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Metro: Frank Wilson's too busy to ride public transit

September 26, 2007 Anne Linehan

Last night on KTRK-13, Wayne Dolcefino took a look at what it cost to make those goofy videos on Metro’s website: Just how much of your money is METRO spending to convince you to ride

The financial benefits of Houston's arts

September 24, 2007 Anne Linehan

According to a new study, Houston’s vibrant arts scene contributes substantially to the local economy (via Houston Business Journal): “The Business of the Arts: A Look into The Economic Impact of the Arts on the

Trending in the right direction

September 24, 2007 Anne Linehan

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

Houston billionaires give to local politicians

September 23, 2007 Anne Linehan

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

Metro works for the "greater" good…all 0.9% of it

September 23, 2007 Anne Linehan

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

More supervisors listening in on police chases

September 22, 2007 Jason

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

Mayor White talks leadership…during the week he was lacking some

September 22, 2007 Anne Linehan

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

Is Tilman over-compensated?

September 21, 2007 Anne Linehan

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

The danger train strikes again

September 21, 2007 ubu roi

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

Mayor White: Council made me do it! Really!

September 20, 2007 Anne Linehan

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