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Amazingly bad decision-making
One fringe benefit of economic downturns is that local public officials generally defer their financial decisions, which tend to be uniformly bad even during good economic times. Except apparently in Houston. Over the past few days, Houstonians have been...
Can Mayor White pull off another "win-win" deal?
Although the developers of the proposed Ashby high-rise condominium project didn't know it at the time, Houston Mayor Bill White did the developers a huge favor by putting up roadblocks to that project. Can you imagine trying to peddle...
The "leadership" of Bill White
Let me see if I've got this straight. On one hand, private businessmen invest millions in buying a run-down property and following the city's existing laws and regulations in preparing to build the Ashby high-rise, a large-scale residential redevelopment...
Cooling heads over the Ashby high-rise
So, Mayor White has figured out that his ostentatious initial position and statements regarding the proposed Ashby high-rise project weren't such a good idea, after all: The city risks exposing itself to a "takings lawsuit" if it passes a new...
The real issue behind the Ashby high-rise
Don't miss this Christof Spieler post in which he identifies the real issue that needs to be addressed in regard to the controversial Ashby high-rise condominium project -- the issue of the project's scale in relation to the rest of...
Mayor White's L.A. moment
Houston Mayor Bill White is capriciously manipulating local governmental power to sidetrack development of a condominium project (nicknamed the "Ashby high-rise") in a neighborhood where he raises a substantial political campaign funds. The incident has received some national attention through...
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