Due to the rapidly changing nature of news and events related to Hurricane Katrina and Houston, here’s an open thread post. We will be adding updates as we run across them, and we are encouraging
Banjo Jones has a really good idea how our community might help our friends and neighbors in New Orleans: An unprecedented disaster calls for an unprecedented response. That’s why the Harris County Domed Stadium, known
The following local organizations will be helping hurricane refugees in the Houston area, and can use our help. If you know of other local organizations that are helping out and could use help themselves, please
Here’s a bit of good news for our Houston visitors: While evacuees of Hurricane Katrina are waiting to return home, the Houston Comets and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, are trying to give them
HISD has announced that it is ready to accept students who are stranded in Houston due to Hurricane Katrina: HISD officials contacted the Texas Education Agency Tuesday about guidelines for temporarily accepting the storm refugees
Today, the Chronicle editorial board laments that it’s likely Ellington Field will lose its fighter jets: Houston is the nation’s fourth-largest city and home to one of the world’s greatest industrial complexes. Houston warrants a
The Chronicle‘s Edward Hegstrom reported over the weekend that the Minutemen are already having an effect on Houston day-labor sites: The Minutemen aren’t scheduled to patrol the streets of Houston for another month, but already
The Chronicle‘s editorial board decided to throw some praise HISD’s way today, but first the reader has to make it through a scolding from the idealists. That’s typical for this editorial board. However, we think
Chris Elam called attention to a weekend Reuters (?!) report in the Chronicle that Cindy Sheehan might pay a visit to House Majority Leader Tom DeLay’s local office: Sheehan has been demanding a [second] meeting
The Houston Business Journal‘s Jenna Colley reports that the city’s effort to sell a parking garage is being held up by one member of Council: A potential brokerage contract between the City of Houston and