Image: Magnolia ISD has attempted to fool taxpayers into believing there is a tax reduction, when, in fact, the school district has decided to increase taxes dramatically for the coming 2020-2021 year. Magnolia, September 4 – The Magnolia Independent School District (Magnolia ISD), which has recently come under fire for displaying a pro-“Black Lives Matter” […]
Image: “Heartless” by Banksy. The Golden Hammer Staff Reports Conroe, September 3 – The Montgomery County Hospital District (MCHD) voted 4 to 3 on Tuesday, September 1, 2020, to approve an enormous tax increase of 6.4% for the Fiscal Year beginning October 1, 2020. MCHD’s Board of Directors took the action despite the facts that […]
Nick Vonas, Guest Editorialist to The Golden Hammer I wanted to highlight the sudden ridiculous increase in the 2020 appraised land values for Crighton Ridge/Crighton Woods (CR/CW). There may or may not be similar situations in other neighborhoods, but my focus was within my immediate neighborhood. In my opinion this is an unwarranted method of […]
The Golden Hammer Staff Reports Conroe, August 26 – The Montgomery County Republican Party (MCRP) will conduct an emergency meeting of the Republican County Executive Committee (CEC) on Tuesday, September 1, 2020. Precinct 66 Chairman Adrian Kaiser and Party Treasurer John Hill Wertz, who is also a Precinct Chairman, were the instigators of the call […]
Image: CISD’s total budget increase, per CISD, Tuesday, August 4, 2020. The single page of information shown in the slide above is the entirety of the information about proposed expenditures, which the CISD Board of Trustees voted unanimously – like a rubber stamp – to approve the budget, which requires a giant tax increase on […]
The Golden Hammer Staff Reports Conroe, August 18 – In 2019, the Texas Legislature passed and Governor Greg Abbott signed into law Senate Bill 2, the “Texas Property Tax Reform and Transparency Act of 2019.” On August 14, just four days in advance of the Conroe Independent School District’s (CISD) budget hearing, which will occur […]
The Golden Hammer Staff Reports Conroe, August 11 – After a disastrous 3 to 2 vote on July 31, 2020, at the end of a “budget workshop” by the Montgomery County Commissioners Court to raise taxes substantially on beleaguered Montgomery County taxpayers, Precinct 3 Montgomery County Commissioner James Noack, who was one of the two […]
Image: Just as Conroe ISD callously is raising taxes – enormously – on local taxpayers and setting them on fire economically in the midst of the COVID-19 economic depression, Thich Quang Duc set himself on fire and burned himself to death on June 11, 1963, in the middle of a busy intersection in downtown Saigon. […]
Image: Flushing money down the toilet is an apt illustration for the business model for Conroe Independent School District’s $677.3 Million Bond, which provides no improvements in educational outcomes while adding 50% to the school district’s debt and a massive tax increase. The Golden Hammer Staff Reports Conroe, October 30 – Conroe Independent School District […]
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese security forces fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters in Beirut early Friday after they tried to push through security barriers around the government headquarters amid some of the largest demonstrations the country has seen in years. The riots left two people dead and dozens wounded. What is happening in […]