Maybe not Manhattan, but definitely world class

Last week, various media outlets reported that Mayor White asked the EPA to reconsider its methods of calculating emissions from area industry. Here is an excerpt from the Chronicle account: Mayor Bill White on Thursday

In today’s Chronicle, Jonathan Smulian, who describes himself as “a practicing urban planner with more than 50 years’ international experience,” offers the latest secret to Houston-world-classness: “appreciation, preservation and promotion of 150-plus years of history.”

Chronicle reporters Robert Crowe and Kevin Moran report on a gun battle that took place along the Southwest Freeway yesterday: One man was killed and at least two were wounded when rival immigrant smuggling gangs