“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.” ~
Gobble, gobble…..Many of our well-to-do neighbors will spend today (Wednesday) packing their vehicles to travel out of town for the Thanksgiving holidays. The poor can’t afford to go anywhere and the rich are flying. A lot of those travelling out of town by vehicle are going to their “country place” or “weekend place.” They call [...]
Never mind…..I said last week that I was going to “save rubbing your nose in it” (about the presidential election) until this week, but I’ve changed my mind. Nothing would be accomplished by that and when I lose and someone rubs my nose in it, it just ticks me off rather that helps me learn [...]
By the time you read this…..The Sturm und Drang are over, at least for another four years. I’ve yet to see a woman president and think at this point I will not live to see that. This column goes to press before the final count for the president although there were some pundits who said [...]
Scoundrel and fools…..I know I revealed last week that I was supporting Barack Obama but I want to add a few more observations. Mitt Romney has promised the citizens of America everything under the sun. He sort of lowers his head then looks up at the camera wistfully like he is about to ask you [...]
Yes, I really am an independent…..The following are SOME of the people I know right now that I will be voting for. I’ll probably make up my mind about some more next week. President Barack Obama-Democrat First, I’m going to vote for Barack Obama. I voted for him four years ago and I’m willing to [...]
Stompin’ and spittin’….. There was so much going on this week I don’t even know where to start. We have discovered that Bruce Fleming, the Republican candidate for County Commissioner Precinct 1, is not only a serial voter in two states, voted in two different primaries (the Republican and Democratic) in the same election cycle, [...]
The only voter fraud I’ve seen…..I’ll swan (old Southern saying) all these Republicans claiming voter fraud is rampant and yet we see voter fraud only by Republicans like the person trying to get her boss elected as County Attorney or District Attorney years ago. She was an assistant County Attorney, I think, although it’s been [...]
Tooling around……For the past few weeks, we’ve been looking at Fort Bend Commissioners car and travel expenses. We’ve looked at the highest roller, Grady Prestage with his high out-of-state travel expenses to conferences, and Andy Meyers with his high monthly mileage expense. Now we are going to look at those other two rascals, James Patterson [...]
Drivin’ down the road….I’m still looking into Commissioner’s monthly travel expenses for June, 2011- July, 2012. I’ve heard from several other department heads at the county who have informed me they were instructed to cut their travel budgets to less than $10,000. We looked into Pct. 2 Commissioner Grady Prestage last week whose yearly expenses [...]
Where are you going this month?…..This past month I’ve been looking over the travel expenses of Fort Bend County Commissioners, sparked in part by a plan to establish a new department in the county to buy and manage county vehicles. This plan suddenly appeared in a memo circulated throughout the county. I’m certainly not opposed [...]
