Paul Lazzaro, Guest Editorialist, to The Golden Hammer I may be retired, but that does not mean I stopped caring about my community. 2019 marks the 20th year of my residence here and 20th year as a community activist; first as vice president of marketing and public affairs for The Woodlands Operating Company (pre-Howard Hughes) and […]
Conroe, June 13 – The “Solid Gold 50” salaries, the highest fifty (50) non-law enforcement, non-elected salary holders in the Montgomery County government, unmask the primary explosive spending problem: salary inflation. As the Commissioners Court passed the Fiscal Year 2019 Budget on September 5, 2018, Precinct 3 Montgomerty County Commissioner James Noack asked the wrong […]
Image: As the Conroe Independent School District Board of Trustees arrived for their two Board meetings on Tuesday, May 14, 2019, a large group of anti-tax protesters greeted them. Three Republicans and two democrats appear in this picture, which includes three renowned Republican leaders Mark Frank (holding the “Take the Board to the Board” sign), […]
Conroe, May 8 – Although Conroe Independent School District (CISD) had little say immediately after it lost its first bond election in history on Saturday, May 4, 2019, when voters rejected an $807 million bond package and tax hike, CISD has begun to sound off and the sounds portend badly for taxpayers. Clearly, CISD didn’t […]
Image: Conroe Independent School District first began its bond advocacy campaign with the lie that passage of the $807 million bond and tax hike would only result in a 3-cent tax rate increase. Then citizens began to call the school district out, because the school district is also pushing hefty property tax appraisal increases each […]
Image: If you skirted property tax appraisal increases as these four leading liberals on the Conroe Independent School District’s Board of Trustees have, you’d be smiling too. Left to right: John Husbands, Stephen M. “Skeeter” Hubert, Scott Kidd, Datren Williams, and Superintendent Curtis Null. Conroe, April 22 – For the four leading liberals who have […]
Conroe, April 1 – The Conroe Independent School District (CISD) Board of Trustees held an emergency Board meeting Saturday night, March 30, 2019, and voted unanimously to send a $1.6 billion bond package to voters on May 7, 2019. The bond package will finance the school district’s purchase and construction of a chain of restaurants […]
The Woodlands, March 9 – On Friday March 8, 2019, at about 4:00 PM, Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office Deputies were dispatched to a report of “Shots Fired” at an office building in the 2100 block of Buckthorne Place, The Woodlands Texas. Responding Deputies were notified that the alleged shooter had shot one victim and fled the […]
Image: The days of Marian the Librarian (from “The Music Man”) are long gone. In the Montgomery County government, mean-spirited Library Director Jerilynne Williams seeks to hire a $77,000 “marketing” librarian who will make more money than law enforcement officers who put their lives at risk each day. Conroe, February 26 – Montgomery County Library […]
Conroe, February 25 – With the massive variety of sources of information readily available to Americans young and old, it’s not surprising that the Pew Research Center has found a nine percent (9%) decline in library usage across the United States every three year. In Montgomery County, library usage is no different from the national […]