Month: June 2007

The Chronicle‘s Kristen Mack reports that HCC Trustee Jay Aiyer has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor related to campaign finance: Houston Community College Trustee Jay Aiyer pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of tampering with

Look who attended Tilman Fertitta’s celebration of himself last week (according to Chronicle columnist Shelby Hodge): Police Chief Harold Hurtt and wife Lonetta passed on the tequila but didn’t fail to observe the grandeur of

In a column about Democratic aspirations to sweep Harris County in 2008, the Chronicle‘s Kristen Mack includes this bit of hilarity: Former Houston Police Chief C.O. Bradford will take on GOP District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal.

The Chronicle ran an interesting column from Lisa Falkenberg yesterday. With recent stories on red light cameras, Falkenberg started wondering why the traffic lights downtown are “synchronized” in a way that makes little sense (that

Last week, City Council passed a $3.8 billion budget. We didn’t comment at the time, as we were a bit under the weather, but there was a fair amount of news and blog commentary. As