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philip964 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 10, 2020 1:46 pm

https://news.yahoo.com/execution-nicola ... 41413.html

Many reports show he was on his knees when he was shot and killed.

https://www.khou.com/article/news/crime ... f480c3981a

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Rafe wrote: ↑Wed May 13, 2020 2:10 pm Not unsurprisingly under years of "Royal Blue" leadership, comes this headline: "Houston Faces Worst Budget Crisis In Modern History."

Tax revenue has plummeted, the city is facing the worst budget crisis in living memory, and officials are warning to expect across-the-board cuts in city services. Last week, Mayor Sylvester Turner painted a dire picture of the next fiscal year, set to begin July 1.

“That budget deficit will be anywhere between $170 [million] to $200 million in terms of the deficit that we’re trying to close,” Turner said. “It will be the worst budget deficit that the city has faced.”

That tidbit was followed up yesterday by this story from KHOU TV: "3,000 City Employees Could Face Furloughs Under Proposed Houston Budget." The text of the proposed budget is available here: https://www.houstontx.gov/budget/21budprop/index.html.

Sylvester Turner, the mayor who supported business closures and sweeping stay-at-home orders (and who openly expressed his displeasure when Gov. Abbott's orders for by-step opening of the economy overrode local edicts), blames the $169 million shortfall squarely and only on the coronavirus.

And then from two hours ago from ABC13: "Houston Rental Assistance Program Enrollment Suspended after 90 Minutes."

The program is to help Houston renters who have fallen behind on payments due to the coronavirus. Applications opened at 10:00 a.m. today for $15 million in relief funds. Before an hour had passed, the online process had to be temporarily halted because there were over 17,000 people hitting the website at the same time. Good planning, eh? By 11:35 came this message from the non-profit assigned to administer the $15 million: "All funds for the BakerRipley COVID-19 Rental Assistance Program have been committed. Enrollment has been suspended. The site is now closed."

Not to be outdone, Harris County Judge Lina "Dora the Explorer" Hidalgo "is working on [the county's] own $15 million dollar relief package for vulnerable families, which is in the final stages of approval." Note that on neither of these programs do I see any stipulation that the recipient must have recently filed for unemployment or be actively looking for employment.

striker55 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 03, 2020 1:30 pm We have a bunch of criminals walking the streets in the 3am time frame checking for unlocked car doors. Don't think anything will happen to them, do you think the police will waste their time for these lowlife's to be let out of jail? It's like open season for unlocked cars, in another group some people think it's your fault if you leave the doors unlocked. Geez

Grumpy1993 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 12, 2019 6:45 pm https://abc13.com/tiger-discovered-at-h ... y/5132909/

A concerned citizen called 311. They were trying to get into this house to smoke marijuana. We questioned them as to whether they were under the effects of the drugs or they actually saw a tiger.

Scott B. wrote: ↑Mon Feb 11, 2019 4:44 pm I wouldn't drive around that area after dark.