Tensions rise high at heated Ashby forum

The Baker Institute Student Forum hosted a heated debate on the construction of the project known as the Ashby High Rise on Monday before a crowd of students and community members. BISF invited Jim Reeder, an attorney representing the Boulevard Oaks and Southampton civic groups, Houston journalist Mike Snyder, community anti-zoning activist Brian Phillips and University of Houston law professor John Mixon to the debate held at Sammy's Café, which turned out to be a combative repartee between conflicting philosophical and legal positions.