The Chronicle‘s Rad Sallee ran the questions I emailed him last week in his transportation column today: BlogHOUSTON editor and Midtown resident Kevin Whited recalled that Quincy Allen, the TxDOT engineer in charge of rebuilding
Look what some Heights residents did: A group of homeowners in the Houston Heights district is claiming victory after it managed to save several 150-year-old oak trees. The seed, you might say, was planted last
This is Chronicle editorial number FOUR on the meanies at local school districts who don’t feed children every single day of summer vacation: The U.S. government pays for 100 percent of these meals. But school
The Chronicle runs one of those “it’s not news until WE say it’s news” stories today about the rumors surrounding Weingarten’s stewardship of the shopping center at West Gray and Shepherd: IN the recent controversy
Once again, it’s time to check up on our hirelings, and see what they’re doing with the fine city we entrusted to them. Readers are cautioned that I delete what I judge to be extraneous
Today Rick Casey looks at Mayor White’s efforts to get local refineries to pay more property taxes: More than a year ago [Mayor White] came to the conclusion that refineries in the area were very
Councilmember and temporarily-former Mayor Pro Tem Carol Alvarado decided to try her hand at blogging on Friday, and her post at Charles Kuffner’s blog is quite a debut. Here are a few choice excerpts from
Last week the Chronicle‘s Tom Manning filed this story on the final Metro University line meeting: Tuesday’s third and final public meeting on the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s revised options for the University Rail Line did
Chronicle reader representative James Campbell expands on an earlier blog post in his weekly column for the Chronicle today: LONGTIME residents of Houston have seen this dance before: Mayor hires a new police chief —
via KUHF: Katrina evacuees enrolled in a program that pays their rent and utilities will now have more time to recertify for that housing assistance. As Houston Public Radio’s Jack Williams reports, FEMA has extended