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TX CITIZEN Avenue 1111 N. Walnut New Braunfels, TX 78130 830.483.9563 All original content is copyright TX every Thursday. 15 243 N. Union Ave 830-629-2662 Like us on 2 AD SALES 830.483.9563 AMSTERDAM HOOKAH LOUNGE in New Braunfels! • 40 Delicious Tobacco Flavors • Big Screen TVs • Relaxing Environment • OPEN DAILY! Karaoke Thursday & Sunday Sun-Thurs 5-11, Fri-Sat 5-12 ST 830.625.0354 990 S. Seguin Ave. DJs Wednesday • Friday • Saturday Ugh. WORDWITH financial problems. Since those are the terms by which she made her Well the1 big news this week is RAN D U C argument, those are the terms by H that Mayor Gale Pospisil has P MIKE S NOW NB LIQUOR & WINE decided to press forward with REYNOLDS which we’ve taken her to task. OPEN ON BEER • WINE • SPIRITS her plan to start charging people Anyway, sure as shootin’, the post-ban police budget came SUNDAYS! to use Prince Solms Park to 1308 Common St #207 access the Comal River. This after in even higher than the year before, 118 Common St. New Braunfels, TX instituting a disposable container presumably because we created a 830.387.4466 ban that has driven a substantial amount new class of criminal – hooligans that eat Doritos out of factory packaging. BEST of river tourism out of the City. OF THE J WURST So, just to be clear: We’re spending just PAUL . SMITH 2013 On the surface, this seems like madness, Attorney at Law as much, if not more money on the Comal given that the Mayor claimed the ban was Board Certified in Criminal Law put in place to 1) Keep litter out of the rivers, this year as we did before the ban. That’s Texas Board of Legal Specialization a massive, expensive fail for the Mayor – 830.625.3200 and 2) Save money. After we examined 651 S. Walnut 830-832-1534 thousands of email exchanges between City assuming she was truthful with her motives. Suite D #228 www.pauljsmithlaw.com New Braunfels, Tx 78130 [email protected] 382 IH 35 S. / New Braunfels Council and certain river-area homeowners, As for her environmental concerns, well, it came as no surprise to First Word readers trash still has to be removed from the rivers, because the City’s streets drain into them 1000 Business Cards $60 that the actual reason was 3) To keep non- Special 1000 Postcards $110 river-area homeowners off of the river. And every time it rains, and not a single thing has Blue Collar Welding Oer! 1000 Flyers $152 4x10 Banner $140 given that, a fee to access the park doesn’t been done to mitigate that. Yuck. In fact, this WELDING • FABRICATION • REPAIRS seem so crazy after all. remains the situation even though the State PRINTING & WEB DESIGN Let’s address those Can Ban goals, and ordered the City to take action on this back 830.609.8735 / 210.701.2411 830.214.7838 in 2010. The City, rather than comply with 990 S. Seguin Ave. see how they turned out. As for keeping litter [email protected] out of the rivers, we established that the City the State’s MS-4 rules (Google that), has spent was purposely inflating litter numbers by about $300,000 on “studies”, which is what reporting properly disposed of trash – that is, they do when they want to stall on something, trash in trash cans, on land - as underwater or simply wish to funnel money to consultants. Garcia’s Services “river litter”. They further blew up the stats by counting mostly empty 60-gallon trash bags as 60-gallons worth of trash. CONCRETE WORK The Mayor responded to our findings by Driveway/Sidewalks Single-origin Espresso Brews stating that she didn’t believe that the numbers Masonry Work Handcrafted Blends • Whole Bean Coffee really mattered – but nonetheless continued to sell the ban on the basis of the false figures. Flagstone Patios Council then awarded the clean up contract Retaining Walls 2348 Gruene Lake Dr. Suite B • 830-643-1309 back to the same company they’ve always used, at the pre-ban price. Clean up was supposed FREE ESTIMATES! to be a non-issue, what with tourist litter eliminated, so it stood to reason the taxpayer 830.822.2410 should save some bucks on maintenance. Only This Municipal Trash Chute, located on Fair Lane, efficiently channels half-a-subdivision’s worth of after a massive public outcry was that contract street waste directly into the Guadalupe River. “adjusted”, and even then, in a manner that Cruising Creations & Vacations left the possibility of it coming in at the same We must consider the environmental Where Your Dream Adventure to the World Begins... amount as before the ban. Hooray. factor another fail for the Mayor, but only if Offering: For: We were also going to save some big we accept her stated reasons for banning - Packages (Las Vegas, Hawaii & more) - Anniversary - Cruises - Reunion money on police, what with less garbage in the disposable containers. Now, if we go ahead and admit that the - American & European River Cruises - Groups river and all. I know that sounds crazy, so let - Hotels & Resorts - Honeymooners me be very, very clear here: WE DO REALIZE real goal of the Can Ban was to keep people - Train Excursions - Weddings THERE IS NO LEGITIMATE CONNECTION from floating the river, which she vehemently - European, Asia, Africa Tours & more - Special Occasions BETWEEN CRIME AND SANDWICH BAGS. denied, then we have a winner, which is PAYMENT PLANS AVAILABLE, CALL ME TODAY! This was always about the contents of beer why, despite her financial and environmental failures, the Mayor has been lauded by the Michelle Clark cans, but the Mayor insisted, over and over, Dream Vacation Consultant that alcohol was not the issue, and that the Comal River-area homeowners. 830.832.8195 ban was intended to solve environmental and Continued on next page. [email protected] • facebook.com/CruisingCreationsVacations 2 AD SALES 830.483.9563 TXCITIZEN.COM 3 The original completion date for Walnut was April 3, 2013, which has, of course, Continued from previous page. come and gone. A second completion date To sum up, if she told the truth about the was announced, that of August 8, 2013. Can Ban, she’s a massive failure. If she lied, Now, because it rained last week, a third she’s a raging success.