Image: Montgomery County Judge Mark Keough’s Chief of Staff Jason Millsaps’ brand new GMC Yukon, parked outside of the Sadler Administration Building in downtown Conroe, courtesy of Precinct 4 County Commissioner James Metts. The Golden Hammer Staff Reports Conroe, September 12 – Within a mere eight (8) days after Mark Keough came into office as […]
The Golden Hammer Staff Reports New Caney, September 7 – As Precinct 4 Montgomery County Commissioner James Metts heads out the door at the end of 2022, after Republican voters rejected him in the Republican Primary Election and instead chose Matt Gray as the County Commissioner representing and serving East Montgomery County, Metts has begun […]
Image: Outgoing Precinct 4 Montgomery County Commissioner James Metts. The Golden Hammer Staff Reports New Caney, September 6 – When Precinct 4 Montgomery County Commissioner James Metts came into office on January 1, 2019, many signs pointed to a level of corruption and turning his back on the people of East Montgomery County that those […]
Image: What the Montgomery County Commissioners Court voted to do to the finances of Montgomery County families. The Golden Hammer Staff Reports Conroe, August 10 – The Montgomery County Commissioners Court voted unanimously to raise County property taxes on local families and businesses a whopping thirteen point six percent (13.6%), one of the largest tax […]
Image: The Montgomery County Veterans Memorial Park has served primarily as a tribute of local elected officials to themselves. On May 31, 2022, Precinct 3 Montgomery County Commissioner Charlie Riley enjoyed paying tribute to himself at the park. The Golden Hammer Staff Reports Conroe, July 26 – Hidden on the super secretive “consent agenda” of […]
Image: Montgomery County Judge Mark Keough has continued his focus in serving Precinct 4 Commissioner James Metts over any interests of the citizens from the beginning of his term through the present, when Keough has come to the aid of a Metts political appointee who will lose her job when Metts’ replacement comes into office […]
The Golden Hammer Staff Reports Conroe, March 16 – The March 7, 2022, decision by the Montgomery County Commissioners Court to take away elected County Treasurer Melanie Pryor Bush’s payroll duties clearly was little more than political payback for her comments critical of the Montgomery County government during a January 15 telephone conversation with Montgomery […]
The Golden Hammer Staff Reports Conroe, March 9 – The Montgomery County Commissioners Court voted 4 to 1 to remove the payroll duties from Montgomery County Treasurer Melanie Pryor Bush and turn those duties over to discredited former County Auditor Phyllis Martin whom the Board of District Judges fired as County Auditor at the end […]
The Golden Hammer Staff Reports New Caney and Conroe, March 3 – Matt Gray’s upset victory over Precinct 4 Montgomery County Commissioner James Metts could bring a tidal wave of change to that office in New Caney and possibly even to the operations of the Montgomery County Commissioners Court. The East Montgomery County business community […]
Image: Commissioner Precinct 4 – Elect Matt Gray. The Golden Hammer Staff Reports Conroe and New Caney, March 2 – The voters of East Montgomery County, Commissioner Precinct 4, delivered a major upset in the March 1, 2022, Republican Primary Election, when they unseated longtime politician James Metts, who was running for re-election after one […]