Month: May 2007

I was on my way back from lunch earlier on Buffalo Speedway when I heard a boom, all the traffic lights went dead, and I saw billowing black smoke off to the east. Apparently, a

HPD assistant police chief and blogHOUSTON favorite (for entertainment value!) Martha Montalvo is quoted in a KPRC-2 story on the decision to pull officers from the street to help out in the property room after

The Chronicle‘s Matt Stiles reports today on Mayor White’s latest response to the massive underfunded liability in the municipal employees pension fund: Short of layoffs, the city won’t meet its full obligation to the municipal

The Chronicle‘s Maggie Galehouse reports that thieves have rendered one city landmark somewhat less than world class: The lights of Mecom Fountain, one of Houston’s showiest landmarks and a bright spot on the city’s grandest

Alan Helfman, Jay Wall, and William A Wolff have followed a March 2007 op-ed on crime with another op-ed on crime in today’s Chronicle. In this one, they advocate greater use of statistics and New