Month: February 2006

Bloomberg reports that Krispy Kreme will be closing its Houston-area stores: Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc., the second-largest U.S. doughnut chain, will close all six stores in Houston to end a dispute with a franchisee. The

KHOU-11’s Doug Miller reports that our businessman-mayor is considering an advertising educational campaign for electricity firms that don’t have their names attached to a football stadium: Now, Houston’s mayor wants to encourage more people to

KHOU-11’s Jeremy Desel reports that Houston emergency services are being taxed by Katrina evacuees: In the months since Katrina total EMS Responses are up 10 percent to a yearly total of 234,259 last year. Total

Tom Bazan forwarded this interesting blurb about the city’s ongoing troubles with its pension plans from KTRH-740 earlier this week: According to the city council’s new pension committee chair Pam Holm as long as the

Dr. Abe Saavedra gave HISD’s State of the Schools speech yesterday and, by all (media) accounts, it appears HISD is focusing on getting students prepared for and into college. To that end, Dr. Saavedra wants