Year: 2007

The downtown library, which seemingly has been under renovation forever, is shut down today. The shutdown wasn’t planned. Rather, as the Chronicle‘s David Ellison reports, the library was forced to shut down today because of

The name might sound like a parody, but the Progressive Bag Alliance has a mission — to save plastic grocery bags, and Mayor White is in its camp: Some cities, including Austin, that once considered

Houston’s copper bandits have been in the news again lately. This bit of advice to citizens from an HPD captain (via KHOU-11’s Jeff McShan) following the latest brazen copper heist caught our eye today: “Usually

I was surprised to read Rick Casey’s “Have pity on the poor DA” article this morning. Is it me, or does this belong on the editorial page? Why is this listed (on the website) under

Yesterday, Mrs. White surprised us with criticism of HPD’s murder reporting (as first reported by KHOU-11’s Mark Greenblatt). As Greenblatt now reports, Mayor White has taken the lead after Chief Hurtt’s poor handling of the

KHOU-11’s Lee McGuire reports on the problem of grease clogging the city’s sewer lines, and one of the more bizarre proposals to find its way to Council in a while: So to stop the problem