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"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."-Plato
"I have always imagined that
paradise will be a kind of library."
So much knowledge, so many different places to go in reading a book.
Our past, our present, our future. All lined up, on a shelf waiting for us to open them, and explore.
To open a book .... is to take an adventure. And some of the world's best adventures... sit in our Central library, and our historic Julia Ideson library building, downtown waiting for the adventurer.
BUT NOT IF BARBARA GUBBIN HAS HER WAY!!!!
Barbara Gubbin, Director,Library Department
Dear Councilmember, and Concerned Citizens,,
Have you had a chance to look at the "master plan" for the library
system?
The "devil is in the details", as the saying goes.
The current proposal is for "dumbing down" the library. (after all,
quote "with all these illiterate Mexicans running around we don't
need an academic level library system" end quote.)
The PLAN would dissolve our Central library, and our Historic Julia Ideson
library.
We would lose our Beloved Texas Room, and all of its treasures. (We need more
office space.)
The PLAN doesn't call for keeping any of our Texas Room archives here
locally…in fact with only a suggestion that SOME of it's contents be offered
to Rice University, there is no guarantee that they will stay in TEXAS.
Mayor Brown has already started the destruction of these files/resources by
offering the African-American archives to a local elementary school…not
copies…but actual files.
The Julia Ideson building houses one of the best children's libraries on it's
first floor, but the doors are always locked and no child has seen the contents
since Brown took office, (and this from the Mayor who wanted every school age
child to have a library card!)
No matter, none of the books in that room have ever been catalogued.
Neither have any of the rare books in our rare book section on the 6th floor .
Nor our vast array of newspapers, magazines and periodicals, or rare
photographs.
Last October, a volunteer put together an exhibit for the Ideson building,
showing the influence, & positive growth that local Jewish families have had on
our city/state.
The volunteer went to many of our more prominent families, who most graciously
loaned their heir loom pieces for the exhibit.
It was such a success that it was held over for 3 months.
One prominent Jewish family offered to help gain up to a $10,000 grant to
promote/advertise the Texas Room…library administration said thanks…but no
thanks…they didn't want more public interest in the Ideson building.
After a very successful exhibit of toy soldiers, (a 40 yr. collection effort of
the Finger family), volunteers were told there would be no more exhibits.
They were also told that their exhibits put library efforts at exhibiting to
shame..and made personnel feel bad. (for black history month…library personnel
simply photo copied come stories from encyclopedias…blew them up…and thumb
tacked them to the wall)
The Julia Ideson library building is a NATIONAL Historical landmark.
That means this library can't be used for anything but a library, or a museum.
Why relegate it to office space? Is this legal?
While I have your ear on the libraries…did you know that our Clayton Library,
Center for Genealogical Research, has over 80,000 pieces of micro film…but
only a few hundred have been "tagged"…alarming the librarian when
someone tries to walk out with them? And none of them have ever been catalogued?
The only reason those few hundred have been tagged is because volunteers have
begun doing it after 1910-1911-1912 Rhode Island microfilms of city directories
disappeared from the library. Tags cost 5 cents…film costs $110.00 per year to
be replaced....3 yrs stolen...$330.00.
Did you know as families finish their personal family genealogy, and copies of
these records are given to the Clayton, it takes 4 yrs. to catalogue them?
However one employee did tell the "friends of the Clayton library"
that if they paid her an extra $10,000 she could have it done in 4-6 months.
(give an employee an extra $10,00.00 just to do her job?)
Did you know that our Clayton library ranks in the top 10 in the nation?…Right
up there with the Smithsonian, and The National Archives and Records
Administration in Washington, D.C. ?
Did you know the Clayton library had more than 70,000 visitors last year?
Did you know that during the restoration of the Moody library … (which was
only supposed to take 4 months…but actually took 2 years…), that a very rare
and valuable cloth mural was taken down and never found again after the
restoration? Same Liberian before and after…but of course it wasn't
"tagged" either.
What's wrong with cataloguing our rare books…them offering some of them for
auction?…One way to generate needed revenue…of course firing the idiots who
drafted the MASTER PLAN might free up a LOT of money too!!!!!!!! (I can dream
can't I?)
Sincerely,
Brenda Flynn Flores
"HouSnitch"
(713-722-9258)
ONE councilmember didn't believe that this was indeed in the MASTER PLAN ...
and then blamed any/all deficiencies on district council members...
ANSWER TO CONSTITUENT :
-----Original Message-----
From: Parker, Annise - CNL [mailto:Annise.Parker@cityofhouston.net]
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 5:36 PM
To:
Subject: RE: (STAFF) Fwd: Dumb Libary
Last
year district Council Members killed a proposal to build a replacement Central
Library on or near its current site downtown, by having its funding taken out of
the draft Master Plan, (THIS
$1,924,055.00
IS
FROM A 5 YR CIP PROGRAM...AND THIS WAS THE LAST YR TO USE IT.)
on the theory that branch libraries are more important. I support a new
downtown library, but most of us are committed to a central library, even if it
will be an antiquated one that we're about to patch together.
The
Julia Ideson building is on the National Register of Historic Places. It
is a beautiful building, but has had serious ADA and other problems. Four
years ago the city performed a complete structural redo and even cleaned the
exterior brickwork -- to extend its useful life! There have never been plans to
demolish it. (NOBODY
SAID IT WAS TO BE DEMOLISHED..."DISMANTLED"..."DISSOLVED"
ARE THE WORDS USED)
At
some point, the Texas collection will outgrow the Ideson and will need a new
home. What a great problem to have. At that point, we probably will
turn it in to city office space. (NATIONAL
REGISTER SAYS YOU CAN'T...YOU MUST MAINTAIN THE ORIGINAL INTEGRITY OF THE
BUILDING OR TURN IT INTO A MUSEUM...HMMMMM YOU ARE HEAD OF OUR HISTORICAL PRESERVATION
COMMITTEE AREN'T YOU????)
It
is true that we are critically behind in archival work. That is because
the library is (along with the parks and health departments) always on the short
end of city funding because many council members do not consider it an essential
city service.
Annise
Parker
PS:
Please read the plan for yourself. The implication is that the quoted
remarks about illiterates came from the city. Where, when and by whom?????
(IN
A STAFF MEETING, EXPLAINING THE MASTER
PLAN TO STAFF, AND BY A LIBRARY DIRECTOR)
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COUNCILMEMBER ANNISE PARKER SHOULD READ THE
LIBRARY MASTERPLAN HERSELF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Library Master Plan on-line at:
Strategic
Master Plan 2010
http://www.hpl.lib.tx.us/rfp/smp/
= = = =
Ideson
Building, p. 48
"While
the Julia Ideson Building represents a valued historic building in the fabric of
the Central
Business District, it will never function efficiently
as a Central Library space. However, when the Central Library locates to another
site, the Julia Ideson Building could be used for city offices, a city
conference center or museum."
= = = =
MASTER LIBRARY PLAN
p.
40, RECOMMENDATIONS
1.
Replacement library at a new site as the most
feasible and cost-effective plan to provide City of
Houston with world class library services.
2.
Deferred maintenance and renovation of existing Central Library.
= = = =
QUESTION:
Why are we spending $1,924,055.00 out of
Public Library Consolidated Construction Fund for
Design Improvements and Renovations to Jesse H. Jones
Central Library when the Library's Master Plan clearly
states that it should "Deferred maintenance and
renovation of existing Central Library?"
Master
Plan Alternative F, p. 39, calls for new 4.2
acre central library (approx. 4 city blocks).
WHERE
IN THE HELL ARE YOU GONNA FIND 4 CITY BLOCKS OF FREE/AVAILABLE REAL ESTATE
SPACE, (ON THE RAIL LINE NO LESS) , FOR A MID TOWN LIBRARY????AND IF YOU DO ... I'LL
BET WE FIND "THE BROWN GROUP"...OR SOME OTHER BUDDY BUDDY
"GROUP" AFFILIATED WITH BROWN AND HIS COHORTS OWN THESE 4.2 ACRES ...
AFTER SENDING NEARBY BUSINESSES INTO FINANCIAL RUIN WITH THAT RAIL LINE....
WHATTA YA WANNA BET????
Locations
for New Library, p. 47
= = = = =
Master
Library Plan, p. 39
"The
adaptive reuse of the existing library building
for City offices would provide approximately 193,000 GSF for offices with two
levels of parking below grade and the possiblity of a tunnel connection to City
Hall."
= = = =
The ethnic slur was made by )(*&^%...and my snitch would be glad to talk
with you if you Don't mention their name. My snitch will also testify that staff
turned down help from a very prominent family for up to a $10,000 grant.
AND
I WILL SUPPLY YOU WITH A LETTER SIGNED BY THE PROMINENT FAMILY MEMBER THAT
BELONGS TO AN ORIGINATION GIVES GRANTS AND
OFFERED ONE TO THE LIBRARY IF THEY WOULD ONLY APPLY BUT LIBRARY
ADMINISTRATION DIDN'T WANT TO FOLLOW THROUGH WITH IT. COUNCILMEMBERS QUAN AND
VASQUEZ ALREADY ARE IN RECEIPT OF THIS LETTER.....TELL YA WHAT I'LL DO...HERE IS
A COPY.....I'M SURE YOU RECOGNIZE THE ZINDLER NAME....
WOULD YOU RATHER HER UNCLE ASK YOU THESE QUESTIONS?
(1)
the Houston Metropolitan Research Center,
(2)
the Texas & Local History Collection (a/k/a the
Texas Room), and,
(3)
the Clayton Genealogy Library.
a) In April 2000, Carol Johnson, the manager of the Texas Room
was reassigned to other duties in the library. So for the last two (2) years,
the Texas Room has not had a manager. The assistant manager, Will
Howard, has been the “acting manager” and was not promoted to the
manager’s position because he was “not qualified for the job” even though
he has worked in the Texas Room for 15-years and has served as the “acting
manger” for 2-yrs.
b) In December 2000, Louis Marchiafava, the Archivist for the City of
Houston and the manager of the Houston Metropolitan Research Center (HMRC)
retired and has not been replaced.
Therefore, these joint research facilities have been without any leadership for
between almost 2-yrs. The claim is that the City’s “hiring freeze” and the
reorganization of the library staff prevented the
replacement.
The library administration has determined there is no one in the entire City of
Houston or Texas who is “qualified” to hold the positions in these two
research archives and therefore, they would have to
hire “outside” Texas someone to the head of the Texas Room and Houston
Metropolitan Research Center. It is absolutely amazing there is no one in
Houston or Texas who is an expert on Houston or Texas history to fill this
position and only an “outsider” could be
qualified!
How long will it take a non-Houstonian or a non-Texas to learn our history to be
able to serve the community? Again, another example of undercutting the ability
of the staff and providing sub-standard
service to the taxpayers of Houston!
3) Security at the Texas Room
There are no security sensors at the entrance of the Texas Room. There are no
security tags on any of the material within the Texas Room or Houston
Metropolitan Research Center archives and collection. The Texas Room serves as
the “reading room” for anyone wanting
to use the resources of the Houston Metropolitan Research Center.
There is no security guard at the entrance of the Texas Room to monitor and
prevent items from being removed/stolen from the archives or collection.
There is at times, one staff member who sits at the front desk at the entrance
but they have to handle patrons, answer the telephones, pull material from the
closed stacks, etc. and they are often away from the
desk.
Valuable items are being lost from the archives and collection because there is
no security.
When you visit research centers or archives at any other public or private
library, you are required to lock your purse, briefcases, backpacks, notebooks,
etc. in lockers. Most research libraries only allow you in with your ID and a
laptop computer. This is the
standard procedures at the following libraries: (1) Galveston History Center,
Galveston Public Library; (2) Austin History Center, Austin Public Library; (3)
Cushing Library, Texas A&M Univ., College Station; (3) Center for American
History, Univ. of Texas-Austin; (4) Texas State Archives, Austin; (5) Texas
Newspaper Collection, Univ. of Texas-Austin; (6) Johnson Library, Austin; (7)
Bush Library, College Station; (8) National Archives, Ft. Worth; (9) National
Archives, Atlanta, GA; (10) National Archives, Washington, DC; (11) National
Archives, College Park, MD; (11) Maryland State Archives; (12) Georgia State
Archives; (13) Mississippi State Archives; (14) and
the list continues.
But the library administration hasn’t done one thing to protect the
collections of the Texas Room and the Houston Metropolitan Research Center.
There are security sensors at the Clayton Library however; very few of the
thousands of reels of expensive microfilm are tagged. For example, someone stole
three (3) reels of Rhode Island city directories
on microfilm. The cost of the microfilm was $110 per reel. Thus, $330 of city
owned property walked out the door because it wasn’t tagged! Library
volunteers undertook the work to place security tags on the
remaining reels of city directories on microfilm, but that doesn’t protect the
thousands of reels that are not tagged.
There are lockers at the Clayton Library but it is not mandatory to use them and
all you have to do is take the tag off the item and put it in your purse or
briefcase and walk out the door.
Recommendations:
(1) Immediately install security sensors at Texas Room and tag all items possible.
(2) Immediately install lockers at the Texas Room and begin a process of requiring researchers to lock-up bags, briefcases and other similar items.
(3) Immediately require the use of lockers at Clayton Library and have researchers lock-up bags, briefcases and other similar items.
(4)
Begin immediate inspection of all bags, briefcases and other similar
items when patrons leave the Texas Room and Clayton Library.
(5)
Require security guards to check patrons leaving the Texas Room and Clayton
Library to prevent theft of items.
If they need a security guard for the door and another for the building and
parking lots, then provide for this additional security to protect the
collections that is continuing to walk out the door!
These procedures are not uncommon and are current practice at every major
library and research collection in the United States! Why isn’t the library
administration protecting our collections? What
creative bureaucratic excuses can the library administration come-up with to
defuse this serious security problem with our special collections? Other
libraries protect their collections, but it is clear
the library administration doesn’t hold our historical collections to be worth
the effort to protect!
4) Card Catalog
None of the thousands of reels of microfilm, microfiche, newspapers or journals
owned by the Texas Room or Clayton Library in the Houston Public Library Card
Catalog! For the amount of money that was paid
for the software for the library, why haven’t these items been entered into
the computer? All we hear are excuses.
Every other major library on-line card catalog, including OCLC, allows you to
search the microfilm, microfiche, journals, newspapers, etc. owned by the
collection. However, Houston Public Library does not
catalog those items and you never know what the library owns or doesn’t own
until you get there and then many times the librarians themselves don’t know
what’s in the collection because there are very few finding aids and they are
in hundreds of 3-ring
notebook binders at the library.
None of the items contained in the Houston Metropolitan Research Center are
listed in the card catalog of the Houston Public Library. The only way to find
any item is through a general finding aid in old
3-ring notebooks that haven’t been updated in years.
Almost none of the items contained in the special collection in the 6th floor
closed stacks of the Texas Room are listed in the card catalog. There is no
consistency of what books are or are not contained in
the card catalog. You have to pull each and every book or item off the shelf and
check the card catalog to determine if the item is listed or is not listed.
If a book or item isn’t in the library’s card catalog, isn’t in the old
notebook finding aids, how can anyone find it to use it?
Has anyone at the library told the City Council or the public about this major
problem with books and items in the Texas Room, Houston Metropolitan Research
Center and Clayton Library have been omitted from the library’s card catalog.
Why did we spend thousands of
dollars for the software and the special collection items have never been added
to the database? What a disservice to the public!
What wonderful bureaucratic excuses can the library administration create to
justify their continued failure to provide the citizens of the City of Houston
with an accurate card catalog?
Why isn’t the library doing something to use its expensive card catalog
software? Why isn’t the library putting items into the system? One very clear
possibility is they don’t want the public to know what it owns and therefore
the public will not try to use the material and the staff of the library
doesn’t have to do their jobs, e.g., coasting vs. public service.
You don’t know. I don’t know. Who cares about Houston and Texas history?
Certainly not the library administration that continues to ignore these
longstanding problems!
The library administration claims to hold the Texas Room and other special
collections in a high regard.
Clearly, their actions show a different or, is it an indifferent, attitude towards our history! Show me what you have done, not what you say you’re going to do!
ANSWER TO HOUSNITCH:
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SEEMS THIS COUNCULMEMBER HAS ONE ANSWER FOR HOUSNITCH...AND ANOTHER FOR CONSTITUENTS....CAN YOU SAY "TWO FACES?? TALKING OUT OF BOTH SIDES OF HER MOUTH"........ BOYS AND GIRLS?
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Annise
(THE WORDS ARE THE WORDS ARE THE WORDS ANNISE..WE
DIDN'T CHANGE THEM)I
deson
Building, p. 48
"While
the Julia Ideson Building represents a valued historic building in the fabric of
the Central
Business District, it will never function efficiently
as a Central Library space. However, when the Central Library locates to another
site, the Julia Ideson Building could be used for city offices, a city
conference center or museum."
Master
Library Plan, p. 39
"The
adaptive reuse of the existing library building
for City offices would provide approximately 193,000 GSF for offices with two
levels of parking below grade and the possiblity of a tunnel connection to City
Hall."
-----Original Message-----
From: Housnitch1@aol.com [mailto:Housnitch1@aol.com]
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 9:10 PM
To: Parker, Annise - CNL
Subject: Re: Library Issues
that is TOO easy an answer....and i won't allow you to lay it off on Tatro,
or the District Councilmembers.
According to the e-mail you sent a constituent...you DIDN'T READ THE MASTER PLAN
TOO CLOSELY YOURSELF.
Vasquez didn't even know about the Texas Room, or our Research Center.
Not too many of you knew that the Clayton library drew over 70,000 visitors
every year, and that we are on par with the National Archives as far as
Anglo/African American research...
We are greatly lacking in Hispanic/Asian lineage's...but hopefully we can
close that gap.
Your responses to me and then another constituent give me a sense of two
different people....
Two faced is not an attribute i would have ever thought of you possessing
Annise,,,i'm greatly disappointed.
BFF
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We are repairing the Central Library instead of seriously renovating or
replacing it because of that attitude. (YOU LET A
CONTRACT FOR DESIGN...AND I HAVE GOTTEN 4 DIFFERENT ANSWERS ON WHAT HAPPENS
AFTER THE DESIGN PHASE FROM 4 DIFFERENT PEOPLE) And I absolutely
believe that is why our historical archives suffer. I repeat, when
District CM's divide up the CIP, they treat these like stepchildren.
Among other things, I am very passionate about libraries and historic
preservation. We need more of both. If the Ideson runs out of space
as an archive, what would you use it for? ( SINCE
WE AREN'T UTILIZING THE CHILDREN'S LIBRARY THERE ON THE 1ST FLOOR OF THE IDESON
BUILDING...LET'S CATALOGUE THOSE BOOKS, AND EVENLY DISTRIBUTE THEM TO OTHER
LIBRARIES THAT HAVE A CHILDREN'S PROGRAM...THAT WOULD FREE UP A LOT OF ROOM IN
THE IDESON BUILDING)
If we build a new Central Library and don't do it on the same site, what's
wrong with using the current one as office space?
I also think you need to separate your issues with Barbara Gubbin from your
issues with the Master Plan. (ISN'T SHE THE
PROMOTER OF THE MASTER PLAN????? I NEVER EVEN HEARD OF HER BEFORE I WAS
CONTACTED ABOUT THIS MASTER PLAN ..... AND THAT MASTER PLAN IS MY ISSUE)
Annise
WELL DARLINS...WHATTA YA'LL THINK???? SHOULD COUNCILMEMBER'S RESPONSES NOT BE MADE PUBLIC?
As for cutting budgets ... LEAVE THOSE 4 BLOCKS OF BUDDY OWNED REAL ESTATE ALONE ..... AND ..... FIRE THAT TOP HEAVY ADMINISTRATION YA'LL HAVE IN PW&E .... DO WE REALLY NEED 12 ASST DEPUTY DIRECTORS????????????????????????
Every time you fill up the car, you can avoid putting more money
into
the coffers of Saudi Arabia. Just buy from gas companies that don't
import their oil from the Saudis. ( Middle Eastern Oil )
I thought it might be interesting for you to know which
oil companies are the best to buy gas from.
Major companies importing Middle Eastern oil (from 9/1/00 -
8/31/01):
Shell
205,742,000 barrels
Chevron/Texaco 144,332,000 "
Exxon/Mobil 130,082,000 "
Marathon
117,740,000 "
Amoco 62,231,000 "
If you do the math at $30/barrel, these imports amount to over $18
BILLION!
Here are some large companies that do not import Middle Eastern oil:
Citgo 0 barrels
Sunoco 0 "
Conoco 0 "
Sinclair 0 "
BP/Phillips 0 "
All of this information is available from the Department of Energy
and can be easily documented. Refineries located in the U.S. are required
to state where they get their oil and how much they are importing. They report
on a monthly basis.
Keep this in mind.. Share it with friends..
RODRIGUEZ vs RODRIGUEZ
(as told by another RODRIGUEZ)
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A political newcomer trying to topple longtime Justice of the Peace Armando V. Rodriguez is renewing her attacks on the incumbent over his delinquent taxes as well as for a 16-year-old malicious prosecution judgment against him. At a Wednesday news conference, Patricia Rodriguez, who is seeking to oust Armando Rodriguez in Tuesday's Democratic primary runoff, ......
Rubin, the YWCA's financial director, was performing a surprise audit as part of an investigation into the possible misappropriation of funds by Rita Rodriguez, the judge's wife and also a YWCA employee. .....
the YWCA executive director, were probing allegations that Rita Rodriguez had channeled YWCA funds to Fiestas Patrias, a Hispanic cultural organization that she and her husband helped found....
The women.......... sued Rita and Armando Rodriguez in civil court for malicious prosecution and false charges.......
a jury awarded Rubin and Anspaugh $853,000 in damages. Rita and Armando Rodriguez, who was accused of using his political position to push for charges against Rubin and Anspaugh, appealed the decision.......
(click on below blue print to read court documents)
...... the judge owes $18,983 in Harris County and Houston Independent School District back taxes on a rent property on Godwin. ........
"Adults and children apparently live there although the conditions could only be described as uninhabitable," ..... "If Armando Rodriguez is collecting rent from these poor people, shame on him." Rodriguez, who is paid $94,000 a year as justice of the peace, could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
When Patricia Rodriguez leveled similar charges the week before the March 12 primary election, he said the Godwin property is for sale and that delinquent taxes will be paid when it is sold. .......
records of other court cases filed against the judge, several for the collection of delinquent taxes. .......
complaint by former County Treasurer Nikki Van Hightower that Rodriguez's court was habitually late in depositing fees and fines with the county, resulting in lost interest income for taxpayers.
Armando Rodriguez said then that Van Hightower's charges were racially motivated, but an assistant district attorney called the sloppy bookkeeping "gross mismanagement." ...............
"Regrettably, when one thinks of Armando Rodriguez, he is associated with libel, frivolousness, maliciousness and other words we associate with crime and wrongdoers," .............................
"The most disturbing element of this pattern of behavior is that Armando Rodriguez is an elected official who has tarnished and belittled the Hispanic community with his continual abuse of office." ............
A
runoff is required because neither of the top two finishers received a majority.
AND I'LL BET THEY RE-ELECT HIM!!!
City's History
THERE ARE A COUPLE OF MORE HISTORY POINTS WE HERE AT HOUSNITCH WISH TO MAKE KNOWN TO IT'S READERS...............
BEFORE THE RENOVATIONS BEGAN AT CITY HALL, THE ONCE PROUD DISPLAY OF HOUSTON'S MAYORS HUNG IN THE ENTRY ROTUNDA AS YOU ENTERED THE MAIN HALL.
BECAUSE OF RENOVATIONS, THE PHOTOGRAPHS WERE TAKEN DOWN FOR PRESERVATION WE'RE TOLD....
GUESS WHAT?
THEY CAN'T FIND ALL OF THEM....
THE ONES THAT BROWN HAS FOUND HAVE BEEN RE-HUNG IN THE BASEMENT....
ALONG A WALL LEADING TO THE MAYOR'S KITCHEN AND DINING ROOM.
PREVAILING SENTIMENT IS THAT THERE ARE TOO MANY OF THEM (ONLY 2 MORE THAN IN PREVIOUS YEARS MAYOR!) TO PLACE THEM ALL BACK IN THE ROTUNDA FOR ALL TO SEE...AND IT APPARENTLY CONFLICTS WITH THE "IMAGE" THE VISITORS CENTER IS TRYING TO PORTRAY......(WHAT IMAGE?...COMMERCE???)
MAYOR BROWN HAS PROMISED TO FIND THE REST OF THE PORTRAITS...BUT HE'S ADAMANT THAT THEY STAY IN THE BASEMENT!!!!!
(What is interesting is that Brown is supporting a museum to honor blacks, one that will have a public subsidy, I am sure)
IN 1998 THE CITY OF HOUSTON LET A CONTRACT FOR A DESIGN TO HAVE THE CITY HALL ANNEX RENAMED THE MARGARET HEFRIN WESTERMAN BUILDING. THIS WAS TO HONOR MARGARET HEFRIN WESTERMAN CITY SECRETARY, WHO GAVE ALMOST 50 YEARS OF HER LIFE IN SERVICE TO OUR CITY. SMALL HONOR FOR HALF A CENTURY OF DEDICATED SERVICE FROM ONE'S LIFE.... MAYOR HAS PROMISED THAT THE SIGNS WILL BE AVAILABLE BY APRIL 15TH FOR PUBLIC VIEWING...LET'S HOPE HE'S TELLING THE TRUTH!!!!!!!
"I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell." --Harry S Truman
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He was also the editor of the history journal until funding stopped. I wonder if he would take a lead role in challenging the mayor. I know he left because of severe disagreement with the mayor's attitude toward Houston history.
(What is interesting is that Brown is supporting a museum to honor blacks, one that will have a public subsidy, I am sure)
AND OUR BOUGHT AND PAID FOR/DONATED TO US AFRICAN-AMERICAN PAPERS/ARCHIVES FROM THE HOUSTON METROPOLITAN RESEARCH CENTER...IF WE THE PEOPLE DON'T STOP HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Dear
Brenda,
I also happen to be a fervent supporter of public libraries and I am 100% with you in their defense.
I
have no doubt to the authenticity of your “quote” and the long-time racism
of those who oppose this and most public programs. The reason I asked the
source is not that I doubted it but because I wanted to use it, in defense of
libraries. I think another aspect is the massive need for further materials in
Spanish and other languages such as Vietnamese.
I must say that I never use un-attributed or “anonymous” quotes. Unquestionably, they are common in the big business press.
No doubt there are many people who fear for their jobs and perhaps shouldn’t be quoted.
Then
we simply can’t quote them.
Please
keep sending me your messages and I wish you luck.
Sincerely,
MY SNITCHES WILL SPEAK PRIVATELY OR IN A SWORN COMPLAINT THAT OFFERS THEM SOME COVER OF PROTECTION. THIS SMALL SITE WAS BORN ... OUT OF THE PURE FRUSTRATION OF RETALIATION FROM SPEAKING THE TRUTH. THIS IS THEIR FORUM...AND I AM ONLY THEIR "MOUTHPIECE".
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Have you sent this letter to all of them?
WELL DARLIN WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME AN OFFICIAL WITH THE
CITY OF HOUSTON TOLD YOU THE "TRUTH...THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE
TRUTH"? ALL COUNCILMEMBERS HAVE MY E-MAIL...AND SOME DID FIGHT MOST VALIANTLY
FOR THESE TWO ENTITIES.
Working
for the City
There were two guys working for the city. One would dig a hole
-- he
would dig, dig, dig. The other would come behind him and fill the hole
-- fill, fill, fill. These two men worked furiously; one digging a hole, the
other filling it up again.
A man was watching from the sidewalk and couldn't believe how hard these men
were working, but couldn't understand what they were doing.
Finally he had to ask them.
He said to the hole digger, "I appreciate how hard you work, but what
are you doing? You dig a hole and your partner comes behind you and fills it up
again!"
The hole digger replied, "Oh yeah, must look funny, but the guy who
plants the trees is sick today."
Working for the City!!!!
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Jack Terence has found Carroll Robinson PAC filings reveal that he has failed to comply with regulations for a total of $13,000 (contributions and expenditures).
Jack is willing to share this info
MR. TERENCE DID SHARE THIS INFORMATION ... WITH THE TEXAS ETHICS COMMITTEE. MOST OF THE VIOLATIONS STEM FROM NOT COMPLETING THE ADDRESSES ETC OF CARROLL'S CONTRIBUTORS...BUT ONE PARTICULAR EXPENDITURE CAUGHT OUR EYE ... $2900.00 FOR A PAIR OF COWBOY BOOTS.
EXCUSE ME????? BUT ISN'T IT ILLEGAL TO BUY PERSONAL ITEMS WITH CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS??
ALL THOSE LAW DEGREES AND HE DIDN'T KNOW THIS?
AND HE WANTS YOUR VOTE FOR CONGRESS!
Mr. Jon C. Vanden Bosch ????
New Director...same old BS.
WE WERE REALLY ANGRY AT THE ANNOUNCEMENT THAT ONE OF THE ORIGINAL 3 STOOGIES WAS NOW CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE NEW DIRECTOR. NEW POSITION...NEVER BEEN ONE OF THOSE BEFORE. (IT'S JUST MONEY)...ANYWAY WE WERE ANGRY THAT GARY ORADAT HAD THIS NEW POSITION...BUT AS A REPORTER FRIEND RECENTLY POINTED OUT..."HEY! AT LEAST HE CAN'T SCREW UP UTILITIES ANYMORE!" (WE'LL COUNT HIS APPOINTMENT AS A SMALL BLESSING THEN....AND WE DO MEAN "SMALL")
The people, in delegating authority, Do not give their public servants the Right to decide what is good for the people to know, and what is not good for the people to know.
(HOUSNITCH IS LOOKING FOR AN
ATTORNEY SO WE CAN SUE MS. SCHECHTER AND THE
HARRIS COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY.... ANY
SUGGESTIONS/VOLUNTEERS GUYS?
"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."
-George Washington
That's all this time around guys...tell em what you think darlins, we get tired of telling them by ourselves.......
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