June 2008 - Page 3 of 11

Dad was right about law school (Houston Politics)

June 24, 2008 Kevin Whited

Carolyn Feibel reports that one of the city’s outside lawyers is giving himself a $100/hour raise (Houston Politics).

Is there a Heights highrise in the works? (Off the Kuff)

June 24, 2008 Kevin Whited

Charles Kuffner worries that dense development might be coming to an area near him (Off the Kuff).

Local law-enforcement agencies turn to the net for recruiting

June 24, 2008 Kevin Whited

KTRK-13’s Mike McGuff reports on HPD’s officer recruitment blog: The blog is the unique brain child of Mike McCoy, a senior officer with the Houston Police Department. It’s one of the few blogs that show

Council committee holds a lovefest for Crime Lab director

June 24, 2008 Anne Linehan

KHOU-11’s Jeremy Desel reports on the grilling HPD Crime Lab director Irma Rios didn’t receive yesterday before City Council’s Public Safety Committee: However, five months after the DNA section of the lab was shut down

Houston sports media wars (Lose an Eye, It's a Sport)

June 23, 2008 Kevin Whited

Cory Crow comments on Houston sports talk (Lose an Eye, It’s a Sport).

Taxed, but not serviced — and Rad Sallee explains why

June 23, 2008 Anne Linehan

Here’s an amazing admission from Rad Sallee in today’s Move It! column: Metro and Harris County are planning commuter rail, and outlying counties are interested, but now it’s the inner city’s turn. It voted for

Experiment: TXPIA Requests/Updates forum

June 22, 2008 Kevin Whited

As promised a while back, we’ve finally launched a little sub-forum experiment in local sunshine. Here’s how we envision it working: Anyone registered for the forum can add a post to this sub-forum. The initial

City settles ERACER-related lawsuits

June 22, 2008 Kevin Whited

KHOU-11’s Lee McGuire reports that Houston taxpayers will wind up spending nearly $750,000 to settle lawsuits stemming from the infamous 2002 K-Mart parking lot raid: Settling a lawsuit concerning two 2002 crackdowns on illegal street

Response to Peter Brown's op-ed (Houston Strategies)

June 22, 2008 Kevin Whited

Tory Gattis takes apart some of the more fanciful arguments advanced by Councilmember Peter Brown in today’s op-ed (Houston Strategies).

Riding the METRO #82 to work (Firebolts, Lightning Bolts, and Hell Storms)

June 22, 2008 Kevin Whited

The Mighty Wizard documents the time spent using the #82 Westheimer bus to commute to/from work, and compares it to other transportation alternatives (Firebolts, Lightning Bolts, and Hell Storms).