The Golden Hammer Staff Reports Magnolia, August 11 – Magnolia Independent School District (Magnolia ISD) has circled the wagons as parents, staff, and taxpayers have expressed outrage over the school district’s persistence in continuing the anti-American, pro-Black Lives Matter (BLM) curriculum of the International Baccalaureate (IB) program. With all of the criticism, Magnolia ISD sent an email […]
Conroe, February 20 – Last Thursday, February 15, 2018, jurors in the 435th District Court of Montgomery County, Texas, Judge Patty Maginnis presiding, sentenced Santo LaCharles Stephens, 21, of Harris County, Texas, to 40 years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for the October 3rd, 2016, aggravated robbery of Jeff’s Jewelry on Highway 105 […]
Image: Magnolia Independent School District Director of Finance Garrett Matej, whom Precinct 2 County Commissioner Charlie Riley and District Superintendent Todd Stephens threw into the Montgomery County Grand Jury hot seat on Thursday, November 9, 2017. Conroe, November 9 – The Montgomery County Grand Jury’s investigation into the use of government property, services, equipment, and […]
Image: Email, dated May 25, 2017, from Magnolia ISD Superintendent Todd Stephens to Precinct 2 Montgomery County Commissioner Charlie Riley and others in which Stephens confirms that they intend to use the school district’s Administration Building for the band practice of their private musical band which Riley uses to play at events to support his […]
Image: Letter from Magnolia Independent School District to Republican activist Ginger Russell of Magnolia, dated October 27, 2017. Magnolia, November 1 – In order to try to protect Precinct 2 County Commissioner Charlie Riley, in part, from allegations that he used a Magnolia Independent School District truck for his political campaign, the Magnolia ISD produced […]
Magnolia, October 19 – Does Montgomery County Commissioners Precinct 2 have a problem? It certainly seems like it does. Over the past 6 weeks or so, The Golden Hammer, Montgomery County’s leading daily newspaper, and some active conservative citizens have worked together to investigate the activities of Precinct 2 County Commissioner Charlie Riley, his predecessor Craig […]
BREAKING NEWS! Conroe, October 17 – The Montgomery County Grand Jury will hear testimony from several County employees on Thursday, October 19, 2017, regarding the alleged use of County property and services for personal and campaign purposes by Precinct 2 County Commissioner Charlie Riley and County Judge Craig Doyal. At least seven current or former […]
Image: Precinct 2 County Commissioner Charlie Riley on stage with his “Charlie Riley Band” on October 14, 2017, when he announced to the world on video that he and Magnolia Independent School District Superintendent Todd Stephens let Riley use the services of Magnolia ISD maintenance workers to load and unload their band equipment and transport […]
Image: Charlie Riley Band members loading the band’s musical equipment into the Magnolia Independent School District Administration Building around 8:45 p.m., Saturday, October 14, 2017, while using a taxpayer-funded, publicly-owned MISD white transport truck to haul the equipment. The brown pickup truck to the left appears to be MISD Superintendent Todd Stephens’ truck. BREAKING NEWS! […]
Conroe, June 16 – The “citizens” whom Montgomery County Judge Craig Doyal and Precinct 2 Commissioner Charlie Riley rounded up to speak in favor of their beloved $73 million 3.6-mile 249 tollway, also known as the Decimation of Hope Highway, all had special interests and ties to the so-called “249 Partnership,” a lobbying group established […]
