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THE STATE appears to have
thrown control of a yet-tobe-built 16-acre leisure park
to the county for a one-off
payment of just $10.
The park is to be built at
Rollover Pass on Bolivar peninsula despite the objections
of the landowner, a popular
recreation club.
The county commissioners
laid the foundation to begin
contract negotiations with
the state last month when
they approved an agreement
legally known as a memorandum of understanding.
County given disputed pass for a song
At the same meeting, they
passed an eminent-domain
resolution for the state’s
purchase of the land, a condition of the MOU.
Owner Gulf Coast Rod Reel
And Gun Club is crying foul
at the deal, having loaned the
land to the state in the 1950s to
enable it to cut the pass across
the peninsula at Gilchrist.
Commissioner Joe Giusti
cast a lone dissenting vote in
both motions, neither of which
elicited lengthy discussion
before being voted.
It was not stated during the
meeting that, in the memorandum, the county had agreed
to pay $10 for a 30-year lease
with a 20-year option after the
state funds the construction of
the park and fishing pier.
Once the park is built, the
county will operate the entire
site, perform short-term and
long-term maintenance and
provide park management,
staffing and security.
The county will not be
responsible for any of the park’s
construction costs but will
collect all the revenues gathered
from fishing and other fees
during its operation of the site.
An important note in the
MOU allows the state to
back out of the agreement,
which it is funding by using
a disaster-recovery block
grant hanging over from
Hurricane Ike. If the construction project cost exceeds
the block-grant funds, the
general land office can void
the agreement.
The memorandum gives
the county all user fees, concession fees, or other revenues
that the park generates
during the lease. Those funds
should be used to maintain
and manage the recreational
facilities at what it seems
is to be known as Bayside
Park. No study to project the
amount of additional county
revenue was available at last
week’s meeting.
For more than one hour
last week, commissioners
heard from opponents of
the tight-knit community
that has deep connections
to the waterway. Tension
over the possible closure has
simmered for decades but
legal wrangling intensified
after Hurricane Ike.
in his off hours that he would
learn the skills that would
make him an entrepreneur.
“I made good friends with
the cooks in Galveston,” he
said. “We spent a lot of time
talking about what we were
doing and what food everyone
was making. I never intended
to open a restaurant –I was just
talking to friends.”
Between shifts, he’d help at
Squeeze-In Café in an alley off
39th Street. It was so popular
at the time, he said, that, even
in segregated Galveston, white
and African-American patrons
would park their cars on both
sides of the street and line up
together waiting to get in.
Milburn remembered with
fondness Annie Mae Charles,
Galveston’s first African-American female police officer. She
used to frequent the restaurant
and help prepare food after
she’d finished her patrol shift,
he recalled.
“She’d help strip the collard
greens for the next day’s plates,”
he said.
On Monday, his granddaughter Montoya Wilturner, pictured
with him in a family photo
above, said she hoped people will
post condolences on Facebook so
the family can collect memories
of the legend who just wanted to
cook a good meal.
Services will be at 11:00am
on Monday at Moody Methodist church in Galveston.
Clary’s owner Milburn dies
By Lora-Marie
Bernard
Stylish dining legend had defied deadly illness for years
AN ERA OF legendary dining
ended on Sunday when Galveston restaurateur Clary
Milburn died after a long
battle against illness.
The owner of the renowned
Clary’s Seafood Restaurant had
been ill since Hurricane Ike
and had struggled to keep his
famous island establishment
open in the meantime.
In mid January, the
restaurant’s Facebook page
announced that it had closed
temporarily and a few days later
replied to a fan who asked “R u
still closed?” with the statement
“Yes looks like for good”.
Until Ike hit in 2008, Clary’s
was thriving but, during the
recovery afterward, the Teichman
Road building was plagued by
construction problems.
In March last year, Milburn
reflected on the stress he had
experienced in trying to keep
the establishment open, saying
a well-publicized fire had
wrangled his ability to reopen
for almost four years.
“I went to have my pacemaker checked after we finally
opened for the last time,” he
said just a day after attending
the funeral of another island
legend and Clary regular, Larry
Del Papa.
“The doctor said it went off
16 times during those four
years. If I didn’t have it, I would
be dead now.”
The
homespun
restaurant belied its reputation as a
standard stop for politicians,
socialites, celebrities and top
Houston-area business people
looking for a meal cooked with
fresh fish.
Clary’s first food venture
was a lunch-catering service he
founded in 1974. Three years
later, Clary’s Restaurant was
born, finding fame for a tradition that harkened to the days
when people didn’t “go out to
eat” – they dined.
Milburn’s menu featured
what was caught just off
the island’s beaches, oyster
reefs and bayous. His sister
handmade the restaurant’s
desserts and salad dressings; his
sons cooked each meal.
The servers donned tuxedos
and presented hot boiled
shrimp as a complimentary
appetizer. The recipe was an
original from the mother of a
friend whose family was in the
shrimping business. While he
never would talk about it “on
the record” for an interview, he
would tell guests that the secret
was to let the shrimp soak up
the simple spices and flavor.
“Don’t rush it,” he would say.
Finger bowls were compulsory at the end of each meal.
Live music was never karaoke.
It was classic guitar.
The restaurant dangled
alongside an inlet of Galveston Bay and was the scene
for movies like Evening Star.
While tourists rushed to
seawall restaurants like Gaido’s
or the city’s chain restaurants,
one had to be invited or know
about Clary’s. It was the restaurant of the in-crowd and off the
beaten path.
Last spring, in what might
have been his last media interview, Milburn sat in the main
dining room with a glass of
water so he could take his
medicine. It was near the spot
where Shirley MacLaine and
Jack Nicholson had sat for a
movie scene.
Clary spent that entire afternoon talking about his career
and life. He discussed his love
of the restaurant business.
He had never thought about
another career.
He was 19 when he arrived
in Galveston from Louisiana.
His first island job was making
fountain drinks and sandwiches
at the John Sealy hospitality
shop in the hospital district.
“It was wonderful,” he said.
“I had a chance to meet all the
doctors and the med students.
In fact, a lot of the [UTMB]
doctors that you hear are
retiring were med students
when I was working there.”
Later, he worked at the Jack
Tar hotel when the long-gone
beach-view hotel was a destination spot with luxury rooms and
a sparkling pool. In the 1950s, the
complex had a shop called Coffee
Cove and a restaurant called
Sugar’n Spice. The club Choco
Galley was part of an entertainment hub flanked by the famous
Balinese Room and the long-forgotten Ricochet Club.
In 1961, Milburn was hired
at Gaido’s and soon became a
star waiter at its Pelican Club,
another legend that has become
a victim of the times, but it was
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Against a backdrop of claims and counterclaims about
eligibility for the office, Democrats and Republicans
went to the polls in the nation’s first primary ballot of
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How to kill the long shadow of politics
B
y the time you’re
reading this, two
very important
events will have
taken place this week. One
is the Iowa caucus – the
first state primary of the
election year.
And the other? A groundhog will have seen – or not
seen – his shadow.
The first event, the Iowa
primary, will determine
who are the early leaders in
this year’s race for the 2016
presidential candidacy.
The second will decide
whether we’ll all have to
endure six more weeks of
winter weather.
Hard to decide which
is more important to the
average American. Person-
ally, I have heard enough
about the electoral competition to last me a lifetime.
One more debate might just
push me over the edge.
In all honesty, I think
I’m more worried about
whether or not Punxatawney Phil will pop his
cute little head out of his
burrow, see his shadow
and vanish back into the
ground, thus condemning
us to six weeks more of
winter. We’ve been enjoying
a pretty mild cold season
here in Texas and I hope
that continues.
The primary, on the other
hand, is less stimulating.
As far as the Democrats
are concerned, will we have
a winner who could be
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by Nicky De Lange
indicted any day for e-mail
issues, or a socialist candidate from one of those
small New England states
with a population of a few
thousand (if you don’t count
the elks, moose and other
animals at large)?
And that’s nothing
compared to the other side
of the political coin, where
every Republican and his
cousin seems to be running
for president and at least
one candidate is being
questioned about his legitimacy as a “natural born”
American citizen.
It’s time to escape all
this insanity and immerse
ourselves in a really
good book. And I have
one to recommend that
is somewhat appropriate
for a campaign year. It’s
Killing Reagan by Bill
O’Reilly. The Fox Network
pundit has written a good
tale of Ronald Reagan,
movie star, governor and
US president.
I’m not a big enthusiast
of biographies but this is
a compelling and pretty
fair-minded account of
Reagan’s life, both as a
film star and as a politician. O’Reilly does an
excellent job of presenting
him as an intriguing and
interesting human being.
Even if you can remember
the era from when Reagan
began his political career
all the way through the
assassination attempt and
his post-presidential years,
there’s still a lot of interesting information in this book.
It’s a good read, whether
you’re a Republican,
Democrat, Independent or
Libertarian. And, if you
enjoy it, O’Reilly has written
biographies on several other
well-known figures, including General Patton and
Abraham Lincoln.
I’ll be recommending
other interesting books now
and then in this column.
Think of it as a public
service for those of you
who are at your wits’ end
watching political ads on
TV. It’s going to be a long
time to November – especially if that groundhog saw
his shadow and bolted into
his burrow this week.
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GALVESTON COUNTY,
CITY COUNCIL
and COMMISSION
MEETINGS
an invitation to this evening of dinner and dancing to the sounds of the
Mambo Jazz Kings, please
send your name and mailing address to anightinoldhavana2016@gmail.com.
BAYOU VISTA
City Council meets the last
Tuesday of every month
- February 23, 2016,
6:30pm at the Community
Center, 783 “C” Marlin.
CLEAR LAKE SHORES
City Council meets the
first and third Tuesday of
every month - February 2,
16, 2016, 7:00pm at the
Club House, 931 Cedar.
GALVESTON
City Council meets the
last Thursday of every
month - February 25,
2016, 1:00pm at City Hall
Council Chambers, second
floor, 823 Rosenberg.
HITCHCOCK
City Commission meets
the third Monday of every
month - February 15,
2016, 6:30pm at City Hall,
7423 State Highway 6.
KEMAH
City Council meets the
first and third Wednesday
of every month, - February
3, 17, 2016, 7:00pm at
City Hall, 1401 State
Highway 146.
LA MARQUE
City Council meets the
second Monday of every
month, - February 8,
2016, 6:00pm at City Hall,
1109-B Bayou Road.
MARMADUKE
LEAGUE CITY
City Council meets the second and fourth Tuesday of
every month, - February
9, 23, 2016, 6:00pm at
City Council Chambers,
200 West Walker St.
SANTA FE
City Council meets the second and fourth Thursday of
every month, - February 11,
25, 2016, 7:00pm at City
Hall, 12002 State Highway 6.
TEXAS CITY
Cit y
Commissioner s
meet the first and third
Wednesday
of
every
month, - February 3, 17,
2016, 5:00pm at City Hall,
1801 9th Avenue North.
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Father and Daughter
dance, Celebrating 10
years - February 12,
2016, 6:00 - 9:30pm at
Doyle Convention Center,
2010 5th Ave N, Texas
City, TX. Doors open at
6:00pm, dinner served
at 7:00pm. $30 per couple thru February 5, $40
per couple February 8-11,
$10 per additional daughter. For more information
409-643-5990.
Million Dollar Quartet
comes to Revention
Music Center - February
16, 2016 at 8:00pm For
one show only! The national tour of the Broadway
musical MILLION DOLLAR
QUARTET, inspired by the
electrifying true story, will
play the Revention Music
Center (formerly Bayou
Music Center) in downtown
Houston, (520 Texas Ave.)
The international Tony®
Award-Winning
musical is set on December
4, 1956, when an auspicious twist of fate brought
Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee
Lewis, Carl Perkins and
Elvis Presley together. For
more information, visit the
official MILLION DOLLAR
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website
at
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State of the Cities
&
County
Business
Luncheon - February 17,
2016 at Doyle Convention
Center, 2010 5th Avenue
N., Texas City, Texas,
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Assistance
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FRIENDSWOOD
City Council meets the
first Monday of every
month - February 1, 2016,
4:30pm at City Hall, 910
South Friendswood Drive.
It’s normal for animal shelters to hope their charges will soon find a happy home somewhere nearby but
Bay Area Pet Adoptions in San Leon is rapidly becoming more famous as the residence of top “show” dog
Gus. The 33lb Dachsund-Bassett-Hound mix is racking up victories in celebrity contests including Halloween
Hound at last year’s Barktoberfest in Clear Lake Shores and the title Mr December in an upcoming canine
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MARMADUKE
DICKINSON
City Council meets
the
second and fourth Tuesday
of every month - February
9, 23, 2016, 7:00pm at
City Hall, 4403 State
Highway 3.
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in a semi-formal meeting
on the third Thursday of
every other month. We
help those who are facing or have had surgery
and assist in coping with
any type of medical issue.
Doors open to all those in
need. We also serve those
who served in the US
Armed Forces. Meetings at
Mainland Medical Center,
6801 Emmett F Lowry
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For more information Call
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Third Annual Samaritan
Women at the Well Golf
Tournament - April 14,
2016 at Moody Gardens
Golf Course, 1700 Sydnor
Ln, Galveston, TX 77554.
Registration and lunch
starting at 11:00am. Go
to the website swatw.
org, click events. (paypal
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Galveston County Food
Bank Fourth Annual
5K + 10K Run/Walk April 16, 2016, registration 6:45 am, Children’s
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10K Run 8:30am. Join the
race to run end hunger!
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A weekly review of local government and other authorities’ affairs
Both parties divided
on US energy bill
THE FIRST major piece of
energy legislation since 2007
hit the US congress floor
last week and received an
unlikely bipartisan vote in the
GOP-dominated senate.
But the bill also found opposition from both sides of the
political divide.
Texas senator John Cornyn,
right, resurrected the energy-policy-modernization act,
supporting the bill from the
senate floor. Among other
aspects, the bill seeks a requirement for greater energy efficiency in building codes, the
repeal of fossil phase-out and to
address the issue of large-scale
geothermal energy.
The bill, introduced by senator
Lisa Murkowski, received an
18-4 vote when it came out of
committee in September and has
continued to have the rare senate
support of both majority leader
Mitch McConnell and minority
leader Harry Reid.
Support for the legislation
has proven a striking contrast
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the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
According to GovTrack.
us, a website that follows and
condenses national legislation, the bill hits a middle
ground by bypassing touchy
issues such as climate change
and fossil fuel, focusing
instead on infrastructure
and efficiencies, which both
parties agree need support.
If signed into law, it would
bolster energy efficiency in buildings and upgrade the national
electrical grid with large-scale
storage systems, while LNG
exports would be expedited. It
would also loosen construction
regulations for natural gas on
federal lands and permanently
authorize the federal land and
water conservation fund.
Opposition to the bill is also
bipartisan. Utah senator Mike
Lee and Arizona senator Jeff
Flake, both Republicans, stand
alongside presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and fellow
Democrat senator Debbie
Stabenow of Michigan.
Likewise, outside congress,
the bill also draws as much
bipartisan opposition as it
does support.
The conservative Heritage
Foundation think-tank and
Sierra Club have both blasted it.
For many years, though,
the Sierra Club had a strong
alliance with US Green
Building Council, an environmental organization that
works to advance energy conservation in construction and
whose influences can be seen
in the legislation.
Last week, Heritage Foundation condemned the bill as a
waste of money.
“The provisions are simply
a continuation of government meddling in the energy
economy and would waste
taxpayer resources, override
consumer preference, direct
money toward politically
preferred technologies and
appease special interests,” a
spokesman said.
The Sierra Club said the bill
is not strong enough in environmental protections.
“Several provisions in this
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our environment,” it said. “For
example, there is no need to
exempt hydropower facilities
from regulations that have
worked for a century.”
Its statement added: “Some
provisions could also have unintended severe consequences for
EPA public-health protections.
We are also troubled by the lack
of clean-energy investments
made by a bill that claims to
modernize our energy policy.”
The federal government
is taking a middle-of-theroad approach to the bill,
showing support but noting
that it has f laws.
A recent statement by the
White House said: “The administration has concerns with other
parts of the legislation.”
It said those parts include
“provisions that would generate
budgetary scoring issues associated with energy savings
contracts, which represent an
important tool in advancing
federal sustainability”.
The statement said other
provisions in the bill that cause
concern include measures
that “repeal existing department-of-energy programs that
aim to improve efficiency at
manufacturing facilities”.
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Resistance to city’s oncea-month meeting idea
WITH LESS than a week to
go before his city council’s next
meeting, La Marque mayor
Bobby Hocking’s efforts to
streamline its business into a
single meeting each month is
being given pushback by residents who claim it is an attempt
to quash civic participation.
When Hocking said late last
year that he wanted to limit
regular scheduled meetings to
the second Monday of each
month, his suggestion met little
council opposition. Only mayor
pro-tem Keith Bell said he
wasn’t sure it would work but
he was willing to give it a try.
After Hocking said the city
could run efficiently without
a second meeting each month,
the council adopted a resolution in support of the onemeeting-only concept and is
now adopting a new meeting
ordinance to that effect.
And when a public hearing
on the matter was conducted
last month, Hocking used as
evidence for his position the
council’s cancellation of its
second monthly meetings in
both November and December
because of holidays.
“We’ve had one month for
the last two months and the
sky is obviously not falling,” he
said. “The city is still running
on all eight cylinders.”
However, some citizens have
made it known they are strongly
opposed to the meeting ordinance. David Pennington, who
serves on the city’s cemetery
board and organizes the annual
Wreaths Across America tribute
program for La Marque, spoke
during the public hearing.
“I think that, by going to
one meeting a month, you
are penalizing citizens and
their ability to speak to their
council,” he said.
“By passing this, you cut
into public comments and their
right to come before you. You
are cutting it by 50 per cent.”
He upset Hocking when
he said the mayor’s proposal
to use the fourth Monday of
each month only for ad-hoc
special meetings would lead to
an inconsistent concept that
could become problematic for
passing ordinances.
“I don’t think it’s going
to work,” he said. “Second
meetings are almost like secret
meetings because they are not
as publicized.”
The “secret” meeting characterization brought a stern
response from the mayor.
“All meetings are posted,” he
said. “The idea that somebody
would speculate or insinuate
that we are trying to have a
secret meeting is over and
beyond the pale of what is
necessary in this discussion.”
He said that, to keep public
awareness consistent, he would
be fine with advertising the
second meeting in a newspaper.
Geraldine Sam said the city
is too busy to do all its work in
one evening meeting and that
once-a-month meetings would
stretch far into the night.
“There are so many things
that need to be addressed that
we as citizens should come
before you more than once a
month,” she said.
Hocking responded that
the council’s committees and
boards meet once a month
and have more information to
cover than the council itself.
Finally, the council heard
that a resident who could not
attend the meeting had written
a letter to register her opposition to the ordinance.
At first Hocking wanted
to file the letter into the
minutes and let the council
members read it at their
leisure. When Pennington
said the residents should hear
what the letter writer had to
say, he changed his mind and
let Pennington read the letter
into the minutes.
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to start building our lives around the answers.
It’s good to have a plan for how we would like to see our
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you drained and feeling unproductive? Are you prioritizing
time for yourself to just be? Is there ample time for strengthening relationships with your individual loved ones?
When you are building and reshaping the essence of your life
into something that might be a little – or a lot – different from
the one you are currently living, the key thing to remember is
to start small.
Do one small thing at a time and be open to some experimentation to enable you to find what will work best in your
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Uncommon
sense
with Glenn Mollette
Mad-dog
tendencies?
It’s just
politics
Government needs
to work better S
W
hoever wins
November’s
presidential
election,
it’s a sure bet that, at some
point, he or she will vow
to set the federal government on the straight and
narrow. Maybe the new
president will even resort to
the time-honored pledge to
create a government “as good
as the people”. It’s a bracing
sentiment. But you’ll want
to take it with a grain of salt.
Our history is filled with
remarkable government
accomplishments. Our
involvement in World War
II and hands-on approach to
the postwar reconstruction of
Europe and Japan, our role
in ending the Cold War, the
interstate highway system,
extending the right to vote
to all our citizens, federal
research and support for eradicating diseases such as polio
– there’s a long list of crucially
important efforts the federal
government has executed well.
Yet every American ought
also to be alarmed by an
expanding list of missteps
and blunders. In a report last
month for the highly capable
and too-little-noticed Volcker
Alliance – whose goal is to
improve government effectiveness – New York University
professor Paul Light, below
left, drew attention to what he
calls “a shocking acceleration
in the federal government’s
production of highly visible
mistakes, miscalculations and
maladministration”.
He went on to say the “aging
bureaucracy can no longer
guarantee faithful execution of
all the laws and it has become
increasingly unpredictable in
where and how it will err”.
A moment’s reflection will
call to mind a sobering litany
of failures – the inability to
stop the 9/11 attacks, the
confused, inadequate response
to Hurricane Katrina, the even
more confused response to the
2008 financial collapse and
shortfalls in the care of our
veterans. Add bridge collapses,
mining accidents and other
failures caused by inadequate
funding for inspection and
regulation, the breaches in
White House security and
the fact that we’ve now been
fighting a war on terror for
nearly 15 years with no end in
sight and it’s enough to make
the staunchest champion of
government action lose hope.
These failures can occur
for many reasons – muddled
policy, insufficient resources,
poor organization, lack of
leadership, lack of skills and
sometimes even outright
misconduct. The question isn’t
really what or who is to blame.
It’s how we turn things around
and reverse the accelerating
pace of breakdowns.
To start, the executive and
the legislative branches of
government need to focus on
the implementation of policy.
Your write
War on DWI
not just for
the holidays
The number of DWI
arrests processed through
the countywide no-refusal
operations on New Year’s
Eve was two, fewer than in
both 2014, when nine NYE
arrests were made, and
2013, when the number
was five.
This year, one arresting
officer opted to use a different
program, STRIKE, to facilitate obtaining a search warrant for a blood sample.
Washington
watch
with Lee Hamilton
A lot of hard work goes into
its creation, both on Capitol
Hill, top, and in governmental agencies, but the sad truth
is that much less attention
goes to how it’s going to be
carried out.
This is largely in the hands
of the president, but congress
has a crucial role to play both
in crafting the law to account
for how it will be implemented
and then in pursuing oversight
afterward. Both branches
need to pay attention to how
they will assess effectiveness,
anticipate problems, make sure
that staffing is adequate and
provide necessary resources.
Second, if making policy
today is complicated, so
is implementing it. This
means that we need skillful
people within the government to carry it out. Let’s
be blunt. You don’t want a
second-rate lawyer negotiating arms control or trade
agreements. You don’t want
third-rate scientists defining
drinking-water requirements.
Getting things right means
hiring good people, retaining
them and then making sure
they’re held to account with
well-conceived metrics.
Finally, we have to put an
end to the politics that so
often stymies policy. Too
often these days, the losers
of a policy debate immediately turn to torpedoing it.
They block the filling of key
positions, cut funding, twist
the objectives or impose
hiring freezes.
They block policy changes
that would improve implementation, put unqualified
executives in control or tolerate
misconduct and confusion.
Some government failures
aren’t the result of muddled
policy, lack of leadership or
incompetence; they’re the
result of what amounts to
calculated sabotage.
Most Americans want
government to work well. We
want it to enhance the quality
of our lives and our communities. Arguments over the
appropriate size of government
are important but that’s not
the issue here. The issue is
that, when a policy is adopted,
it needs to be executed
effectively. Whoever our next
president turns out to be,
let’s hope he or she takes that
charge seriously.
Lee Hamilton, who was a
member of the US house of
representatives for 34 years,
is a distinguished scholar at
Indiana University’s school of
global and international studies
and a professor of practice at the
university’s school of public and
environmental affairs.
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STRIKE, which stands for
“safety through rapid investigation of key evidence”, was
introduced into the county
last year. Under the program,
an officer can apply for a
search warrant to obtain an
intoxicated driver’s blood
sample by communicating
with a judge via the internet.
The judge can review the
search-warrant application,
make a probable-cause determination and transmit the
signed warrant back to the
officer for further action.
As the STRIKE program
becomes more widely avail-
able in the county, use of
the traditional holidays-only
no-refusal programs will
decline. Once implemented
countywide, the program
will allow them to obtain
search warrants for blood
samples 24 hours a day, 365
days a year.
Zonia Smith
CEO, DA’s office
Galveston
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arah Palin recently
came out in support
of Donald Trump
for president. We
hadn’t heard much from
Palin in a while so this
was a grand opportunity
for her to get back into
the spotlight. Her Alaska
reality show that paid her
millions of dollars is now a
distant memory and most
of us are glad.
She is often referred to as
Governor Palin but, if you
resign without finishing
your term, you shouldn’t
be able to run around
the country being called
“governor”. Instead people
should refer to her as the
“former governor who
departed her office because
she could make more
money and obtain more
fame elsewhere” or something like that.
So here we have Palin
jumping on the campaign
wagon of Trump, who
referred to US senator
John McCain as “...no war
hero”, adding: “Heroes
don’t get captured”.
McCain was a prisoner
of war for five years. He
was good enough to propel
Palin to the national spotlight as his vice-presidential
candidate when he ran for
president. Does Palin not
have any loyalty to him?
I’ll answer that question
– no. She couldn’t care less
about McCain. He can
no longer do anything to
promote her or make her
any money.
Trump looks good to
Palin. Trump is wealthy.
Trump could recommend
her to be his vice-presidential running mate, which is
what she might be hoping
for but would be suicidal
for Trump.
While there are Republican loyalists, many
members of the party aren’t
going to vote for anybody
involved with Palin. Zero
Democrats will vote for
Palin, so a Trump-Palin
ticket would be a lose-lose
for the Republican Party.
If Palin cannot get a VP
nod from Trump and the
party, though, she might
obtain other jobs from the
Donald. He might consider
her for another appointment
should he win. I wouldn’t
recommend it, though,
because she might resign in
midstream if she receives a
reality-show offer.
On the other hand, if
he loses, he might find
her a job on Celebrity
Apprentice or recommend her for Dancing
With The Stars, or something like that.
Just in case you’re
wondering, I don’t dislike
Sarah Palin. It’s just
interesting to see the
political jockeying in the
presidential-nomination
race. Unfortunately, all the
candidates have mad-dog
tendencies, charming one
minute and biting your
jugular vein the next.
As an example, look at
Mike Huckabee and Rick
Santorum. They were on
Fox’s preliminary debate
before the real debate last
week. This is the debate
for the lightweight candidates who, in reality, have
already lost. As soon as
it’s over, they hightail it
to Trump’s fundraiser for
armed-forces veterans so
they can appear on national
television with Trump.
Grabbing
The fundraiser was
Trump’s answer to avoiding
Megyn Kelly. I wonder if
Trump will send flowers to
Kelly for Valentine’s Day. I
bet it would surprise her.
Of course, all of this was
in the name of supporting
our veterans. The real truth
is that both Huckabee and
Santorum hope Trump will
remember them if he enters
the kingdom of election
victory. They know they
are dead in the water.
So, like Palin, they are
grabbing for any oxygen tank
they can find to keep their
names alive. Plus they might
generate a few more dollars
with which to travel around
New Hampshire and South
Carolina. After all, what else
are they going to do? They
are both like Palin, hoping
for a Fox contributing job,
perhaps. Or maybe the Travel
Network will do a gig on the
beach-life pad that Huckabee
just recently built on the Gulf
Coast in Florida.
Actually, I would be more
interested in Huckabee
jogging on the beach in the
white sands of the Emerald
Coast than Palin flying in
and out on the lake plane that
is parked behind her house.
Oh well, it’s just politics.
When the New Hampshire
primary is over, we will
slowly see some of these candidates run out of oxygen.
Then they will be on to
other things such as book
deals, reality shows, radio
talk shows and doing everything they can do to utilize
a year of “just politics”.
Glenn Mollette is an American
author whose syndicated column
is read in all 50 states.
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It’s time to wake and
smell the roses
Experienced vegetable growers know
that mid to late February is the ideal
time for transplanting tomatoes.
Master gardener Ira Gervais will
present a program on growing
tomatoes at the Galveston County
AgriLife Extension office from 1:003:30pm on Saturday, February 6.
PHOTO CREDIT: William Johnson
O
verall, this
winter has been
rather mild
for Gulf Coast
gardeners and rainfall has
been ample. In the next few
weeks, landscapes will be
blanketed with new leaves in
varying shades of green and
an array of colorful f lowers
to lift our spirits.
The new gardening year will
be in full swing this month,
with many activities and options
for growing and learning.
Peaches and plums have
already started to display
their beautiful flowers and
the promise of spring can be
seen. Members of Galveston
County Master Gardeners
Association have planned
several programs for the
month that will be of interest
to local gardeners.
Hands-on rose-pruning
demonstrations: Did you
know that the time to prune
your roses is Valentine’s Day?
Are you a bit hesitant on
what types of rose to prune
and not prune? Then be sure
to visit the master gardener
horticulture demonstration garden in Carbide
Park at 4102 Main Street,
La Marque, at 9:00am on
February 11.
Master gardener and
consulting rosarian John Jons
will provide demonstrations
on how to properly prune
your roses. Please bring hand
pruners and gloves – they’re
not required but they are
needed if you wish to practice
pruning on site.
The program is free of
charge but pre-registration is
requested, either by phone at
281-534-3413, ext 1-2, or by
e-mail at GALV3@wt.net.
Upcoming
seminars
On Saturday, February 6,
master gardeners are sponsoring two educational programs
likely to be of interest to gardeners across the county.
I looked up the term
“book-learning” and one
definition goes: “Knowledge
acquired from reading books
as opposed to knowledge
gained through experience;
theoretical or academic knowledge as opposed to practical or
common-sense knowledge”.
The speakers for both
programs have “book-learning” – they have, after all,
earned the title of certified
master gardener – and have
amassed a wealth of practical
or common-sense knowledge
from their lifelong experiences as gardeners. Moreover,
they gladly share their
knowledge and experiences
with the public.
Chris Anastas will provide
a PowerPoint presentation
entitled Growing Backyard
Citrus from 9:00-11:00am.
Chris, who has a sizable
home citrus orchard, will
discuss a variety of topics
including rootstock and
variety selection for citrus,
cultural care of trees,
common disease and insect
problems and how to manage
them, control of birds and
critters and freeze protection.
Then from 11:00am until
12 noon, master gardener
Robert Marshall will present a
PowerPoint program entitled
Citrus Greening Disease.
Citrus greening is a bacterial
disease affecting citrus fruit
that was first confirmed in
Harris County in 2014. To
help reduce the spread of the
disease, the Texas agriculture
department has quarantined
Harris, Fort Bend and Montgomery counties and two
counties in the Valley.
Robert has been trained
as a first responder to help
identify new occurrences of
the disease. His presentation
will cover what symptoms
to look for and preventative
measures home growers can
practice to help reduce the
chances of citrus trees grown
at home becoming infected
with citrus greening.
On the same day, master
gardener Ira Gervais will
present a PowerPoint
program entitled Growing
Great Tomatoes In Galveston County from 1:003:30pm as part two of a
three-part program.
Ira will discuss his secrets
for successful planting and
production of great tomatoes.
Beautiful
gardens
by William Johnson
Program participants will
learn about the various
varieties that do well in this
area and when to transplant
tomato seedlings, as well as
various growing techniques.
He will also discuss information on soil requirements, needed
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speakers. I have attended their
seminars on several occasions
and have learned something
different each time. Even
though there isn’t any registration fee, I am tempted to apply
an entertainment surcharge fee
as they deliver their programs
in a most engaging manner.
William Johnson is a horticulturist with the Galveston
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Keeping your new year’s
financial resolutions
W
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you’re
talking
about diet,
exercise or money, keeping
new year’s resolutions is
challenging. A University Of
Scranton researcher has noted
that weight loss is the current
most popular resolution,
followed by finances improvement at No 2.
And, while the study
showed that roughly 40 to 46
per cent of people making resolutions are successful in their
specific goal at the six-month
mark, more than half give up.
Your personal finances
need more dedication than
that. Fortunately, you can
add some fairly easy money
resolutions that can help your
finances overall.
Make your first budget or
do a better job of reviewing
the one you already have. A
2013 Gallup survey reported
that only one third of
Americans actually prepare
a detailed household budget.
Make your first resolution
creating or reviewing your
household budget so you
know where your finances
stand at all times.
Budgeting involves day-today tracking of finances but
having a quick way to determine your net worth – your
assets minus your liabilities
– offers the biggest picture of
how you’re doing and what
next steps you might take to
improve your circumstances.
Practical
money
matters
by Nathaniel Sillin
Make this calculation your
kickoff to each new year.
Having an emergency fund
means you’re always ready for
the unexpected. The average
emergency fund generally
covers three to six months
of daily expenses – yours
could be more or less. Keep
in mind that the primary
purpose of an emergency
fund is to keep you away
from savings when unexpected expenses come along.
Depending on your
comfort level with all things
digital, virtually every aspect
of your financial life can be
managed online or with computer-based software. From
setting up a basic paper or
online calendar to tracking
pay dates, bills’ due dates and
deposit dates for savings and
investments, a daily series of
reminders and action items
will keep your money issues
on time and on track.
Recommit to your retirement. If you’re employed or
self-employed, here’s a way to
make a retirement savings resolution stick. First, make sure
you’re signed up for a 401k,
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nutrients and the temperature
ranges for best tomato fruit set.
All three programs will be
conducted at the Galveston
County AgriLife Extension
office in Carbide Park. There’s
no fee but pre- registration is
required, either by e-mail at
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life and disability insurance
for potential savings or better
coverage, or both. Qualified
advisers can help you review
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Find more money to
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what you spend, paying off
expenses or finding ways to
bring in more income, saving
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The first step is to track
and set spending limits that
will help you reset or eliminate any expenses standing in
the way of your goals.
Bottom line: Making new
year’s resolutions always
sounds like a good idea at
the time but keeping them
requires determination, study
and focus. This year, build
the kind of money habits that
position you for success.
Nathaniel Sillin directs
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For Life financial education
programs. Follow him on
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District Court of Galveston County, at the Courthouse in said County in
Galveston, Texas. Said
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of January, 2016 in the
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Tract 1 Being a 45 foot by
111.7 foot Track of land
out of the Andrew Johnson
Tract out of James L. Shaw
Tract in the A. VAN NORDSTRAND SURVEY, Abstract
203, Galveston County,
Texas, and being more
particularly described by
meets and bounds as follows:
COMMENCING at the intersection of the Northerly
right-of-way line of State
Highway No. 87 with the
West line of said Andrew
Johnson Tract;
THENCE North 29’43’30”
West with said West line
of Andrew Johnson Tract
and in the East line of a
tract conveyed to Bolivar
Terminal Co. Inc. recorded
under GCCFN 2004069784
OPRGCTx, a distance of
3867.00 feet to the PLACE
OF BEGINNING;
THENCE continuing North
29”43’30” West a distance
of 45 feet, to the Southwest corner of Lot 5, as
found under Heirship Affidavit for the Estate of Don
Allen Bernelle recorded
under GCCFN 2014016247
OPRGCTx;
THENCE North 60’00’30”
East along the South line
of said Lot 5, a distance of
111.7 feet;
THENCE South 29’43’30”
East a distance of 45 feet
to the Northeast corner of
a tract of land conveyed
to Rhonda V. Althauser
as recorded under GCCFN
2006034245 OPRGCTx;
THENCE South 60’00’30”
West along the North line
of said Althauser tract a
distance of 111.7 feet to
the PLACE OF BEGINNING,
and containing 0.116 acre
more or less and being
subject to a 25 foot roadway easement adjacent
and parallel to the West
line of this Tract.
Tract 2
Being a 25 foot by 90 foot
Tract of land out of the Andrew Johnson Tract out of
the James L. Shaw Tract in
the A. VAN NORDSTRAND
SURVEY, Abstract 203,
Galveston, County, Texos,
and being the same tract
of land described in deed
to A.J. Hyatt recorded under Volume 2397, Page
199 OPRGCTx and being
more particuarly described
by meets and bounds as
follows:
COMMENCING at the intersection of the Northerly
right-of-way line of State
Highway No. 87 with the
West line of said Andrew
Johnson Tract;
THENCE North 29’43’30
West with said West line
of Andrew Johnson Tract o
distance 3822 feet;
THENCE North 60’00’30”
East, a distance of 111.7
feet to the PLACE OF BEGINNING and being the
Southeast corner of a tract
of land conveyed to Rhonda V. Althauser recorded
under GCCFN 2006034245
OPRGCTx;
THENCE North 29’43’30”
West, at a distance of 45
feet passing the Northeast
corner of said Althauser
tract, continuing for a total
distance of 90 feet to the
Southeast corner-of Lot
5, as found under Heirship Affidavit for the Estate of Don Allen Bernelle
recorded under GCCFN
2014016247
OPRGCTx
and the Southwest corner
of a tract of land conveyed
to Mary Lee Huffman recorded
under
Volume
2397, Page 197 OPRGCTx;
THENCE North 60’00’0”
East along south line of
said Huffman tract (Volume 2397, Page 197), a
distance of 25 feet to the
West line of a tract conveyed to Mary Lee Huffman recorded under GCCFN 9728733 OPRGCTx;
THENCE South 29”43’ 30”
East along the West line
said Huffman tract (GCCFN 9728733), a distance
of 90 feet;
THENCE South 60’00’30
West, a distance of 25 feet
to the PLACE OF BEGINNING, containing 0.052
acre more or less
Issued and given under my
hand and the seal of the
Said Court at Galveston,
Texas, on the on this the
14th day of January, 2016.
John D, Kinard, District
Clerk Galveston County, Texas By: Alytha
Green-Pickney, Deputy
Attorney for Plaintiff or
Plaintiff Marybeth M Nelson
830 Apollo Ln.
Houston, Texas 77058
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HIGH-SCHOOL ATHLETICS
SURPRISE!
PROJECTIONS and predictions gave way to reality
on Monday as the University Interscholastic League
opened its biannual package
of district realignments,
which offered a grab bag of
surprises across the board.
The long-awaited drop of La
Marque to class 3a officially
came into being as the Cougars
are now part of district 12-3a-1.
Due to be annexed to Texas
City ISD by state order, La
Marque will be joined in the
district by neighboring Hitchcock, along with Anahuac,
Hardin, Hempstead and Winnie-East Chambers.
“We’re fired up,” La Marque
football coach Mike Jackson
said. “We’ve been one of the
smaller teams in 4a the past few
years but we’re now going to be
one of the larger schools in 3a.
“When you’re at this level, your
UIL’s new districts put pundits in their place
kids are going to have to either
play both ways or at least play it
part time. That’s something our
kids have been doing since 2013,
so this isn’t new for us.”
This is the second time for
La Marque to participate in 3a,
having previously been a part
of the classification from 2012
to 2014.
The fall from class 4a will
put the Coogs’ rivalries with
Galveston Ball and Texas City
on hiatus but it opens the door
to another natural rivalry with
a Hitchcock program that lies
just four miles from the La
Marque high-school campus.
With enrollment numbers
climbing for La Marque,
Jackson feels that the Cougars
stand a good chance to return
to 4a when realignment resets
the districts again in 2018.
The distance to the other
three schools in 12-3a-1 will
not be as drastic as originally
expected for the Coogs, whose
longest round trips will be
180 miles to Hempstead,
162 to Winnie and 69
to Anahuac. At one
time, it was feared
that they could
face journeys as
long as 136 miles
in each direction.
“We’ll
hit
the road, take our
chances against some
of Houston’s best rush-hour
drivers and get there ready to
play,” Jackson said.
District 24-6a remained
mostly intact in the reshuffle, with Clear Brook, Clear
Creek, Clear Falls, Clear Lake
and Clear Springs all returning along with Dickinson and
Friendswood, while Alvin will
replace Brazoswood.
The addition of the Yellow
Jackets will bolster an already
competitive district for both
baseball and softball, as well
as adding a loaded volleyball
squad into what is considered
one of the state’s strongest districts in that sport.
Change was readily apparent
in district 23-5a. While Ball,
Texas City and Santa Fe
remained
together,
the return of
three of the
five Fort Bend
ISD schools
was a bit of
a surprise, as
Elkins, Marshall
and
Willowridge will come back.
The district will also now
contain nine schools instead of
eight as Galena Park, Manvel
and Fort Bend Shadow Creek
were also added.
Nevertheless, Santa Fe
football coach Mark Kanipes
was unfazed at the news. “I
don’t think much will change,”
he said.
“You lose one football powerhouse in Ridge Point and gain
another in Manvel, so it’s still
going to be a tough district.”
The addition of Manvel brings
one of the state’s top football
programs back down from
class 6a, where the Mavericks
advanced to consecutive region
III, division I semifinals only to
lose to eventual state champions
Katy on both occasions.
Manvel’s prominence will
be on display today, Wednesday, as more than a dozen of its
players are due to sign letters of
intent to play college football.
Shadow Creek, which will
open its doors this fall, will be
a basketball-only school until
entering the football and other
arenas in 2018.
HIGH-SCHOOL BASKETBALL
We’re still in charge!
MAINTAINING their grip
upon district 24-6a, the Clear
Springs girls continue to
climb the rungs of the state
rankings, as they were one of
three local teams included in
this week’s polls of both male
and female programs.
A 67-53 win over Clear Lake
on Friday improved coach
Pamela Crawford’s team to
Girls on the rise as boys take a tumble
a 23-6 overall record and an
unblemished 11-0 in 24-6a,
lifting the Chargers to 11th in
the state 6a poll published on
Monday morning.
Friday’s victory gave the
Chargers, who were due to
play Friendswood yesterday, Tuesday, their eighth
straight victory by an average
of 29 points since losing to
San Antonio Wagner in the
Sandra Meadows Classic in
Duncanville on December 29.
Clear Falls also moved up in
this week’s poll, the Knights
rising to 21st as they are now
25-5 overall after a 57-37 victory
over visiting Clear Creek on
Friday. As a result, Falls were 9-2
in district 24-6a play entering
Tough at the top
Battle for 24-6a lead still too tight to call
FIVE GAMES remain in the
boys’ district 24-6a season, yet
nothing is locked up as three
local teams remain tightly
packed in the race for top spot
while four others still hold at
least a whisper of a chance for
the final postseason berth.
Dickinson and Clear Creek
entered the week tied for
first place with identical 7-2
records, as both teams kept
pace with wins on Friday
night. The Gators downed
Clear Brook 79-68, while the
Wildcats shook off a slow start
en route to a 59-51 victory over
Clear Falls.
Scoreboard watching continued for both yesterday,
Tuesday, with Dickinson
hitting the road to meet a Falls
team that, at 3-6, needed a win
to keep their dimming playoff
hopes alive. Creek also hit the
road, traveling to Brazoswood,
who were 1-8 in district play.
Clear Springs held third
place with a 6-3 mark, remaining within striking distance
of the two front runners. The
Chargers welcomed a 3-6
Friendswood team also in need
of a win to keep some hope of a
postseason life.
The district’s biggest game
featured 5-4 Clear Brook
hosting 4-5 Clear Lake in the
battle for the fourth and final
playoff spot.
Texas City opened the week
with a slim lead for the fourthplace slot in district 23-5a,
as the top three spots are all
but locked. Fort Bend Bush,
the state’s top ranked team
in 5a, remained undefeated
in district action, while Fort
Bend Elkins and Fort Bend
Marshall held second and
third places respectively.
Galveston Ball’s Tors, who
were due to host Elkins yesterday, can only play the role
of spoiler the rest of the way as
they are 2-7 so far.
The Texas City Stingarees, meanwhile, were visiting
Marshall with an eye on the
fortunes of Fort Bend Ridge
Point, who needed to snap a
two-game losing streak against
Bush in order to stay just one
game behind them.
Santa Fe, riding a 12-game
losing streak, visited a Fort
Bend Willowridge team that
entered the night with a threegame skid.
La Marque, ranked 10th in
this week’s 4a poll, were hosting
eighth-ranked Brazosport in a
tight district 28-4a chase. The
Cougars are 2-2 in district, two
games behind both Brazosport
and Stafford, who are each 4-1.
Sitting in fourth place
in 24-3a, the Hitchcock
Bulldogs were meeting the
Boling boys yesterday.
their contest at Dickinson yesterday, with both of their losses
at the hands of the Chargers.
On the flipside, a lackluster 42-33 loss at Stafford on
Friday dropped La Marque
down to 10th in this week’s
class 4a boys’ rankings, a fall
of seven spots from last week.
The Cougars have had
their hands full in a very
competitive district 28-4a, a
challenge due to be continued yesterday when coach
David Montano’s squad
hosted sixth-ranked Brazosport in a rematch of the
January 15 contest in which
the Coogs were squeezed out
in a 49-48 overtime nailbiter.
La Marque’s
Raymond
Stubblefield
goes for the
net against
Columbia’s
Ace Turner.
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C Williams
UIL realignment shock – page 7
HIGH-SCHOOL AQUATICS
On course
for state
titles
SPLASHING the road to the
University Interscholastic
League state title begins
in earnest on Friday, when
the class 5a region III boys’
and girls’ swimming and
diving championships get
under way at the Lamar
Consolidated natatorium.
A host of regional spots was
decided when the district 23-5a
championships were held in
Texas City at the weekend,
with teams from Angleton,
Barbers Hill, Brazosport,
Galena Park, Galveston Ball
and Texas City competing.
The 2016 state title meet
will be held on February
19-20 at the Texas swim center on the Austin campus of
University Of Texas.
Photos by Gene Schwartz
It was open mouths all day during the district 23-5a cahmpionships in Texas City on Saturday.
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