An Open Letter To Bryan City Council Regarding The Brazos Animal Shelter
UPDATE: 13 March 2011 - A clarifying piece has been written here. I wrote the following letter to my Councilman, Chuck Konderla, and sent it via email, on Tuesday, January 4, 2011. I sent it to his official City of Bryan email address and, since that makes it a matter of public record, I will save you the chore of filling out an Open Records [...]
Bryan City Council Would Not Know A Fact If It Bit Them In City Hall
Tip O’Neill once famously said, “All politics is local.” Well, you couldn’t get any more local than the fiasco the Bryan City Council has created for itself. I’m sorry to say that even the members of Council whom I voted for seem to be vying for the coveted position of Village Idiot. And I don’t say this lightly. I belong to the [...]
Something Is Rotten In The City Of Bryan Council
Well, actually someONE. And you’ll figure out who that is by the time this series is complete…or we’ll tell you. Remember, Council wants control of the Brazos Animal Shelter (BAS), and wants to know exactly how everything is run, and wants to control how it is done. So, how do they (attempt to) accomplish that? Enter City of Bryan [...]
Cry “Havoc!” And Let Slip The Dogs Of Bryan
“Cry ‘Havoc!’ and let slip the dogs of Bryan, Texas, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carrion politicians and stray animals and their excrement, groaning for burial.” Barc Antony, from Bulldog Durham, Act 3 scene 1 I’d apologize to William Shakespeare for bastardizing his famous lamentation, but he was a [...]
You Cannot Teach The Old Media Old Tricks
The frustrating thing is that this isn’t a matter of teaching the Old Media how to survive in a new media world…it’s simply a matter of asking and expecting the Old Media to do it’s job that has been a part of its traditional charge for centuries. Basically, report Who, What, When, Where, Why and How, to the extent that such information [...]
Full Text: Brazos Animal Shelter Response To City Of Bryan RFP #11-008
Below is the complete and unedited text of the Brazos Animal Shelter's official response to RFP #11-008. It was hand delivered to Hugh Walker, Deputy City Manager at 1:00 PM on Friday, January 14, and emailed to Karen Sonley, City of Bryan Purchasing Department Buyer, at 1:33 PM that day. These delivery times were acquired through interviews and [...]
A History of The Brazos Animal Shelter
As a homeschooler, it is incumbent upon me to teach my children history. They must know history so they can create, respond to, and predict the future. You, when you were in high school, either asked or were in the room when someone else asked that tired question, “Why do we need to know history?” And, quite often, the answer was lacking. [...]
Facts Forward. PAWS. Rewind.
Tonight, the City of Bryan loaded its Russian Roulette six-shooter with five bullets. They will spin the chamber for the next three weeks and pull the trigger at the Council meeting on March 8. The Bryan Animal Shelter Advisory Committee “voted unanimously” (with two abstentions which makes it not unanimous, but Parliamentary ignorance [...]
An Open Letter to The Brazos County Commissioner’s Court: Don’t Let Bryan’s Sleeping Dog Lie To You
Below is the complete text of an email I sent this morning to the Brazos County Judge Duane Peters and the entire Commissioner's Court, with Bryan Mayor Jason Bienski and Councilmen Chuck Konderla and Mike Southerland copied: Dear Judge and County Commissioners, I attended the Bryan Animal Shelter Advisory Committee meeting Tuesday night. [...]
The Road Kill Cafe: Introducng Bryan City Council’s Animal Sheltering Business Plan And It’s Shareholders
Executive Summary The City of Bryan, Texas, is taking final steps to go into business for itself. It only needs the approval of its Board of Directors (City Council) in order to move forward. Principal Managers and shareholders are referenced throughout the following Executive Summary. Non-Disclosure Agreement By reading this Summary you agree [...]
