Month: April 2008

By now, you’re probably aware of the story of two illegal immigrants who went on a carjacking spree in Houston. The final attempt ended with the murder of a mother of five – she didn’t

Two seemingly unrelated stories this week caught my eye, in terms of what they say about Houston’s recent experiments in “Ready! Fire! Aim!” governance*: First up is the news that the city’s heavy-trash collection schedule

KHOU-11’s Lee McGuire reports that Councilmember Jarvis Johnson has delayed plans to impose a $3 fee at Bush Intercontinental Airport to finance a Terminal B revamp (in partnership with Continental Airlines): Wednesday’s planned vote to

As we’ve been discussing already here, Mayor White has taken public the city’s previously “private” negotations with the Houston Dynamo, complaining about attempts to “pressure” the city. Here is the MLS Commissioner’s letter (which implies

Yesterday, the Chronicle‘s Matt Stiles posted that Slumlord-Representative Hubert Vo had hired an alleged “political pro” to help him with his problems: Glenn W. Smith, a former director at Public Strategies who worked for the