Month: August 2008

The city’s planning department has wasted two years developing a plan for central Houston that aims for urban planning utopia (via the Chron’s Mike Snyder): A vision of central Houston transformed by wide, tree-shaded sidewalks

From yesterday morning’s traffic report: A truck lost its load of adult diapers and turned over on the ramp leading from the southbound lanes of the West Loop to the eastbound lanes of the Katy

Last weekend, both KHOU-11 and KRIV-26’s Isiah Carey reported on the latest obstacles facing the Astrodome Hotel Boondoggle developers. Here’s KHOU’s characterization: The battle over the future of the Astrodome entered a new round this

Miya Shay’s latest editorial for the West University Examiner provides some interesting insight into the city’s network of movers and shakers: On a steamy Thursday evening, half a dozen former, current and future elected officials

An East End Chamber of Commerce committee is urging HPD to adopt CompStat (an approach to crimefighting that has been discussed here regularly): The Crime Awareness Committee of the Greater East End Chamber of Commerce

Tropical Storm Edouard kind of snuck up on us. Personally, I didn’t even know there was a storm until yesterday. Now, people are scrambling at the last minute to gas up their cars and buy

Here’s an excerpt from a fun post on the Galveston County Daily News blog: You know how they used to tell you in elementary school that no question is a stupid question? That’s not true.

Tropical Storm Edouard (which looks more like a typo than a storm name) has popped up, seemingly out of nowhere. Here’s hoping it doesn’t grow into anything all that threatening, and we all get to