Month: August 2009

Earlier in the week, Mayor Bill White met with over 20 female firefighters to discuss recent controversies in the department. Here is the takeaway line from Miya Shay’s reporting for KTRK-13: “We’re being perceived like

State Rep. Sylvester Turner has been in the news lately, defending normal people against those mean utility companies. None of the local stories we’ve seen mentioned one very interesting fact that Texas Watchdog‘s Jennifer Peebles

In a front-page story for the Chronicle today, busy reporter Brad Olson took an in-depth look at FBI crime statistics and how Houston ranks among the largest 25 cities in the country. The results, in

We are baffled as to why Mayor White refuses to expend any political capital fixing the horrifying conditions at BARC. He has no problem browbeating local industries about pollution and work schedules; he loves to

Remember back in 2006 when Mayor Bill White’s new Housing Czar David Mincberg (another successful BUSINESSMAN, we were told), announced with great fanfare that through various funding sources, the city would be overseeing a $35