$9.5 Million For "Free" Email?

Crap like this makes the media reports of questionable travel expenses by City Council and the Mayor look pretty minor in comparison.

Councilman Tatro has been all over this issue, but hasn't been able to generate much momentum so far. I can't help but question the $9.5 million deal on its merits -- do we really need to spend that much money to make sure every Houstonian has access to email (when every Houstonian can, for free, go into the library and set up a yahoo email account)? But if it can't be killed on the merits, maybe it will fall because of possibly illegal bidding practices.

And that would be fitting for Mayor Pothole's administration.

[Posted at 07:27 CST on 11/15/02] [Link]