The Golden Hammer Staff Reports Conroe and Magnolia, December 8 – The Montgomery County Toll Road Authority’s (MCTRA) quarterly financial statement, which will cast a shadow over today’s Commissioners Court meeting, continues to show severe mismanagement and poor financial operations. Despite glowing projections and promises from MCTRA President and Precinct 2 County Commissioner Charlie Riley, […]
Image: Precinct 2 Montgomery County Commissioner Charlie Riley (center) may laugh at the citizens, but the taxpayers are losing a fortune on his beloved TX-249 Tollway, also known as the “Decimation of Hope Highway.” The Golden Hammer Staff Reports Magnolia and Conroe, August 11 – The quarterly financial report of the Montgomery County Toll Road […]
Conroe, June 5 – The May 28, 2019, meeting of the Montgomery County Commissioners Court uncovered the degree to which the so-called “Montgomery County Toll Road Authority” (MCTRA) is a total scam against the taxpayers. For years, Precinct 2 Montgomery County Commissioner Charlie Riley and his mentor, disgraced former County Judge Craig Doyal, tried to […]
Image: Sugar Land lawyer Rich Muller spoke to the Montgomery County Commissioners Court on Tuesday, April 10, 2018. Before the meeting, Muller met with County Judge Craig Doyal, “chief of staff” jim fredricks, and Doyal’s best friend and business partner Bobby Jack Adams, the engineer with Halff Associates, Inc., the TX 249 “project manager,” to […]
BREAKING NEWS! Conroe, April 12 – State Representative Mark Keough, who is the Republican nominee for Montgomery County Judge after a landslide win over lame duck incumbent Craig Doyal, expressed his support for a non-tolled TX 249 Extension. The tolled version, which Doyal and Precinct 2 Montgomery County Commissioner Charlie Riley have attempted to force […]
Image: Precinct 2 Montgomery County Commissioner Charlie Riley. Conroe, April 11 – Precinct 2 Montgomery County Commissioner Charlie Riley has a chance to prove he’s not a liar when it comes to his promise to put a referendum before voters before building the Decimation of Hope Highway, the $85 million, 3 mile, TX 249 Tollway. […]
Image: Texas Transportation Commissioner Victor Vandergriff stands in front of a statue of a father Tom Vandergriff, who was a Mayor of Arlington and democrat Congressman. Conroe, December 26 – Thanks to some truth, during the December 19, 2017, Montgomery County Commissioners Court meeting, from Texas Transportation Commissioner Victor Vandergriff, who oversees the Texas Department […]
Conroe, December 24 – Montgomery County Judge Craig Doyal and the “Charlie Riley Band,” the core of the small group of political supporters who repeatedly appear in Commissioners Court to pretend to show citizen support for the $95 million, 4.5 mile, Tx-249 Tollway, more commonly known as the Decimation of Hope Highway, received “The Golden […]
Austin and Conroe, December 15 – In the March 6, 2018, Republican Primary Election, Republican voters will vote on Proposition 2, a nonbonding ballot proposition which reads, “No governmental entity should ever construct or fund construction of toll roads without voter approval.” As Republican Party of Texas Spokesperson Jamie Bennett explained, “The propositions are non-binding, […]
Conroe, October 31 – Local conservative political activist and sage Bill O’Sullivan told the Montgomery County Commissioners Court that frontage roads are essential in locations where tollroads replace free roads, such as the Tx-249 Tollway’s 3.6 mile section that Montgomery County Judge Craig Doyal and Precinct 2 County Commissioner Charlie Riley are insisting that the […]