Community Journalism for the TX·AR·OK·LA Region
Essay/Opinion Did Bowie County’s Financial Advisory Committee Have a Hidden Agenda? This article looks more closely at the facts discussed in the above article. Financial Advisory Committee (FAC) Item 10: On this 27th day of May, ....
Essay/Opinion: This is an opinion article based on county-produced documents and quotes from Bowie County's bond counsel and outside attorney. County internal Problems: This is the second article on the illegal financing and taxation practices of ....
Note: It has become increasingly obvious that the Financial Advisory Committee has not been working to improve the County's financial position, but has instead been pursuing a completely different goal. While I intend to present ....
Monday, during the last session of Bowie County Commissioners Court for this fiscal year, the budget for the next fiscal year was approved unanimously. Although spokesmen for the Court's Financial Advisory Committee had expressed dissatisfaction ....
I've been asked to publish some older information that either predated this site, or just wasn't published when the info was current. The first is from July, when Financial Advisory Committee chairman Mike Sandefur used different analogies ....
After declaring fellow Financial Advisory Committee member Robert Worthen had no business, as a non-lawyer, in determining whether a law had been broken, Joe Dike stated he (and by implication, the rest of the FAC) believed ....
Agenda for the regular meeting of the Bowie County Commissioners Court on the 8th day of September, 2014, at 10:00AM in the County Courthouse in New Boston, TX. Public Comments – public comments shall be ....
In Commissioners Court on Monday August 25, members of the Financial Advisory Committee spent quite a bit of time and energy warning of an imminent budget and payroll crisis. Four days later, the Court learned there was never ....
At Commissioners Court on July 14, Judge Lacy's son, Steve Lacy made a detailed presentation about the figures County Auditor William Tye has been providing to the Court. He pointed out that Tye's reports of ....
The new proposed budget tax increase is not a result of anything Judge Lacy did. The Judge controls the M&O (Maintenance and Operation) side of the budget, and the M&O tax rate remained at the ....