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2/6/2025 – Fireworks erupted today in Harris County Commissioners Court today over the 2018 Flood Bond and Subdivision Drainage shortfalls. It was a rare display of bipartisan outrage. All four commissioners and the county judge took turns expressing concerns about budget shortfalls. The County Engineer, the Head of the Flood Control District, the County’s Budget […]

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February 6, 2025 Reduce Flooding

Fireworks Erupt in Commissioners Court Over Flood Bond, Subdivision Drainage Shortfalls

2/6/2025 – Fireworks erupted today in Harris County Commissioners Court over the 2018 Flood Bond and a subset of projects within it called “Subdivision Drainage Projects.” It was a rare display of bipartisan outrage. All four commissioners and the county judge took turns expressing concerns about budget shortfalls. The County Engineer, the Head of the […]

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November 4, 2023 Reduce Flooding

Four Dems Take No Action to Honor Pre-Election Bond Promise

On Tuesday, 10/31/23, Harris County Commissioner’s court took no action on a request from Commissioner Tom Ramsey PE to abide by a pre-election promise to voters re: the 2022 Road and Parks Bonds. Ramsey could not even find a second for his motion on Agenda Item #418. During debate on the topic: When they talked […]

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July 16, 2023 Reduce Flooding

GLO Suggests Plan to Streamline Flood Mitigation in Harris County

Citing the urgent need to spend half of a billion flood-mitigation dollars quickly, the Texas General Land Office (GLO) has made a common-sense suggestion to streamline flood mitigation in Harris County. It recommended making Harris County Flood Control District a “direct recipient” (rather than a “sub-recipient”) of the half billion dollars carved out of $750 […]

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September 14, 2022 Reduce Flooding

Dems Deprive Republican Precincts of Services

Late in the afternoon on 9/13/22, my phone started blowing up. Frantic callers asked, “Are you watching Commissioners Court?” I wasn’t unfortunately. I was working on a post about the completion of a flood-mitigation project. But my priorities quickly changed when I learned that the three Democrats (Garcia, Ellis and Hidalgo) voted – as a […]

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June 28, 2021 Reduce Flooding

Flood-Mitigation Funding Flows to Damage, Not High-Income Neighborhoods

Last in an eight part series on flood-mitigation funding in Harris County For two years, Precinct 1 Commissioner Rodney Ellis and Precinct 2 Commissioner Adrian Garcia have alleged that rich watersheds get all the flood-mitigation funding, while poor and minority watersheds get none. But data suggests that is far from the truth. Three months ago, […]

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June 27, 2021 Reduce Flooding

Looking Through the Wrong End of the Drainpipe: The Politics of Misdirection

Seventh in a series of eight articles on flood-mitigation funding in Harris County. For the last two years, I’ve heard the same tirades in commissioners’ court – that rich neighborhood’s get all the flood-mitigation money while the poor neighborhoods get none. According to Commissioners Ellis and Garcia, that’s because higher home values in rich neighborhoods […]

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