Month: June 2007

Yesterday, a reader passed along a USA Today story by Richard Wolf on Houston’s overwhelmed emergency healthcare services. Here is a quick excerpt: Ijeoma Onye awoke one day last month short of breath, her head

The Chronicle‘s Matt Stiles reports that Mayor White has reversed a decision by his bumbling, absentee police chief on the matter of continuing to ticket motorists for what are technically license plate frame violations (despite

Over the weekend, the Chronicle‘s Anne Marie Kilday reported on a surge in crime in southwest Houston: Facing complaints that recent armed robberies and assaults have caused business to drop by 25 percent in southwest

Those who travel (for fun or for business) or who follow travel news/blogs obsessively are, no doubt, well aware of the ongoing fiasco with the issuance of passports, in which tighter rules for western hemisphere

The Chronicle‘s Matt Stiles reports that HPD is taking full revenue-stream advantage of a poorly written 2003 Texas law on license plate frames (before revisions kick in later this year): Houston police officers continue writing

The government’s propensity to encourage stupidity on a massive scale takes another step forward as Harris County allows the Astrodome Redevelopment Group to continue planning the Astrodome Luxury Hotel and Convention Center (via Chron.com): During

Reader Steven Walker calls our attention to a Washington Post story about a Houston-area hero. Here’s an excerpt: The blood in his eyes almost blinded him, but the Navy Seal could hear, clattering above the