July 2006 - blogHOUSTON

Sallee: Best to mind your speed on Spur 527

July 31, 2006 Kevin Whited

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

Heights residents save two old oak trees

July 31, 2006 Anne Linehan

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

Chron continues killing trees to print these editorials

July 31, 2006 Anne Linehan

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

Chron reporter discovers Marfreless (eight days later)

July 31, 2006 Kevin Whited

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

City of Houston Agenda 8-1-06

July 30, 2006 ubu roi

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

How about a look at the Chronicle's property tax appraisals?

July 30, 2006 Anne Linehan

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

Alvarado fails to raise level of sanctuary debate

July 30, 2006 Kevin Whited

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

The CTC is standing tall for Greenway landowners

July 30, 2006 Anne Linehan

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

Campbell: Acrimony between Chief, officers nothing new

July 30, 2006 Kevin Whited

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 —

Another FEMA deadline extended

July 29, 2006 Anne Linehan

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