Month: March 2009

What a beautiful day it looks to be! Hope you’ll be out enjoying it. SUNDAY UPDATE: Still beautiful. Still outside. Hope you are, too!

Local media is reporting the city is suing a homeowner in the first test of the city’s fair housing ordinance. Here’s the Chron’s story: The city of Houston on Tuesday filed its first criminal misdemeanor

The Chronicle‘s Brad Olson reports that next week’s Council meeting could be entertaining: A federal judge today ordered the city to put to a City Council vote a settlement agreement over the participation of women

Texas Watchdog has posted an interesting bit of investigative journalism by Matt Pulle. Pulle takes a closer look at state senator Rodney Ellis’ support of HISD’s 2007 bond proposal. Sen. Ellis’ support came at a

The City of Houston has announced a test “single-stream” recycling program, in which all recyclables can be placed together for pickup. The goal is to boost the city’s recycling rate and to improve the program’s

Earlier this week, Harris County DA Pat Lykos announced that moving forward, the DA’s office will test DNA evidence in all cases where it is available and relevant. The new policy was rolled out in

Earlier in the week, the Chronicle reported that HISD spent up to as much as $100,000 dollars of vending-machine revenues so that some favored educators could attend Houston LiveStock Show and Rodeo gala events: The