The Golden Hammer Staff Reports Conroe and Magnolia, March 31 – The Montgomery County Toll Road Authority (MCTRA) continues to lose a fortune every year on its money-losing “Decimation of Hope Highway,” the moniker taxpayers dubbed the unpopular TX-249 Tollway. When the Montgomery County Commissioners Court approved their Consolidated Annual Financial Report (CAFR) on Tuesday, […]
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 […]
Image: Lame duck Montgomery County Judge Craig Doyal (left), who told lie after lie to the Magnolia Area Republican Women, on Monday, September 17, 2018, and real estate developer Sam Yeager who is directly benefitting from the TX 249 Tollway construction. Magnolia, September 19 – Lame duck Montgomery County Judge Craig Doyal told lie after […]
Image: Bad guys dress in black. Magnolia, May 15 – Charlie Riley, the Precinct 2 Montgomery County Commissioner, single-handedly killed a voter referendum on the $107 million, 3 mile, TX 249 Tollway. The road, also known as the “Decimation of Hope Highway,” will be the most expensive road on a per-mile basis in American history. […]
Conroe, May 11 – Precinct 2 Montgomery County Commissioner Charlie Riley, County Judge Craig Doyal, and Precinct 1 County Commissioner Mike Meador carefully looked away as citizens Kelli Cook and Keith Lincoln spoke about the plain truth about tollroads during the May 8, 2018, meeting of the Montgomery County Commissioners Court. Tollroads actually cause traffic congestion […]
Conroe, May 4 – Larry Rogers, the Republican Precinct Chairman who lives in Windsor Hills, a senior community on the north side of State Highway 242 and who is a resident of Commissioners Precinct 2, delivered the best citizen comment ever to the April 24, 2018, meeting of the Montgomery County Commissioners Court. His County […]
Conroe, May 3 – When Montgomery County Judge Craig Doyal, Precinct 2 County Commissioner Charlie Riley, and tollroad lawyer Rich Muller of Sugar Land ask the Montgomery County Commissioners Court to vote on approving a resolution or agreement without attaching it to the agenda or the packet given to the members of the Commissioners Court, […]
JON BOUCHE, GUEST REPORTER On Tuesday, April 24, 2018, I was in Commissioners Court to hear the debate about the toll road. Specifically, I was trying to figure out if Commissioner Charlie Riley, Commissioner Meador, and County Judge Doyal were really going to follow through and betray the citizens of Montgomery County and push forward […]
Image: Terrell Palmer, Post Oak Municipal Advisors, announced in the April 24, 2018, meeting of the Montgomery County Commissioners Court that he had a “fiduciary duty” to the people of Montgomery County. He then proceeded to lie about the cost and amount of bond debt planned for the TX 249 Tollway, also known as the Decimation […]
Image: Precinct 3 Montgomery County Commissioner James Noack took to the airwaves (through robocalls) and cyberspace (through eblasts) to sound the alarm that lame duck Montgomery County Judge Craig Doyal and Precinct 2 County Commissioner Charlie Riley intend to plunder the taxpayers’ general fund in the amount of $5 million during the Tuesday, April 24, 2018, […]
