Eric Yollick, The Golden Hammer The Golden Hammer, Montgomery County’s leading daily newspaper, endorses Republican Party of Texas Chairman James Dickey for re-election. The vote will occur at the State Republican Convention in San Antonio in two weeks. When Abraham Lincoln ran for President in 1860, the Republican National Convention adopted a Platform and fully expected […]
Image: While citizens speak – in this instance the Sage Bill O’Sullivan – Precinct 4 County Commissioner Jim Clark (left) and Precinct 3 County Commissioner James Noack (second from left) look on, while Montgomery County Judge Craig Doyal (center), Precinct 2 County Commissioner Charlie Riley (bald, red-faced, second from right), and Precinct 1 County Commissioner […]
New Caney and Conroe, May 7 – Precinct 4 County Commissioner Jim Clark has placed an item on the May 8, 2018, meeting agenda for the Montgomery County Commissioners Court to force a vote up or down on whether to remove the tolls on the State Highway 242 flyovers. “It’s time to remove the flyover […]
Image: Precinct 4 County Commissioner Jim Clark spoke before a crowd of citizens interested in mobility issues on Thursday, May 3, 2018. Conroe, May 4 – Precinct 4 County Commissioner Jim Clark enjoyed thunderous applause before a crowd of more than 125 concerned citizens who wanted an update on mobility issues. The applause came when […]
JAMES NOACK, Guest Editorialist Toll roads are as well liked as a schoolyard bully. They both force behavior to their benefit and take your lunch money while laughing in your face. While bullying is no joke, neither is fleecing the taxpayer. Due to the growing opposition of toll roads and action by many this past […]
Image: Corruption bonded with corruption and nepotism bonded with nepotism, when Precinct 2 County Commissioner Charlie Riley, who created jobs for his wife and his nephew at taxpayer expense and whose constituents are County engineering firms and other vendors who pay for his criminal legal defense fund, embraced JP James Metts who cost the County […]
Conroe, March 9 – If there were any single issue where Montgomery County voters sent a strong message to the County government’s public servants, the issue most certainly is tollroads. The voters could not have sent a stronger message than: “WE DON’T WANT TOLLROADS WITHOUT VOTER APPROVAL!!!” Proposition 2 on the Republican Primary ballot on […]
Image: Right to left, Precinct 4 County Commissioner Jim Clark, Kelly Osborn Clark, and Fire Chief Kevin Hosler. Conroe, February 25 – Precinct 4 County Commissioner Jim Clark showed great leadership during the February 13 Montgomery County Commissioners Court meeting when he stood up to the resistance of Republican-In-Name-Only County Judge Craig Doyal who defied […]
Conroe, February 19 – The Freedom & Liberty Conservatives PAC released an anti-tollroads, pro-Proposition 2 video ahead of early voting which starts on Tuesday, February 20, 2018, in the Republican Primary Election set for March 6. The video contains some humor but addresses the cronyism involved in tollroads and specifically the TX 249 tollroad which […]
Image: In the middle of the northbound State Highway 242 tolled flyover, there is one of the craziest signs in the history of Texas highways. The sign points to SH 242 West to the left with an arrow. There is no option to go right, unless the vehicle driver chooses to plunge over the wall […]