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Houston, we have a problem!
Share this story: Houston is acting a lot like Chicago. Under Mayor Parker, “shadow governments” in some Houston neighborhoods are flush with taxpayers’ cash and doing deals that are walking conflicts of interest. Take the $200 million Uptown Bus Project.[…..]
METRO chooses secrecy over the public right to know
Share this story: Here is a clue about government! When politicians know something is a bad deal for taxpayers they try to avoid talking about it. That is what METRO is now doing about the expensive Post Oak Bus Boondoggle[…..]
METRO starting to question the Uptown bus project
Share this story: METRO is spending millions on that controversial Uptown bus project, but now some board members are starting to question key details of the $300 million deal. A powerful state lawmaker asked the attorney general to decide if[…..]
Want to see a secret government game plan?
Share this story: Consider the members of the Uptown Board of Directors. They aren’t elected, even chosen by property owners in Uptown. Now we know they virtually appoint themselves or politicians pick them. They spend tens of millions of your[…..]
The expensive Uptown bus sales game
Share this story: You have got to just love the nerve of government. Take that Uptown bus deal. Uptown Officials want to tear up beautiful Post Oak Blvd so they can add two exclusive bus lanes. It will cost more[…..]
Uptown Bus Project Dealt Major Blow
Share this story: Ridership projections for that controversial $200 Million Dollar Uptown Bus Project will be slashed. Dolcefino Consulting has learned Metro already knows thousands of potential riders will be cut from the ridership claims made by Uptown. Uptown has[…..]
What is wrong with this picture?
Share this story: Houston Mayor Annise Parker appears to be the second highest paid Mayor in the country. In 2014, her salary was $235,000 dollars. Of course, she runs an entire city. John Breeding runs ONE single neighborhood in the[…..]
Hall promises to block plan to tear up Post Oak
Share this story: Houston Mayoral Candidate Ben Hall pledged today to stop a plan to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to tear up Post Oak Blvd for a flawed bus project. And Hall went farther, promising to conduct a[…..]
Uptown bus lawsuit filed
Share this story: Lawsuit seeks to halt Post Oak bus project Katherine Driessen of The Houston Chronicle reports a homeowner’s association is suing Metro over its involvement in plans to run bus lanes along Post Oak Boulevard, saying the project[…..]
Houston Chronicle editorial: A good bus delay
Share this story: A Houston Chronicle editorial says “A good bus delay” Let’s get the facts right before breaking ground on the bus rapid transit project: With a little digging, Wayne Dolcefino, a former television investigative reporter now working for[…..]