“Bev Carter is the owner/publisher of the Fort Bend Star, winner of numerous state and national awards. She has been a voice of Fort Bend’s largest circulated newspaper for 30 years.” ~
The ABCs of elections…..Saturday’s school board election in Lamar CISD (Richmond and Rosenberg’s school district) which promised to be hotly contested turned out to be downright trashy. Let me tell you how. A brother/sister duo, Rodney Vannerson and sis Karen Vannerson Pearson Vannerson got involved with recruiting candidates and raising money to help candidates. Rodney [...]
Problem solved…..A few weeks ago I was griping about not being able to access the county’s web site because I had a Mac, and the county’s web site didn’t like it. I complained to Annie Elliott, the county’s district clerk, who was in possession of the files I wanted to view on line. Finally someone [...]
Time was………..Several years ago I used to write about how our Fort Bend County Commissioners didn’t like to buy things unless it called for 4-16 wheels under their butts. You know like cars and motor graders. I particularly wrote about them in relation to county clerk Dianne Wilson trying to make commissioners court understand that she [...]
District Clerk’s office discriminates….I fussed about this several years ago. The problem is I can’t do any research on the county’s web site because it doesn’t like MACs. Our whole office has nothing but MACs. Most newspapers are like that. MACs had the best graphics programs early in the computer era. So to do research [...]
School daze…….Although he is (mostly) a Republican and I am (mostly) a Democrat, besides the ambivalence about our political beliefs, Joe Scarborough and I have one thing in common. Today, Tuesday, April 9 is both of our birthdays. Sadly, I noticed he had to do his “Morning Joe” TV show and I have to write [...]
Okay, listen up real careful……I told you a couple of weeks ago that the new publisher of the “Star” was my son Michael Fredrickson because he had been the real publisher for the past 15-20 years anyway. I quit work during the O.J. trial when I went home to watch it and never came back. [...]
When your chickens come home to roost…….We had a funny thing happen at the newspaper a couple of weeks ago. Well, it was sort of serious and funny at the same time. The boys at the newspaper on the other side of the river, the Herald Coaster, or whatever they are calling it nowadays, have [...]
It’s been fun!!!!! In a couple of weeks (April 9 in fact), I’ll be 72. It’s hard to believe that I’ll reach that rarefied age and if I knew I was gonna live this long, I would have not only taken better care of my teeth, but I would have NEVER smoked! Be that as [...]
WARNING! Do not drive thru Missouri City…….Maybe you shouldn’t even go over there to shop. Because if you do and one of its gang-bangers runs over you, you may be charged anywhere from $500 to $2,000 for the police to come. And since every wreck is attended to by a fire truck, there may be [...]
Car 54, we know where you are…..I wrote a couple of weeks ago about how the sheriff had taken some cars away from those in his department who didn’t really need them and had given them to some of the constables. What I didn’t explain is the car situation in the constable offices. Several of [...]
