Month: June 2007

via the Houston Business Journal: The City of Houston received $35 million, up 4.15 percent from $33.6 million in 2006, while the Metropolitan Transit Authority received $36.9 million, up 9.16 percent from last year. Maybe

An excellent story by Del Quentin Wilber in today’s Washington Post highlights how Houston-based Continental Airlines has made the internet an important part of its customer-service strategy: Since being assigned to monitor Flyertalk, http://www.airliners.net and

KPRC-2 reported last night on the Harris County Republican Party’s threat of legal action if the city continues to shirk its financial reporting duties: Houston Mayor Bill White is under scrutiny concerning last year’s city

Yesterday a rather large photo of a cat standing on his hind legs and pawing at the air appeared next to a headline with poorly-spelled words on the front page of the Chron’s business section.

The Chronicle‘s Rosanna Ruiz reports that the FBI has released official crime figures detailing Houston’s surge in murders in 2006: Houston’s homicide rate surpassed Dallas’ in 2006 for the first time in more than a