by Bill King | May 28, 2019 | Demographics, Economics, Harvey Recovery
City Population Growth a Warning we need to Change Course The U.S. Census just released the population estimates for 2018 and listed the fifteen fastest growing cities. The good news is that five of the fifteen were in Texas. The bad news is that Houston was not one...
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...
by Bill King | Jan 23, 2019 | City Of Houston Finances, Demographics, Pensions
We now have audits for the City and its three pension plans for the first full year of operation under the pension changes made in 2017. The results clearly show that, other than making a one-time reduction in the pension liability by cutting benefits and...
by Bill King | Jun 27, 2018 | City Of Houston Finances, Demographics, TIRZ, Uptown
In its never-ending quest to nickel and dime Houstonians out of every last dollar, the City of Houston recently announced that it will begin charging for some of the parking spaces at Memorial Park. The City has said that the revenue will help maintain the park. ...
by Bill King | Jun 20, 2018 | Demographics, Economics, Federal Government Finances, National Politics
If you follow the jobs report issued by the Labor Department each month, you have probably heard of something called the “labor force participation rate.” This is the percentage of the population between the ages of 16-64 that are employed or unemployed but looking...
by Bill King | Jun 2, 2018 | City Of Houston Finances, Demographics
The US Census Bureau just released its population estimates for 2017. They are a giant red flag for Houston. Most stunning was that the Census Bureau estimated that the City proper only added 8,200 new residents in 2017. The growth rate for the year was four-tenths...
