The Chron has a story today about HISD Trustee Larry Marshall taking a trip at the expense of the Costa Rican government to study how they dispense health insurance. Check out the story here. The trip was arranged by State Rep. Borris Miles who handles flood insurance for HISD. That is kind of odd. The Chron article doesn’t say why the government of Costa Rica put out the invite and picked up the tab. What would they get out of the deal? When asked why he (Marshall) didn’t disclose the trip, he said he treated it like getting invited to a ‘Stros game – huh! I don’t know about that. A couple of beers, some nachos, and peanuts are not the same as taking a trip to Central America. In reading the piece it looks like no laws were broken. It just make the readers think that some HISD board members like taking free trips arranged by vendors – not good at a time when they are having to lay-off folks over at HISD.
CEWDEM sent out a stinging take on the H-Town CM Jolanda Jones complaint. CM Sullivan picked Balls of Holly to represent him. CM Jones picked CM Bradford. CEWDEM implies that Balls of Holly won’t be impartial of course I don’t know if impartiality is a requirement. Balls of Holly, Bradford, and The Mayor will get together Monday on this matter. The get together is not open to the public – drats!
CEWDEM also took the opportunity to take a swipe at Balls of Holly’s choice to replace her on City Council, Bolivar Fraga. I’m thinking that Fraga will be a CEWDEM target from here on out – ouch! Stay tuned!
The ‘Stros are in LA for three. The Dodgers have retired 10 jersey numeros. On June 4, 1972, the first three numeros were retired. Who did they belong to?
The H-Town Mayor got around to implementing again Rebuild Houston. Of course nothing will satisfy the opponents. I have to give credit to the Mayor for saying she owed it to the voters to get it right. A whole lot of other elected officials would have ducked or blamed others. Way to go Mayor!
Sandy Koufax (32), Roy Campanella (39), and Jackie Robinson (42) of course had their jersey numeros retired by the Dodgers on June 4, 1972.
We had a Brett Wallace throwing error that cost us the game the other night. Yesterday, Michael Bourn dropped a ball that he should have caught and it cost us the game. We went 2-8 on the homie and have the worst record in the MLB. We are definitely not focused!
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