Month: April 2009

KPRC-2’s Robert Arnold checked in last week with a report on possible uses for the decrepit Astrodome. County Judge Ed Emmett sounds realistic about the poor prospects of an Astrodome hotel these days, but suggested

Texas Watchdog reporter Rosanna Ruiz (formerly of the Chronicle) has posted her first story for the online news organization, on Mayor White’s recent effort to shield his calendar and certain correspondence from the public: Mayor

A reader emailed earlier asking if we knew why the Chron removed blogHOUSTON from the “Blogs we’ve linked to” section on the Chron.com editorial page. The reader claimed Dwight Silverman had not answered several email

KHOU-11’s Rosa Flores reports on more vandalism at METRO’s Park-and-Pillage lots: A vandal was at it again in Kingwood on Monday. Police say several cars were broken into at the Kingwood Park & Ride

Commenter kjb434 passed along an interesting Wall Street Journal article by Holman Jenkins to us on red-light cameras, entitled “The war on short yellows.” As Jenkins notes, voters don’t much like red-light cameras, although pols

Unca Darrell asks why blogHOUSTON was kicked off some Chron.com blogrolls. We have no idea, but it is the case that the little blog was once on the blogroll at Houston Politics, and seems to

KHOU-11 reports on an unusual crash that took place early Friday morning: The West Loop southbound was shut down for about two hours overnight after two crashes involving a mobile taco stand and a fire

Earlier in the week, the Chron‘s Bradley Olson blogged about efforts to fix some of the problems with the Mobility Response Team, another of Mayor White’s Ready-Fire-Aim! programs that wasn’t quite ready for primetime at

Remember back in the “good old days” of journalism when multiple news organizations tried to beat each other to stories (some major, some not-so-major)? We’ve grown accustomed to newsroom cutbacks, newspaper closings, and less competition