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Secretive ambulance service defies DA
Share this story: Two months ago the Harris County District Attorney’s Office issued subpoenas for the payroll records of Cypress Creek EMS, the $20 million a year ambulance service for 500,000 residents from Tomball to Spring. CCEMS has simply ignored[…..]
Councilman has some ‘splaining to do
Share this story: Dave Martin represents big slices of suburbia on Houston City Council, Clear Lake and Kingwood. At the council table, Martin often complains most of the big deals are being done downtown. Now Martin will have to explain[…..]
Halls call for immediate audit of housing “slush fund”
Share this story: Seventy million dollars of your tax money was put aside to create affordable housing, part of a political deal that allows a few rich neighborhood power brokers to stash hundreds of millions of tax dollars while the[…..]
And we call this diversity?
Share this story: If someone called you a “one trick pony” wouldn’t you be offended? If a city official told you to pay up if you wanted a better seat at the table wouldn’t you be offended? An e-mail obtained[…..]
Did King sell taxpayers a bill of goods?
Share this story: It is time for Bill King to come clean. The Sunday Houston Chronicle says the HISD bond election may have fooled Houstonians. Suddenly $1.9 billion isn’t enough. Historically black schools are being destroyed. A rat infested school[…..]
Uptown and METRO don’t want you to read the fine print
Share this story: METRO has put out new ridership projections for the proposed $200 million bus project. It proved Uptown had grossly exaggerated ridership when they sold the real estate deal to Houston City Council, but the Houston Chronicle headline[…..]
This should make every taxpayer sick!
Share this story: The city of Houston wasted millions of your tax dollars buying empty lots that are still empty six years later. That is the latest headline in an ongoing investigation by investigative communications firm Dolcefino Consulting. Here is[…..]
A question for Bill King
Share this story: All of a sudden Bill King says he has questions about the HERO bathroom ordinance. He told a GOP blog he doesn’t understand why the Houston ordinance is longer than other cities. What a bold question! Since[…..]
Not worth the paper it is written on
Share this story: The Houston Housing Department gave false information to members of Houston City Council about the use of Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone (TIRZ) money for affordable housing. An investigation by Dolcefino Consulting has uncovered huge mistakes involving the[…..]
This is Houston…not Chicago
Share this story: Bill King says he wants to give some neighborhoods tax money to do whatever they want with it. That is a misguided idea. The Chicago style neighborhood bosses we already have would just love such a fund[…..]