If you missed it from last night, here’s a clip of Nancy Sims and me doing the pundit thing on KHOU:
Among other things, it’s a rare opportunity to see me in a suit and tie. My thanks to Greg for grabbing and uploading the clip.
[...]I’m still somewhat amazed by this result.
City Councilman Ronald Green led a three-candidate field in the race for Houston city controller Tuesday and will face Councilman M.J. Khan in a Dec. 12 runoff.
Green, whose campaign appeared unharmed by last-minute anonymous phone calls warning Democrats against him, led comfortably for [...]
- I didn’t note it last night, but all 11 Constitutional amendments passed. No surprise there, they almost always do.
- Looking back at my turnout projections, the right number to go with was the 30% scenario. As it happens, going by the numbers in the Mayoral race, 31.0% of [...]
Let me start by saying that I agree with Kevin Kirton, the CEO of Buckhead Investment Partners, also known as the developers of the infamous Ashby highrise, when he says that the “trip number” justification that the city used to block that project for as long as they did [...]
Same song, yet another verse: The food stamp situation in Texas is truly terrible.
As Texas begins hiring hundreds of food stamp workers to help erase an application backlog that has left families waiting months for aid, no one expects the problems to disappear any time soon.
The new state workers [...]
- My skepticism of those earlier polls that showed Peter Brown in the lead has been justified. Especially in what wound up being a lower-than-expected turnout election, I just couldn’t believe a survey of registered voters that was self-screened for likelihood of voting. Parker’s poll was much closer to [...]
