I can't think of a better person to talk about maternal and child healthcare than someone whose only experience is working as a medical interpreter for a couple of years.

But remember, her boyfriend had to shell out $88,000 for her "mental health" treatment because she couldn't pay for it on $190,000/yr salary.

But has money for $6k dresses that look like tablecloth fabric.

Sea Speed said:

---

I am sure the maternity morality rates have nothing to do with how ****ing fat a lot of women are.

---

it has to do with the fact that women show up in labor and have never seen a doctor for the entirety of the pregnancy.

Makes sense.

Hard not to think of their stats like the bs they spewed about black babies dying at the hands of white doctors though.

They banned Planned Parenthod in Texas

Sea Speed said:

---

Makes sense.

Hard not to think of their stats like the bs they spewed about black babies dying at the hands of white doctors though.

---

I am not sure how much to trust some of the European numbers. I think the US is more open with data.

For example, an 8 month's pregnant girl's family finds the money to get her coyoted through Mexico and across the US border. Month long journey for a woman that likely never saw a doctor in her home country. She had preeclampsia that was never monitored or treated. Shows up at a US emergency room in labor.

Baby does not make it.

US reports it.

Replace Guatemalan girl with a someone from Chad who makes a similar journey up through Tunisia and onto a boat. Lands in Italy.

Does she even get admitted to an Italian ER? If she does, does Italy report that as part of their stats? I would bet no in many instances.


This does not cover everything, and we certainly have problems and errors in the US that need to be cleaned up and remedied.


as to your point, there is a similar situation in the black community. poor general health combined with lack of prenatal care leads to hire mortality rates.

Way behind on catching up with court.

A few items of note.

#1 theyre scrambling to move ARPA funds around before "the new administration" makes changes. So they're worried about DOGE and the sum they moved was $200M. Ellis cautions everyone to watch their public comments. Passes 4-1. Item 10.

#2 long running battle with the Constibles about bringing back the Detective rank. And it's mostly an argument about funding and pay parity with Sherrifs. Item 213
Briones and Ramsey are for this. Garcia abstains usually over testing metrics and civil service rules. Lena has a beef regarding it being out of the annual budget cycle. Meanwhile they passed massive pay raises for departments heads in the hundreds of thousands and then min wages increases. It's amazing watching Lena's brain short out. Item paused.

Passes 5-0

#3 Climate Justice Plan. Item 15.
Passes 3-1. Lina was MIA.

#4 Item 92. Im a little confused as this deals with a state bill. The crux is i bekeieve City of Houston is trying to annex additional property adjacent to major corridors such as I10. The goal is to capture sales tax while providing zero services, to the tune of $200M. This is coupled with another state bill where city of Houston is attempting to strong arm the county by taking a portion, 30% of the revenue from Toll Road to be given to the city. The County Constibles patrol the toll roads, the City provides zero services.

Basically the city has admitted they're broke and are making cash grabs and taking from the county. County also has their own budget issues and are angry.

#5 Harris County Hospital System, $400M out of budget. They're going to sell $800M in bonds. Level 1 trauma care building. Can't just be inflation. Based on projections from 3 years ago, their estimates were beyond far off.

Storm Water Tunnels, item 298
Pilot program, may 22nd, 2025 request for. Flood Control white paper on a tunnels program. Which is ridiculous on its face. Ellis with a dose of reality, the funds don't exist for current projects, let alone a massive tunnel system.

Quote:

---

Storm Water Tunnels, item 298

Pilot program, may 22nd, 2025 request for. Flood Control white paper on a tunnels program. Which is ridiculous on its face. Ellis with a dose of reality, the funds don't exist for current projects, let alone a massive tunnel system.

---

Good gawd. I thought this dumbass idea got shelved years ago.

I guess, like the bullet train, grift projects never die.

Quote:

---

#5 Harris County Hospital System, $400M out of budget.

---

Covid money went quick!

Also, do the storm water tunnels go over or under the Ike Dike?

Stat Monitor Repairman said:

---

Quote:

---

#5 Harris County Hospital System, $400M out of budget.

---

Covid money went quick!

Also, do the storm water tunnels go over or under the Ike Dike?

---

Ummmmm, irrelevant.

Which force wins in a battle for storm water tunnel supremacy?

Storm water trying to drain towards the ship channel and gulf, or storm surge occurring at the same time as all the rain and trying to backup into the tunnels?

maroon barchetta said:

---

Which force wins in a battle for storm water tunnel supremacy?

Storm water trying to drain towards the ship channel and gulf, or storm surge occurring at the same time as all the rain and trying to backup into the tunnels?

---

Doesn't work that way.

Surge would just enter through same drains as rain water.

AlaskanAg99 said:

---

#4 Item 92. Im a little confused as this deals with a state bill. The crux is i bekeieve City of Houston is trying to annex additional property adjacent to major corridors such as I10. The goal is to capture sales tax while providing zero services, to the tune of $200M. This is coupled with another state bill where city of Houston is attempting to strong arm the county by taking a portion, 30% of the revenue from Toll Road to be given to the city. The County Constibles patrol the toll roads, the City provides zero services.

Basically the city has admitted they're broke and are making cash grabs and taking from the county. County also has their own budget issues and are angry.

---

Though I agree with you about the CoH doing a money grab, the part about them not providing any services is technically not correct. HFD provides ambulance and fire truck responses to all incidents on the West Park and West Belt which are in the city limits. Even if you include this, they definitely do NOT deserve 20% or 30% of the revenue. I watched the Senate committee hearing on Bettencourt's bill where he is the one driving the idea of giving CoH a portion of the revenue. The main goal of the bill is to stop the "raiding" of the excess funds by Ellis and his buddies but it is fun watching the blue-on-blue conflict between Commissioners Court and CoH on how much.

pic.twitter.com/vtJ2mkYvaF

— Michael Berry (@MichaelBerrySho) April 29, 2025

Dora in her $1500 Hermes scarf is spending your tax money suing Trump for the little people

Couldn't even afford rehab but can afford ultra high end designer accessories. Definitely not on the take.

Sea Speed said:

---

Couldn't even afford rehab but can afford ultra high end designer accessories. Definitely not on the take.

---

Single women can't make it on $190k/yr

What standing does the county have to sue the feds?!

AlaskanAg99 said:

---

What standing does the county have to sue the feds?!

---

AlaskanAg99 said:

---

What standing does the county have to sue the feds?!

---

Probably zero. But she gets to win points with the DNC and get in front of a camera.

Kinda pumped to see how Dora does this hurricane season.

Word is that emergency management is moving away from their all-black A-Team villain outfits to a lighter more breathable fabric.

Stat Monitor Repairman said:

---

Kinda pumped to see how Dora does this hurricane season.

Word is that emergency management is moving away from their all-black A-Team villain outfits to a lighter more breathable fabric.

---

i figure her, white bread, and the cat would be on vacation for most of hurricane season

maroon barchetta said:

---

Which force wins in a battle for storm water tunnel supremacy?

Storm water trying to drain towards the ship channel and gulf, or storm surge occurring at the same time as all the rain and trying to backup into the tunnels?

---

I believe that the Ike Dike is more important, even though the tunnel would be better for my business.

With extreme rain in Houston that the tunnel would help, a lot of people get small amounts of flood water in their homes. But when that water gets to the ship channel, the capacity to flow that water out to the gulf is enormous and impacts are mostly to inland structures.

With extreme storm surge that the dike would help, all the refineries avoid going down and we avoid a major environmental disaster. With so much of the petroleum industry running through the ship channel including a big percentage of the nation's jet fuel, I think the refineries are more important for national security purposes.

All this BS with Dora and the commissioners court is just freaking depressing.

agnerd said:

---

maroon barchetta said:

---

Which force wins in a battle for storm water tunnel supremacy?

Storm water trying to drain towards the ship channel and gulf, or storm surge occurring at the same time as all the rain and trying to backup into the tunnels?

---

I believe that the Ike Dike is more important, even though the tunnel would be better for my business.

With extreme rain in Houston that the tunnel would help, a lot of people get small amounts of flood water in their homes. But when that water gets to the ship channel, the capacity to flow that water out to the gulf is enormous and impacts are mostly to inland structures.

With extreme storm surge that the dike would help, all the refineries avoid going down and we avoid a major environmental disaster. With so much of the petroleum industry running through the ship channel including a big percentage of the nation's jet fuel, I think the refineries are more important for national security purposes.

---

All those refineries self insure, so when they flood, they pay for the repairs themselves. When 1,000s of homes flood, those homeowner's insurance cos pay, so we all pay. As a matter of public policy, we should focus on the homes. If the refineries think a dike would help protect their business and operations, they can pay for it. I think the national security angle is overblown.

agnerd said:

---

maroon barchetta said:

---

Which force wins in a battle for storm water tunnel supremacy?

Storm water trying to drain towards the ship channel and gulf, or storm surge occurring at the same time as all the rain and trying to backup into the tunnels?

---

I believe that the Ike Dike is more important, even though the tunnel would be better for my business.

With extreme rain in Houston that the tunnel would help, a lot of people get small amounts of flood water in their homes. But when that water gets to the ship channel, the capacity to flow that water out to the gulf is enormous and impacts are mostly to inland structures.

With extreme storm surge that the dike would help, all the refineries avoid going down and we avoid a major environmental disaster. With so much of the petroleum industry running through the ship channel including a big percentage of the nation's jet fuel, I think the refineries are more important for national security purposes.

---

Ike Dike needs to die a spectacular death long before a shovel of dirt is ever moved. Can't believe anybody thinks this is a good idea.

schmellba99 said:

---

agnerd said:

---

maroon barchetta said:

---

Which force wins in a battle for storm water tunnel supremacy?

Storm water trying to drain towards the ship channel and gulf, or storm surge occurring at the same time as all the rain and trying to backup into the tunnels?

---

I believe that the Ike Dike is more important, even though the tunnel would be better for my business.

With extreme rain in Houston that the tunnel would help, a lot of people get small amounts of flood water in their homes. But when that water gets to the ship channel, the capacity to flow that water out to the gulf is enormous and impacts are mostly to inland structures.

With extreme storm surge that the dike would help, all the refineries avoid going down and we avoid a major environmental disaster. With so much of the petroleum industry running through the ship channel including a big percentage of the nation's jet fuel, I think the refineries are more important for national security purposes.

---

Ike Dike needs to die a spectacular death long before a shovel of dirt is ever moved. Can't believe anybody thinks this is a good idea.

---

Thanks for providing a detailed rebuttal of why it's a bad idea.

Who controls the gate and how well have these controlling bodies served us in the past? Lake Conroe v Kingwood? Power outages during cold weather? Power lines after Beryl? Addicks reservoir?

CDUB98 said:

---

schmellba99 said:

---

agnerd said:

---

maroon barchetta said:

---

Which force wins in a battle for storm water tunnel supremacy?

Storm water trying to drain towards the ship channel and gulf, or storm surge occurring at the same time as all the rain and trying to backup into the tunnels?

---

I believe that the Ike Dike is more important, even though the tunnel would be better for my business.

With extreme rain in Houston that the tunnel would help, a lot of people get small amounts of flood water in their homes. But when that water gets to the ship channel, the capacity to flow that water out to the gulf is enormous and impacts are mostly to inland structures.

With extreme storm surge that the dike would help, all the refineries avoid going down and we avoid a major environmental disaster. With so much of the petroleum industry running through the ship channel including a big percentage of the nation's jet fuel, I think the refineries are more important for national security purposes.

---

Ike Dike needs to die a spectacular death long before a shovel of dirt is ever moved. Can't believe anybody thinks this is a good idea.

---

Thanks for providing a detailed rebuttal of why it's a bad idea.

---

1. Cost. Expect it to cost a minimum of 3x what the cost projections are. Minimum. But in all reality, probably closer to 10x. And it will never be completed on whatever stupid timeline is thrown out. Take that timeline and put it in the I-45 construction timeline frame, which means it will never actually be completed.
2. New taxing authorities will be created (there are already existing taxing authorities jockeying to be one of the ones that gets to tax and "maintain" the dike), so taxes will increase for area residents. Keep in mind that if this thing is supposedly for national security purposes due to refineries being at risk from hurricanes, taxes should be spread across the board to everybody. But they wont be, just us down here on the coast.
3. The local ecosystem will be irreparably damaged due to the significant changes that will result from throwing a few million cubic yards of dirt in a pile where nature never intended a few million cubic yards of dirt to be piled up.
4. It's being run and implemented by the Army Corps of Engineers. By definition that means that the absolute worst design possible with the biggest environmental impact and the highest cost of maintenance will be chosen despite any person or entity with actual knowledge opposing said design.
5. It just won't work and will have significant unforeseen development issues that the designers and government officials will then have to "fix" at 6x the cost to everybody that won't actually be a fix (more tax increases, yay!).

The only people this stupid idea will benefit are an already pre-selected group of contractors that will change order the project to oblivion and a few government officials that are inevitably getting significant kickbacks for voting for such a stupid boondoggle of an idea. Can't wait for that first storm to come in and everybody is stupefied when the gate across the mouth of Galveston bay doesn't work or doesn't hold water back and the result after floodwaters are held in place 10x longer than they should have been is decades of litigation. It's going to be awesome.

But hey, we aren't killing the coastal marshlands and prairies fast enough I suppose. Need to pick up the pace.

schmellba99 said:

---

1. Cost. Expect it to cost a minimum of 3x what the cost projections are. Minimum. But in all reality, probably closer to 10x. And it will never be completed on whatever stupid timeline is thrown out. Take that timeline and put it in the I-45 construction timeline frame, which means it will never actually be completed.
2. New taxing authorities will be created (there are already existing taxing authorities jockeying to be one of the ones that gets to tax and "maintain" the dike), so taxes will increase for area residents. Keep in mind that if this thing is supposedly for national security purposes due to refineries being at risk from hurricanes, taxes should be spread across the board to everybody. But they wont be, just us down here on the coast.
3. The local ecosystem will be irreparably damaged due to the significant changes that will result from throwing a few million cubic yards of dirt in a pile where nature never intended a few million cubic yards of dirt to be piled up.
4. It's being run and implemented by the Army Corps of Engineers. By definition that means that the absolute worst design possible with the biggest environmental impact and the highest cost of maintenance will be chosen despite any person or entity with actual knowledge opposing said design.
5. It just won't work and will have significant unforeseen development issues that the designers and government officials will then have to "fix" at 6x the cost to everybody that won't actually be a fix (more tax increases, yay!).

The only people this stupid idea will benefit are an already pre-selected group of contractors that will change order the project to oblivion and a few government officials that are inevitably getting significant kickbacks for voting for such a stupid boondoggle of an idea. Can't wait for that first storm to come in and everybody is stupefied when the gate across the mouth of Galveston bay doesn't work or doesn't hold water back and the result after floodwaters are held in place 10x longer than they should have been is decades of litigation. It's going to be awesome.

But hey, we aren't killing the coastal marshlands and prairies fast enough I suppose. Need to pick up the pace.

---

Think about where we need a new lake or reservoir.

Dig the millions of cubic yards of dirt out from there.

New freshwater ecosystem!

Also, I need to create a dirt hauling company if this happens. I saw a local hauler in Brazosport bring in dirt for two years straight when they built LHC-8 at Dow OCD. Mike Sorrel made some good money driving dirt around for two years.

Going to watch tomorrow. But apparently fireworks as the Sherrifs are super upset over COH police raises that start at a big disparity in starting wages.

Our Commissioners have been hemming and hauing over police wages for months. (County does not provide fire services) and theres been multiple abstenations on votes so they DONT have to take a stance is ACAB.

LMFAO, give me a fckin break Lina!

Quote:

---

And as I said, I'm emotional because of the pope.

---

https://www.fox26houston.com/news/harris-county-tempers-flare-between-commissioner-county-judge-during-deputy-pay-raise-discussion

WTH

What a whiny bltch and an awful awful leader. Sad really

I hear from a prominent local party member that she isn't seeking reelection. But they have to be careful and make it seem like they want her to stay.

They don't.