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Presidential race could affect upcoming local elections By Landan Kuhlmann landan@theleadernews.com On the heels of the Republican and Democratic national conventions, it is time to look ahead to this fall’s local elections, such as the battle between incumbent Constable Alan Rosen and Republican challenger Joe Danna, as well as the Harris County District Attorney race (featuring Heights’ own Kim Ogg) and the race between District 18 Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee and her Republican challenger Lori Bartley. This year’s races will not stand alone, however, as a unique presidential election could shake things up for local candidates. Incumbent Jackson-Lee is current-
ly serving her 10th term representing Texas’ 18th district in the U.S. House of Representatives. During her tenure in Washington, Jackson Lee has served on committees such as Committee on Foreign Affairs, Homeland
Security and Judiciary, and as Chairwoman and ranking member of the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Transportation Security and Infrastructure Protection during the 110th and 111th Congress. Lori Bartley, a direct descendant of former slave-turned-state senator Matthew Gaines, has long advocated for educational reform, mental illness, homelessness and elder care as a member of organizations such as the National Association for Mental Illness and National Alliance to End Homelessness. Incumbent Precinct 1 Constable Alan Rosen has served in law enforcement for more than 25 years, See Election P. 6A
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Organic farming Just north of the temple, eight acres have been purchased to start an urban farming program. Temple member Robert Ruzicka is one of the main organizers with an iron in the fire, and said the plan for the land and farm will be to tie the restaurant and temple in with the farm. “We will have farm animals (for
When Memorial Hermann Greater Heights Hospital Sr. Vice President and CEO Susan Jadlowski recently walked on stage to accept the award for her hospital being a finalist for the American Hospital Association’s (AHA) McKesson Quest for Quality Prize®, she was “Greater Heights and Houston proud” as hers was the lone Houston hospital to earn the recognition. “It was an incredible moment for me,” Jadlowski said, recalling the recent Health Forum and AHA Leadership Summit in San Diego. “I was thinking about all the hard work and dedication that our physicians and staff expend daily to keep our patients safe to make this journey to becoming a McKesson Quest for Quality finalist possible.” The AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize is presented annually to honor leadership and innovation in quality improvement and safety. The prize is supported by a grant from the McKesson Corporation. “As health care continues to transform, improving the quality of care and patient safety is more important than ever,” said John Hammergren, chairman and CEO of McKesson Corporation. “The leadership and innovation that these award-winning organizations have demonstrated will help improve health care quality and patient care throughout the field.” Memorial Hermann Greater Heights earned recognition as an AHA McKesson Quest for Quality finalist by demonstrating a tireless “organizational commitment to and progress in achieving quality, safety and effective, efficient, timely and patient-centered care.” Rick Pollack, AHA’s president and CEO, applauded McKesson Quest for Quality Award winners and finalists. “These hospitals have made remarkable strides in the quality of their patient care and they did so because they were committed to excellence. The entire hospital field can learn from the lessons demonstrated by the hard work of these hospitals, their boards and employees,” he said. The goals of the AHA’s McKesson
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Simple living, high thinking – that is the mentality of the Hare Krishna temple and their developing projects in the neighborhood. The temple has recently opened a vegetarian, buffet style restaurant – Govinda’s – but that isn’t where the development peaks. Just to name a few, the temple has purchased property on Wheatley Street, just north of Pinemont Drive, for urban farming; they are expanding their integrated classroom program – Goswwami Academy – and are working to create a model of their
value based learning program to share within their faith internationally and for anyone else interested in the teachings. They have also started build outs for their on-site living apartments. The restaurant has been in the works for some time and like everyone else in the city, they danced the city permit dance and are continuing the strut. “The construction had taken some time, we were supposed to open six months ago,” the restaurant’s manager, Krishan Sardana said. “We wanted to have our parking lot completed before opening but, again, everything was in the hands of the city. We had everything ready to go for the restaurant, so we decided ‘why not just open?’”
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The restaurant has a maximum capacity of 130 heads, and is a buffet style setting. The restaurant is focusing on fresh, local ingredients – a focus from their spiritual faith.
Houston mayor attacking city’s challenges head-on By Landan Kuhlmann landan@theleadernews.com Challenges are coming fast and furious for the city of Houston—some old and some new—and its leader promises to take a proactive approach to ensure the city’s continued prosperity in the midst of it all. Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner made his way to the Greater Heights Area Chamber of Commerce luncheon Friday, July 29 to discuss the challenges facing the city— such as how to address flooding and transportation issues as well as the city’s ongoing pension issues—and also his plan of attack to conquer such obstacles.
Flooding A major sticking point for Turner was a proactive approach to address the flooding issues which have jumped to the forefront with multiple events in recent months. “People are tired of hearing the rhetoric,” he said. “They don’t want to hear about what we intend to do when their homes have been flooded three, four or seven times—they want to see something done right now.” Harris County Precinct 1 Constable Alan Rosen said one main issue lies in the development within the city and the county in that where there used to be prairie lands which served to absorb much of Houston’s rain, now lie concrete slabs for buildings,
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13-year-old daughter Christina – a figure skater; 21-year-old son Matthew – a new dad; and his newest granddaughter Amethyst, born the day before his passing. Tradewinds and Bear Creek are both owned by the Gordon family, and the family has donated the Bear Creek skate center to continue the event and make it in dedication for Brian Alexander’s family. Russell said the family was able to give Alexander a decent funeral, but did not have insurance. All donations from the event will go to the family. Stop by Bear Creek Skate Center from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 6, at 510 Hwy. 6 North. Donations are suggested for $10 and include skates.
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Gateway from P. 1A lots and more. However, Rosen said Turner (along with each respective government entity) has been doing their part to be proactive in curbing the issue, specifically with the hiring of Steve Costello, whose sole job duty entails working to come up with both short-term and long-term solutions. “The mayor is doing an exceptional job by hiring one person whose sole job it is to deal with that issue,” he said. “Harris County Flood Control does an exceptional job too, so you’re going to see a lot more push to address that on a more expedited basis.” Turner said Commissioner Jack Cagle and others have bills and resolutions floating in Washington looking for $311 million to fund multiple flooding projects identified as “ready to go” in a proactive attempt to address the issue. Pension issues, potential collateral Turner also explained his planned attempt to reach a resolution regarding the city’s pension issues, which have plagued the city since the early 2000s. From a law enforcement perspective, Rosen balked at the thought of more than 1,000 officers effectively having the ability to retire almost immediately.
Photo by Christina Martinez A few attendees from the Greater Heights Chamber Gateway to Government luncheon, including president Dr. Margaret Ford Fisher, President of Houston Community College Northeast and her esteemed colleagues.
“We’re already understaffed at the police department— there are already not enough police officers on the street compared to our population, and our population is growing,” he said. “It would be a very big problem if those 1,500 officers decided to retire.” Turner himself echoed as much. “If you craft a pension they don’t like, many of them could leave, and that would create an additional public safety crisis,”
he said. “We need all 5,200 police officers, but at the same time we have financial challenges.” The city has not been able work out a solution since the problem began presenting itself back in 2002, but it is Turner’s hope to work out a solution by the end of 2016 which will take pension troubles off the table for good. One major obstacle to working out a solution according to Turner is crafting one fair to all workers which
also addresses the aforementioned financial obstacles. There has not been significant movement on pensions in quite some time due to unfunded liabilities which have been accruing since 2002. Houston has accrued an estimated $5.7 billion in unfunded liabilities, while $404 million is getting doled out to pension in the most recent budget, which Turner said is unsustainable. Additionally, as the city deals with pension issues on
one hand and law enforcement issues on the other, Turner noted the interconnectivity of the two. “If you don’t handle the pension issue right, our public safety will fall, so we have to handle them very carefully,” he said. Both Turner and Rosen noted the need to attack the problem head on and not put off finding a solution any longer. “You cannot kick the can down the road any longer— it’s hit the wall,” Rosen said. “You’ve got to tackle it, you’ve got to deal with it and address it. I believe the mayor is doing a great job pulling together a diverse group of people and leaders…we cannot afford to have 1,500 officers able to retire—it would be too devastating to our community.” “I don’t intend to pass the bucket down the road—we’re going to deal with it this year, but it’s going to take collaboration and partnership from all the stakeholders,” Turner added. “You don’t want to lose your seasoned, experienced officers and bring in the new ones, you want the experienced ones there to nurture the new ones.” Transportation Finally, Turner addressed a major obstacle in most big cities.
“We have a lot of people in the city of Houston, and we cannot continue doing things the way we have always done it,” he said. With Houston’s daytime population increasing by 27 percent each day, Turner insisted the city must become more forward-thinking in its transportation idea (such as building bike trails, etc) with 577,000 people pouring into the city daily—the equivalent of placing the city of Atlanta within the city limits Monday through Friday. “We simply cannot rely on cars and trucks to move us from point A to point B,” he said. Turner additionally voiced his support for and the need for the high speed rail currently in the works between Houston and Dallas, as he believes the eventual stop will become a signature for the city and represent major advancement for all involved. “It would say Texas is making a transition recognizing we have people coming to this area, we need to move people from point A to point B and we’re being innovative,” he said. “We have to be more multi-modal in our thinking— we don’t have a choice, otherwise we’re going to choke ourselves as we move forward.”
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Anyone but one of the above The reader. British Prime Minister David Cameron resigned this past July 11. Two days later, the Brits had a new prime minister, Theresa May. Across the pond, excuse the cliché, we Americans began this presidential campaign at the end of the last campaign in 2012, and already Sen. Ted Cruz is lining up his forces for 2020. (Incidentally, how many times in that campaign will we hear “20-20 hindsight” and “Cruz control” -- a million? Currently we are suffering through an avalanche of campaigning until the first Tuesday in November. To get through the muck and mire, here are a few suggestions: Muck & Myer is not a law firm but the way we run presidential campaigns ever since Karl Rove and Newt Gingrich crawled out of the swamp, but both political parties have “oppositional research departments,” which means these bottom-feeders delve back to the other candidate’s life and family tree seeking to discover any rotten apples or low-hanging ancestors who should have been hanged. Donald Trump made nicknames a part of his attack speeches: Crooked Hillary, Lying Ted, Little Marco and Energy Challenged Jeb. (Rick Perry didn’t last long enough to earn an insulting moniker.) No one on the Dem side has come up with one for The Donald. The Dems have no imagination. Anyway, be ready for ads and speeches without programs, policies or specifics, but filled with angry insults about the opposition. Lots of heat, no light, but that’s the way a candidate whoops up a crowd: using sure-fire applause lines. No sweaty mob at the Nebraska State Fair wants to hear a new plan for the national debt, global warming or immigration quotas. Be prepared to hear of Benghazi constantly. (“Dad, what’s Ben Gazzi running for? I hear about him all the time.”) Also: “This is the most important election in our nation’s history!” That is self-important twaddle, making us feel our vote will decide the nation’s fate for the next century. We either get four more years of Obama or four years of Trump jokes. Anyone who has taken History for Dummies knows the outcome of 1860 was the most important. The election of Lincoln started the Civil War, which really did decide the nation’s fate, and for more than a century. This is a unique election, since polls show many wouldbe voters prefer none of the above. Pollsters say a record majority of voters surveyed say they find both Hillary and Trump untrustworthy, loose with the truth, don’t have the temperament to be president and don’t even know all the words to “Hail to the Chief.” Of course, we all realize that, come Election Day, GOPers will grudgingly vote for Trump and Dems will stay home. There are 313 million Americans. Take away those who are ineligible to be president:
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under 35 years old, not natural born, have not lived in the United States for at least 14 years or have already served two terms (Bill and George W.). Subtract 11-million illegal immigrants and that still leaves at least 100-to-200 million. Why did we get down to these two? Another point: How many times will we hear: “I give you the next president of the United States, (Trump or Hillary)”? Remember, that’s the way they introduced Henry Clay. William Jennings Bryan, Adlai Stevenson (twice) and John Kerry. What we will not see or hear this election campaign: For the elephant, no mention of George W. His dad, yes. His mom, yes, but W. will be MIA. No mention of Richard Nixon, Dick Cheney, the Iraq War (but the VA will get crucified), former Speaker Dennis Hastert, Ted Cruz. Mitt Romney and Mike Pence. Incidentally, I wish Trump would have picked Newt Gingrich for veep. That way, between them and their six wives they could have resurrected Family Values, but I thought Romney was the Mormon. In the donkey’s corner, don’t plan on hearing anything about Benghazi, the VA, Monica Lewinsky, LBJ, emails or Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Fox News will not bring up its former chief, Roger Ailes. Presidential campaigns supposedly don’t really begin until Labor Day. During the summer, people are on vacation, checking out June’s back-to-school sales or getting inoculated against the Zika virus. Wrong. The campaigns are already shopworn, yet the candidates are on the trail non-stop. This brings us to the next point: money. Jesse Unruh, also known as Big Daddy, a California politician, said, “Money is the mother’s milk of politics.” Big Daddy vastly underestimated the power of mother’s milk. Now, about the downballot candidates who desperately want to move up ballot. Congress has one of the lowest opinion ratings since pollsters started surveying us. Our lawmakers are never in session. (Currently the members are on yet another vacation which will last till September) and don’t do anything while they are in session. Actually, most are very busy – raising money for their reelection campaigns despite a $174,000 annual salary. Studies show that in a typical 10hour day, they might dedicate three hours to seeking cash. In election cycles, like right now, it might escalate to more than half of their time. That’s why it’s not only presidential candidates we are hearing from, but the lower hanging pols. About
80 percent of all donations goes to TV ads, then to the pockets of Disney, Viacom, Comcast and other mom-andpop operations. Think of your political contribution as an “economic trickle up” operation. Texas is such a red state that neither candidate will spend much time campaigning here, but that doesn’t mean they won’t visit. They come for the money. Texas is called the GOP’s ATM. The Dems would like to come here with a collection plate, but Texas doesn’t have many voters of the donkey persuasion, and most of them don’t have any money. So the nice part about this mind-numbing sport is that Texas will be a mere spectator – except for mother’s milk. Maybe David Cameron is available. Ashby will write-in at ashby2@comcast.net.
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Dear Editor: In this age of Uber, and biking and, oh yes, walking, we don’t need another parking lot on Heights Boulevard. The future of transportation points to car sharing and any number of other fantastic ways of getting around. I applaud Kent Marsh for trying to keep the Heights Historic Districts as they are. Bart Truxillo
The convention, final night
Dear Editor: The final night of the Democratic Party convention, the venue for nominee Hillary Clinton’s acceptance speech, left me utterly bewildered. Party leader President Obama’s progressive ethos has long held that the USA was founded invalidly, formed by white males (some slave-holders) who had no regard for women’s rights and considered each black person only 3/5 of a human -- men whose ideological predecessors and descendants waged geno-
cide against Native Americans, men who finally had to be beaten in a war to end slavery... yet continued the concept via discriminatory laws and outright lawlessness (KKK)... and whose vicious Darwinist capitalism and greed have created huge wealth inequities (in addition to trashing the environment). In time, USA factions deluded themselves into arrogant “exceptionalism” claims and, thanks to costly militarization and murderous war-mongering, established the USA as an illegitimate world super-power truly deserving to be taken down a few notches. The convention utterly stunned me when Democrats, the people’s party, flanked by banks of American flags, wildly erupted into jingoistic “USA! USA! USA!” cheering, and speakers evoked the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Red, white and blue? USA? It was wretched. It was like something you’d see at a GOP beer-hall putsch. The entire scenario was, delicately put, monumentally emetic. J. Reynolds
One last plea from Jimmie’s Ice House
Dear Editor: Saturday, Aug. 6, will mark the one year anniversary when, on White Linen Night, someone took the tribute to our friend, Richard Colston, from Jimmie’s Ice House. We know whoever took it, took it for a lark, but it means a great deal to all of us. Hopefully, this plea will touch his heart and he can put himself in our shoes. What if you and your friends prepared a tribute to your father, brother, or friend of 50 years, and someone took it? We think you would be as devastated as we are. We don’t care who you are, we just want our tribute to Richard back. It would be easy for you to leave it in a bag on the patio. If you are the person, or a friend of the person who took our tribute, look in your heart and know that morally, this is the right thing to do. The Jimmie’s Ice House Gang Email us your letters: news@theleadernews.com
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White Linen Night in the Heights embarks on tenth event on 19th Street By Kim Hogstrom For The Leader For the tenth year in a row, the Houston Heights will highlight its artistic spirit with White Linen Night in the Heights from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 6. If this year unfolds like the nine before it, thousands of people from all over Houston, and Texas, will flock to the free festivities. This year, the family friendly event will host the works of 80 local and regional artists, most lined up on the 200 and 300 block of 19th Street. Live bands are stationed everywhere, causing happy visitors to dance. The creative, oneof-a-kind shops that grant the community so much character, will offer unrivaled shopping opportunities - much of it on sale. And throughout, find fun food, live street performers, and plenty of adult beverages. Additionally, the best part about White Linen Night in the Heights is the people-watching. It’s as good as it gets. How did all this come about, you may wonder? In 1999, The Leader’s own arts writer, brilliant Mitch Cohen, attended White Linen Night in New Orleans. This fact, coupled with a natural disaster, was destined to impact the Houston Heights some 350 miles away. In the 1980s, NOLA was enjoying renewal in a dicey part of town. Similar to the Heights
nearly 20 years later, many of the area’s historic homes were being renovated and aging warehouses transformed into art galleries. The community decided to highlight its new life with a one-day wing-ding called White Linen Night. The celebration included the centuries-old, Southern tradition of wearing white to offset the heat of summer. In 1994, White Linen Night in New Orleans was born in the French Quarter Arts District. “When I first attended, I loved it,” remembers Cohen. “It was designed to spotlight local artists, and it was just so darned cool that I thought Houston needed one. Then, in 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit NOLA leaving thousands of displaced people here. New Orleanians Chris Thayer and his wife, Kay, liked the Heights and chose to stay to open a store. One day, the couple was reminiscing about White Linen Night, so several of us decided to partner up and hold one.” Always a free event, the first White Linen Night in the Heights was held in 2006. With artists’ booths and live bands scattered throughout, the event’s founders expected about 5,000 to attend the first one. Instead, a crowd of more than 15,000 came from all corners of the area, to eat, drink, shop and dance into the night. It was a big success. Ten years later, White Linen
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Night in the Heights continues to grow. “We still have no gates or entry charge so it is difficult to get an exact count of people, but we estimate that 100,000 will show up this year. They are pretty easy to pick out,” Cohen started, laughing. “They are all wearing white.” Dale Johnson is the co-owner of the unique and remarkable store, Eclectic Home, on 19th Street. Not all business owners in the Heights are thrilled with the celebration, but Johnson looks forward to it. “Yes, it is very busy, and we have to bring in the entire staff that day, but it’s fun too. We will be running a 15 percent discount on everything, and we normally sell quite a bit of merchandise,” Johnson explained. Do the crowds offer any sort
of a problem, we ask? “Often people will come back to buy the next day, or they will buy, and come back to pick it up later to avoid hauling it around in the crowd. We have learned that, when that happens, we need to get their name and phone number. Sometimes our White Linen Night customers, um, ‘forget’ they made the purchase and we have to call them to remind them,” Johnson concluded with a smile. White Linen Night in the Heights is a neighborhood celebration with the highest concentration of activity on 19th Street. Check with your favorite venue in the community to find out what may be going on or visit www.theheightswhitelinennight.com/about.
Heights business owners weigh in on WLN By Kim Hogstom For The Leader The Leader conducted an informal survey of Heights business owners to find out how they feel about White Linen Night in the Heights. Does it help business? Do the crowds cause more problems than they are worth? What is its value to the community? Read on. For 20 years, Jubilee on 19th Street has been offering shoppers unique and unusual gifts, jewelry, housewares and clothing. Shop owner Kristal Kirksey was also one of the original founders of White Linen Night in the Heights and she has never regretted it. “We are very busy the entire day of White Linen Night and we bring in extra inventory to meet the demand,” Kirksey explained. “Everyone who works here helps out. We even have volunteers who come in. It is a challenge, but it fun.” Kirksey will have local musicians in the front of the store that evening. The popular local band, DuneTX, will be entertaining, and she is planning on serving free cocktails. “For us, this is more of an event to introduce the store to the community and Houston than about sales. I can’t tell you how many times I hear customers say ‘I never knew you were here,’ during the day. And the good part is that they often come back to shop,” Kirksey said. The remarkable jewelry store, Fly High Little Bunny, on the 300 block of 19th had a shop in Montrose for years, but only moved to the Heights last December. This will be owner Cody Reaves’ first White Linen Night, “and I am terrified,” he said, laughing. Still, the shop is rising to the challenge. There will be a 10piece reggae band out front to entertain customers, a henna tattoo artist for fun body art, and a discount on the beautiful jewelry. How does Reaves feel about his relocation to the Heights? “This community is super. I wish we had moved here ten years ago,” he concluded. Macario and Chrissie Ramirez have operated their magnificent arts shop, Casa Ramirez FOLKART Gallery, on 19th Street for 30 years and the couple looks forward to White Linen Night. Is it good for business? “Yes, it is good for business,” Macario Ramirez said, “but we don’t see a return immediately. Most people come that night to have fun, then they come back to shop later. We make new friends every year.” This year, Casa Ramirez FOLKART will feature summer clothing from Mexico for both men and women in its inventory, including their popular sun hats. Additionally, BOSSA ll will be playing outside the
shop. The featured young artist will be local talent, Zachary Miles Alva, who has a passion for drawing and imagery. Alva will be in the store to show his work, sketch and take custom orders. Anyone searching for a wedding planner may have the perfect opportunity to scope one out. White Linen Night attendees can find Dewayne Ross, owner of Wedding Bliss Events, at an open house hosted by Comerica Bank in the Heights at 414 W. 19th St. from 6-9 p.m. Dewayne says he looks forward to events like WLN every year. The Comerica open house will feature an outside and inside DJ as well as a photo booth for passerby to capture the moment. White Linen Night does not fall under the umbrella of the Houston Heights Association. Instead, it is one of a sym-
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Community’s own war hero to be interred at Historic Hollywood Cemetery For The Leader Following seven decades of the unknown, a Heights family can finally lay their fallen family member to rest. On Nov. 27, 1945, an Army Transport Command C-47B aircraft was returning from Singapore. With World War II over, the three-man crew was making a routine supply run on Malaysia’s western coast. At 2:19a.m., the aircraft disappeared – with pilot and 1st officer (and Heights native) Judson Baskett, 1st Lt. William Myers and Pfc. Donald Jones aboard – over the city of Malacca. Seventy years later, some remains from their crash are coming home. Next Friday, Aug. 12, The Heights community will pause to honor and celebrate the life of Flight Officer Judson Baskett, as his recently-recovered remains are interred alongside those of his parents at the Historic Hollywood Cemetery. Surviving family members and friends will be in attendance to witness the final act of honor for the sacrifice of a community’s own fallen hero. Under the command of the United States Army, full military honors will accompany the interment.
One of the Houston area’s oldest cemeteries, Hollywood Cemetery is located on a portion of land granted to John Austin, a distant relative of Stephen F. Austin, in 1824 by Baron de Bastrop. In 1895 it was dedicated as a cemetery and referred to as a “Garden of Rest”. In the early years it was mainly a graveyard for residents of the Houston Heights. Since the dedication in 1895, Hollywood Cemetery has been serving the Heights and North Houston areas with 50 acres of memorial options for either ground burial, mausoleum crypts or cremation memorialization. The cemetery got its name from a family admired by the original founders of the property, not the famous movie location in California as might be inferred. The cemetery became Historic Hollywood Cemetery in 2009 and received “historical” status by the Texas Historical Commission. Within the grounds lie Texas Republic descendants, celebrities, local officials, ministers, attorneys, soldiers, homemakers, mainstream Harris Country citizens and even the inventor of the ice cream cone. Serving the Heights and
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Additionally, one possible major effect in terms of results is that Texas remains one of only nine states which continue to use straight-ticket voting, and more than half of Harris County residents utilizing that when casting ballots. He added it is quite possible, especially for Republican candidates, to see a drop in the use of the straight-ticket option due to the opposition, he says, Donald Trump has generated among regular Republican voters. Jones believes the trepidation many county Republicans hold is that such voting numbers will suffer because voters will go into the polls with a mindset of not voting straight ticket, since doing so would mean voting Trump into office. “The fear they have is that if they don’t use the straightticket option and go race by race, after two or three pages voter fatigue will set in and they won’t get to many downthe-ballot races, including those such as sheriff, DA, tax assessor-collector and county attorney,” he said. Given the opposition to Trump that he says exists in the Latino community, Jones said it is also possible there could be a higher than average Latino turnout, and because of Trump’s status as the Republican nominee, there could be a higher percentage of Latino turnout voting Democrat, which could spell trouble for candidates such as Danna, Anderson and Bartley. Possibly offsetting that potential Democratic advantage in Harris County, however, is that Jones said Hillary Clinton remains the most unpopular Democratic presidential candidate in decades—a reality he said suggests “her coattails will not be as long as those of other Democratic candidates.” “Clinton’s deep unpopularity will reduce the potential advantage obtained by Harris County Democrats at the polls from Trump’s candidacy,” he told The Leader.
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ast week, I covered a random sampling of the artist exhibitors selling their work this Saturday night at White Linen Night in the Heights. As I’ve done in the past, I love to tell you my favorites about the event. It is definitely a people-driven rush of sights, sounds, and an assortment of other sensory inputs that most of us don’t experience very often. Hands down, it’s the people. I mean if you don’t like crowds, you’re only going to read about this experience, get over there early and just hang back in the shade - or at Shade - and see for yourself. The outfits range from classic white linen, the blacksheep in black, all the way to shield-the-kids’-eyes type of attire. The eye-opening outfit last year was worn by a performer wearing stilts – white, sheer leggings, a parasol of course, and a corset! It was all high fives when she ran into a man carrying a lighted staff and wearing the top half of a polar bear costume. Then there’s The Tan Man, aka Phil Brayton. If you attend themed festivals in the Hous-
ton area, like Renaissance or the sci-fi conventions, you most likely have seen Phil, as he’s always in costume. For White Linen Night, Phil stands out in the crowd with his light colored straw fedora, white open blazer and white linen shorts. Phil is at least six-foot-four, and his big infectious grin, long cigar and laugh cause most to want a photo with Phil. Or Phil will just insist on it! He just may be the most photographed man in Texas. Creativity is definitely the theme of the night and I think that is really why the event is so popular. Everyone can be creative in their own little way. The stores have been decorating for weeks as evidence gleams in shop windows. You have to step inside for the real deal and, yes, there are some deals on White Linen Night too. The Shops on 19th have this down, they’ve been entertaining as a group for many years and always look good. Back to the street. Among the exhibitors find Heights artist Kiki Neumann on the 200 block with her signature license plate art.
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Jessica Carlos knits the craziest things, like flowering “eye pods” in terracotta pots, zombie teddy bears and eyescream cones – a personal favorite.
Jack Connelly paints science fiction worlds and reenactments of aerial combat scenes from WWI and II area. Arthur Deatly captures the
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can take home. If things work out in my favor, my First Saturday Arts Market info booth will be flanked by Jolly Roger Sweets, with their amazing vegan chocolate chip cookie dough, and on the other side by the event title sponsor, Memorial Hermann Greater Heights – and they are hoping to have complementary Popsicles! Find me on the corner of 19th and Rutland and be ready for a photo opp! Everything is subject to change, though, especially at this event. So just remember, wear white and look us up on the web TheHeightsWhiteLinenNight.com
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This year’s WLN event map has changed If you take a look at our event map for White Linen Night in the Heights on 4B, you may notice some changes. This year, White Oak Drive and the surrounding main veins are not included on the official event map and this is not a mistake. “When we inquired about closing the street, specifically White Oak, the city said ‘never’,” First Saturday Arts Market founder Mitch Cohen said. Safety was the main name of the game this year. Without closing off streets, traffic control becomes a monster of an issue. Needless to say, Heights businesses and residents will still partake in WLN festivities in their own way. Whether you venture to 19th Street, or head down to Town In City Brewing Co., be safe, plan ahead for a sober ride and have fun. Here’s a few outside parties on my radar this year.
majesty of downtown Houston, while Lauren Luna likes to capture the iconic scenery on canvas, like the Heights Theater sign on 19th St. Briana Galindo creates Mexican Folk Art, like paintings of popular lucha libre characters and Day of the Dead masks crafted out of paper mache; all popular items. You might notice on Galindo’s ring finger she is sporting a wedding band crafted from a coin by fellow artist Steve Sellers. Come early, stay late and hydrate! Wear comfortable shoes, but definitely sport your best white linens. You can come hungry, but you don’t leave empty handed. Here’s a couple of secrets. The Heights Theater may have a door open to peek inside and some literature you
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