Month: July 2009

The Chronicle‘s Bradley Olson calls our attention to Mimi Swartz‘s Texas Monthly article on the Houston Mayoral race. It almost reads like Mrs. White* back in the day: Bill White good, VERY VERY good. In

KPRC-2 has Mayor White’s reaction to the news that Houston is one of several major cities that will not be receiving federal Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) funding: “This is the wrong decision for the

Texas Watchdog‘s Lee Ann O’Neal noticed that some of members of City Council hadn’t managed to pay their property taxes on time (click the link to find out which ones). Interestingly enough, those late taxes

We wondered who might cover the local Republican beat for the Chronicle after Alan Bernstein went to work for Democratic Sheriff Adrian Garcia. It appears that there will be a team approach (with a heavy

The Chronicle‘s Carolyn Feibel looked into the posting of METRO’s meetings, and discovered that the organization doesn’t exactly make it easy for people to attend its committee meetings: Metro does post the time of its

Houston Press reporter Craig Malisow reports the disturbing news that a puppy was “washed down” a drain and killed last week thanks to the latest example of negligence/incompetence at BARC. BARC spokeswoman Kathy Barton told