June 2009 - blogHOUSTON

Linkpost: 06/30/09

June 30, 2009 Kevin Whited

We refuse to link to any blogs offering the non-news that Sylvester Turner isn’t running for mayor (when we checked yesterday, he wasn’t running either), but there are all sorts of other local blog goodness

KTRK: Council tackles pressing problem of…. electronic signs?

June 30, 2009 Kevin Whited

KTRK-13’s Miya Shay reports that your City Council today passed an ordinance to regulate the pressing problem of…. electronic signs. The ordinance could potentially affect schools and churches as well as businesses, but one busybody

Council set to renew $11 million arts contract

June 29, 2009 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s Bradley Olson reports that City Council is about to renew an $11 million contract with the Houston Arts Alliance, a local arts organization that has had its trouble delivering projects on time, not

City official who approved HASDC activities now auditing them

June 28, 2009 Kevin Whited

In a flurry of reporting last week on the mysterious departure of Richard Vacar, Texas Watchdog reminded us of the city’s ongoing review of the Houston Airport System Development Corp.: The mayor’s office announced a

Linkpost: 06/28/09

June 28, 2009 Kevin Whited

We tend to have slow weekends, but that doesn’t mean other local bloggers took a break. Enjoy! Trouble in Paradise? (Life at the Harris County Criminal Justice Center) More insider stuff I don’t find in

Roundup: What we missed this week

June 28, 2009 Kevin Whited

A number of items this week didn’t manage to get their own posts, but are worth a comment at week’s end. * * * Another week, another illegal immigrant killing a cop. It’s sad that

Texas Watchdog follows up on Vacar resignation

June 25, 2009 Kevin Whited

Texas Watchdog broke an interesting story today that follows up on the mysterious departure of Houston Airport System chief Richard Vacar a few weeks ago. There are any number of items that stand out in

Linkpost: 06/25/09

June 25, 2009 Kevin Whited

Here’s the latest collection of local blog posts that have entertained us of late. Enjoy! Bad Boys Breaking Bad (Life at the Harris County Criminal Justice Center) Since the Chronicle metro desk is so understaffed,

Chron columnist: BARC is, like, definitely making progress (OMG)!

June 25, 2009 Kevin Whited

The Chronicle‘s metro/state diarist Lisa Falkenberg weighed in on BARC today, effectively handing her column (such as it is) over to BARC’s Kathy Barton in an apparent effort to refute the latest reporting by Craig

Michel memo illustrates The Houston Way of press management

June 25, 2009 Kevin Whited

In their ongoing investigation of Richard Vacar’s mysterious departure from the Houston Airport System, Texas Watchdog ran across an interesting bit of correspondence from Mayor White’s press honcho (and former Houston Chronicle editorialist) Frank Michel.