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 | Feb 25, 2019 | City Of Houston Finances, Mobility, Rebuild Houston, TIRZ, Uptown
Sylvester Turner’s press conference on potholes this week was masterful misdirection. Most of the media headlines were that Turner claimed the City was repairing 100% of its potholes. But if you read the fine print, the City is only repairing 100% of the...
by Bill King | Oct 31, 2018 | City Of Houston Finances, Rebuild Houston, Rebuild Houston - Drainage Fee, TIRZ
The more I study the Rebuild Houston program, the more apparent it becomes that the City’s administration of the program is a complete fraud. The most recent discovery we have made is that the City has been using a legal loophole to shortchange the amount of money...
by Bill King | Oct 22, 2018 | City Of Houston Finances, Flooding, Rebuild Houston, Rebuild Houston - Drainage Fee
Early voting on the City’s proposition A, which would reauthorize the failed Rebuild Houston program, begins tomorrow. Since no one at the City had the intestinal fortitude to debate Proposition A, I am left to make the closing argument directly to Houston...
by Bill King | Oct 18, 2018 | Rebuild Houston, Rebuild Houston - Drainage Fee, Uncategorized
There is a little-discussed provision in Proposition A which will commit Houston taxpayers to the Rebuild Houston debacle through 2031, and perhaps beyond. The provision reads as follows: “This Section is subject to modification as permitted by law or termination at...
by Bill King | Oct 13, 2018 | City Of Houston Finances, Rebuild Houston, Rebuild Houston - Drainage Fee
I spoke to someone last night who had attended the City’s townhall meeting in Kingwood on the propositions on the ballot. The person with whom I spoke left the meeting with the impression that the ballot provision represents a new and improved lockbox. This is...
