Lost Dog San Marcos Texas
Lost English Bulldog, Find Tug and I will pay $500.00, call 409 782 7195

San Marcos Forum Moves to CityProfile.com
The forum area of 78666.com has moved to it's own location on CityProfile.com. The new address is; http://www.cityprofile.com/forum/san-marcos/

Sights and Sounds of Christmas
Sights and Sounds of Christmas Why is it that the City of San Marcos has sent its workers to decorate for this event when they are charging and entry fee this year ???? No telling how much Tax Money was spent decorating the area and now they will charge its (Tax paying citizens) a fee to see the lights that I believe has been payed for by there taxes. No telling how much was spent using City wo

**URGENT** City of San Marcos To $ FUND $ It's Own Destruction of Down Town!
Go to the link below and read about what is "possibly" about to happen to our city! http://www.newstreamz.com/2009/07/03/editorial- city-should-not-subsidize-springtown-entertainment-proposal/

Warning about the minor emergency center at CTMC
I just wanted to give everyone a heads up so they can avoid what happened to my wife. She had a minor illness that required only a basic antibody to cure. Because it was the weekend, she was going to go to the minor emergency center that used to be near Half-Price Books. We have been there many times before and it costs around $60 to be seen. When she found that it was shut down, she was going to

Fresh Organic Produce Now Available from LOCAL Farms
Newsflash! A new service is now available here in San Marcos. The idea is simple. You simply order on line or by phone from the convenience of home, and San Marcos Fruit heads out to the local organic farms and brings it right to your door, usually the next day. How cool is that? www.sanmarcosfruit.com

Political Sign Recycling Program in San Marcos Successful
The San Marcos political landscape is a lot cleaner this year, thanks in part to a new sign recycling program sponsored by Sustainable San Marcos and Green Guy Recycling. Because the plastic used in political signs is not usually accepted at recycling centers, candidates’ only option before this year was the landfill. This spurred Sustainable San Marcos board member Tom Wassenich to locate a s

Local author releases new book
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THAT I MAY KNOW YOU An Inspiring Spiritual Interpretation of Intimacy with God Pastor Terry Michaels’ powerful book, That I May Know You is a testament to his enduring and deeply spiritual relationship with God. Michaels invites the reader to have a divine romance with God and explores the simplicity of having a life filled with God’s magnificent power. Yo

Narvaiz Claims Victory After Recount
Mayor Susan Narvaiz was returned to a third term after a marathon recount delayed her scheduled swearing in but did not change the final vote tally. She is expected to take the office’s oath within the hour. Susan NarvaizAt 7:30 p.m., Hays County elections officials announced that Narvaiz won 6,451 votes, 50.08 percent, to Newman’s 3,868, 30.03 percent, while Texas State University student Dan

Grande Cuts Service to San Marcos For 6 Hours. No 911. No Refunds.
Last night Grande cut service to San Marcos leaving customers without cable, internet and telephone (including 911) for six hours. When called they offered no refund for the down time to their customers. Class action lawsuit?

Sustainable San Marcos needs help cleaning up campaign signs!
Sustainable San Marcos is organizing a campaign sign recycling program for San Marcos and the surrounding communities. Political signs usually end up in the landfill since this material is not accepted through curbside recycling or at the city’s drop off center. This year Sustainable San Marcos has partnered with Green Guy and Cycled Plastics in Austin to recycle around 2500 signs between local an

SMPD Is Now In The Business of Mayor Campaigning
Daniel Arredondo on NewStreamz Pretty interested to see this commentary. I wonder if it was wrote on tax payer time? I'm losing more and more respect for our Police force. We have more LEO per citizen then almost every single Texas city, your surprised there might need to be cuts. Pathetic. What a shrill for the Dictator in Office. Here he is listed on her campaign website; http://www.mayor

Senior Citizens Invited to Meet and Greet Dinner with Local Candidates
Southside Community Center is rallying all candidates in the San Marcos and Hays County elections to gather for a “Meet and Greet” dinner at Sunrise Village Retirement Community on Wednesday the 29th at 6:00 pm. All senior citizens across Hays County are invited, and encouraged to attend. This is a great opportunity for local seniors to come out and meet the big decision-makers in their

Vote No on Proposition 5
Proposition 5 must be voted down. One of first things Mayor Narvaiz did was put on the ballot that Mayor be extended to a three year term and that Council get paid. Voters said no to both just a couple years ago. Now the Council has decided to put forth on the ballot a vote on the Proposition to bypass voters and set compensation themselves. Vote No!

Our Mayor Lacks Even a High School Diploma
http://www.sanmarcosrecord.com/local/local_story_300235047.html We have a serious problem in our education system with High School drop out rates. What kind of message are we sending to our children when the highest public servant in office is held by a High School drop out. A person who never even got her Diploma instead opting for the GED.

Dave Newman: Candidate for Mayor, San Marcos
Hello and Thank You for Your Interest in Our City: My name is Dave Newman and I am running for Mayor of San Marcos, Texas in the November 4th, 2008 election. Although I am originally from Houston, my roots in San Marcos date back to the early ’60s, when my family made a very special road trip to San Antonio and the Texas Hill Country. As a seven year old, I had never seen, but had only imagi

Lisa Marie Opposes Chris Jones
http://www.myspace.com/lisamarie4sanmarcos Just when we thought we were going to get another term of one of the worse Council members we have ever had a URL gets passed to me proving otherwise. Seems a little Left leaning but at least she has goals. I can't think of a single thing Chris Jones has done for San Marcos. Well do you count being a patsy for the Mayor as an accomplishment?

Officer Paul Stephens - The Swine

Cruel San Marcos Police Officer - Watch Video & Cringe
San Marcos is looking pretty terrible in the eyes of the world and the attention isn't going to go away fast, believe me. Petition powered by ThePetitionSite.com http://blog.seattle-duiattorney.com/ San Marcos, Texas. This story is very alarming, and will shock the average citizen to the core. Krystal Hernandez owned a sweet teacup poodle named Missy. Unfortunately, Missy was very ill

Why only squares on the Council?
Calling all people of outgoing and open minds! Why not run for Council or better yet Mayor? It’s looking right now like Susan Narvaiz and Chris Jones are possibly going to run uncontested. What a joke! These two are so out of touch they couldn’t locate a diamond in De Beers mine! So eccentric people, people of free minds, people of personality, please head up to the proper place, sign the do

(BOIL NOTICE)
The daily record reported (August 14th) that the leak was hard to pinpoint. Well not to the people who witnessed THEM. August 13th there was 12 foot column of water gushing out near Endsley Real Estate on Aquarena springs drive for 2 hours.There were also 2 mains busted at College Inn. During construction, they busted through a city water line, and as soon as that was fixed, they busted through a

$200 REWARD FOR LOST BORDER COLLIE PUPPY
LOST BORDER COLLIE PUPPY DOG ("LASSIE DOG") $$$$$$$$ REWARD $$$$$$$$$ $ 200 Our Puppy is a Border Collie He is shy and very gentle. He is Brand New to the Area and has been missing since TUESDAY, AUGUST 12TH. He is still a PUPPY and is teething. He has SOFT, MEDIUM-LENGTH HAIR with WHITE "SOCKS" ON ALL FOUR LEG

HELP! Lost Dog
My dog has ran away as of 8/11. If you see her please call 817 201 2951. Her Name is Heidi and she is a black beagle mix with tan around her face and feet. I would appreciate any information you might have. She is very friendly and will come right to you if you call her. Thanks.

Proposed Budget Injects Tax Revenue Into Race Organization
Proposed City Budget for 2009; http://www.ci.san-marcos.tx.us/departments/finance/ Docs/FY2009_Proposed_Budget.pdf Looking through the Budget for 2009 it is proposed that the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce recieve over $70k in tax revenue. In the day of politically correctness why are we issuing tax money to an organization that gives support to busineseses based on ethnicity? I'm all in su

Thanks Lloyd for Standing up for the Constitution
If you have had your head under a rock lately the Bush Administration and Congress passed through the FISA legislation. This piece of legislation gives telecom companies’ retroactive immunity for their role in the very public violation of our 4th Amendment. With their help our Government conducted unauthorized surveillance of Americans without warrants. I don’t agree with a lot of Rep. Doggett’

Where is the San Marcos Independent Journalism?
Looking at the San Marcos Record you will see a link to an absolutely shocking story. Bandits take off with sunglasses! The horror! Where is the story about the bandits who destroyed a half dozen or so HVAC units Thursday morning? A business park near downtown got hit hard forcing multiple local businesses to close down until next week. $1500 sunglasses? Try $10k+ in damage not to mention the

HELP! Lost family pet of 12 years! REWARD OFFERED!
Our family pet of 12 years has disappeared from the River Ridge Apartments on River Road. He left the house on June 11 and has yet to return! He is a large (12lb), long-haired white cat. He does have a medical condition that requires us to give him his medication on a daily basis. I plead with everyone to help me find him. Please keep a look out for him. He is family to us and with each passing da

Chris Jones: I don't want to get paid BUT ...
Source: NewStreamz.com First comes the setup; “It’s not that I want to get paid,” said Place 4 member Chris Jones after the meeting." Then the delivery; “If you look at the amount of time we spend,” referring to city business, “it’s a huge chunk of time.” Then he goes on in the article to justify himself getting a paycheck because poor people can't serve since City Council doesn't g

Excellent! San Marcos Gets a Reject City Manager
"Former Midland City Manager Rick Menchaca has been named the final candidate for the same position with the city of San Marcos, its mayor, Susan Narvaiz, announced Thursday." "Last year, Menchaca resigned as Midland’s city manager after seven years. Prior to that, he served as the city’s deputy and assistant city manager. His resignation came after the Midland Municipal Police Officers Asso

Support the Proposed Landlord License Ordinance!
There is a proposal on the table right now for requiring landlords to be licensed by the city in order to rent. The fee would be a meager $70 and make landlords responsible for their tenants. According to a quote by Richard Skiles from News8Austin; News8Austin Story "It makes me as a landlord more responsible for the activity of a tenant than their parents. It's asinine, it's completely ridi

Commissioner Conley Appointed to the Austin-San Antonio Intermunicipal Commuter Rail District
Commissioner Will Conley has been appointed to represent Hays County on the Austin-San Antonio Intermunicipal Commuter Rail District. He was appointed by the Commissioners’ Court on October 9, 2007 by a unanimous vote of his colleagues. The council’s board members consist of elected and private sector officials, community business representatives and the general public from Austin, San

GSMYC Children's Shelter Car Wash Benefit a Success!
Inclement weather on Dec. 8th gave way to a great day to get your car washed, buy home-baked treats, bid on items generously donated by local merchants……..with the added benefit of supporting the Children’s Shelter operated by the Greater San Marcos Youth Council. Conley Carwash and Detail hosted the 5th annual event with 15% of the proceeds going directly to the care of the children. With everyo

Quote of the Day
After being inundated by all the national election coverage lately this quote is just too good not to share. "When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental � men whose whole thinking is done

Council Wants You To Pay For Others Internet Access – At Cost of The Economy As Well
The City of San Marcos is making plans to install a citywide wireless Internet system all paid for by taxpayer money. Some local business owners are not happy and say this will hurt their business. Wireless Internet is an incentive for some local business owners to attract customers and having a free system all paid for by the tax payer will hurt their business. The city will have a public f

How the Texas Legislation Votes

Dan O'Leary Gets Keller City Manager Job
http://www.star-telegram.com/407/story/314889.html

Local Band Canoes Entire Mississippi
For the past two months Chris and Kent, lead singer and bassist respectively, have paddled their homemade/hand built canoe over 2,300 miles down the Mississippi River. They started their trip in Minnesota and have made it all the way down to Louisiana. They will be in New Orleans and off the river later this week. You can read about the trip at; http://www.threeleafmusic.com/log/ To celeb

Statement From Jude Prather on City Election Recount
I want to congratulate Mr. Bose on his re-election. I said when I started running that I want to be a bridge between the university and the community, between the east and west sides of town, between businesses and neighborhoods. A state district court lawsuit challenging the election results would further divide the town and I won’t do that. At the same time, we must make sure now that every

University Star Questions Mayor and ASG
Source; http://star.txstate.edu/Main_Point.html "San Marcos Mayor Susan Narvaiz attended the Oct. 30 ASG meeting to clarify statements made by council members Betsy Robertson and Gaylord Bose regarding a Sagewood Circle taskforce and relocation of a proposed hotel. Providing incorrect information to prospective voters is not a good thing and ultimately hurts the candidate running for offi

Texas State Involved with Giving Student Data To Help Certain Campaigns?
During the election the Prather campaign sent out an e-mail to Texas State students listing where they should vote. During the Chris Jones campaign, Jones used the exact same tactic sans voting locations. What made the Jones campaign more interesting was some students with Privacy Block still got the e-mail. Privacy Block is something you can request from Texas State so there is a block on y

Mayor Narvaiz's Letter to The University Star
October 31, 2007 Dear Editor: I am writing to ensure that my remarks at the ASG meeting on Monday, October 29, 2007 are reported to the community completely and to set the record straight about my statements. During my talk I never “called out” any one person by name, but I do realize that the media likes to use attention-grabbing headlines. After an official request to attend the ASG

Prather: Every Vote Must Count
MEDIA ADVISORY Jude Prather is considering options for re-examining the San Marcos City Council election results. The campaign is currently collecting sworn affidavits from registered voters that were denied their right to vote. Under the current tally, Jude Prather has 1,302 votes and and Gaylord Bose has 1,305. "We must make sure every votes count. The issue of whether U.S. citizens duly r

Mayor Narvaiz Sent Apology to Betsy Robertson?
Sources close to the Robertson campaign said recently that Mayor Susan Narvaiz had sent a letter of apology over her quotes in the University Star. The Mayor was quoted in the Star as saying Robertson and Bose were liars for saying at the ASG debate they were not aware of a certain task force that an audience member asked about. However, is the Mayor now claiming that the University Star mi

Victory! Bose and Porterfield Win
Place 2 Bose: 1305 Votes Prather: 1301 Votes Place 2 Porterfield: 1314 Votes Robinson: 1264 Votes Overall voter turnout was higher than previous elections but overall low compared to other Counties and compared to the general voting population of San Marcos.

Prather Email to a Bobcat Urging Him to Vote
Dear Fellow Bobcat, You can Vote this Tuesday at your local Precinct; your local voting location is at The Merrill Gardens Retirement Home across from the Ridge at Wyatt Dr GOOGLE MAP LINK: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=wyatt+dr,+San+Marcos,+Hays,+Texas+78666,+United+States &sll=29.898252,-97.965968&sspn=0.008724,0.014462&ie=UTF8&ll=29.897024,-97.96

Who's Keeping Gaylord Bose's Books
Gaylord Bose, already embattled with questions about a state audit of a prison he ran, failed to report more than $1,000 in his campaign finance report.

Economic E-mails Released
The following was first posted by Ed in the the comments here: http://www.78666.com/News/news_info.php?id=115504&Last=Home SMABOR Member and Affiliates: It looks like (so far) that this year's election is going to yield a low voter turnout ? in that case every vote literally counts. Attached you will find a list of all SMABOR members whose records with the Board office show a San Marc

Backfire! Candidates Slander Attempt Works Against
A mailing sent out to pander to students was recently photo copied and distributed around neighborhoods currently dealing with student and renter related problems. The mailing sent out by the Prather campaign railroading Mr. Bose criticized him for the following; “Bose voted to prosecute alleged parking, noise and other violations both in the criminal and civil courts.” Some residents did

Chris Jones Employed by Texas State
Chris Jones was elected to city council two years ago while he was still an undergraduate at Texas State. Recently he was working in Austin, which meant he commuted back and forth. Last week he started a job at Texas State. He works as a career advisor in the Career Services division. The goal of this division is to help students and Grads find jobs. So if Kim Porterfield wins, then two

Developers, Realtors & Property Managers Flood Prather With Cash

Stand Behind Your Comments
Whats with these anonymous posters who are working so diligently in the 11th hour to discredit and sling mud on two viable candidates for City Council? Citizen? If you are so sure of your accusations, stand behind them with your good name. Step forward and introduce yourself. Citizen? From what I have read on this website, I have to question the validity of your complaints if you are hesi

Prather Caught in Lie
Reference; http://www.hayshighway.com/2007111w.html#e181 Prathers campaign said poll workers asked for more identification than the law requires, adding that the students turned away came to at least 100. Friday, Hays County Elections Administrator Joyce Cowan disputed the claim. "Didnt happen", Cowan said.

Kim Porterfield Responds
I just became aware of this blog and after reading some of the posts, I felt compelled to respond, although I prefer to communicate with people personally, directly. So if you have questions about me, my motivations for seeking a council position, or the approach I would take in making decisions, give me a call or send me an e-mail. You can call me at 618.8711 or e-mail me at kimforcouncil@gmail.c

Give Me A Break
Judging by most of the posts on this board some of you think that the students of this town, especially those that choose to participate in civic involvement, are very bad people. Moreover, there is a strong anti-student bias that just reeks out through my monitor. Get over yourselves...please. Every person that lives, works, and learns in this town is has a right to participate in the polit

Picture Speaks 1000 Words
A picture speaks 1000 words and this picture does just that. The exact caption for the picture via Eric Heggies website is; After we got Chris Jones elected. Jude, Chris, Myself, Carlos, and Sam What are we seeing here. Is it the formation of a Texas State political posse trying to gain full domination over San Marcos city politics?

Kim Porterfield Fails to Mention Employment With Texas State
According to the Texas State website Kim Porterfield is currently employed as the "Director of Community Relations". http://www.txstate.edu/community/about/Staff.html Why does Kim Porterfield not make this fact really well known? Is she trying to hide this from the voters? Does she feel the voters might think someone employed directly for Texas State might be a pawn for the Universit

Texas Department of Corrections Audited Kyle Prison
I am gladly signing my name... Unlike people who are anonymously posting criticism -- some legitimate, some not -- of my friend, Jude Prather. I found this article about Gaylord Boses management of the Kyle Correction Facility interesting. I respect Mr. Bose -- he is a friend -- but I offer this for consideration of open-minded voters. By the way, the Hays County Free Press writer won a Texas P

Ethics of Jude Prather's Phone Spam
San Marcos was flooded with automated phone calls from the Jude Prather campaign tonight. The automated calls traced back to Tara Smith, (512) 878-4256, someone a source says is connected to the Prather campaign. However, in the phone spam message no name or information was given. The automated message requested to know who you were going to vote for this coming election for Place 2. How

Why is the Mayor Against the Craddock Park?
For awhile now the land for sale at RR12/Craddock has been a hot button topic. A number of supporters proposed finding outside funding to create a neighborhood park that the area lacks now. However, Mayor Susan Narvaiz blasted the park with backing from Chris Jones, Daniel Guerrero, and Pam Couch. Its not surprising in the least that Jones, Guerrero and Couch voted with her because they always

City Council Election Voting Starts Today
Today is the first day of early voting. Incumbent Gaylord Bose, 64, is facing Jude Prather, 25, a property manager. Incumbent Betsy Robertson is facing Kim Porterfield. The following link shows all Early Voting locations. Early Voting Locations

New Ordinance. Sewer Bill Averaging.
The city council adopted an ordinance recently enacting winter averaging. Wastewater bills will be figured on water use during December, January and February, with a cap at 9,000 gallons. The average water use for the three month period will be used to calculate wastewater bills for the rest of the year. According to an analysis on the new system by the Finance Department, 49 percent of custo