by Bill King | Jul 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
The city’s chief recovery officer/flood czar Steve Costello made this stunning admission this week: “When people ask us today if we’re more prepared now than we were prepared for Harvey, the answer, unfortunately is no. . .” It is hard for me to get my brain around...
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 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 | Apr 3, 2019 | City Of Houston Finances, Ethics, Uncategorized
On Friday, the American Council of Engineering Companies of Houston (“ACEC”) endorsed Sylvester Turner for a second term. The endorsement letter read, in part, “Mayor Turner has demonstrated his commitment to investing in and improving the infrastructure of...
by Bill King | Mar 11, 2019 | City Of Houston Finances, Uncategorized
Sylvester Turner told City Council members last week that he intends to lay off 400 firefighters and trigger the layoff of another 100 employees in other departments to pay for the increased cost of Proposition B.[i] Turner claims there is no other way to fund...
by Bill King | Nov 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
Brent Taylor was the mayor of North Ogden, Utah. He was also a major in the Army National Guard. He was killed last week in Afghanistan on his fourth tour of duty there. He was 39 and left behind a wife and seven children. Shortly before his death, Major...
