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Houston/HC recent local debt+tax 📈
‘22 - $1.2 billion Harris bond
‘23 - $478 million Houston bond
‘23 - $2.5 billion Harris hospital bond
‘24 - $650 million Houston bond
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‘24 - 8% county tax increase
‘24 - +$60 per yr flood control tax increase
‘24 - $4.4 billion
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CenterPoint next month: “we’re so sorry for the inconvenience caused by Hurricane Beryl here is a credit of $1.50 towards your next bill”
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Lmaooo my cousin was on Live PD because his truck got stolen and he chased down the guy who stole it.
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@ali
@SonnieJohnson
Somebody needs to be documenting all of these! Setups, staged/coordinated agitators, the media won’t report it
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My friend from New York is visiting Texas because they’re thinking about moving here. She’s been in Austin for less than 24 hours and this is her take
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Hey
@elonmusk
can you buy the city of houston, too? We’ve got some issues you might be able to fix
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Someone said this looks like a field sobriety test and now I can’t unsee it
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi participates in a US-Mexico hug ceremony on the border near Laredo, Texas.
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City council needs to have
@centerpoint
sit for a hearing and explain why we find ourselves in this situation and what they’re doing to make sure it doesn’t happen again
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No one is criticizing the linesmen & women so the “stop attacking the linesmen” is performative. criticism is directed towards corporate comms who spin a tale to distract us and the cozy relationship CenterPoint has with our elected class that allows them to avoid accountability
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Lmao you know when you’re at a club or a music festival and there’s that person hovering around looking out of place, usually wearing these timbs, and it’s 100% an undercover cop...
Kamala THEE Harris in Timbs.
I repeat, our next Vice President in Timbs
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One thing i love about Houston is no matter how down bad we are people will use their dying breath to talk sh*t in its defense
How is this even remotely true? We put a man on the moon and y’all shot a president.
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not condoning destroying and looting private property but some of y’all are more upset today over the riots/rebellion than you were with the taking of an innocent life at the hands of government. Good morning!
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There truly aren’t words for how hilarious I find this whole thing. In 4 hours I will have been laughing for 24 hours
'I'm a nerd, too' | Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo responds to a comment Houston Mayor John Whitmire made about her fiancé on social media.
Full story:
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Austin is ghetto. I don’t want to hear anything about Houston anymore until yall get Austin together
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Houston is beautiful and luxurious but that’s not why people move here. They move here because it is affordable. At this rate how long is that going to be the case?
Harris County approves overall property tax increase of 9.53%
(Montgomery County approved an 8.91% increase last month)
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I really wish Pelosi would’ve said “I was hoodwinked, dare I say bamboozled”
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@RichardHanania
@DavidWohl
This is definitely comedy right? Like this whole thread is a bit? It has to be.
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I’ll say more on this later but the fact that in one day 4 Texas GOP chairs have come under condemnation for racist remarks — including MY county — should make it CLEAR AS DAY that we have a problem in this party and y’all need to talk to more black people.
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This needs to be a whole movie
Father buys his son a brand new baseball bat for his birthday.
The reaction is priceless, but the surprise at the end is incredible.
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lol wait.
@LinaHidalgoTX
’s entire campaign has been to claim her opponent is an election denier but here she is calling into question the validity of the election before it even happens
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How is this shark still terrorizing us this has got to stop
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This isn’t even a joke but we probably should’ve guessed we were headed in this direction by the way people acted over a chicken sandwich.
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Imagine if people were this passionate about their city elections. Ya know, the ones where your effort and vote can REALLY make an impact. A boy can dream
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This story has always been so fascinating to me
Today in 1960, hoping to avoid acts of civil disobedience, 70 Houston lunch counters quietly desegregate.
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FWIW sure we can blame Dems for screwing up a lot of our major cities (it is what it is) but let’s make sure we blame Republicans too for rarely competing earnestly in cities and allowing the political machines to go unchecked for so long.
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“More than half a dozen people or companies gave contributions to Jackson Lee that exceed the city’s legal limit and one donation wrongly was attributed to a dead woman.”
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@LinaHidalgoTX
has been silent on the day that 3 of her top people are indicted but that doesn’t stop her campaign from asking folks to “rush a contribution”
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To my fellow patriots fighting for visibility in a world that wasn’t built for us:
For ages, we’ve met the challenge of spiral notebooks, school desks, sitting next to a righty at dinner. The world may not be built for us but that has yet to stop us
#LeftHandersDay
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Instead of blaming the grassroots for being outspoken and not “falling in line” maybe our elected officials and candidates should do better?
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Bmore has its issues but I’m a firm believer that no President should refer to a US city as a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess”
Also..since when do we look to Congress ppl to fix our cities? Mayors/Councils will always have more impact on daily lives than Congress folk
....As proven last week during a Congressional tour, the Border is clean, efficient & well run, just very crowded. Cumming District is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous & filthy place
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I need to pick something to be outraged about today, what’re y’all choosing?
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Didn’t he literally just say the opposite
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The streets are safe and we can all sleep a little more peacefully now.
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20 years since this iconic, earth shattering, life altering, groundbreaking album dropped and changed the music world. Two decades later it’s still being sampled (see: Drake and Cardi B). Sit back and let me tell y’all the story of
#TheMiseducationOfLaurynHill
#DearMsHill
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In my old age I’ve started to really appreciate and see the value in spending my time around good people. People who fill my soul. It just hits different.
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Will not be running for Chair of the Harris County Republican Party but this is for those who care.
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You shouldn’t put more faith in a politician than you put in God
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My mom just called because she saw there were storms in Houston. She said to close my blinds so the lightning doesn’t come through. Then she said she had to get off the phone because the lightning might come through the phone to her...
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Y’all know you can tweet condolences without including a line about how you didn’t align with their politics. Like, you know the tweet will still send, right?
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.
@LinaHidalgoTX
said the state killing Uplift Harris was cruel, I’d contend it’s more cruel to pursue a program that not only doesn’t work but may actually damage recipients' financial position.
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Today we outline our strategic rebrand to allow us to maximize our customer deliverables and build on our core competencies. In the coming days we will leverage our partners, find synergies, and circle back on what value add will move the needle because we know that’s mission
We apologize to our customers who endured outages from Hurricane Beryl and were frustrated by our communications. We make no excuses. We will get better. Today, we outlined a new action plan to address the areas where we fell short in our response. Click here to see the full
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If we can open all of these places in increments why can’t we open barbershops and other businesses that can be appointment-based?
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I’d like to thank the Academy
Congratulations to HRBC member,
@cjblain10
for being named in Houston Business Journal's 40 Under 40 this year!
Click here to see full list:
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I usually try not to be THAT guy but imagine if trump told us he broke his foot pulling his dog’s tail? The deep dives, 4,000 word think pieces and columns would be published before he finished the sentence.
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Being called a nerd as an adult is not even offensive yall doing too much
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Someone should request all of the travel info for all of the big city mayors and county judges in Texas for the past 12 months
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It’s really sad how many people in Houston have heard of the robot sex brothel issue and how few are aware that city council is about to vote on the first tax rate increase in like nearly 20 years.
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Something tells me these past few days are going to do a bit of damage to the whole image Texas has been crafting for a while
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Since Houstonians at present have no recourse in the free market, they must look to their elected and appointed officials to ensure that CenterPoint starts feeling some heat.
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.
@DwightBoykins
is right, Houston is not a dictatorship and
@SylvesterTurner
should give council ample time to review the budget.
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There were a lot of protesters in Houston last night. They were not the ones who vandalized, looted, and hurt people. From what I witnessed, those agitators weren’t there for the cause they were only there to take advantage and wreak havoc in an already tense situation.
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All of these mayors, governors, etc are out here threatening us with walls of shame, reporting hotlines, and fines but they’re out here maskless for photo shoots, jet setting to Cabo, eating good in the neighborhood
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Why let a little truth get in the way of misinformation
BREAKING: Multiple cats in Houston, TX cut up and mutiIated in recent weeks
No arrests have been made
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Every time a politician does something condemenation-worthy, the news always says “once considered a rising star”
How about we stop turning politicians into “stars” and look at them as what they are, public servants.
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Since city council can pass a $43 million tax incentive package for a W hotel, they can surely pass a tax abatement/relief package for the businesses impacted by the local government-mandated shutdown, right?
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All of our local electeds want us to look at pictures of them eating ice cream and dancing in the park while this place hangs on by a thread
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This is one of the most disgusting things I’ve ever seen. If ever a time for ppl on twitter to use their powers to ID someone now is it
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Sent this to my friends in Jersey hoping to lure them here…our brand is strong
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Is there an office he won’t run for?
SCOOP: Beto O’Rourke is preparing to run for governor of Texas in 2022, with an announcement expected later this year, Texas political operatives tell Axios.
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I’ve been fascinated by this urban cowboy life recently. These are in Nola, but we have them in Houston and I recently read a profile of them in South Central LA.
Urban cowboys in New Orleans like to show off their pimped-out rides as much as their biker and car enthusiast friends
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More news. Over the past year (at least) I’ve been working on a new project and it’s now officially launched.
@urbanreformorg
is my new org covering city hall and pushing free market, limited gov policies in cities. Htown is in desperate need of reform and it’s time to start!
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Kinda crazy that the people elected to *serve* are still getting paid, sitting comfortably nitpicking pet projects in relief bills while many of the people who elected them are starving.
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This shutdown is probably the longest many of our elected officials have gone without going on an expense paid “economic development” trip.
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Crazy to see how many people in the media hate to see someone try to make a living
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The “upside” of this corona outbreak is state and local governments are exposing which regulations are unnecessary and can easily be suspended/abolished without risking health and safety.
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Just what I need, another white Democrat telling me I’m not black enough
BIDEN: "If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black."
What?
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He didn’t build this city with his own bare hands only to be referred to as “Houston mattress salesman”
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Wow HEB broke out the eggnog. Are we really at that point in this journey
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In this essay I will detail how speed limit signs, which are primarily manufactured by older white males, are actually tools of oppression used to limit how quickly minorities can get to their destination
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No one loves a hearty pat on the back more than an elected officials who’s done the bare minimum
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Morning thoughts. The reason I personally oppose the idea (and party campaigns) that all Dems are the enemy is bc you’re talking about my parents, my brother, my nephew who just unionized Amazon, etc. They’re not the enemy they’re people with whom I disagree politically
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I have to give it to the people who hike on a regular basis because being consistent in the gym did nothing to prepare me for this
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You know how I know Chip Roy is a real one? Because when he emailed out his statement from tonight he didn’t have a donation link at the bottom
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George Floyd grew up in Cuney homes in 3rd Ward and since I’ve heard that so many times recently, I started wondering who (Norris Wright) Cuney was. This guy was something else.
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