City’s 2019 Sales Tax Collections Buoyed by Strong Holiday Season, but Long-Term Downtrend in Growth Still in Place
The City’s sales tax collections for 2019 grew by almost 3% compared to the previous year. That was better ...
Quote of the Week – Will Rogers on the Democratic Party
"I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat." Will Rogers, circa 1928 Watching the ...
City Continues to Tread Water on Number of Police and Fire Fighters
For as long as I can remember, every candidate for mayor or council in Houston has pledged to increase the ...
Quote of the Week
“Insulting people does not work, if your objective is to persuade.” - Trey Gowdy, In a speech at Liberty University, ...
Keeping “Pandemics” in Perspective
The outbreak of the Novel Coronavirus in China has dominated the news in the last month. While I commend officials ...
Quote of the Week – John Adams on Political Parties
There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties . . ...
Almost 80% of Refugees Admitted in 2019 Were Christians Fleeing Persecution
Of the 27,514 refugees admitted to the U.S. in 2019 under the U.S. Refugee Admission Program1, 21,544 (78.3%) were Christians ...
Quote of the Week – Steven Hayward
“Has any country ever so publicly and consistently flogged itself for its imperfections and failures? Do these imperfections mean that ...
Houston Economy Still Highly Dependent on Oil & Gas
Some of the Houston chamber-of-commerce boosters frequently claim that the area’s economy has diversified away from oil and gas. While ...
Book Review: Factualness
I recently completed Factualness. It was written by Hans Rosling, a Swedish physician. It is an absolute must read. Rosling ...
A Plan for Fixing City Permitting
I have consistently heard complaints from Houstonians about the difficulty in getting building permits from the City. The complaints mostly ...
FBI Crime Statistics for 2018 Confirm Violent Crime Up Significantly
Yesterday the FBI released the crime statistics for 2018. Those numbers confirm precisely what I have been saying on the ...
Spend Every Penny of the Drainage Fee on Drainage
Once again hundreds of Houston families are waking up from the nightmare of floodwater rushing into their homes. They, and ...
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