Councilmember Michael Berry emails that he’ll be sitting in for Chris Baker again today on KTRH-740 (3 to 7 pm).
He’s thrown out a couple of potential topics for input from bloggers and blog readers and listeners.
First, he notes that the Guardian Angels will be coming to town on January 17 for a press conference to announce their future presence in Houston (in response to recent violent crime news). Is this helpful to the city? Is it bad publicity? Will their volunteer efforts provide a boost to an undermanned HPD? Or will they simply get in the way of an undermanned police force?
Second, he notes a Chronicle story by Matt Stiles on so-called “mobile” food vendors and how to regulate them for health. Do these “mobile” kitchens meet proper health and sanitary standards? Or are moves to hold them to those standards simply a pretense to force ethnic entrepreneurs out of some neighborhoods?
Councilmember Berry asks for your input via email at iam-at-michaelberry.com or as a caller to the radio program, and comments here are encouraged as well.
