Available in a 5′4″x7′8″ [$179] and 7′8″x10′9″ [$379] at Home Depot

In this week’s Real Estate section, which should be hitting PC lawns any moment now, I take a look at three products do-it-yourselfers can install in their doors to make it more difficult for a burglar to kick one in.

This would have a huge impact on how DCAD appraisals would work for both commercial and residential properties. While appraisals on homes, particularly those on the high-end of the spectrum, would likely increase, the same would happen with commercial properties, which currently are even more undervalued on the tax rolls than most homes.

In theory, higher valuations means taxing entities could lower their tax rates, something the HP Council couldn’t do this year, and UP Council could only barely muster.

What’s even more scary is the way diseases like wilt spread. The roots graft together and even by just touching one another, they can contract the disease.

Like a tree STD.

For the last several years, many of my friends have told me they’ve stopped reading that “rag” called the Park Cities People since Wick Allison took over. I’ve continued my subscription because I like to read about what’s going on in the community. But your editorial today endorsing Obama has caused me to agree with others that your paper no longer is worthy of my money. Like many, you have fallen under the Obama spell & have been swayed by smooth talking language of a socialist, disguised as a statesman. So what if some consevatives have failed us, taking our country in the radical direction Obama will lead us in will be disastrous. If nothing else, his Supreme court appointments & other judicial selections will se t back conservatism decades a the appointments of Carter & Clinton have done. Go ahead, endorse Obama, but when the government begins to také over every aspect of our lives, maybe even what you can print in your paper, don’t come back with an editorial crying about lost freedoms. Make no mistake, whatever has led you to think highly of B..O.n it will go down the drain as his inexperience & weakness will be exploited by Pelosi & Reid as they foam at the mouth thinking of the government controls & socialist programs they can implement with puppet Obama in the White House. How gullible & naive you are.

MIS carpool is a scary place. I have only done it once, and will never go back. Last year was my oldest child’s first day of fifth grade. As we drove up smiling with first day nerves, this dad pulls through the main section of High School honking his horn, veins literally bulging from his neck, with children still in the car!!!  Nobody could figure out what they were doing wrong. I’m pretty sure  our mere existence was the problem. I was seriously scared of him. He was driving an SUV, the sports car must have been in for a service.

We live right across the street from [HPISD school] and and drop-off, pick-up and voting times are completely chaotic.  It’s like each parent thinks that he/she is the only one in the whole area and can do anything he/she wants (no matter how inconsiderate), from  stopping in the middle of the street (when there are cars parked on both sides of the street and only room for one car to get through), to leaving his/her car parked unattended in front of our driveway for who knows how long.  I feel your pain.

I have never encountered such rude people as at car pool in my life and was beginning to think I was the only one.

I have often thought HPMS car pool lane is one of the most frustrating, curious and dangerous places.  I am sure that your honking dad did not even realize what grave danger he was in– considering your state of mind.  I would like to share a brief story of another middle- aged exec dad who was in a very risky spot himself– this time it was I who was planning bodily harm.  My child and I were riding to HPMS on our bikes.  A black Mercedes sped past then pulled directly in front of us and quickly came to a stop.  The door flew open and a child emerged.  It was only luck–since I am not a very skilled bicycle rider–that kept me from running head-long into the kid and car door.  Although the parent in question was clearly busy and important thus could not be bothered to actually enter the queue lane, I thought that he might qualify for the “just ban dads in sports cars from the carpool lane all together” category?