Month: July 2008

Yesterday’s Chronicle story reporting that Houston’s homeless population has declined contained this amusing exchange between Councilman James Rodriguez and Mayor White: Despite the reported decrease, a lengthy debate around the council table showed a continuing

Isiah Carey’s Insite has two posts concerning the beef between HPD Assistant Chief Vicki King and city Marshal’s office. June 17 Post HPD isn’t saying they are going to lay off the officers in the

Over at Hair Balls, Richard Connelly notes that Harris County has finally put candidate campaign-finance reports online. Unfortunately, the format is PDF, and not an online searchable database, but it’s a start, we suppose.

Harvard economist Edward Glaeser has a fascinating op-ed in the New York Sun today (apparently a shortened version of a forthcoming City Journal article) that compares earnings and cost of living in New York and

KHOU-11’s Rucks Russell reports that deployment of the city’s fancy new anti-graffiti cams is going slowly: “It’s a digital camera set inside a reinforced metal housing,” Eixman described of the new tool against those who