Homicides in Houston are down fourteen percent from last year (via the Chronicle): Between Jan.1 and Sept. 17 last year, the city’s homicide count was 290, Police Chief Harold Hurtt said. In the same period
The ever-enterprising Matt Stiles took last week’s list of Houston billionaires and gave it a local politics-angle: Business reporter Purva Patel has a story today about the Houstonians who made Forbes magazine’s annual list of
Last week I ran across this post on Reason’s Out of Control blog which included a link to some interesting data: Houston’s public transit market share in 2005 was 0.9%. For some clarification, Tom Bazan
Paige Hewitt writes in the Chronicle about HPD’s adding some items to its chase policy. Here is a post I did on my blog and in the Chronicle‘s blog pages about it: I read today’s
So, last week Mayor White admitted he lacked leadership by ignoring his instincts, and instead doing what Council wanted: “One thing I’ve learned from this experience is to go with my instinct,” said White, who
According to the Houston Business Journal, one group thinks he is: Proxy Governance Inc. said in its report issued Thursday that the compensation package of CEO Tilman Fertitta is more than 10 times that of
Well, while Kevin and Anne [woops! That should be Kevin and Callie!] are off to the sunny Near East, I’m picking up the slack a bit by noting that the Danger Train has struck (a
After yesterday’s Terminal C food contract passed by an 11-2 margin, Mayor White decided to play the victim: “One thing I’ve learned from this experience is to go with my instinct,” said White, who originally
A wild driver recently slammed into Westbury Animal Clinic. Here is the interesting description of the driver from the Chronicle‘s Betty L. Martin: The driver, who spoke no English and apparently had neither a driver’s
Anne Linehan reminded me a few days ago that the blog’s third birthday was approaching. Sure enough, our first posts here were on September 19, 2004. So, Happy Birthday to us! We weren’t quite sure