Issues

We at TCR wish all our readers a great holiday season and an even better New Year.

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and the U.S. will move its embassy there just like we do in every country in the world that we have relations with. Russia took the step of recognizing this fact last spring.

This fall in Harris County (Houston), Republicans have been wondering if we will have a real choice other than the most unsuccessful chair in modern history (Simpson).

In a low turnout election, a small percentage of voters voted for all of the $1.495 billion City of Houston bond issues.

There is only one issue you should focus on in the November elections – Flood Control and abatement.

“Study, delay, no money, not worth it, other priorities,” these are just some of the excuses for inaction in regards to our regional flooding problem.

When is the rot of politicization of everything and the spread of political correctness going to stop? We don’t know about you, but your Editor has had enough.

First let’s be clear, the Harvey historic flood was going to be a problem even if we had gotten everything right, because of the biblical scale we suffered.

Symbolic of poor planning and neglect of our regional flooding problem, the City of Houston has a proposed bond issue for November of around $1.6 billion, and the amount for flood control is zero!

The Special Session No. 1 is history. The State Senate worked hard and quickly and passed a lot of legislation.