Image: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton overruled Conroe Independent School District’s phony claims of exemptions under the “attorney-client privilege” in an effort to avoid releasing documents in response to a Public Information Act request. Conroe, October 15 – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton overruled Conroe Independent School District (CISD) and its General Counsel Carrie Galatas […]
Image: Geologist Mike Thornhill presented a proposal, which he and geohydrologist Bob Harden prepared, to begin a comprehensive study of the interaction between groundwater pumpage and subsidence in Montgomery County, to the Lone Star Groundwater District Board of Directors at their Tuesday, July 9, 2019, meeting. The Board accepted the proposal to begin the study […]
Eric Yollick, The Golden Hammer PBK Architects’ conduct of Conroe Independent School District’s $807 million bond referendum, which failed to win on May 4, 2019, reveals a pattern and practice of corruption which PBK Architects has led but which literally dozens of school districts have followed for two decades since the architecture firm began to include […]
Conroe, November 26 – The November 13, 2018, Commissioners Court meeting was a Precinct 2 Montgomery County Commissioner Charlie Riley free-for-all of spending and attempted political hits. The embattled Riley, already under one criminal indictment and the main target of a pending Montgomery County Grand Jury investigation, took his anger out on Dodi Shaw, the […]
Conroe, November 24 – Despite resistance from anti-citizen General Manager Kathy Jones, Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District (LSGCD) Webb Melder and the newly-elected Board of Directors are beginning to shift the unnecessary regulatory agency towards transparency. Melder ordered LSGCD GM Jones to re-post the agenda for the November 27, 2018, 3 p.m. Board of Directors […]
Conroe, July 26 – Precinct 2 County Commissioner Charlie Riley easily made the most ignorant comment of the entire day, July 25, 2018, of the Montgomery County Commissioners Court budget workshop. In response to a request by Montgomery County Attorney J.D. Lambright to hire an additional attorney and a legal assistant and buy some computer […]
The Woodlands, January 3 – Woodlands resident Ron Keichline has filed as a democratic candidate to run for Precinct 2 Montgomery County Commissioner against the Republican nominee on the November 6, 2018 ballot. “As a Boy Scout, I learned you always leave a campsite in better shape than you found it. To my way of thinking, […]
Conroe, January 4 – Retired Montgomery County Treasurer Martha Gustavsen, one of the most popular figures in the history of Montgomery County politics, has endorsed Conroe Independent School District Board of Trustees President Melanie Pryor Bush to replace incumbent County Treasurer Stephanne Davenport. Gustavsen had hired Davenport as a secretary in the County Treasurer’s Department […]
Conroe, November 13 – Government succeeds at dictatorship utilizing three techniques: secrecy, destruction of the rights of freedom, and the raw wielding of power. On Tuesday, November 14, 2017, the Montgomery County Commissioners Court will meet and spend millions of citizen dollars. Since Craig Doyal became the County Judge and Charlie Riley became Precinct 2 […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he doesn’t plan to block the scheduled release of thousands of never publicly seen government documents related to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination. “Subject to the receipt of further information,” he wrote in a Saturday morning tweet, “I will be allowing, as President, the long blocked and classified […]
