Month: March 2008

Recycling on a massive scale (via Bellaire Examiner): Friday was a green day for Houston. It was the day a developer announced it would let volunteers salvage what they could from a major teardown rather

HPD needs a task force and an acronym: Last week, copper thieves climbed up telephone poles and took the wire. Leaving an entire neighborhood without phone service. After 11 News first reported the thefts, the

Well, they’re at it again, the one department that continues to embarrass the city only somewhat less than the HPD Crime Lab. This time, the Houston Housing Authority is holding hostage all the remaining worldly

In this week’s Houston Press, Rich Connelly details another example of our city’s fine leadership on crime: Texas Observer recently took a look at the Houston Police Department’s method of handling family-violence calls and came

KHOU-11’s Shern-Min Chow reports on one area crime lab that (unlike HPD’s crime lab) isn’t making news for all the wrong reasons: The Harris County crime lab is recognized as one of the top labs

A publicist for The American, a journal of ideas affiliated with the American Enterprise Institute, passes along an article about Houston (“Lone Star Rising“) by Joel Kotkin in the latest issue. Here’s an excerpt that