Farmers Insurance Group is leaving the Texas homeowner’s insurace market. Read the story in the Houston Chronicle. In a move typical of the industry, the company has decided to not renew coverage for Texas after a recent rash of mold claims. Insurance is a simple business: collect premiums and avoid claims. After working the system…
Category: Texas
Clown to be Executed At Last
Texas will execute a convicted child killer tomorrow. This monster who masqueraded as a clown for a living killed two pre-teen girls in 1992. Read the re-cap in the Houston Chonicle. The picture of those two angels will make you teary-eyed, guaranteed. Five will get you ten that tomorrow on KUHF’s morning show, the anchor…
Teen Robber Sentenced
By Marc Moore at 9/24/2002 8:01:54 PM A Houston teenager was sentenced to 35 years in state prison for aggravated robbery of a woman this spring. Read the summary in the Houston Chronicle. There will be those who bemoan this stiff sentence; however, minors who commit violent crimes serves the same punishment as adults. Face…
Student Athlete Deaths
Two high school athletes died suddenly yesterday. By all accounts, the boys were exemplary young men. Read the story in the Houston Chronicle. Surprising deaths are a phenomenon that seems to be on the rise in the US. Are we pressing kids to be too good, too fast? In these recent cases, preliminary evidence indicates…
Three’s Company
A man with 2 wives living in North Houston? Can it be true? It is. Read the Houston Chronicle article. “Polygamy isn’t for everybody,” the husband says. Obviously that is true! One simply hopes these people aren’t persecuted as Tom Green and family were recently. Read a summary of his account.
Whose Choice Was It?
Under the heading of “Lack of Personal Responsibility”, look no further than a Houston family that blames a clinic for their at-the-time high-school aged daugher’s choice to have an abortion. Read the Houston Chronicle story. Whose choice was it? Who lied about their age? This is a pathetic example of how people no longer seem…
Police Suspensions
Remember the big stink regarding the mass arrest of people loitering around Westheimer parking lots in Houston last week? Well, the police captain in charge has been suspended and 12 others relieved of their duties. Houston’s police chief is running for cover too, stammering he knew nothing about the officer’s plans. The fact of the…
Police Officer Fired
In Austin, Texas, the AP reports a police officer has been fired for taping the mouth of a belligerent teenage suspect shut. The suspect was asked repeatedly to “please be quiet”; after he continued his behavior, the officer taped his mouth shut. Sounds like something the boy’s parents should have done long ago. In true…
What was the Houston Police department thinking when it arrested 300 people, some of whom were simply trying to get a chili dog at James Coney Island? Read Roma Khanna’s article in the Houston Chronicle. I have no personal knowledge of this area on Saturday night. There may be severe problems in this area that…
Securing Chemical Plants
The rest of the nation is catching on to something Houstonians have known all along: gulf coast chemical plants make tempting target to terrorists. Read the NPR story. Having worked at one of these plants recently, I concur with the opinion that plant managers are proactive about security and safety. This does not remove the…