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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)
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Columns | Miscellany
Digital Docs
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)
Green Acres
How a retired agribusinessman from Houston is betting the ranch (and the jungles of Mexico) on bamboo. (February 2000)
Dow Town
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)
Horse Sense
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)
Crime Pays
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)
Up and Atom
The death of the superconducting supercollider may have been traumatic, but at their core the people of Waxahachie haven’t changed. (June 1996)
Over the Hump
Preacher Howdy Fowler dreamed of crossing the West by camel. Many spine-jarring miles later, his wish has come true. (February 1995)
Reporter
Son Rises
A Lake Jackson teacher goes to the head of New York publishing’s class. (September 1998)
