Month: September 2009

Recently, we’ve seen Mayor Bill White skirt the city’s contracting rules to put the artist now known as The One* in place to clean up a BARC mess that had not previously been a priority

The Houston Chronicle has returned to a favorite topic with this article about how shootings by law enforcement in Harris County have risen this year. According to reporter James Pinkerton, as of 24 September there

As reported by the Chronicle‘s Bradley Olson, Senate Candidate Bill White recently warned voters to be wary of any new spending proposed by Houston’s mayoral candidates: White, who has shied away from endorsing or even

Tyler Cowen’s Marginal Revolution blog recently linked to this old (2005) paper by Michael Lewyn on “How Overregulation Creates Sprawl (Even in a City without Zoning).” As readers well know, Houston does not have the

While catching up on the Chron letters page back in August, we ran across a writer (Andrew Prieditis) who managed to have two letters published in one week, a violation of the newspaper’s stated letters