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  1. If you remember Rumpleheimers do you remember 2K's?

  2. interesting follow-up piece in the Houston Chronicle
  3. Is it true that no Christian churches are allowed to be built within the city of Mecca? I don't know much about Muslims, Islam or Mecca for that matter, but I wonder what Aga Khan's response would be to the question I posed above. If Muslims build Islamic mosques, why no churches in Mecca, I wonder? Anyone here know?
  4. Ah, my old stompin' grounds! Parker Elementary, Johnston Junior High, and Westbury High. I wonder what these schools are like nowadays? Beautiful house though, flipper! I haven't seen tile done like that before in a shower with the big slab tiles, and I really liked it. Do you find that a pretty good number of homes in the Westbury area have foundation problems?
  5. looks like the New York Times may not survive after all interesting website mapping all the lay-offs and the buy-outs in the newspaper industry
  6. I think it's drop-dead gorgeous! I wonder who their interior designer was? Does the Heights do a Christmas walking tour through some of these homes, and any chance that this one is on the list; I'd love to get a chance to walk around inside.
  7. Russell Ybarra owns Gringo's. His dad, Eugene Ybarra, owns El Toro. Who is the original owner you mention? I hadn't heard that either Ybarra owned a Mason Jar.
  8. I don't think so, but if this a reason to re-build Klein? No. So, it's not pretty like Klein Collins. Is this a reason to re-build Klein? No. Oh, you're definitely right about it being an election, but why do some of the steering committee members find it necessary to form their own PAC to make sure it passes, with the Klein High re-build included? I wonder... Because in Klein, we are heavy on the residential side and light on commercial tax base, the residents here have to pay a heavier share of school taxes than other commercial-rich districts, so we don't necessarily have more money here. I look forward to seeing you at the polls, H-Town Man! Hopefully, the school board members and the superintendent have been getting e-mails from the residents affected and the current proposal will be revised downward and the Klein High re-build postponed until the overcrowding issues are addressed first and then I'll be happy to vote in favor of it.
  9. Well, I know how crowded they are at Klein Oak already and they are no more crowded at Klein, in my opinion. Are you trying to imply that the current architectural elements employed at Klein High do not send this message already? Wow, that's a pretty broad and sweeping statement, but nevertheless, even if the people who live in this are CAN afford a bigger bond, is that justification enough in your mind to force one upon them for over $500 million dollars?
  10. Yeah, I'm sure all those "grand old high schools in cities like Boston and Philadelphia" didn't have any one-story buildings with narrow hallways, NOT! Oh, that refers to this; Were you actually trying to say that because the grand old high schools LOOKED impressive that the students attending those grand schools had a higher appreciation of the "value of education" than students attending Klein High do now? Sorry, yeah, I'm guess it's just little old me that's living in precarious financial times. Lucky you! Ah, something we both agree upon! YES! As I have stated before, I have no problem voting for a bond proposal, just not the one currently proposed to us. Address the overcrowding issues FIRST, that is a more pressing need, in my humble opinion. Lower the current bond proposal numbers. Whittle the thing down, remove the "wants" out of it. Then, maybe, in four years, IF the current overcrowding situation has been properly taken care of, THEN re-build Klein High.
  11. Actually, there is a mention somewhere on the Klein ISD website that refers to Klein High as "the signature school" for the district, so I guess, even though you meant to be funny, it really wasn't that far off the mark. As for the architecture thing, there's always been a perception, that for some reasons, buildings built in some parts of the country are not only better built but better maintained, than buildings here in the Houston area, where it seems like once something is approaching the 40-year mark, we need to bulldoze it and start over. Why that is, I don't know. I also think that when you are looking at a $640 million dollar bond package, when we just passed a bond election just four years that was about one-third of this one, and we're already looking ahead four years from now to passing another one, perhaps even larger than $640 million dollars, that maybe we should be paying closer attention to what's being included in that bond proposal, and I don't think we are. You are referring to simpler times, people focused on the educational aspects and good, safe buildings in which the learning took place. You had a small school board, a small maintenance staff and a small teaching staff. Take a look, in comparison, to what the modern school district, like Klein ISD, has become, and it's not even close. Our administrative staff is bloated, we have programs that cost exorbitant amounts of money (like the Chancery system) that even when the programs turn out to be ineffective or worse, we don't ask for our money back, we hire more consultants to find out why it's not working, and we keep making excuses to our taxpayers and we keep asking for even more money. We hire other consultants (like the PASA group) whom we pay even more money to for their advice, and then we ignore it. But, we keep hiring them back every year. There are other ineffective programs just like this, that keep getting paid for. I understand that you think it's a good idea to re-build Klein High, and IF we didn't face serious overcrowding issues at our other schools that will now be ignored for four more years if Klein High is re-built, and IF the bond proposal was not for $640 million dollars, I would definitely be agreeable to that re-build, because after all, we want the students at Klein High to be as proud of their school as the Klein Oak students are of theirs. The bond proposal for this amount of money in these precarious financial times for many of the 42,000 Klein ISD homeowners is just too much to ask for at this time. If the school board can seriously whittle that number down and cut out all but the most necessary items, then I'll vote for it. If they address the overcrowding that is happening RIGHT NOW, and not just four years into the future, and bring that number down, then I have no problem with Klein High getting their re-build. However, if the number stays the same, and the school board decided to stick with their plan to add a wing onto Klein Oak, which will increase the population to 5,000 kids, then I will be voting NO to the bond proposal.
  12. HA! ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!! My "vision" for all Klein ISD schools: 100% graduation rates from all Klein ISD high schools, 100% going to college or trades they've been trained for at the high school level. I couldn't care less about aesthetics/architectural designs. Heck, Klein ISD has so many attending classes in trailers now that maybe our future schools should just be a big lot loaded up with lots of portable trailers! And, seriously, enough of this talk about "flagship" schools, how about equality for all schools, since we're all paying the same amount of money for the same quality of education for our kids? Grandeur, flagship, pffffffttttt!
  13. Sorry, that was meant to be humorous, but I can see how someone from Doerre might be easily offended by such a remark. Honestly, though, did you not find any humor at all in the signs that students from opposing teams held up during football season that read, "What is a Bearkat?" I'm pretty sure those are used year after year at the games.
  14. thank goodness somebody fixed up this hotel, it was a true dump for many years!
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