Year: 2007

Alan Helfman, Jay Wall, and William Wolff offer another of their periodic op-eds on HPD and Houston crime. Here is an excerpt: In his inaugural speech as NYPD commissioner, [William] Bratton promised to cut serious

Roy Reynolds comments on Mayor White and reminisces about his predecessor in today’s Chronicle: [Mayor] initially concentrated on long-neglected financial restructuring, including the unfunded liabilities of the employee pension fund, to put the city on

The Houston Business Journal reports that several Houston chefs will be appearing on The Food Network in a few days: Ibiza Food & Wine Bar chef/owner Charles Clark will take on Iron Chef Mario Batali

KHOU-11’s Lee McGuire reports that the City of Houston is lagging in its implementation of the scrap-metal ordinance that Mayor White and his Council passed in March: Every scrap dealer in Houston was supposed to

KTRK-13’s Deborah Wrigley reports on fireworks at the county government level: Today was the public hearing on the county’s proposed tax rate which commissioners are leaning toward lowering by one cent. Instead it turned into