Year: 2008

Good times: Houston received a sales tax payment of $39.3 million in January, up 10 percent from $35.7 million the previous year. The city’s Metropolitan Transit Authority received a sales tax payment of $40.1 million,

KTRK-13’s Wayne Dolcefino (aka undercoverman) has been poking around into Harris County affairs again, this time discovering something interesting about the ranch home of Sheriff Tommy Thomas. Here’s an excerpt: You know who helped with

The Chronicle‘s Kevin Moran reports that yet another pedestrian has been killed trying to cross a busy freeway: A man died after being hit by two 18-wheel trucks and two cars on the East Freeway

The Chronicle‘s Lisa Gray does a nice job describing one of Houston’s most interesting neighborhoods, “new” Chinatown: This isn’t a Chinatown like the old-style ones in New York or San Francisco — jampacked, uniformly Chinese