September 2008 - Page 3 of 4

Crumbling infrastructure

September 8, 2008 ubu roi

Once again, the City’s priorities are catching up to it, in a very disruptive manner. A water leak has buckled the East Freeway, the Chron.com reports. I’m sure the State of Texas is going to

Houston blog talk linkpost: 09/08/08

September 8, 2008 Kevin Whited

Discounted tickets for Kos event (Off the Kuff) The Voting Access Scam (The County Seat) Reason says non-zoning helps Houston weather the housing storm (Houston Strategies) Muni courts settlement: Keep your mouths shut (Chron Houston

Choosing Houston's "It" building

September 8, 2008 Anne Linehan

The Chron and the American Institute of Architects Houston want readers to vote on Houston’s most “iconic” building. The article is here, and includes a list of the buildings up for consideration.

METRO's not-yet-express bus service

September 8, 2008 Anne Linehan

Seems there’s been a bit of a delay in rolling out METRO’s much-anticipated Signature/Express/Quickline/Whatever bus service. You may recall back in January METRO’s expensive blogger announced the exciting new transit offering: METRO’s Board of Directors

KHOU reports on CompStat; critics continue to mischaracterize

September 8, 2008 Kevin Whited

Last week, KHOU-11 ran a story by Christine Haas that featured Jay Wall, a CompStat advocate and HPD critic whose arguments should be familiar to readers here: 1) HPD’s misleading murder reporting (documented well by

Chron: Eversole expects FBI probe to force him out

September 7, 2008 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Liz Austin Peterson reports that Harris County Commissioner Jerry Eversole thinks the FBI is about to try to take him out: Harris County Commissioner Jerry Eversole said Thursday that he expects to be

Danger Train apparently strikes pedestrian; KPRC website pulls story (updated)

September 6, 2008 Kevin Whited

Earlier in the week, the Danger Train apparently struck a pedestrian. The original story was here on the KPRC-2 site, but that link no longer works, so here is the cached google version. A version

Continental decides to imitate future Star Alliance brethren

September 5, 2008 Kevin Whited

Continental Airlines today joined most of the other legacy carriers (and its future Star partners in particular) in the race to add fees and take away perks. Here’s an excerpt from Mark Babineck’s report for

More downsizing at the Chronicle

September 5, 2008 Anne Linehan

Over at Lone Star Times, Matt Bramanti notes that the Chronicle is facing more downsizing: The Houston Chronicle offered voluntary buyouts to its employees today, with a goal of reducing staff by roughly 80 full-time

Annise Parker speaks out on BARC

September 5, 2008 ubu roi

A few months ago, several of us speculated that Annise Parker might be seriously eying a run for mayor of Houston, after White is term-limited out. Shortly after that, any suspicions I had on the