Month: December 2009

CITY OF HOUSTON TO HARRIS COUNTY: Never mind, we’ll sign the property tax collection contract. Thuggish behavior doesn’t play well when one is running for higher office.

THE BIG SPORTS NEWS IN RECENT DAYS is that Drayton McLane recently nearly sold the Astros. The Chron‘s Drayton PR (er, baseball) section didn’t break that big story, as John Royal notes: Oh, and EPIC

SLAMPO welcomes new carpetbagger councilmember Al Hoang to District F.

CHRON BASEBALL WRITER JESUS ORTIZ had this odd graf in a recent blog post: A lot has happened since my last blog, and I have even been told by a loyal reader that somebody spread

CITY OF HOUSTON TO HARRIS COUNTY: We are not signing a tax collection agreement until you agree to withhold vehicle registrations for people who don’t pay their red light camera tickets. EYEWITNESS NEWS notes that

TEXAS WATCHDOG posts about a lovely sounding champagne and lobster party being hosted by the Houston Airport System and a vendor for local media. Sadly, blogHOUSTON did not receive an invitation to the event (we

VARIOUS MEDIA OUTLETS are reporting that Chief Hurtt has informed his command staff he’ll be resigning effective 30 December. Mayor-elect Parker made clear during the campaign that the bumbling police chief would be out if

TORY GATTIS posts his extensive “wish list” agenda for Mayor Parker, but starts with the basics: She faces a difficult financial situation at the city, and obviously her first priority will be getting that under

THE CHRON’S MIKE SNYDER reported last week that the Uptown TIRZ “paid $990,000 to settle a lawsuit over the city’s condemnation of a small piece of land adjacent to a mixed-use project being developed by

TEXAS WATCHDOG broke an interesting political story on Friday that sort of got lost in the shuffle on election eve: The Harris County Republican Party is apparently having difficulties accounting for/reporting some political donations. Jared