Regulating BBQ smoke gets early approval from city council

Regulating BBQ smoke gets early approval from city council

I feel that the best way deal with this is to handle the problem the same as the noise ordinance. They measure sound levels to see if a performance is too loud. Why not use instruments to measure the smoke level in and around homes, only when there is a complaint? If the levels are too high then restaurant will be compelled to do something. Restaurants that don't have complaints won't have a problem…. With that being said!

Why now? Are these residences that were recently built near BBQ places? Are the BBQ places new and built near residential properties? Are these transplant homeowners (out-of-city/state)? If they were properly zoned, why is the city now trying to band-aid their problem of not zoning correctly?

This is what happens when you let too many “CaliforniKator’s” in to Austin and they want to turn BBQ lovers into vegetarians! The city council is still a joke even after the elections!
ICE should check that city council man's paperwork, he is not acting like a true Texan more like a foreigner! Next thing you know the city council will be banning hamburger joints because the "meat" smell! Sounds like the legislature needs to declare "BBQ the official food of Texas" and if you don't like it (or the way real BBQ is cooked)... leave Texas and that includes city councils! Stop "messin with Texas". Anyone complaining about the smell of BBQ needs to turn in their TEXAS card and be escorted to the nearest state border. 

Time to drop the politics and provide health care to Texas

  On January, 1st, 2015 News-journal.com published an article titled: Editorial: Time to drop the politics and provide health care to Texas. This particular article states " Today, we see the result right before us: hospitals having to cut back or shut down and rural residents being forced to find new, out-of-town ( or out-of-country) resources for basic care and even emergency medical service. many of those hit are elderly or poor and, some of them, the cutbacks simply mean doing without. And Texas continues to have the highest rate of uninsured people in the nation"(news-journals)

  Do people know that the Texas Medicaid program is now handled by only 2 HMOs for north eastTexas? This resulted in many Registered Nurses being laid off for such companies as Texas HomeHealth. Girling and Jordan, no longer providing the Nursing care in the state CBA program. The HMO companies now run this part of the care for Medicaid recipients both at home and in the nursing homes. The HMO companies did hire some of the nurses but have not considered it necessary to hire the same volume of nurses. If it is okay for the poor of the state to only have 2 choices, what is wrong with allowing health care funds that is from our taxes we paid to the federal government returning to help every one have a chance to be given the benefit of insurance for peace of mind and prevention of illness. Thus this meaning that adding the health care to Texans is only going to advance the state and provide many opportunity's. 

Lawsuit Over Health Care

On Tuesday February, 10th, 2015 The Texas Tribune published an article titled 

Texas Has High Stakes in Lawsuit Over Health Law. 

   As you may know nearly 1 million Texans have now signed up for health insurance on the federal  market place, known as healthcare.gov. But Texas, and 33 other states that did not create their own exchanges, will be the most vulnerable if the U.S. Supreme Court rules against the Obama administration in the latest lawsuit challenging the Affordable Care Act, according to Health policy experts.If the decision goes against the ACA I don't see how rising premiums could possibly be blamed on the Republicans. I also don't see why the only solution is to preemptively start an exchange in Texas. It's obvious that the disruption in the market is from the ACA, and has nothing to do with Republicans or with Texas not setting up an exchange. If this happens then the obvious solution would be to repeal the ACA.This is why the government shouldn't get involved in the market, not that the insurance and healthcare industry was a paragon of the Laissez-faire market.