Angleton, we have a problemo

Not long ago, the elected leaders of Angleton said nay to two things: letting the bars stay open later and to praying.
Now it looks like they made the wrong decision on both counts.

Letting the bars stay open later would have led to increased city tax revenue, said the bar owners.
And praying, said the pro prayer faction, would have brought the town’s chosen leaders closer to the Man Upstairs.

Now Angleton needs both the extra revenue and prayer, lots of prayer, but can’t count on the bars or public pleas to the Almighty for either one.

The city’s going to have raise the tax rate about 5 cents.

“Past mismanagement,” the headline in the Clute daily said.
Things aren’t so hunky dory, the Angleton semi-daily reports, quoting a local.

“No one noticed” that several police grants had expired, the Clute daily reported, which provided the “hardest” budget hit.

“No one” takes in a lot of territory, like the whole city payroll.

But the Clute daily apparently didn’t want to besmirch the budget acumen of anyone by name, so it decided to place the blame on everyone.

Even the secretaries, the clerks, the janitors and the cops on the beat didn’t notice the expiration of the police grants!

Back during the bar closing controversy, some found it odd that some Council members who wanted to pray at the meetings also favored letting the bars stay open later.

Go figure that out, the critics said.

Seems like the pro-prayer officials are pushing demon rum, they sniffed.

But wouldn’t it be kinda nice now if the City Council could pray for something good to happen?

Maybe they could pray that a buyer for the Intermedics building suddenly appeared and opened up a big factory that put people to work and paid the city a big fat payment in-lieu of taxes.

Or, failing that, maybe now they wish they had a little of the extra tax money that demon rum would have provided.

Maybe it would have saved a job or two for some of the cops who are going to be laid off.