Houston Faces Historic Budget Crisis as Mayor Whitmire

There has been lots of criticism of our mayor, and for sure he hasn't gotten everything right, mostly what I'm thinking of is the barriers removed after we paid to put them in. (although as a driver many of them seemed ill conceived and better suited for other major cities)

He inherited a mess that relied on one time sales and funding shuffling that has put us in a huge budget shortfall.

While we have state coffers full of our sales tax money we are having to forgo lots of city services that weren't exactly running at peak efficiency to begin with.

It's time we renegotiate our sales tax split with the state, there is no reason why Houston has to go through this besides we are a blue island in a red state.