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Yes Rice Village. Anyone driving through that area can’t miss the huge yellow signs of the association the residents formed to fight the city over the high rise issue. I’ve been in the Houston area since 1985 and I have yet to see them deal with traffic movement or street changes before they add housing to accommodate hundreds of thousands more new people.

That's exactly what is happening in Austin. They want to keep throwing up high-rise buildings, because it's just a few hundred people here, a thousand there, meanwhile the traffic system is not being upgraded.

It'd be great if those high-rises they were throwing up all over the place were for people who worked downtown, just blocks away, but that's not how it's working out.

They don't know how to build a light-rail system worth a damn, they can't tunnel much, the tollroads don't seem to be doing much and they botched the handling of those. They can only go up. We're liable to have a triple-decker I-35.

Just received notice today that HCTRA Toll Road charges on the Beltway surrounding Houston are going up - AGAIN - in September. They have a rule that if you have an E-Z Pass account you have to maintain a minimum balance of $40.00. Can you just imagine the amount of money they have - must be mind boggling. At some of the toll plazas where there is E-Z Pass and cash, cash costs more.

There is going to be an issue on the ballot this fall about funding Texas state highways. Lots and lots of money - what could possibly go wrong?

Also understand that tax dollars were restored to the voucher program in one county in Texas to allow payment to individuals who couldn’t afford to get their car repaired to pass inspection. Includes funding for repairs up to $600 as well as I believe some $3,000 for people to purchase a car. Smells just like a California-type program and totally B.S. Political payoff or just big ripoff by Dewhurst and Strauss?