Klein ISD’s board has approved the $647 million bond proposal that includes razing and rebuilding Klein High School: If approved by voters, the $646.9 million bond issue would address district needs in five areas. The
We’ve wondered what happened to the Chronicle Froot Loops Bureau, which used to rewrite breaking local news seen on television in the mornings and post it to Chron.com. It appears that the Froot Loops Bureau
According to a story by the Chron’s Mike Snyder, the city is using eminent domain to claim a parcel of land in order “to develop a small ‘pocket park’ on the edge of a large,
The city of Houston buys six blocks of land at an inflated price, using property tax money and water/sewer funds to pay off political insiders. Dallas will have snow… in March. Coincidence? Yes. Hell is
In this week’s Houston Press, Rich Connelly has an update on that big reduction Mayor White received on his home’s tax assessment: Here’s the scenario so far: Houstonian Tim Hebert first noticed the reduction late
The big elections overshadowed an interesting bit of news from county government that Bill Murphy reported for the Chronicle earlier this week: Harris County commissioners voted unanimously Monday morning to pay $1.7 million to settle
As we’ve noted several times before, it’s always good to wait a few days (for corrections) before trying any recipe that appears in the Chronicle. Here’s something from today’s corrections that helps make the point:
Chronicle metro/state columnist and resident plagiarist Rick Casey had an interesting admission in today’s column: Over the past two weeks, Texas Democrats have been wooed as never before. Hillary and Barack have pressed their charms
For us political junkies, tonight’s elections and local election coverage continue to be gripping. Most of it anyway. KHOU-11 just threw it over to Len Cannon, who proceeded to discuss Chronicle editorial page cartoonist Nick
Remember when Rice professor and bicyclist Bob Stein used to turn up in the local media all the time, as an expert on everything? Although he’s not really an expert on everything, Quanell the Tenth