35 Burst results for "County Judge"
The Charlie Kirk Show
Jeff Younger Discusses His Struggle to Protect His Son James
"Now is Jeff younger. Jeff, welcome to the program. Walk us through what you guys are experiencing and give us some backstory as well. Well, you know, my ex-wife began to transition my son at the age of two. She forced me out of the house when my son was three, filed for divorce, I took my first iPhone video, if you Google mommy says I'm a girl on YouTube or whatever, you'll see that video it went viral. And she started telling my son that he was a girl, she had a girl's brain and a boy's body. She began to dress him as a boy. I mean, as a girl. And changed his name without my consent or without consent of the court. Eventually she enrolled him in school as a girl, and that led to a huge trial in 2019 where the top transgender experts in the world showed up at this little courthouse in Dallas in the 255th district court. After hearing all the evidence, the court gave me 50 50 custody and no child support. In a transparently corrupt procedure, the Dallas county judges recused the judge that gave me 50 50 custody and put me into another court, the 301st district court under judge Mary Brown, I call her judge Bloody Mary Brown. Bloody Mary Brown then systematically whittled away my parental rights using temporary orders and then allowed my ex-wife to move to California. After reading the laws in California about mandatory contact, if you don't contact your children regularly in California, you can lose your parental rights. It's now become clear that each of the orders issued by the judge was intended to remove my ability to comply with the California contact requirements to maintain your parental rights. So I have no right to see my sons. I can't have electronic communication. I don't even have an address where I can write letters to them. And if that goes on for a year, California can terminate my parental rights without my consent. And so this looks like it was a setup from ideological judge in the 301st district court Dallas county.
AP News Radio
Ohio law banning almost all abortions will remain blocked for now, judge rules
"Courts in two states block laws have banned nearly all abortions in those states An Ohio judge issues a preliminary injunction against the state's 2019 fetal heartbeat law which is a near total abortion ban as a state constitutional challenge works its way through the courts Hamilton county judge Christian Jenkins says the law passed by the GOP controlled legislature is written to almost completely eliminate the rights of Ohio women An Arizona appeals court panel rules abortions can resume for now The judge is blocking enforcement of a measure from before Arizona becoming a state in 1912 that
AP News Radio
Judge blocks Indiana abortion ban week after it took effect
"A judge has blocked Indiana's abortion ban a week after it took effect Owen county judge Kelsey hanlon issued a preliminary injunction against the ban The injunction was sought by abortion clinic operators who argued in a lawsuit that the state constitution protects access to abortion The ban was approved by Indiana's Republican dominated legislature in August It made Indiana the first state to enact tighter abortion restrictions since the Supreme Court overturned roe V wade in June The order of prohibits the state from enforcing the ban
AP News Radio
Man charged with killing Memphis jogger held without bond
"A Tennessee man faces murder charges after the body of a missing Memphis woman was identified Cleota Henderson referred to as abstinence by police was back before a judge facing murder charges Memphis authorities say he suspected of kidnapping and killing kindergarten teacher and mother of two Eliza Fletcher who went missing on Friday during an early morning jog Henderson was charged with especially aggravated kidnapping tampering with evidence and unrelated theft and fraud But then Fletcher's body was found and identified Shelby county judge a Lewis montese revoked his bond and arranged for another hearing Thursday to resolve his representation With the additional charge in that case first degree murder I'm going to order that the no bond The $500,000 bond will be both Audio courtesy W ATN TV the judge agreed to have referred to the suspect by the name Cleo the Henderson I'm Jennifer King
AP News Radio
Lawyers argue to delay North Dakota law banning abortion
"Arizona judge is hearing arguments today as the state struggles for clarity on a near total abortion ban In Tucson Arizona a pima county judge will weigh a request by the state's attorney general who wants to lift an injunction against an anti abortion law enacted in 1901 before Arizona was even a state Blocked in 1973 the law would allow doctors to be charged for providing abortions unless the mother's life is in danger Arizona has passed several new laws since then including one recently blocked by a federal judge that grants personhood rights to unborn children Republican governor Doug ducey signed a bill that criminalizes performing abortions after 15 weeks
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Under State Constitution, Gov. DeSantis Can Suspend State Officials
"What does that mean? What it means is under the state constitution, Florida's governor can suspend state efficient state officials for misfeasance, malfeasance neglect of duty drunkenness incompetence or permanent inability to perform official duties or commission of a felony. If you're a prosecutor who won't prosecute, you're not doing your duties. You're not performing your official duties. Now, as Warren's replacement, desantis appointed hillsborough county judge Susan Lopez. She's a former county prosecutor, whom desantis named the bench. Last year.
AP News Radio
Wisconsin court rules against transgender sex offender
"The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled sex trafficking can be a defense for homicide The justices ruled a 2008 state line Wisconsin but absolves trafficking victims of criminal liability for any offenses committed as a direct result of being trafficked extend to first degree intentional homicide Crystal Kaiser is charged with murder The court says she must first provide evidence for a trial judge that her decision to kill Randall valar in 2018 was connected to being trafficked Kaiser contains she met vollard on a sex trafficking website Kaiser's attorneys had planned to invoke Wisconsin's immunity law at her trial but a county judge refused
AP News Radio
Georgia grand jury investigating Trump wants testimony from Giuliani, Graham
"A Georgia prosecutor is trying to obtain testimony from key Donald Trump allies in an election probe Fulton county district attorney funny Willis has filed petitions at a bid to compel testimony from senator Lindsey Graham ex Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and 5 other potential witnesses A county judge overseeing a special grand jury that's looking into whether Trump and others illegally tried to influence the 2020 race in Georgia has signed papers saying Graham Giuliani and others have been deemed necessary to the investigation It's been underway since early last year though it remains unclear just what charges Willis may try to pursue against
AP News Radio
Larry Nassar loses last appeal in sexual assault scandal
"The former sports doctor convicted in 2018 of sexually abusing gymnasts has lost his last legal appeal The Michigan Supreme Court rejected a final appeal by Larry Nassar he went to prison after pleading guilty during an extraordinary 7 day hearing in which over 150 dancers Olympic gymnasts and other athletes detailed how he sexually assaulted them over many years under the guise of medical treatments Nasser said he deserved a new hearing and was treated unfairly by ingham county judge Rosemarie aquilina who said she signed his death warrant with his 40 year sentence that he would wither in prison like the wicked witch in a two page letter the court said it had concerns over the judge's conduct but declined to take the case noting that the judge stuck to the sentencing agreement and that they had no wish to subject the victims to additional trauma NASA received another 40 year sentence in a separate case in a neighboring county and
AP News Radio
Judge delays trial of 2 ex-cops in Floyd killing until 2023
"I Mike Gracia reporting a judge delays the trial of two ex cops charged in the killing of George Floyd A judge has ordered a delay in the trial of two former Minneapolis police officers charged in the killing of George Floyd hennepin county judge Peter Cahill delayed the trial of two tau and J Alexander king until January 5th hoping additional time will improve prospects for a fair trial but Cahill denied the defense motion for a change of venue Tau and king are charged with aiding at the betting both second degree murder and second degree manslaughter in the May 2020 death of Floyd They were scheduled to go on trial next week I'm Mike Gracia
AP News Radio
Police official: Smollett's false report harmed real victims
"The three year jussie Smollett stories behind us ending up the actor behind bars cook county judge James Lang thought he was getting the last word on the disgraced empire actor you'll spend the first one hundred and fifty days of your sentence in the cook county jail and that will start today right here right now but as he left the courtroom in custody jussie Smollett decided to have his say yes and I am not suicide if anything happens to me when I go into it I did not do it to myself in the end though it's the judge's view that counts and James Lind says the stories Millett told on the stand was secure perjury and that's when that was just being narcissistic when he arranged for his own racist and anti gay beat down I'm Oscar wells Gabriel
The Dan Bongino Show
Lauren Davis: We Are Refounding Our Communities, Starting Local & Up
"Know even though we're not going to agree on everything what we can agree on is that they deserve a seat at the table and they deserve to have their voices heard And we're all working towards the same thing where American and we are rebounding our communities and it's going to start local because that's where all of these politicians at the tip top are coming from They don't start out at the top They're starting out at the county level and the school boards and parents have had enough like myself who said fine I'm going to take my time then I'm going to take my talent and I'm not going to be at the PTA anymore I'm going to take over the county commissioner's court I'm going to flip my school board And we're not stopping at school board I'll tell you that much Our Republican Party here said oh look at you little mom You could do school board and I said well I appreciate the promotion from PTA but I've been running a business since I was 25 years old and I'll take the county to county judge position Thank you And the more parents need to do that Okay
The Dan Bongino Show
Lauren Davis on Why She's Running Against Clay Jenkins in Dallas
"Oh it's a pleasure to have you so clay Jenkins Dallas county judge is a genuinely awful human being You don't have to comment on that My humble opinion but there's nothing you can say to dissuade me otherwise He is a buffoon of the highest order Now one of the reasons folks I decided to put Lauren on the show is that Lawrence running against clay Jenkins and has actually taken a stand for crazy things Lauren you know like freedom and liberty for kids in school crazy mask mandates and things like that and clay Jenkins has decided that he is going to rule like an authoritarian and stick by all these debunked mandates and stuff So what made you want to run and tell us about the importance of getting rid of all these mandates and unmasking our kids Yeah so we came up against the mandates I'm just an everyday American I've never been politically active never ran for a public office ever in my life And we are small business owners We own a chain of barbershops as scale nationally My husband and I started that together And just living our American Dream and then government comes in shuts us down takes us to zero We're laying off people that are single mothers and then we fast forward two years and our Dallas ISD independent school district here our public school system decides to defy our governor and require masks at the beginning of the year So I have three kids and my two that were in particular school together We said we'd had enough And we exercised our parental rights and went without a mask and they ended up being the only two out of 604 kids In that school And so what the school did was turn us into a political enemy Build a plexiglass cage in the library for my children and completely take their education away from them So I said I had
The Larry Elder Show
Dallas Mom Runs for County Judge to Fight School Indoctrination
"Were you and your family all alone? Was there any support in the community any support of other parents in the schools who say this is garbage this is wrong, advocating for your kids on behalf of your family's decision here or was it literally you against the world? It was literally our family against the world at that time. Absolutely every friend we all had within our family from that school community, turn their backs, went silent or worked against us. And that's the other motivator for me, writing this wrong in our society is that mandate in this lawlessness is turning neighbor or neighbor. It's ripping the fabric of our communities apart. And I won't stand for it. So our stand in our fight is for the people who decided they hate it to say just don't understand what's coming.
AP News Radio
Mostly white jury seated for trial in Daunte Wright's death
"A a jury jury has has been been seated seated for for the the trial trial of of a a former former police police officer officer charged charged in in the the shooting shooting death death of of Dante Dante right right you you are are upholding upholding the the constitution constitution the the very very foundation foundation of of our our democracy democracy it it had had been been county county judge judge Regina Regina choose choose thank thank yours yours who who will will be be considering considering first first and and second second degree degree manslaughter manslaughter charges charges against against Kim Kim potter potter a a white white former former police police officer officer in in Brooklyn Brooklyn center center Minnesota Minnesota potter potter has has said said she she meant meant to to use use her her taser taser instead instead of of her her gun gun in in the the April April eleventh eleventh shooting shooting of of right right a a black black motorist motorist after after he he tried tried to to drive drive away away while while officers officers were were trying trying to to arrest arrest him him nine nine of of the the twelve twelve jurors jurors seated seated are are white white and and to to identify identify as as Asian Asian the the only only black black person person on on the the jury jury lives lives near near a a shopping shopping center center that that was was damaged damaged in in the the unrest unrest following following Wright's Wright's death death she she is is a a permitted permitted gun gun owner owner who who also also carries carries a a small small purple purple stun stun gun gun in in her her purse purse she she said said the the video video of of potter potter shooting shooting right right structure structure is is chaotic chaotic and and wondered wondered how how potter potter could could have have such such a a lapse lapse of of judgment judgment with with three three years years of of experience experience on on the the force force opening opening statements statements are are scheduled scheduled for for Wednesday Wednesday I'm I'm Jennifer Jennifer king king
AP News Radio
Houston officials pick internal review of Astroworld tragedy
"We're learning more about how the astroworld crowned crush investigation will be done there will not be an independent probe into the disastrous crowd surge that killed ten people and injured hundreds of others at Houston music festival earlier this month Houston area officials are going to do it themselves rejecting calls for an independent investigation into what happened instead officials have chosen the top elected official in the area to run the probe Harris County judge Lena hill Dogo was the one who proposed a third party program the first place instead now she will be working with other city and county entities to review the security and safety plans for the event that was headlined by rapper Travis Scott I'm Oscar wells Gabriel
The Charlie Kirk Show
Judge: Loudoun County Teen Guilty of Sexually Assaulting Classmate in Girls' Bathroom
"You are seeing in loudon county Virginia and this is new out of loudon county, Virginia. That parents that have children in loudoun county Virginia, 54% of them are going to vote Republican or for young kid. So The Washington Post came out and they were like, oh, the story is very misleading of what's happened in loudoun county. But guess what allowed in county judge, this is breaking in the last 24 hours, finds boy in a skirt, guilty of raping, female student and girls bathroom remember we talked about the story, and the media told us that this wasn't true. The victims have been vindicated, and their parents demand apology and kids walk out of their classroom and protest against schools. This couldn't be happening at a worse time for Terry mcauliffe. This is hit a apex where all of a sudden, in Virginia. And let me just reemphasize this. I said this yesterday. Virginia, this is the ruling class governorship. This is the place where you wine and dine Boeing and north of Grumman and Lockheed Martin, where you give money to Pfizer AstraZeneca and Moderna. This is the governor of Virginia is kind of a ribbon cutting deal. You get all the nice handouts you get invited to all the Washington D.C. parties because you're nearby. You get treated really well. Being governor of Virginia is one of the top perks of being part of the Democrat ruling class. It's rather desirable. But now all of a sudden the Democrats have deployed Obama, they deploy camel Harris, which I don't think that's going to help. They're deploying Joe Biden, Rasmussen reports. 32% of America believes 32% of Americans believe America is on the right track. 64% of Americans think America's on the wrong track. 60 4%.
AP News Radio
Maryland newspaper gunman gets more than 5 life prison terms
"The man found guilty of the shot gun killings of five people at the capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis Maryland has been sentenced to life without parole the assault was one of the worst attacks on journalists in U. S. history in June of twenty eighteen Jarrod Ramos hunted down staffers of the capital Gazette's newspaper office a jury found Ramos criminally responsible for killing Wendi winters John McNamara Gerald Fishman rob Hyson and Rebecca Smith and today and Anna Rundle county judge sentenced him to more than five life sentences without the possibility of parole the judge was crystal clear that Jarrod Ramos should never be allowed to walk out of prison ever state's attorney and cold blooded spoke to reporters he regretted not being able to kill more of the victims capital Gazette photographer Paul Gillespie says the sentencing doesn't erase the pain that someone wants me everyday Montana winters Geimer is the daughter of windy winters the person that took her from us will never breathe freedom again I'm Jennifer king
Houston Matters
"county judge" Discussed on Houston Matters
"From harris county before your business. Hasn't then you will receive more points for the randomized. Drawing nicholas last week reminded us of the need for ongoing flood. Mitigation projects lauren rights. And asks if you can give an update on the concretizing of buffalo bayou lawrence's. There was some recent chatter about the army corps of engineers pushing through the project and a lot of resulting outcry. Is that going to happen Not sure i the latest on that. I will tell you that the flood control projects continue to top speed. There was a concern of you. Know the two and a half million dollar bond pass before. I was a county judge but it was presented sort of assuming that we were going to receive federal funding. That had not been committed on paper anywhere. It had a conversation Or certain money from the state the state had said sure you guys are gonna get this but they had signed anything And so then the state said never mind. That money's not coming so we have found a way to make up that gap with some transportation funding The state's gonna send does it. Looks like seven hundred fifty million dollars so we managed to get them to send so right. Now there should not be must something changes the concern about all the projects getting done. As far as the specific question of the of the concrete buffalo by i will have to refer this person to the office because i don't know the latest but we can circle back. Her mom would like to know. When the county will start efforts to create a climate plan and resiliency plan herman that is underway now. the the beginnings of it anyway so we established an office of sustainability within the county. The first we had that the reason that just as in the loan offices because it just touches every piece of what we do in the.
Houston Matters
"county judge" Discussed on Houston Matters
"The recent rise of cova was also the justification governor. Abbot cited in his executive order calling on state troopers to stop vehicles suspected of transporting migrants a federal judge. El paso tuesday issued a temporary restraining order. Stopping the governor from carrying it out a justice department attorney argued into hearing monday that the governor was unlawfully creating his own quote immigration regime. Usurping the federal government Brandon did the governor really think this was going to fly or was this just more red meat for the conservative base in reelection campaign. You know it's a good question making a little bit. Both is clear that the governor is trying to play to the right here and it's been a pretty consistently home to tune by the governor and his office but Obviously there were also issues. Here that the governor would like to be able to put back into texas camp they wanna be able to stay there insurance immigration policy because that lets them have more control over what happens and that gives them a political issue but to be honest even in losing the issue. They can still win politically because to show that they are taking on the federal government. Let's the base note that day care about the issue. Even if they don't win her animals. We were discussing with judge. George just a few minutes ago. Ford ben county raised its covert threat level and the judge wants county employees. To wear masks mayor turner's memo to city employees houston to mask up is now underway. Both both are using language that maybe stops touch short of mandate or maybe doesn't depending on how you read it Council member tiffany thomas On this show characterized mayor. Turns directive is reinforcement of practices already in place. Is that how it reads to you. I think Local governments municipalities county. Cd's zones for a limited by governor savage executive orders so basically they cannot Go against those orders. So a public officials especially those in charge of like county judges and mayors had to be very creative in terms of incentivizing people to moscow p- or to get vaccinated without mandating without gaining into into trouble on dive applies to an independent school district zone and so forth. So i think eventually you know is is this issue about Individual responsibility and common sense but as they say common he's the less common of the census sometimes so they have to be creative in order to try to stop these new delta variant. This is houston matters. I'm craig cohen. We're talking with political analyst. Sorrento cortina and brandon rotting house about recent developments in politics. They are the co host of party politics here on news. Eight seven hirano isn't associate professor political science at the university of houston and associate director of the center for mexican. American studies brandon rotting houses a producer. Or excuse me..
The Michael Berry Show
"county judge" Discussed on The Michael Berry Show
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The Michael Berry Show
"county judge" Discussed on The Michael Berry Show
"There's nothing is stopping. The crime is going to spike. More people are going to be killed raped. More violent crime is going to occur until as typically happens. Someone famous is murdered. It's going to happen. It's going to be an athlete a celebrity a singer in town. It's going to happen and when it happens. It's not going to happen at the hands of a law-abiding citizen it's going to be somebody who's been arrested multiple times houston police department will have done their job. This person's going to have a long record and maybe they had a case in judge. Chris morton's courtroom but he didn't want to hold case even want to hold Trials because he doesn't want to endanger anybody because of covet and everything. Did you notice. He kept referring to july twenty twenty. Well now. we're in august twenty twenty one. Why aren't you holding trials now. And he said well there's a dip in the and bond reform will. None of these are reasons. You can't hold trials. You're not doing your job but they're not just not doing their job because they're lazy. This is part of the plan folks when you start with the premise that our criminal justice system praise on black people. And we're going to promise black voters. We're not gonna hold trials. We're not gonna arrest them. We're not gonna hold them in jail. We're not going to send him to prison. Because that's slavery this is what happens. This is not an accident. This is what they wanted. But did you hear the voices. These are minorities that are the victims of these policies. That's what's so crazy about this and yet it will continue. And i'll bet you. The brother of the who was murdered voted for these very democrat. Judges probably voted straight democrat. That's how this works. That's how this works and it's only gonna get worse. It doesn't get better. These people don't reform. They don't find jesus they don't find a job they don't go straight. They do this until they're killed by another thug. They're killed in the commission of a crime or sin away to prison. All the sin away to prison ain't gonna happen now. That's where we are so let's talk about how democrats ruined the world friends of ours telling us a story. There are a lot of these summer camps. One of them is called. I think heart of the hills. It's in hunt texas now. I might have the name. My kids have never gone to this camp. But i've heard of it in his camps. Been there for a very very long town. Generations of families have sent their child to this camp. In fact we know one family that their mother father mother guess went to the camp and then the the the daughter later went to the camp and then even became a camp counselor issues to be a tradition. So the child is at camp as a camp counselor and apparently the summer capable. These democrats are so good. They're so good. A woman sent a letter to this camp. Instead you're using indian names and i'm going to sue you drag you through court until i closed down your camp well like a lot of people. This person didn't fight it. They changed all the names so You know you have tribes but noel. No we're not we're now we're gonna teams and you had ponti in shawnee and yet a different which is a tribute to american indian culture but whatever so now. They changed everything to silly little names. It don't mean anything so you can't be in the same trap that your mother was in thirty years ago. Whatever so apparently there are things you can do at a summer. Camp to get rated higher from these progressive rating agencies are rating groups. So this camp which was a traditional camp families at gone a value-based camp for decades they had brought in this new woman and she decided she's going to get a high score on the progressive test. So when she did now when white liberal families start looking at where to go to camp it shows up part of the hills. it's a very progressive camp. So now the composition of the camp changes so this girl. That's been a camp counselor at this camp. Several years notice all of a sudden everything's changed. She's she's having pressure put on her for the fact that she goes to church. She's being ridiculed by even the campers not just fellow councillors. They're asking her why she's not lesbian. They're putting all this. Tell me about your fa- your family's too conservative. So apparently one of the girls pushes back and says to the head of the camp. This is what's happening. They're asking me why. I am not lesbian. They're saying that if you're progressive you're supposed to be at least experimentally. Let all these various things and yesterday they fire a little girl. Who's been a camp counselor there for years now. Is this the end of the world. Know it was pretty traumatic for that little girl. She loved being a camp counselor. And why did all of this happen because the minute you give into the left even the slightest bit you give them an inch. They take them out.
The Michael Berry Show
"county judge" Discussed on The Michael Berry Show
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The Michael Berry Show
"county judge" Discussed on The Michael Berry Show
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The Michael Berry Show
"county judge" Discussed on The Michael Berry Show
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Houston Matters
"county judge" Discussed on Houston Matters
"But they're still a lot more work to be done with probably Certainly going to need more funding a two and a half billion dollars. bond was too small. That was passed before. I got here but it was a number that was too small compared to the need. And so part of what we're doing is assessing what i what amount is ultimately necessary and of course You know we passed the most stringent detention requirement explaining to developers and builders keep flooding on business one day. And so now you build in harris county you have to detain as much water as displacing. So you don't let people downstream you know we're continuing to do is look at what else. What else can we do. James on twitter wants to hear your thoughts on how to mobilize generations z. To take advantage of the labor shortage within the skilled sectors of the job market. He says the nation's most diverse generation needs a foothold right. Now any thoughts. Absolutely you know. I've spoken to a lot of generations the particularly around vaccines particularly around obviously graduation right And saying look you guys did not bring on these challenges that we're facing but you are gonna have to step up and address them and it isn't. It is an incredible Labor market right now or you know. The their complex with the forces are that are causing some of these Matches between supply and demand for labour Very interesting recovery from a positive right from the pandemic so two things first. We need to make sure that these these young people fee that it's on them in the recovery depends on them and number two and this is sort of a shameless plug for government. You know if you're a member of gen v and you're listening we need you in a you know the place that has having to make these decisions about voting about emergencies and pandemics and About you know all kinds of infrastructure justice education to me the most interesting questions and so. I hope that these young people will come Come work for us So we're doing a lot in that sense I know you know my colleagues on court always working on you know job. Fairs supporting businesses. We have our office of economic opportunity that trying to figure out what other best practices we can implement but yeah it is it is. It is a an interesting. I'll be positive Economic recovery in the sense of of the labor situation. Tomasz asks are there any plans to eliminate key rail crossings in the houston area Tacoma says there's an enormous waste of time and fuel due to lengthy wait times and increased rail traffic. That question largely largely outside of my purview. In the sense that If we're talking about the the the massive union pacific right that has been a big challenge In certain communities we visited with them were working with our congressional delegation on that because some communities are stuck. You know when one of the big big train's passes by and they can't make it to where they need to go and all they ask is a heads up but that's really a federal issues. So i'm sort of relegated to advocating. You can know that we're doing fat In terms of The other you know sort of smaller city lead Of course that's that's in their purview But it's just not something that harris county has a hand and so i'd be hesitant to speak beyond that other than you know. We're advocating for communities listener. Ask since you translate your press conference statements in spanish. Can you do the same in chinese or vietnamese or other languages spoken.
Houston Matters
"county judge" Discussed on Houston Matters
"Know just just spreading that wealth We've done a lot on homelessness during the pandemic a joint effort with the city To to really shift the paradigm on homelessness to where we track the individuals living in homelessness all the way to permanent housing. Not just to where they end up in jail or a hospital or whatever they then back on the streets of course everything we did. On the elections twenty four voting drive thru voting tripling number of early voting locations. That will happen during the pandemic but other issues. We need to work on Flood control. i. It's hard for folks to feel tangible difference in in projects that because they take you know so long to complete so i'm asking my team what can we do to really show results now And also you know how much more funding is going to be necessary to make the county flood resilience early childhood education. We began with our incubator program. Last year i am laser focused on that now. Goes back to the economics as well. You give children in early childhood education. They have much better outcomes on graduation rates on earnings On staying out of trouble so focused on that and then finally And there's there's so much more. So i'm just gonna stop this piece. Which is a harris kenny's receiving about a billion dollars from the federal government. So that's you know it's it's great news in the sense that we can do things. We couldn't do otherwise Help address that that the downturn that we expect in revenue because of the the extra analyses of the pandemic and were focusing those federal dollars on three things health housing and jobs And so we've put a ton You know over a hundred million dollars already From the previous federal funding into Helping folks Helping small businesses helping folks who need Housing helping landlords. And we're going to be thinking about more sort of longer term Creative evidence based ways of doing that. You mentioned flood mitigation. And i want to get into that in just a minute. we're talking with harris county. Judge lena hidalgo and we welcome your questions for her at at houston matters dot org or seven.
Houston Matters
"county judge" Discussed on Houston Matters
"The governor has vetoed the salaries for both legislators and legislative staff Over the fact that the legislators broke quorum in order not to pass the the voting bill in the state you know. It's just Is is surely. we'll be fun. The courts probably illegal and unconstitutional An affront to the separation of powers. But you know this whole thing is just. It's gone much too far. So it's incumbent all of us to stop this this quick slide toward a undemocratic both policies rhetoric And and and sort of many political maneuvers like what's what's happening with the The refusal to pay legislative and legislative staff salaries. Let's dive into some calls. We have greg on the line in southwest houston greg. What's your question for judge dog. Oh yeah i just how you doing just got yes. Ma'am i just got a quick suggested and as far as like getting vaccinated is there any way that we can use like the court system. Say dances like Like a small like. Let's say you get a traffic ticket and you have to pay say like a two hundred dollar fine instead of saying. Hey i tell you. What in in lieu of pandas. Fine if you get vaccinated we could like way defying whatever and of course. I know you guys probably have to go. If if it can't be done. I know you have to go through the the six whatever but we could be possible you know in order to get more people back to me all right. Thanks very much for the call. Greg so interesting the question there is kind of how. How far of a line can you you know. How far can you go when it comes to incentives to get people vaccinated and could go so far as forgiving parking tickets for example. Yeah it's an interesting question and we'll certainly look into it. I will say that we are vaccinating folks in our court system so one of hard. We've got around. twenty units. Every day are moving throughout the community to community centers to places of worship schools businesses etc And one of the sort of stops has been our court system so so that is that something we're doing. I i also want to add What we have found to be the most persuasive really had been individuals who've gotten vaccine speaking to their friends and family and that's what the the research that's been done it's limited obviously but there has been some research on what really gets folks over that hump So we're going to continue doing our our. Our incentive programs are You know going into the communities offering transportation for people who want go to our g Mass vaccination site but don't have transportation all of the above. But i..
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"county judge" Discussed on Houston Matters
"Npr this morning the us senate is poised today to consider the for the people act. This is a proposed bill to set standards for elections and protect voting rights opponents. Call it a federal overreach. It is not expected to pass It's a response of course to state legislative efforts including voting bill blocked at the last minute during the regular legislative session here in texas which critic say would set limits on voter access in that of course was a response to what harris county did last election cycle with drive thru voting expanded early voting hours and sending out mass mailings with applications for mail in balloting. What would you like to see done or not done for that matter. When it comes to voting. More than anything. I would like these attempts to make policy based on the lie that there was massive voter fraud to stop because Not only do policies like What was tried here in texas right. They tried to make it easier to turn elections they tried to in the state legislature. They tried to pass a provision that would have banned voting before one pm on sundays with would have been a an affront and attack on the souls to the polls programs in african american churches and the church then from there go to vote would've allowed poll-watchers to to video record. Voters as their voting. All chris know they're saying it was a typo which is hard to believe. Even if you're you're very generous that you could change the you know. Accidentally put the number one for one pm. They say was meant to be eleven. Am and then accidentally european instead of a m and And somehow there's there's fraud before eleven. Pm but not before one pm so it's just kind of You know all of hurts participation and unnecessarily so because there's no evidence of massive fraud in any way in those kinds of situation but most importantly it hurts trust in the democratic system and the electoral system. When you repeat a a mystery so much that you're making policy on it that just tears you down at the fabric of our democracy and so i welcome legislation at the federal level that will keep the kinds of policies from passing Whatever it is that is going to make it harder to vote without evidence of the need for those policies Very important to bipartisan participation. In this it's a dangerous time when we make voting elections The democracy itself in a way a partisan issue can't be a wedge issue and. That's why i'm so proud of the leaders. In particularly the the a business leaders mma companies that have spoken out around this faith leaders. You know folks who really have no partisan affiliation that that is so important And we really needed it. It's You know. The latest was the..
Henderson County, Texas
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"Oh yes i mean that was because that was the very first thing. If i i can remember though the questions were like to hold it the not hold it. Can we have it with. And they didn't have the normal right they. They did some things behind the scenes. The board did to try and support those kids. Because that's what it's all out but this year it's back to a regular schedule. The normal schedule the you're used to every year and it kicks off next week. I've just curious you know. I see you on facebook and on facebook. It seems like you're always sitting on a tractor. So i know you're an ad guy right so tell us the livestock show means the harris county laugh stock. Show the first time that i had a project there now. Eight eight or nine years old. I mean it is as much a part of my life has meaning. The others that grew up here in was the kickoff to to sprain of Having the projects going through all the added benefits of children growing up with responsibility it was still a social event. And it gave you a sense of community because at that time in the late seventies early eighties. It's not like we were in the stone age but you know there was a real disconnect from say used to brownsboro you know. That was the only time we would get to see really get to visit and interact with people but it is a start of the new year when you have the livestock show for these kids in the relationships that it builds. It's a big part of my life and that of a whole lot other important in my opinion to the history henderson county so they actually used to have it on the square back even further back here in town. The stock show would be held on the square. That would be interesting. Yeah so so. I'm not even sure they could call the radish show or his squares. The rabbit show has gotten these days So i'm the opposite of you. I grew up I was born in philadelphia. Grew up in new jersey. So i came here and i got sent out as a young reporter on this was probably twenty seven years ago or so and i got sent out to cover the livestock show and write stories from the livestock. Remember walking in there. And i was basically at the point where i would be saying things like okay. So which one.
Henderson County, Texas
"county judge" Discussed on Henderson County, Texas
"To bring your insurance card to. This is not the case with these. This is hugh register. You made the criteria which should incidentally opened up to fifty down to fifty now over fifty or over fifty or have the underlying underlying issues. But yeah we're now down to fifty years old. Yeah and it is the vaccines have become more available and like you said the two dosages. What makes this unique. Because we're all accustomed to the the one shot. Flu vaccine the railings and go and as we discussed last week at johnson and johnson shot. That's the one that's going to quote unquote normalize relations for this particular virus. Yeah i think once we get to the next year the next cycle i. I'm pretty sure that the covid vaccine isn't going away mean. We now have flu shots and kovic shots. We'll all get those every year. Do whatever but yeah think. That's the main thing here to remember..
Henderson County, Texas
"county judge" Discussed on Henderson County, Texas
"All that time and being a Location to help provide vaccinations but it took a very long time. It took Actually two months for them to get to us. And i don't mean that is that there is others ahead of us. There was no vaccine to give her and we did. We were waiting for weeks thinking that this was going to come. And at that point. We had begun to reach out to other organizations. Had gone with them asking you know. Hey can we partner together to get vaccines here. And incidentally the The federal the family circle of care. We met with them. I believe it was like a march second or third. And said yeah. Let's go and did a small soft openings. What we call on march eighth but it was really made it even more complicated. Was that at four o'clock on friday afternoon of march. The fifth is wind. That phone call can from the state and we were ready to go on the eighth with our fcc clinic. And they said we'll be only twelve so had to spend into gear to get we were. We were shooting to get five hundred in. We could get up to that high but what we had was a list that had begun Believe on january nineteenth that had three thousand names on it and it was what you would consider a style list so we had to go through that list making phone calls to every single one and i believe the first one thousand calls we may wind up getting like seventy because they're all people who had already gotten the vaccines grounds that track and so we were in a way. It was a blessing because we were able to run through that list and have a fresh list for such as the clinic. We've got coming up. This friday took us one day. And i believe a half the individuals would called. 'cause we in this clinic or providing one hundred names and if cc has a list of one hundred henderson county residents on there's and we're gonna pull them together to get that two hundred but it took a lot less effort now that we're rolling and through a resolution that we passed monday such groundwork for us or tuesday would pass it sensor groundwork for us to continue these clinics and to pull from the list that is on the website. We've spoken about that. You've shared the link on it but that list is where we get the name wrong now we get some saying. Hey why don't you have an open call clinton..
Henderson County, Texas
"county judge" Discussed on Henderson County, Texas
"How belt highway and in memorial to those two officers. That lost their lives in two thousand Yeah i think everybody's very very familiar with that story And it never fails to amaze me or just those little details but the fact that that was on the henderson county police officers memorial day. They had held a memorial just earlier that day. But this is a this is a great idea his something should way to give trend to fantastic jim. That's right that's right We appreciate the representative. Wanted him what he resumed wishing to do and they asked for our resolution of support so that it would be in the packet when it goes before the house and the senate yeah that that seems like a slam dunk yacht to do that So we'll be looking forward to that that something actually going through the state legislature. yes And hopefully by the end of this year this this session will have good news on that. let's move on. I wanna talk a second about cove it clinics because cova clinics are just were role in. We went Several weeks after we reported on this podcast that the state had asked the county be ready to be able to put on a clinic at some time off eight hours away and then there were several weeks where nothing happened and then all of a sudden last week it all kinds of brooklyn loose cheese last in wall. Let's let's put this part in there while the county was waiting You the county went out and put together a deal deal with family circle of care. Yes to hold your own correct Clinics and so last week on monday the first family circle of clare slash henderson county clinic. I think there was two hundred. Yes then on friday one hundred. I'm sorry one hundred and let's right on friday another three hundred for the state clinic that finally came now this friday. There's going to be another family circle of care slash henderson county clinic with two hundred yes and just heard that ut happens is also going to be holding a clinic. Yes vaccination clinic this week on friday and so in the last couple of weeks are vaccination Allotments have gone up each week. All of a sudden there's vaccine everywhere. Yeah reminds you of the testing back to the beginning of this line for we wait for two three months about testing testing testing and then the supply chain and everything catches up and testing became readily available. This is the same way with the vaccine on january. Six when Tedium india sanchez call. Listen got us very gave us very good news with.
Henderson County, Texas
"county judge" Discussed on Henderson County, Texas
"It really has come a long way. I remember the first time that i took a laptop in two commissioners core even rogue about how we had one up on the table and we're now using technology were it changes are maiden the budget in real time line so that you can see the immediate effect of each decision on the bottom line. That is crazy as a really interesting wet. Thought just yet that moment because i was thinking about how much. You've used spreadsheets. Store co vid some of the things that the county is use spreadsheets for and how much it has changed the other thing. I remember is When you guys are in commissioner's court. I don't know whether it's just because some of you were a little old. You got some big big monitors up there yes. A- of we usually have a lot of information on screen. We may have four different screens open or windows. Open on the screen big monitor. That's all i'm saying. That's a big monitor. It is you know we'll we'll have the agenda over here and we might have to spreadsheets here. it's it's amazing. How far it's come in a relatively short it is. It is actually a very short time period. That is actually changed as much as it has. We'll go back to the of the phone we have this. It's really comparable how far we have advanced really in development as your phone has because at same time we were using three ring binders. We had flip phones. And now that were a flip a never have i remembered t nine hit the same blatant three five light ladder. Texts were very short yen. Yeah yeah well here. Here's your social media thing you know Twitter has limited honor and forty characters or used to that was the base was one hundred forty characters. You know why. Because when twitter started everybody was using those limbs and all and the way that you sent a tweet was you. Send a text message to a certain phone number. Four zero four zero four live four zero four. Yes four zero four zero four. You send a text there. A text message has a limit of one hundred sixty characters. The first twenty characters were reserved for your handle so the other one hundred and forty was your limit for tax bank. That's how that happened people because things have changed so much when facebook. I started the limit for a post on. Facebook was one hundred forty characters for the same reason. Wow but that's going way back. You need to come and get a cell phone ring. Ringed the nokia yacht cell phone ring. I now have that clip. God's here now. I am not caring and no kiosk. Whatever it is. I have a clip of it. And i'll make sure that we heave it all right anyway. So that's technology of budgets. All right so let's move on. I wanna talk. You passed a resolution during commissioner scored. This week In support of Something that State red keith. Bellas actually proposed. Explain that to us. Yeah representative bill. Brought to the candidate the notion of renaming state highway one ninety eight or segment of it To be the Officer tony auburn and also paul..
Henderson County, Texas
"county judge" Discussed on Henderson County, Texas
"Send out our first letters to the department saying to begin compiling your submissions for a proposal. Which will later be cobbled together. And in place before the commissioners after july fourth. So we'll we'll go from april until septum sometimes mid-september usually september first is how long that budget season us. And so the very first step in that is when the different departments say You know what we could really use a new printer and a couple of new chairs and desk and that all gets put into the budget is we need a little extra money so we can get the new printer. It goes before. The commissioner's court says. Wait a minute you got a new coffee cup last year round. I assure you can get a printer. This year. there have been some very detailed examinations of proposals and pass performances. If you would like to put it in that fashion and usually the discussion is quite vigorous when it comes to budget and spending money historically interesting cam and they say i'm the wordsmith that was. That was a nice way to put that a nice. But this is. This is Coming up in april. You're going to send out. I mean this is that time period. You you're really. You're really starting to get ready. Mid-march you're starting to get ready for that processed kickoff and begin and it's because you spend you spend two thirds of the year working on next year. Yeah we really do. Were always looking a year ahead and it is it is a great process. And i will say that over the years as the county has gotten more and more and this process and optimum fortunate enough to be in it for so long. It's like okay. it's time to start no different than when the when the trees start to bloom. Budget is fixing star is interesting to me. How much technology is changed your budget process over the time period in this. You've gone from blake. Just big oil packets of pay room binders yeah. We're so happy when they presented us with a three ring. Binder buddy proposed budget in in. That was like my third or fourth year right. I mean it was it was..