Month: December 2009

AS MANY READERS know, I moved across town about a week ago… and have been busy unpacking, sorting out AT&T nonsense, etc., ever since. One of the best things about taking a week off from

CONGRATULATIONS TO ANNISE PARKER WHO WILL BE THE NEXT MAYOR: She’ll inherit many challenges from Bill White, and we wish her the best of luck.

BARC HAS A NEW BOSS: “David Atencio, the new general manager who begins Monday, hails from the private sector and has spent the past 17 years in the fitness industry, working in sales all over

REAL LIFE is intruding on the blogging, so it’s probably going to be a little quiet here over the next few days. In the meantime, feel free to treat this as an open-comment thread.

CHIEF HURTT’S BLAMING PREVIOUS HPD ADMINISTRATIONS FOR FINGERPRINT UNIT PROBLEMS: “As we go through the organization and we find these things, the messenger gets punished,” Hurtt said. “And this has been going on for many,

NEW RAIL LINES WON’T EAT UP TRAFFIC LANES, according to METRO Chairman David Wolff who sat down for a chit-chat with the Chron’s Carolyn Feibel. And there’s this: “One of the differences that I think

IN LIGHT OF METRO CHAIRMAN DAVID WOLFF’S ADMONITION that Houston should have a “transit ethic,” here are some eye-opening stats from the indefatigable Tom Bazan: BEFORE METRO BUILT URBAN RAIL, FY 2001 Population: 4,262,000 Transit

GOOD NEWS FOR ICE CREAM LOVERS: Baskin-Robbins to expand in Houston. Mmmmmm, Banana Royale sundaes.

MAYOR WHITE OFFICIALLY CHANGES WHICH ELECTED POSITION HE’S RUNNING FOR: White, a three-term mayor who is balding and known for something of a bland personality, is expected use self-deprecating humor to tell a Hilton Americas

MORE ON HPD’S FINGERPRINT PROBLEM: “One employee, put on administrative leave with pay after the audit into the unit ended in October, is being investigated for alleged misconduct involving ‘handling a piece of evidence,’ said