by Bill King | Oct 11, 2019 | City Of Houston Finances
I cannot even guess at the number of times I heard Sylvester Turner promise to implement zero-based budgeting on the 2015 campaign trail. Here is one such instance during a KUHF radio interview. The images below are some other instances that Jasper Scherer at...
by Bill King | Jun 25, 2019 | City Of Houston Finances, Economics, Ethics
Four years after Sylvester Turner took office, Houston continues to kick the can down the road when it comes to fixing city finances. The city should have moved toward zero-based budgeting by now, but instead one-time fixes, deferred maintenance and depletion of our...
by Bill King | Jun 16, 2019 | City Of Houston Finances, Crime, Ethics, Human Trafficking
In 2013, the City of Houston entered into an agreement with sixteen of Houston’s most notorious strip clubs. The agreement settled some longstanding litigation between the City and the strip clubs over the City’s rules about the operation of such businesses. The...
by Bill King | Jun 10, 2019 | City Of Houston Finances, Ethics, Rebuild Houston, Uncategorized
Everywhere I travel across this city, people are fed up with the pay-to-play and cronyism at City Hall. They are sick and tired of the fact that people who make large campaign contributions play by a different set of rules than everyone else. They have lost their...
by Bill King | May 22, 2019 | City Of Houston Finances, Pensions
I don’t think there is a citizen in Houston who is not fed up with hearing about the City’s ongoing, never-ending dispute with its fire fighters over their pay. While there has been a lack of flexibility on both sides, Turner’s refusal, once again, to submit the...
by Bill King | May 20, 2019 | City Of Houston Finances, Demographics, Economics, Flooding, Uncategorized
Sylvester Turner will deliver his “State of the City” annual address today. If today’s speech is like the others, he will mostly brag and take credit for a lot of goods things going on in our City that he has little or nothing to do with. He will not talk about the...
