Month: March 2007

City of Houston housing guru and Friend of Bill David Mincberg has really been making the (news) rounds lately. Here’s a dispatch from the Chronicle‘s Seshadri Kumar: The city of Houston will soon have an

KUHF-88.7’s Laurie Johnson did an important story today on Mayor White’s big new program to boost “affordable housing” in the city. It seems that some of the people who are the intended beneficiaries of this

KUHF-88.7’s Laurie Johnson reports that Mayor White’s latest effort to imitate Chicago’s Mayor Daley is proceeding apace: Houston Mayor Bill White first proposed the idea of a traffic mobility team last spring. The past ten

The Chronicle ran an op-ed by Alan Helfman, Jay Wall, and William A Wolff today. The auto and real-estate guys have discovered we’re short on cops and could use some leadership at HPD. Agreed!

You may have read of HISD’s bonus error — giving part-time teachers the same bonus amount as full-time teachers. Houston Federation of Teachers President Gayle Fallon is telling teachers who received more money than they

Last month Isiah Carey highlighted the problem of a city vendor that has been audited several times, the results of each suggesting the city has been overpaying for services and products. Today, the Chronicle‘s Matt