Remember how Mayor White has said time and again that a new soccer stadium would not require the city to contribute public funding? Well, today Carolyn Feibel reports that through some kind of government financing-magic,
File this under “Short Notice” (see update below): Got a question for Metropolitan Transit Authority president and CEO Frank Wilson? If so, get to a computer at noon today, log onto www.ridemetro.org, then click on
We haven’t seen much lately from Chronicle‘s Froot Loop Bureau, which once featured writers who seemingly watched the morning TV news with their breakfast and then posted accounts of their TV watching to Chron.com. It
Did you see Carolyn Feibel’s post last week on Chron.com’s City Hall blog, about Mayor White’s warning to the new city council? Bill White began today with a little lecture to the newly-constituted council. He
As he noted here, Neal Meyer has written a post about a meeting he attended last week regarding the Ashby high-rise ordinance Mayor White is pushing at the behest of Southampton residents. (Did any local
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,
The greater Houston area has a new player in online news reporting: Instant News Network. Here is the organization’s press release: InstantNewsNetwork.com announced today it has bought FortBendNow.com and plans to launch constantly updated neighborhood
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