the matter died for lack of a motion. Board member Jonathan Prykryl, who […]
Conroe, January 18 – During the discussion by the Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District (LGSCD) Board of Directors on Tuesday, January 15, 2019, concerning whether to use tax dollars to hire a lobbyist for the 86th Texas Legislative Session, one person strangely sat entirely silent. LSGCD General Manager Kathy Turner Jones sat mute and didn’t […]
Conroe, January 16 – Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District (LSGCD) Board President Webb Melder and Vice President Harry Hardman ran a pro-citizen meeting yesterday, January 15, 2019, in which citizens had the opportunity to speak and the Board ultimately took no action on hiring a taxpayer funded lobbyist. Additionally, the Board voted unanimously to terminate […]
Eric Yollick, The Golden Hammer At the Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District (LSGCD), we’re witnessing directly the pressure the political establishment bears upon reformers. On November 6, 2018, just barely two months ago, the citizens of Montgomery County elected a new Board of Directors promising to reform the regulatory abuse and massive spending on unnecessary professionals which […]