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
A couple of weeks ago, the local Hearst daily, like the vaunted New York Times, chose to bury inside the newspaper the story of a developing terror plot against New York’s JFK airport. The New
Columnist-extraordinaire Mark Steyn made a killer observation last week regarding Mississippi Senator Trent Lott: I have no serious expectations of Senators these days, but I would like them at the very least to try and
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
KTRH-740 is running an AP story on its website that perfectly explains why light rail transit in Houston will never come close to supporting itself: AAA spokesman Geoff Sundstrom said commuters are willing to drive
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