BREAKING NEWS! The Golden Hammer Staff Reports Conroe, July 5- Fraud, excessive salary payments, and creation of false government documents have overwhelmed the Montgomery County Board of Judges and the Office of Court Administration (OCA), resulting the abrupt terminations of Associate Judges Paul D’Amico and David Bluestein and OCA Payroll Specialist Berenice Greathouse. The Board 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 Washington, D.C., January 10 – Congressman Louie Gohmert has a reputation as a “conservative” in the United States House of Representatives and “inside the Beltway” of Washington, D.C. Nevertheless, a closer look at his voting record – beyond the “establishment”-serving American Conservative Union rating – reveals a troubling history of missed […]
Image: Woodlands Township General Manager Jeff Jones is the highest paid local government employee in Montgomery County, outside of schools and the County Forensics Laboratory, at $242,500 in salary, $97,727.50 in benefits, $7500 annual car allowance, and $20,000 in other expenses, for total annual compensation of $367.727.50, on the backs of Woodlands taxpayers. The Golden […]
The Golden Hammer Staff Reports Conroe, August 17 – The Montgomery County Commissioners Court finally figured out how much spending they approved during the so-called “budget workshop” at the end of July, when Budget Director Amanda Carter issued the “preliminary budget” for Fiscal Year 2022 last week. The total spending budget they approved for the […]
Image: Precinct 3 Montgomery County Commissioner James Noack cost the taxpayers $7,010,254 in services when he insisted on awarding himself and all other County government employees a 5% across-the board salary increase. The Golden Hammer Staff Reports Conroe, August 3 – Under normal circumstances, when the Montgomery County Commissioners Court concludes its “budget workshop” and […]
Image: Precinct 3 Montgomery County Commissioner James Noack may very well have received the most appropriate version of “The Golden Hammer Award” in history, as he hammered the taxpayers about as hard as he possibly could. The Golden Hammer Staff Reports Conroe and The Woodlands, July 30 – Precinct 3 Montgomery County Commissioner James Noack […]
Eric Yollick, Editor-in-Chief, The Golden Hammer Precinct 3 Montgomery County Commissioner James Noack should feel ashamed for his abject betrayal of Montgomery County citizens in the Commissioners Court “budget workshop.” Noack began the “budget workshop” with a carefully-planned proposal to give himself and all County government employees an across-the-board 5% pay raise, which will cost taxpayers […]
Image: The Montgomery County Commissioners Court decision to reward themselves five percent (5%) across-the-board pay raises for all County government employees amounts to nothing short of treason, after more than a year of the government’s destruction of lives, jobs, families, and incomes among the private citizens who suffer the local tax burden. The Golden Hammer […]
Tags The Golden Hammer Staff Reports Conroe, July 29 – Montgomery County has gained its own version of “Dr. Strangelove” in none other than Precinct 2 Montgomery County Commissioner Charlie Riley. At the end of producer and director Stanley Kubrick’s brilliant movie Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Peter Sellers […]