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Shadowguv says: I disagree with one portion of the piece—the notion that Bill White has run a fiscally tight ship during his tenure. While the stated definition of ‘balanced budget’ might be technically correct, a review of the annual City of Houston finance reports reveals a differing view. The COH has run a spending deficit every single year since 2004 for an accumulated deficit of over $3.6 Billion. Debt has increased by about $3.0 Billion, with increases in property & sales taxes filling in the gap. This data can be sliced and diced to justify so called ‘balanced’ budgets but the facts remain, spending (and borrowing) soared under Bill White. [However] White did a great job as Mayor and will be very effective in the U.S. Senate or the Governor’s Office. (November 23rd, 2009 at 4:51pm)

Carol Flake Chapman

Columns | Miscellany

Austin's VidiMedix has a simple prescription for patients who live miles away from big-city health care: Log on and get well. (November 2000)

How a retired agribusinessman from Houston is betting the ranch (and the jungles of Mexico) on bamboo. (February 2000)

When I was growing up in Lake Jackson, the center of my world was a park owned by my father’s employer. Forty years later, most of it has been sold to a developer, and natives like me are having a chemical reaction. (December 1998)

Redford, shmedford: If you think the aging Hollywood hunk is anything like the prototypical horse whisperer, you haven’t met Del Rio native Ernesto Rojas Serna. (June 1998)

He hasn’t been able to find his father’s killer, but Austinite David Wheeler’s computer programs are catching lots of other crooks. (December 1997)

The death of the superconducting supercollider may have been traumatic, but at their core the people of Waxahachie haven’t changed. (June 1996)

Preacher Howdy Fowler dreamed of crossing the West by camel. Many spine-jarring miles later, his wish has come true. (February 1995)

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A Lake Jackson teacher goes to the head of New York publishing’s class. (September 1998)

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