Year: 2007

Last weekend, the Chronicle ran a letter from Chief Hurtt responding to the most recent op-ed from Alan Helfman, Jay Wall and William A. Wolff. In the letter, Chief Hurtt takes exception with their notion

The mayor is back today with a new letter released to the city employees (and one presumes, the Chronicle) about his plans to continue underfunding the civilian employee pensions. May 23, 2007 To: City of

The Chronicle‘s Matt Stiles blogs about his efforts to pry public information out of HPD, and his fallback method when the usual procedures don’t work quite right: Around the same time, I made an open-records

Last night, KTRK-13’s Wayne Dolcefino ran an investigative story on the “private” security operations being run by HPD commanders, sometimes from within the department during working hours. Here’s a teaser: Houston police headquarters is rocked

I have been fairly out of the loop for the past couple of months due to my younger son’s baseball season. He’s on the Spring Klein Red Sox (11 and under, USSSA Level A ball).

Some of the Chronicle sportswriters are becoming excited over the prospect of a dedicated new Houston Dynamo stadium boondoggle downtown. Glenn Davis weighs in with the following: Let me borrow a real estate phrase: Location,

A few days ago, the Chronicle ran a letter from local government watchdog Bob Lemer on the continuing municipal employees pension fund problems. Here are a few key points he made: The city’s June 30,