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SoundcheckThe ONLY guide of i ts kindfor the NB/SM Metroplex!

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1st WordJay Hix Jones saw what wewrote about him last week. 3

4County BeatCommissioners just say noto something or other Some water thing.

15Best of the WurstSample BallotFinally. Your vote counts for SOMEthing.

7Around & AboutZombies hang out at Landa Park on the dance SLAB. Get it? Zombies? SLAB? Hahahahahaha. Because they're dead and stuf f.

6Due ProcessCity begs new set of judges

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Mea CulpaWe made a couple errors in last week’s column, and we’re going to clear them up right now. Don’t believe us, just watch.

First off, we said this in reference to the disposable container ban: “an appeal of which goes to court immediately after we go to press this week”. That’s technically correct, but the appeal isn’t actually against the ban, it’s against the ruling against the ban.

We also said this when discussing the tattooed, faux hipster charlatans about to descend upon our fair city armed with a full compliment of Puritanism, to, you know, save us from ourselves: “But it seems only Evangelicals get involved in media…” That’s factually inaccurate, and should have read “But it seems only Evangelicals get involved in high-profile religious media…” The difference is small, but important. There are plenty of religious people of all stripes working in mainline media.

There. All better.

Reality Producer RespondsIf you read last week’s column, you know that Hoarders producer Jay Hix Jones intends to come to town over Memorial Day weekend with a “prophet” and hip-hop producer/evangelist in tow to document the apparent Sodom and Gomorrah atmosphere of rape and death that exists on our local rivers, and to, of course, change all that with their supernatural powers. (If you didn’t see last week’s column, it’s pinned to the top of our Facebook page at facebook.com/txcitizen. Have a peek, if you’re so inclined.) Here are a couple quotes from Hix Jones to give you a taste of what he thinks of the situation, and what his intentions are (emphasis ours):

“As we all know, there is a party culture on the river especially during Memorial Day, and with this culture brings an increase in fights, arrests, rapes, deaths, public intoxication, indecent exposure, accidents, trash on the river etc etc etc the list goes on and on.” (I know, right? So many rapes and deaths. The place is Caligulesque.)

“And while there still may be campfires, horse shoe games,

etc, the cases of rapes, violence, indecent exposure, arrests, fights, accident, etc etc increase ten fold during the Holiday

Weekend.” (TEN FOLD! Hide your kids. Hide your wife.)The press release for the project

had this to say:“Public intoxication, indecent exposure,

fights, drugs, arrests, and even deaths are all part of the experience. It’s one irresponsible wild ride down this lazy river that seems to grow in popularity every summer.” (Death! Death! DEATH!)

“Every Memorial Day weekend a ‘floatopia’ invades the cool waters transforming the town into one of the most popular summer tourist destinations in the south; think South Padre, Daytona, and Cancun combined and then multiplied by Vegas and Ibiza.”

Ok, we have to stop right there. Can you imagine the utter disappointment on the face of any spring-breaker who was persuaded to come here with promises of the collective atmospheres of South Padre Island, Daytona and Cancun MULTIPLIED by Las Vegas and Ibiza? This from a guy saying that he’s coming to produce a documentary. Jay, we’ve got to tell you, documentaries are not just a bunch of things thrown together the way you want them to be – docs are like news. You find the facts, then you report. You don’t get to make up crime stats and false marketing claims, no matter how awesome they might sound. Those tactics are reserved for reality television programs, like Hoarders.

Hix Jones read our article, and let me know he had seen it. We offered him a full rebuttal, without edits, which he declined due to scheduling. Our offer still stands, however, so Jay, when you want to have your say on this issue, we’re ready to print it, verbatim.

In the meantime, we’re waiting on the actual crime statistics from City Hall to arrive in the newsroom. Our expectation is that rapes and deaths don’t increase tenfold over Memorial Day weekend. But unlike Jones, we’re going to go ahead and have a look at the numbers before we commit to anything.

Continued on page 5.

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WITH NICK ROGERSWITH NICK ROGERSNo WCID for Meyer’s RanchCounty Commissioners received a standing ovation after the Court denied Meyer Ranch’s petition to create a Water Control and Improvement District.

The petition came at a time when the Ranch is working with a developer to build a proposed 1,500 home subdivision on 750 acres near Dry Comal Creek. The WCID would allow a five-member board to make decisions concerning water issues for the subdivision, including how much water to pump from wells, its drainage and its conservation. The District would also allow for the issuance of bonds to be paid for with ad valorem taxes.

The planned District was met with stiff, but organized resistance from the Friends of Dry Comal Creek, which represents residents in the area.

Friends of Dry Comal Creek were concerned that such a large development would have a negative impact on the supply and quality of the water in their own wells, especially during times of drought. Such decisions, they argued, would be made by only five people who would not have to answer to those outside the District. They were also unhappy about the idea of a taxing entity, which was prepared to issue more than $50 million in bonds.

As well, the Friends of Dry Comal Creek warned that since the creek runs into the Comal River, that extra runoff would flow into New Braunfels, and that the extra runoff would be tainted.

Those opposing the WCID showed up in large and orderly numbers to speak before Commissioners on the matter.

“Water control does not equal water quality,” said Sabrina Houser, who co-owns Dry Comal Creek Vineyard with her father, Franklin. Since the Houser’s business relies on the quality of the water for their grapes, Sabrina argued that any change in that quality would have a detrimental impact on the vineyard.

Another opponent, Denise Harris, argued before Commissioners that the development would have a direct impact on the quantity and quality of water available in the Edwards Aquifer.

“We are in the most environmentally important area within all of the Edwards Aquifer Recharge area,” she said. “And it’s not just the Edwards Aquifer recharge, you have other aquifers below that.”

Area resident, Dr. Gary Bird, pointed out that the issue isn’t one that is inherently against building in the area.

“This isn’t about development, it’s more about responsible development,” he said.

“Putting 1,500 homes on 750 acres and building wells that may or may not have a sustainable water supply is not responsible.”

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No representatives from the Meyer Ranch appeared before Commissioners.

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2). The land to be included and the residents of the proposed district will be benefited by the creation of the district

3). That there is a public necessity or need for the district

4). That the creation of the district would further the public welfare.

Precinct 1 Commissioner Donna Eccleston made the motion and laid out her reasons to dismiss the WCID petition.

“One: Under the requirements of item three, there is no public necessity or need for the District,” she said. “There is no housing shortage in that area of the County and there are no impediments to development in that area under existing statute and County orders.

“Two: Under item four, the creation of the District does not further the public welfare because there is no need for the District and would create another layer of bureaucracy and would increase taxes,” Eccleston argued.

“If items three and four cannot be met, there is no reason to address the first two requirements,” she said. “As such, I move to deny the petition for the creation of the Water Control and Improvement District.”

With Eccleston’s motion seconded by Precinct 4’s Jen Crownover, the Court voted unanimously to deny the WCID.

While certainly happy with the decision, Ed Harris, who spearheads the Friends of Dry Comal Creek, said he can’t rest yet.

“The Friends of Dry Comal Creek still have an active sewage treatment facility permit application looming,” he said. “We will try to get TCEQ (Texas Commission on Environmental Quality) to dismiss the facility because there is no WCID. My question to TCEQ was why would they want to spend time working on this when they have other important matters?”

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Mr Rogers Goes to AustinLast Wednesday, TX Citizen uber-reporter Nick Rogers and I made the trip to Cap City to enjoy NB’s appeal to the District Court’s ruling against it in the disposable container ban case. We had chili-dogs at the Texas Chili Parlor, mere feet from Psychic City Attorney, Madame Val Acevedo, and her second, Frank “The Onion” Onion. District Two Councilwoman, and my personal realtor, Aja Edwards was there too. It was rad.

Anyway, we got up to the courtroom, and there was recalled New Braunfels City Councilman and architect of the disposable container ban, Ken Valentine, sitting two rows ahead of us, all smug and whatnot. He’s got a right to be proud. After being recalled from office, he got a city government to devote millions of dollars to his personal crusade. That’s power, and let’s face it, everybody needs a hobby. Some people learn to play trombone or rock climb, but to each his own. Val even came over and had a li’l chit chat with Ken to keep him in the loop. That was nice.

The best part of the hearing was when the City’s hired gun Mick McKamie claimed to represent the “entire city” (not just City Hall), and backed up that claim by stating that 58% of people that cast votes in the special election, did so in favor of the ban. Note to Mick: “Entire” means 100%.

In other words, he represents everyone, except just over four out of every ten voters, who should be considered irrelevant. McKamie brought the same knife-based arguments he had in hand when he lost the first gunfight in front of Judge Don Burgess. Cameras weren’t allowed in the courtroom, so I drew this sketch of McKamie myself:

McKamie’s strategy appears to be to keep repeating the same losing arguments in front of higher, and possibly more experienced and sophisticated judges until the ruling changes. Or until the City stops paying him the hundreds of thousands of dollars it’s billing the taxpayer for. In any case, you can read all about the hearing in Nick’s Due Process column on page 6. Or 7. I don’t know for sure, and I’m too lazy to check. Check the table of contents, which I’m pretty sure is back on page two.

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City Continues Appeal of Can-Ban RulingAs arguments over New Braunfels’ disposable container and cooler size ordinances were made before the Third Court of Appeals, all sides were well aware that the State was watching.

Appeals Court Justice Bob Pemberton noted that the case “has potential” to set precedent for ongoing Legislative and legal issues.

“Right now, the Legislature is looking at issues concerning local versus state control,” he said, asking how the New Braunfels case corresponds to those arguments.

“Local control is what this case is about,” said Mick McKamie, who represented New Braunfels. The San Antonio attorney said that to rule against the City would mean that the Texas Constitution and state statues would have to be changed in order to redefine the meaning and powers of a Home Rule City.

“The ordinances were meant to protect river and water quality,” he argued.

The case certainly could have influence on how the courts read Denton’s recent decision to ban hydraulic fracturing within its city limits. That case also represents a municipality’s arguments that it is protecting public health and, like the New Braunfels ordinances, the fracking ban was approved by voters.

While the New Braunfels and Denton cases argue that public health decisions should be dictated by municipalities, the cases also pit businesses against local institutions. Prior to the hearing, the City of Austin, the Texas Municipal League (which includes Denton), the Texas City Attorneys Association, along with a variety of river alliances, filed Amici Curiaes, or friend of the court briefs in support of New Braunfels.

The appeal was brought by the City after Judge Don Burgess ruled last March on behalf of various river-oriented businesses who sued New Braunfels over the cooler size and disposable container ordinances. Burgess agreed with the businesses that the ordinances were arbitrary, unenforceable and violated state laws.

One of the central arguments in the lawsuits concerns whether the various river-oriented businesses actually have standing to contest the laws. The City argued that the businesses’ rights weren’t impinged upon by the laws.

“It is very rare that a person has the right to challenge a penal ordinance,” McKamie argued. “Businesses lose their vested property right after they sell that item, and there was no prohibition on selling or buying products. It’s just that certain items, disposable containers, can’t be taken into the rivers.”

Justice Cindy Bourland asked if the disposable container ordinance had a negative affect on river businesses and their customers.

“No,” McKamie said. “The ordinance only affects and regulates those who bring disposable containers into the rivers.”

“Who would challenge the ordinances, then?” Pemberton asked.

“The buyer of the item,” McKamie answered.“So, somebody would have to carry a

disposable container into the river and get ticketed or arrested in order to contest it?” the Justice asked.

“That is the law in Texas,” McKamie responded.

Pemberton, who said he remembered floating down the rivers when he was younger, then focused in on what defines a disposable container.

“You could float down the rivers with an empty Ziploc, or a Ziploc with a gun or cell phone in it,” he stated. “So, it’s only disposable containers with food or beverages in them that are not allowed?”

“Those are the ones that have litter in them,” McKamie answered. “Just because it’s a navigable waterway doesn’t mean it’s olly olly oxen free once the waterway enters the City.”

Also with an eye on potential precedent, Jim Ewbank, who represented the river outfitters, argued that a reversal of the decision “would create a patchwork of laws for every city with a river that runs through it.”

Ewbank said that it is wrong “if a customer has to subject himself to criminal prosecution to contest an ordinance.” Citing an 1874 case, the attorney argued that a business has

standing so that its customers don’t have to be punished in order to dispute an ordinance.

“Where does the line fall, then?” Bourland asked. “Those arguments could apply to any city ordinance.”

“Do you have a vested property right to sell goods?” Justice David Puryear questioned.

Ewbank responded that a business can challenge an ordinance based upon vested property rights when an ordinance leads to a loss of business, particularly if the ordinances are illegal by their nature.

“A city cannot pass an ordinance that is arbitrary and capricious, or is unconstitutional and discriminatory,” Ewbank said. As proof, Ewbank pointed to a deposition by New Braunfels Police Capt. Michael Penshorn, who said that what constituted a disposable container was “up to the officer.”

“How is anybody supposed to know what is expected of them when law enforcement officers don’t know?” the attorney argued.

“You can take apart any law,” Bourland said. “What is the proper review? What is your position on the course of jurisdiction?”

“I think arbitrary and capriciousness is the easiest matter for this court,” Ewbank answered.

“What about waste management?” Pemberton asked.

“If the purpose of the ordinances were to reduce litter, then they are preempted by the State’s solid waste laws,” Ewbank said. “The same amount of litter is going to show up and it’s all going into the landfill.”

Both McKamie and Ewbank were optimistic that the Court understood their points.

“We are pleased with the oral argument,” McKamie said. “Based on some of the questions, the Court seemed in tune with our views on burden of proof, the nature of penal ordinances, and lack of state preemption.”

“The argument went well,” Ewbank said. “The judges are aware of the statewide impact of their decision. I thought they asked good questions on why we believe the ordinance is preempted by the Solid Waste Disposal Act.”

A decision by the Third Court of Appeals could take months.

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Criteria required for consideration:• Enrolled as a junior or senior high school student in Comal County• Ranked in the top 40 percent of high school class at time of application• Planning to attend an accredited business, technical/vocational school, or two or four-year college or university during the fall semester following their graduation from high school or achievement of GED• Must be involved in music, dance or theater arts in coursework in high school

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Name: ________________________________________________________

Home Address: __________________________________________________

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Email Address: __________________________________________________

Phone Number: _________________________________________________ Sex: (circle one) Male Female

Date of Birth: ________________________ Current Age: ___________

School Information:

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Primary Performance Interests, Genres, Instrument(s) played:How do you express yourself musically?

Activities, Honors, and Awards:List any office held or awards received in high school. If the award was repetitive, please indicate the number of years achieved. (Ex. National Honor Society, 3 years.)

List clubs or activities in which you have participated during your high school years, include sports and participation outside of school such as in a church organization, community service or non-profit activity.

Applicant Essay:Attach a typed essay no more than two(2) pages in length addressing an aspect of the blues music that interests you, or that has influenced you in some way.

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Alan Voight Music Scholarship ApplicationThe purpose of the Alan Voight Music Scholarship is to support higher education efforts of junior and senior high school students in Comal County who are members of music, dance or theater arts and who demonstrate promise and creativity in musical composition or performing. Selection of the recipients is at the sole discretion of the New Braunfels Blues Society. For 2015 up to four(4) scholarship of a minimum of $500 will be awarded.


By Gustavo Arellano

Dear Mexican: Why do wabs, regardless of age and body size, always have one hand rubbing their bellies under their shirts? Is this something that is inherent in all wabs? Because they all do it, especially the “fresh from the border” ones. I don’t get it. I’m a pocho, and I’ve never seen other pochos do it. Are wabs finger-banging their belly buttons or what? They all look so ####ing stupid doing this. Just go to Home Depot and watch them!

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Dear Pocho: What’s with the panza hate? In previous eras, girth was a sign of bounty and promise—I’m thinking Santa Claus, William Howard Taft and the Earth Mother. That’s still the case in Mexico: next to a broom-thick mustache and a gray Ford truck, a glorious, well-rounded stomach is our ultimate proof of machismo.

A panza’s layers of fat fuel our insatiable work ethic; its orbital shape is a testament to the wives we keep in kitchens at home. Gabachos might work out, but taut muscles cannot compete with the centripetal force of a panza. Kids flock to it; crowds stare in jealousy when a magnificent specimen passes by. So when we rub our panzas, we pat the larded treasure that brings us success, popularity and prosperity—recall how Buddhists massage Siddhartha’s plump belly for luck.

And, in an amazing coincidence, Theravada Buddhists celebrate a mid-July holiday called Khao Pansa, where the faithful live in monasteries for three months and conclude with a gluttonous festival of food—all in the name of expanding that sweet, sweet panza.

Dear Mexican: Not long ago, I attended a Los Tigres del Norte concert at a small hall with no dance floor. The people attending were supposed to sit down and enjoy the music. Five minutes into the music, these jumping beans started dancing in the aisle. Within minutes, half of the attendees were going up and down the aisles dancing to the music. It’s not the first time

I’ve seen Mexicans create improvised dance floors. Why do Mexicans love dancing so much?

Lambada Louie

Dear Gabacho: Anyone who needs to ask why people dance to Los Tigres del Norte—the norteño supergroup that combines traditional polka beats with socially conscious lyrics to create something that’s part Clash, part Lawrence Welk and puro mexicano—has no soul or is a gabacho. How can you not sway to their metronomic bass, their lush accordion trills, their canned sound effects, member Hernán Hernández’s mexcelente Mexi-mullet?

Mexican music is among the most danceable outside Brazil because its practitioners understand that nalga-shaking stirs humanity into the realm of ecstasy. Almost all the genres that constitute Mexican popular music—the aforementioned norteño, the brass-band strut of banda sinaloense, son jarocho’s twinkling harps and guitars, even the dark riffs of Mexican heavy metal—put the focus on rhythms rather than lyrics (the exception is ranchera, the domain of drunkards and macho pussy men).

But dancing for Mexicans is more than a mere physical act. Every hallmark moment in Mexican society centers on dances—weddings, baptisms, informal gatherings, birthdays, anniversaries. More noteworthy are the dances held by hometown benefit associations that raise billions of dollars for the rebuilding of villages in Mexico.

Tellingly, Mexican society does not consider girls and boys to be women or men until they begin to dance. Once they’re eligible to dance, Mexicans are eligible to take care of their community, too. Mexicans know that dancing solidifies trust, creates community, repairs the injured civic and personal soul. Besides, it’s a great way for Mexican adolescents to grope each other in a parent-approved environment.

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On EducationIt looks like election 2016 is ready to begin. You’d think something slated to take place in November 2016 might wait until at least 2015 was over, but you’d be wrong. Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic candidate, will probably announce her intention to run for President early next month, if only to give the press something to write about other than her emails, and the Republican candidates have been glad-handing it across the primary states for a couple of months now. Regardless of announcements, we all know who’s in this thing.

I expect the major issues in the actual election will be security and the economy. Democrats are wrong on both of these, so barring a worthwhile Libertarian candidate, I will either vote Republican or not at all, again. (There is some hope that Rand Paul will win the Republican nomination, and if he does, my support will be more enthusiastic.) None of this is to say that Republicans are right on either issue, but they are substantially less wrong, and you can’t have everything, particularly in American politics. One area of real interest that will almost certainly not make it beyond the Republican primary is education. Republican candidates are making comments about education, mostly in passing, because Common Core is a fractious issue. Some of the more conservative candidates hate it, and some of the less conservative candidates support it. I would like for the record to make clear that I know nothing about Common Core, and I do not support it. I do agree, though, that we do have a real problem with education in this country, and without a discussion of some depth regarding it, we will almost certainly pay a hefty price.

I feel justified in dismissing Common Core out-of-hand because it is just the latest in an apparently never-ending line of programs proposed by the Federal government to fix the education system. As a libertarian, I tend to think that it was the Federal government’s involvement that created the problem in the first place, but regardless of where we want to place the blame, there will be no solution until some of the basic underlying principles of education are discussed and agreed upon. The most fundamental of these is determining why we are educating our children in the first place.

The question of why we educate our children may seem like an easy one, but there

are a good number of answers for people involved in education, and these answers are sometimes at cross purposes. Most parents have some vague notion that they would like their children to receive an education that gives them greater opportunities in life than they had. The reality of this seems to lie somewhere between vocational training and learning for its own sake, with neither being exactly what they are looking for. Educators, particularly those involved in graded and high school, often see education as a means to social reform. This is not true of all teachers by any means, but even the least ideological of them see school as an important part of socialization. Our government wants education to shape the type of citizenry we have. Patriotism, respect for authority, an understanding of the “process,” and a sense of civic responsibility are common ideals for politicians (and those connected to them) of any stripe. Lastly, there are those interested primarily in the preservation and promotion of learning as an intellectual pursuit, where all minds should be nurtured to find those that are truly exceptional.

I fall into the last camp, but it’s probably the least pragmatic of all the possibilities. The libertarian approach would leave things up to the free-market as much as possible, but a return to private education would be to ignore the fact that public education has been part of this country nearly since its inception. The next best option to my mind is to have the decision made by the consumer of the product (The interests of government can be addressed with a good civics class, and someone really should slap around the more ideologically driven of my educational brethren and tell the rest of us to grow a backbone and insist that parents do their own damn job), and since children are too young to make decisions for themselves, this would be the parents. Now all we have to do is get parents to agree on what it is they want.

I think part of the reason that parents don’t generally have a clear view of what education should mean and why we should do it is because they recognize that children are different and that no single answer will suit every case. The solution to this may be a return to some of the more classical elements of education in this country. Our insistence on a national standard of a high school education for all doesn’t seem to have worked in the long run. In fact, it appears to have created a

system where curriculum is geared to the lowest common denominator and what is received for education is increasingly valueless. It might be better to make substantial distinctions between the grades based on purpose and return to a system where a wide variety of educational choices are available. An example of such a system might include the following options:

• Graded school would represent a simple standard of education deemed necessary for all adults of average intelligence.

• Apprenticeships, internships, and vocational training would probably be next, for employment based primarily on skills.

• High school would be the standard for all students looking to continue education. A high school education should be designed to provide the background knowledge needed for higher education.

We could still insist that education continue until age eighteen. One of the preceding two steps could fit that requirement.

We currently have associate’s degrees, and they probably should be used more frequently. Businesses often insist on a college education when what they are really looking for could be covered in an associate’s degree. Vocational schools might also require a different level of education. This might be addressed by adjusting associates degrees, expanding lower level vocational schools or using specialized vocational schools. Levels of schooling beyond this point should probably not be part of this conversation. The students became adults about two bullet points back, so the consumer has changed, and this level of education really should be something attained only for very specific goals.

I would love to see this type of discussion in politics. There wouldn’t be anywhere near the opportunity for “gotcha” moments, but some actual progress might be made. I would still insist that education should be privatized across the board, but those who are not of the libertarian mindset ought to be served better by both parties than to be continually given nothing but platitudes and empty promises. American education needs a change, and Americans are fully capable of deciding how to do it. Our education system should not continue to be in the hands of a select few.

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