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Promises KeptAlright, we’ve put this off long enough. Today we’re going to break down the proposed noise ordinance. Don’t worry, though. We got another rockin’ letter regarding 4-B at the end of the column. It’s getting to be a regular thing.

The IssueThe folks that live around the Pour Haus have been raising heck for a good, long while regarding the sounds emanating from that location, specifically the “rock and roll” music that local youngsters have taken a liking to. These same heck-raisers moved in next to railroad tracks, which we figure means they like noise at all hours. Perhaps they only like it in short, terrifying bursts, rather than mapped out into chord progressions and whatnot. In any case, like all laws that affect a huge amount of people, this one’s being pushed for by a tiny group of vocal, grumpy complainers. Who moved in next to railroad tracks.

The Ordinance as it StandsSec. 82-9. - Noise prohibitions, generally;

exceptions; penalty. (a) Any noise of such character, intensity

or continued duration which causes material distress, discomfort or injury to persons of ordinary sensibilities in the immediate vicinity thereof is hereby declared to be a nuisance and is hereby prohibited.

(b) Any noise of such character, intensity or continued duration which substantially interferes with the comfortable enjoyment of private homes by persons of ordinary sensibilities is hereby declared to be a nuisance and is hereby prohibited.

(c) Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this section or fail to comply therewith shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined in a sum not less than $100.00 and not exceeding $500.00, and each and every day’s violation shall constitute a separate and distinct offense.

(d) This section shall not apply to any athletic event, cultural event or concert authorized by the city.

This is a poorly written law, as it is entirely subjective. All

somebody has to do is complain and convince a police officer and possibly a judge that they are a reasonable person that

was annoyed by something, and the accused gets smacked with a

fine no matter how loud or not loud they were. Anybody can appear reasonable for five or ten minutes. I went seven minutes just this morning. No, in order for a law to be legit, it’s got to be based on an objective standard. The new proposal is.

The Proposed Noise OrdinanceFirst off, and most importantly, Wurstfest is exempt from the new ordinance, per the “Legacy Clause”. See, any event that’s been held in town for 20 years or more gets to blow it up as loud as they want to. This gets them out of any potential sanctions they might have been subject to under the old law. Sporting and other special events get a pass too. This is about music, after all. Specifically the music coming from the Pour Haus.

As far as actual sound limits go, the sound emanating from a house or backyard or residential street is limited to 85dB during daytime hours and 80dB at night. In non-residential areas, the limit is 85dB day or night. For the purpose of this proposal, daytime runs from 7a to 10p, with nighttime taking up the balance.

The offending sound will be measured from the property line of the complainant, using “A” and “Slow” metering. Google that if your interest is piqued, ignore it if not. They’re just settings on the decibel meter. Anyway, the daytime/nighttime limits noted above will apply to where the offending sound is received, not from where it originated.

The ordinance extends to property 5,000 feet (you know, about a mile) outside of the City’s limits. How a city can enforce a law outside of its legal jurisdiction is up for grabs, but hey, wouldn’t be the first time. #canban

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Health Department Notes Near Threefold Uptick in Social Disease Since 2008Reported incidents of Chlamydia have been steadily rising in Comal County, prompting concerns from the County’s Health Department.

While the numbers of reported cases of the sexually transmitted disease (STD) are not of epidemic proportions, there were 221 cases in Comal County last year, almost double the numbers from 2012 and almost thee times the cases from 2008, according to Comal County Public Health Department numbers. Currently, the numbers of those with Chlamydia are second in the County only to reported flu cases.

Reported Chlamydia cases in Comal are far below the statewide average of 473 cases per 100,000, according to the Texas Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Neighboring Bexar County had the highest number of cases in the state last year, with 662 cases per 100,000. Travis County reported 624 per 100,000. Nationally, the average is 453 reported cases per 100,000.

While cases nationally and statewide have slightly decreased, cases in Comal County have risen, going from 119 in 2012 to 220 the following year. In 2008, the number of cases was only at 76.

If left untreated, Chlamydia can do serious damage, especially to women.

“If you are a woman, untreated Chlamydia can spread to your uterus and fallopian tubes (tubes that carry fertilized eggs from the ovaries to the uterus), causing pelvic inflammatory disease (PID),” according to the CDC. “PID often has no symptoms, however some women may have abdominal and pelvic pain. Even if it doesn’t cause symptoms initially, PID can cause permanent damage to your reproductive system and lead to long-term pelvic pain, inability to get pregnant and potentially deadly ectopic pregnancy.” An ectopic pregnancy is when the womb develops outside of the uterus.

A pregnant mother can also pass the disease to her baby during delivery.

The CDC also notes that while Chlamydia rarely gives health problems to men, it can increase the likelihood of contracting HIV.

Part of the reason the disease can spread so easily is because it has few, if any symptoms and those can take weeks to actually appear.

“Many times, people don’t actually know that they have Chlamydia,” said Gwen Mills, the County’s Public Health Department’s director. “Fifty-seventy percent of women with the disease and up to 30 percent of the men may

have no symptoms or, if they do have them, the symptoms last for a short time and then they go away. The symptoms can sometimes resolve.”

With few symptoms, infected persons could carry the disease around for years. Also, since the reported numbers of cases reflect only those who have sought testing, the number of people with the disease is likely much higher.

Symptoms for both women and men can be an abnormal discharge or burning during urination, according to the CDC. For men, symptoms could also include a swelling in one or both testicles. The disease can also be spread orally and anally.

Fortunately, the cure for Chlamydia requires only medication. If someone suspects infection, or if their partner has been infected, they should get tested immediately through either their own health provider or a clinic. Tests can be either fluid or urine tests.

“We know Chlamydia can be cured,” Mills said. “You only have to take medicine, and that’s not for a long, extended period of time.”

Mills warns, however, that it is vitally important for infected persons to take all of their prescribed medication.

“Many people will not take all of the medication because some of the medications will have side effects, like nausea,” she said. “Also, the health care provider will give instructions on what the patient can and can’t do, and many times those instructions will not be followed. The sexual partner also needs to be checked. If they’re not, the infected person will get it again, even if they have been treated.”

Mills also advised that those who are receiving treatment refrain from sex until they return to their health provider for tests to ensure they have been cleared of the disease.

“If your doctor prescribes a single dose of medication, you should wait seven days after taking the medicine before having sex,” the CDC advises.

Of course, Chlamydia, like most STDs, can be simply prevented by avoiding unprotected sex. Latex condoms, for example, are almost 100 percent effective against spreading STDs, according to the CDC.

Those who have concerns or suspect they may have the disease, are encouraged to call the County Public Health Department at 830-221-1150.

“If people have questions, they are welcome to call us and we will help them as much as possible,” Mills said. “If we have services that can help them, we will try to help them. If not, we will definitely assist them in trying to get those services somewhere else.”

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Attention Marching Band Haters: Parades and half-time shows and band practice are exempt from this proposal. Next time you buy a house, maybe consider something not near a high school if you hate America that much.

The Penaltiesa. A fine not to exceed $100 for the first

offense plus court costs;b. A fine not to exceed $250 for the second

offense plus court costs;c. A fine not to exceed $350.00 for the third

offense plus court costs; andd. A fine not to exceed $500.00 for the

fourth and any subsequent offenses plus court costs.

VarianceOf course, as this is New Braunfels, special people will get special treatment. Variances allowing noise at more than 85dB will be available to certain businesses (cough, Gruene Hall, cough cough).

In the end, this is a fairly reasonable ordinance. We shan’t make a fuss about it.

This Week’s 4-B LetterMr. Reynolds,You are on the right track on 4B and the

control Michael Meek has over 4B including who is selected President, the things they get to work on, and even where they meet. Even though it’s taxpayer money, they meet in Honors Hall at the Chamber and not in any city–run meeting space.

4A goes back 20 years to 1995 when 4A was first approved by voters. It was merged into a 4B in 2000 or so which greatly expanded the projects they could work on. The slate was expanded again in a special 2003 election. Some of the language on that 2003 ballot is below.

In 1995 city sales taxes were $3.2 million and grew to $9.5 million in 2003. In 2014 our sales taxes came in just north of $27 million. As 4B gets 25% of all sales taxes*, their haul increased from $800,000 in 1995 to $6,750,000 in 2014.

With $22 million in the bank now, they just don’t have enough valid projects on which to spend a growing pile of more and more money every year.

More than a few people have written Letters to the Editor about the sorry state of affairs of our streets. Years ago, the Legislature approved something called a Street Maintenance Tax which would allow a city to reduce contributions to 4B by as little as 1/8th to be used only for maintenance of existing streets, if the voters approved it.

Our 4B gets 3/8% which was the $6,750,000 above. If there was a successful vote to redirect 1/8% from 4B, street maintenance would get an infusion of a whopping $2,250,000, while 4B would get $4,500,000 for economic development. Our total sales taxes are maxxed out at 8.25%, so the only way to keep under the max is to reduce the contribution to 4B.

The TX Citizen could championing doing this, rather than just complaining, and back this idea via a petition calling for a vote. City Council would probably not call for a vote themselves.

Then the Citizens can decide if they want better streets or the lower paying jobs we only seem able to attract.

PLEASE DO NOT PRINT MY NAME(*Refers to City’s cut of sales taxes, not

total collected.) Yeah, there’s a lot we could do other

than report this stuff, but then we wouldn’t have time to do all the flippin’ research this gig demands. Just like the body of the Christ, every part of the community has its job. We’re the brain. We look at stuff and think about it. Which we guess makes us the eyeballs too. In any case, our FranklinCovey planner is full. The hands and feet are responsible for the lifting and walking around. Take it up with them.

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Sen. Campbell Won’t Stop Filing BillsState Sen. Donna Campbell has filed several legislative proposals ahead of next session of the Texas Legislature, despite the ire of Democrats and nervous looks from Republican colleagues.

Most recently, the District 25 Senator, who lives somewhere else, filed a bill that would have the State pay 60 percent of the tuition costs for those who send their children to exclusive private schools. The bill, called the Education Freedom Resolution, would only cover private schools whose tuition starts at $100,000.

“This bill would allow people a choice by having the State pay for the majority of the cost of private education. This way, parents would only have to pay,” Campbell paused while counting on her fingers, “$40,000.”

When it was pointed out that the average Texas income is only $40,000, the Senator replied, “See? It all works out.”

In keeping with the education theme, Campbell, whose district includes Comal County, also submitted legislation that would get rid of all text books in Texas schools and replace them with the Bible.

“It’s the only book you need,” she said. “It has literature, history, philosophy, science and, best of all, it was written in English.”

The Senator dismissed any notions that the bill likely wouldn’t pass U.S. Constitutional muster.

“Of course it’s constitutional,” she said. “America is a Christian nation, that’s what it says in the Constitution.”

When told that the U.S. document does not contain any such passage, Campbell said that it’s “in the appendix somewhere.”

Previous to her education bill, Campbell garnered national attention with a bill that allows Texas residents not to recognize homosexuals as people. She insisted, however, that the measure “is not an anti-gay bill, but a pro-people-who-hate-gays bill.”

The Senator argued that the legislation was necessary in order to keep Texas children from “being turned into gay.”

When not doing legislative business, Sen. Campbell is a doctor who practices evil medicine. She said her dream is to “create a kingdom ruled by mutant Christian warrior animals.”

Morsett Joins ISISDressed in black, infamous New Braunfels ne’er-do-well Steve Morsett posted an online video saying that he has joined the terror group ISIS because they promised him a girlfriend.

Morsett said he has joined ISIS (which he pronounced is-is) in order to declare a “jabba-hat on the City of New Braunfels for violating my religious rights to be given a girlfriend.”

The video shows Morsett donned in black Batman pajamas, a toy Chicago Bears football helmet and a bandoleer holding soda cans painted to look like dynamite.

The obviously crazy Morsett said that the Koran demands that the duty of the government is to provide its people with girlfriends, noting that the passage is “in the appendix somewhere.”

Morsett, a former assistant city attorney, had unsuccessfully sued the City after Council refused to provide him a girlfriend. The City, which won the case, promptly appealed the decision.

The black-clad Morsett said in the video that ISIS has promised him a girlfriend and that he has joined the group because “they are well known to be trustworthy.”

ISIS has been conducting a violent military campaign in the Middle East in an attempt to create its own Caliphate (kingdom) in Syria and Iraq.

“I will create a Calligraphy in Comal County,” Morsett said. “And then you watch – the girls will want me then.”

Currently, Morsett is married to a picture of a naked woman.

A representative of ISIS denied that Morsett is actually a member of their organization, noting that the New Braunfels resident “seems like kind of a weird and creepy loner.”

“He’s actually just what we’re looking for,” the representative said. “He should give us a call. We have really cool swag with coffee samples, anti-perspirant and ammunition. And, yes, we can kidnap a girlfriend for him.

“Death to America,” the representative said before hanging up.

In the meantime, Morsett said he intends to spend more time with his naked picture-wife after he is released from FBI custody.

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Every week, we present local government data in a patently unfair format, comparing apples to oranges, as it were, in order to arbitrarily make a point. This week: Curing our police of�cer shortage with the taxpayer funds currently paid to the Greater New Braunfels Chamber of Commerce – which is more or less a private drinking club. The Texas state average for police presence in a community is 2.21 of�cers per 1,000 residents. As of 2014, the New Braunfels force was at 1.76 of�cers per 1,000 residents, a nearly one-half of�cer de�cit per 1,000 residents. Figuring a local population currently estimated at 60,000, the NBPD should number 133.33 of�cers. As of 2014, that number was 107, a shocking 26.33 of�cer shortfall compared to the rest of the Great State. Average compensation for a New Braunfels Police of�cer is $89,819 per year, which includes all bene�ts (and arti�cially in�ates the expense as it also includes overtime pay that would be absorbed by additional personnel). The annual bill, (based on those in�ated numbers), to bring our department’s staff up to the Texas average would be $2,364,964.27. Last year, City Hall wrote checks to the Greater New Braunfels Chamber of Commerce totaling $2,044,888.29. So we got thinking…

If the City would simply reallocate the funds it provides to the Chamber of Commerce every year to the Police Department, we could cut our cop de�cit by more than 86 percent percent, down to a highly manageable 3.56 of�cer per 1,000 residents shortfall. We’d actually get 26.33 cops, because the overtime wouldn’t factor in. That pie chart would look like this:

3.56Officers

22.77Officers

ShortfallCured with FundsCurrentlyAllocated toChamberRemainingShortfall

Data Source: City of New Braunfels

Total 2O14 NBPD Officer Deficit: 26.33 Officers

26.33Officers

ShortfallCured with FundsCurrentlyAllocated toChamberRemainingShortfall

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By Gustavo Arellano

Dear Mexican: As I’ve been doing

a lot more business in the city of Santa

Ana (one of the most-Mexican cities in

the U.S.), I’ve realized that a ####load

of Mexicans are the Fox News-type

conservative, yacking out the same

kind of #### you hear at a Glenn Beck

conference except for immigration

(probably because Tío Juan has no

papers). But I’ve also met a ton of anti-

immigrant Latinos who look like they

just hopped the border themselves. In

fact, I hear more crazy #### from Latinos

in Santa Ana about Mexicans than

from gabachos in Laguna or Newport

(probably because the only time they

see them is when they are getting some

kind of manual labor service).

I know Mexico is inherently

conservative and racist, and I wasn’t

surprised to encounter conservative

fanaticism from Latinos, but hearing

such pendejadas so consistently has

been a bit shocking. Is there any scholarly

evidence backing up my observations,

or am I just being paraoico!

Your Former Student Julio

Dear Wab: Refry this: A 2014 Pew

Hispanic Center survey showed that 11

percent of Latinos surveyed identified as

libertarian—almost as many as gabachos!

As I’ve been writing since you were in

high school, Mexican immigrants from

the countryside and their descendents (the

majority of Mexicans) are natural libertarians,

what with their up-by-the-bootstraps mentality,

skepticism toward government of any kind,

hatred of the police and love of liberty (let us

play our tamborazo in the backyard and raise

chickens in peace!)—but they also bring with

them social mores from the days of having sex

through a hole in the sheet.

It’s those pesky chilangos and Chicano

Studies yaktivists like myself who push our

cousins and parents toward modernity, toward

them accepting the primo in the closet and

explaining why words like joto and puto just

aren’t cool anymore. Needless to say, the

struggle es real…

Dear Mexican: I would just like

an answer. As I’m sure you are well

aware, there isn’t much letup on the

whole “immigration” debate. And,

whitey (being as white as he can)

continues whining about how “the

Mexicans took my job” and “non-

English speaking this” and “I can’t

understand Spanish” that. So, how do

I get people to knock it off?

I’m just your average everyday

white guy, which nobody really

listens to anymore. Anyhoo, whitey

complains too much about his job

being given away, but it’s been shown

on television, radio, and other media

that a lot of people can’t handle,

let alone keep up with a lot of the

jobs that the migrant workers and

immigrants get. That, and Mexico has

such a diverse and rich culture that

everyone just tosses aside (except for

the ever-popular Taco Hell). Spanish

is also one of the easier languages to

learn, and is considered to be one of

the Romance languages.

So my question, again: how do

I get whitey to stop being so, well,

white? How can I open up the doors

to a more peaceful community

between our people? I know as just

one loner, I can’t do much, but the

Buddha said, “If only one will listen.”

So please: help me help others end

the pointless feuding, and realize

we’re all in this together. America

can’t just say one thing and enforce

another (although we’re really good

at it). Thank you for your time.

Just a Whitey

Dear Gabacho: How do you stop

gabachos from being gabachos? Make ‘em

Mexicans—and we’re working on that, one

taco and gabachita at a time.

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MARTINEZ,MANUELMale • 5’09” • 165 lbsDOB: 03/09/1973CHARGE: Failure to appear- Driving while intoxicated and bail jumping/ failureto appear

REYES,LUIS RAULMale • 5’09” • 145 lbsDOB: 07/18/1994CHARGE: Possession of a controlled substance

SANCHEZ,LUIS IIIMale • 6’02” • 165 lbsDOB: 05/18/1993CHARGE: Possession of a controlled substance

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On QualificationsScott Walker has been in the news lately. That’s not too surprising; he’s a possible Republican presidential contender for 2016 after all, but the direction of the discussion surprises me a little. A partisan swipe by Howard Dean has much of the liberal punditry questioning if a man who didn’t finish his college degree can be qualified to be president. In response, conservative sources have jumped to Walker’s defense and questioned why this should be of any concern at all. The debate continues, and it will be interesting to see how well Walker weathers this particular storm, but for the moment, I’m finding more interesting how the debate itself seems to define a basic dichotomy in American culture.

America is a country that prides itself on its egalitarianism, on the idea that “all men are created equal,” but it wasn’t this average man that founded the country. The Founding Fathers (or certainly those we are most familiar with) were some of the most exceptional men of their time. They were well educated and often quite wealthy. It would be hard to say they were anything but the elite. And, they created a system that, while paying lip service to equality, was very skeptical of democracy as a concept. They wanted a republic that drew from the “best” in society and could be depended upon to act dispassionately and with wisdom in the governance of the country.

Strangely, this isn’t something that has ever bothered the wider populous; in fact, they are more likely to embrace it than their “betters.” This may be because the common man has traditionally had better things to worry about than the nature of government, and this is particularly true if government is as small and unintrusive as it was for the early part of our history. Making a living, raising a family and living in a community with others can, without much difficulty, take up the majority of someone’s time. If these issues are your focus, as they are for most people, government can seem less than important.

This is probably as it should be. While the elites may have been this country’s founders, they certainly didn’t build it. For

that, look to the common man. Long before

the American Revolution, farmers and trappers

and merchants and builders beat the East

Coast into something resembling civilization.

Most of them probably lived and died without

once concerning themselves with the question

of developing a fairer system of governance.

Afterwards as well, the country was expanded

and settled by a series of people of guts and

grit, often uneducated, with little more in mind

than a better life for themselves and their

children. These weren’t people who had much

use for government; they were often moving

far out of its reach.

We see a residue of this attitude in the

ambush interview/civics quiz made popular

by late night television. Some random person

is asked to identify important current political

figures interspersed with popular culture icons.

The results are a shocking level of ignorance

of the type of information we’d intellectually

like to believe is important. But, this is just an

elitist notion that has little to do with the real

world. The reason that the average person

on the street can identify Lady Gaga more

readily than the First Lady of the United States

is because Lady Gaga is more important to

them in their day-to-day lives.

Today, the American populous is often

called anti-intellectual (usually by elites),

but there’s no question that they value

education. Aside from owning your own

home, nothing could be more integral to the

American dream than sending one’s children

to college. At the same time, there’s some

truth to the accusation. Nothing seems to

raise an American’s hackles more than to

be lectured to. Even a careful tone can seem

condescending when coming from someone

who prides themselves on intellect.

Equally confusing is that, statistically

speaking, the most educated of Americans

are overwhelmingly liberal. These are people

who pursue politics that focuses on the masses

and “leveling the playing field,” and yet they

are the first to sneer at these people for their

lack of intelligence or sophistication. The effect

is a sort of paternalism that, while strangely

popular with the poorest Americans, doesn’t

sit well with the Heartland.

On the other side are conservatives, with a healthy distrust of academia. They have good reason. Their political opponents seem to control it, and it tends to create liberals at an astonishing rate. Even so, conservatives are the proponents of the American system as it is, in that it affords upward mobility to all. None of them would even question that an education is the key to this upward mobility. Success stories like Oprah Winfrey or Bill Gates are perfect for showing the best in American freedom, but they’re aberrations; for most, a college education is the surest way to upward mobility.

The public is just as schizophrenic. We worship at the altar of exceptional talent. Pop and sports stars are our heroes, and we hang on every word of Hollywood actors. They make obscene amounts of money, and Americans dream about living their lives. This seems to be an extension of the American fascination with the “get rich scheme” or winning the lottery, a gauzy fantasy we all seem to have but none of us really believe. What we do believe in is hard work. We respect people who do the hard jobs in society and “work for a living.” This is a holdover from our Puritan roots. The Protestant work ethic seems ingrained in the American psyche, a firm belief that hard work and godliness go hand in hand.

I don’t have any answers in this column, just observations. I do know, though, that the controversy over Scott Walker is hardly worth considering. Walker did go to college. He just left before finishing his degree. What he did do was become Governor of Wisconsin and survive three attempts to unseat him, pretty good for a guy without his degree. I have my doubts that Walker’s education will hurt his chances for President. It’s already been pointed out that the most educated of Presidents in recent history are Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter, neither offers much in the way of argument that education is a key to success in the job. Couple that with traditional American psychology, and I see no reason why Walker shouldn’t make a fine candidate.

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