Local radio host secures supplies for troops in Iraq

You know, it’s difficult to serve as an elected official. Really! The constituents are so entrenched in their ways. You don’t believe me? Just ask retiring state Sen. Jon Lindsay. Janet Elliott did in today’s

The Chronicle‘s Bill Murphy reports that Harris County Judge Robert Eckels will apparently seek re-election: As part of the fallout from Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison’s decision not to run for governor, County Judge Robert Eckels

There’s an old phrase used by academics who study bureaucratic/organizational politics, “where you sit determines where you stand.” The phrase means that institutional pressures frequently shape the preferences and advocacy of policymakers, sometimes as much