Month: March 2008

Various media outlets have reported on HPD’s recent success in reducing crime in the Denver Harbor area. Here’s an excerpt from the Chronicle‘s reporting on the topic: Crime has dropped almost 30 percent overall in

KHOU-11’s Jeff McShan reports on the scam artists who beg on Houston’s busy streets: On my way to work, I often pass by a veteran named James, who’s always in his wheelchair on North Shepherd.

Clarence Bradford, the Democratic candidate for District Attorney who has seemingly been in a witness protection program since announcing his candidacy, has been sighted! Chronicle diarist Lisa Falkenberg actually secured a quote from him on

Last week, I posted about the Houston Housing Authority, which is dead set on charging 61 tenants (or forcing them to pay third parties) about $3,400 each to regain access to their material possessions, now

The Chronicle‘s early coverage of Mayor White’s big wifi announcement today was disappointing: Houston is aiming to turn Earthlink’s lemons into the city’s lemonade. The company had to pay the city $5 million after defaulting

KHOU-11’s Leigh Frillici provides an update on the latest brazen area copper thievery: Last week, copper thieves climbed up telephone poles and took the wire. Leaving an entire neighborhood without phone service. After 11 News

On what must have been a very slow news day last week, KTRK-13 reported the following important religious news: A couple of years ago, the youth director at Memorial Drive United Methodist Church in Houston