Year: 2007

According to the Chronicle‘s Matt Stiles, Mayor White has decided against adding new council districts at this time based on the city’s estimates of population growth: Mayor Bill White has decided against adding two single-member

KHOU-11’s Doug Miller reports on the midrise construction boom taking place in Montrose: “I have never seen this kind of development,” said Houston City Councilmember Sue Lovell. “I mean, 10 midrises going up, pretty much

The Chronicle‘s Jennifer Friedberg reports that the City of Houston is about to retire a fire station: After more than 50 years in service, the Houston Fire Department is ready to retire Station No. 37

KTRK-13 reports that Chief Harold Hurtt kicked off HPD’s “March on Crime” effort today: Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt kicked off the department’s annual March on Crime initiative. During the month of March, HPD sends

The Chronicle reports that the Danger Train saw record ridership on Tuesday: Metro set a weekday record Tuesday with 56,388 passenger boardings on MetroRail. Many of the passengers were attending opening night of the Houston

Some local bloggers have either heavily blockquoted news copy or rewritten press copy on the big groundbreaking of the Houston pavilions, but Jennifer Ringwald (of Houston’s finest cover band) has a more unique take on