Month: May 2009

At the end of last week, the Chronicle‘s Bradley Olson reported that the city’s troubled Bureau of Animal Regulation and Care (BARC) is under the supervision of a new director: Ray Sim, most recently the

Way back at the beginning of April, KHOU-11’s Jeremy Desel reported on cost discrepancies related to METRO’s big expansion plans. The Examiner News‘s Mike Reed followed up on the story nearly a week ago. The

Here is an interesting correction from the Chron: In his Friday column, Rick Casey erroneously reported that Susanne Daviscq was the only candidate for commissioner of Harris County Emergency Services District #9 in today’scq election.

KTRK-13’s Undercover Man Wayne Dolcefino documented this week that the life of state university administrators IS the life. Having lived the university (low)life through grad school, I became aware of the nice lives led by

Houston’s thin-skinned Mayor can let no negative news story go unchallenged (however rare those negative stories may be). To that end, here is a letter to the Chronicle from our part-time* mayor: Rivercrest Drive is

The Chronicle‘s Nancy Sarnoff reports that former mayor Bob Lanier’s River Oaks home is now on the market. Previously, Sarnoff reported that the swine-flu epidemic might boost Houston’s sagging hotel business (er, perhaps not). The

Today’s Chronicle ran an op-ed from Bill King, the businessman and former mayor of Kemah who reportedly considered running for mayor and city council in Houston but decided against it. While we are all familiar

On Monday, we commented on the possibility that Houston voters might get a chance to modify term limits for municipal offices. Today, one of the the Chron‘s two editorial writers* weighed in on the topic.