Month: November 2008

The Chronicle‘s Liz Austin Peterson reported on some excitement at Commissioners Court this week: Fresh from a decisive re-election victory, Harris County Judge Ed Emmett is wasting no time trying to build his office’s influence

Over the little blog’s short lifetime, we have posted with some regularity on broken-windows policing and CompStat, two approaches to crimefighting popularized by Rudy Giuliani in New York City (and treated with some disdain by

Remember the police chase in which a man claiming to be a federal agent was shot and killed after he initiated a pursuit? Well, Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt has disciplined two officers involved in

METRO’s expensive blogger would like you to know that the organization has a plan for dealing with those pesky cars that keep running into the Danger Train: For the past few months, left-hand turn accidents

Back in March, we noted that the city had been told to repay $15.5 million in HUD grants due to misuse of the funds. After months of negotiations, the city has finally agreed to repay

The Chronicle has posted some troubling reporting by Susan Carroll on illegal immigration and crime in the Houston area. Here’s an excerpt from the story: A Houston Chronicle investigation found dozens of cases in Harris