Year: 2009

CORY CROW comments on Third Ward news, repurposed.

LATE LAST WEEK, KHOU-11 REPORTER COURTNEY ZUBOWSKI reported that an area man had been prosecuted for voter fraud. Jack Crowder, who was not registered to vote, apparently used his deceased father’s identity to cast a

THE HOUSTON BUSINESS JOURNAL reports that CompUSA will re-enter the Houston market, with a store expected to open by Black Friday at I-10 and Bunker Hill. This is good news for tech geeks (such as

KEVIN KIRTON presents his perspective on Houston growth and planning in a Chron op-ed today. Here’s an excerpt: People often assume there is no plan, and nearly any discussion of this topic these days includes

THE CHRON’S DAVID KAPLAN takes a look at Houston’s highly successful downtown tunnel system, which continues to evolve nicely without the help of urban planners or bloated bureaucracies.

IN RESPONSE TO RECENT NEGATIVE NEWS COVERAGE FROM THE CHRONICLE AND BLOOMBERG, Sports Authority Chief J. Kent Friedman took to the Chron editorial page today to repeat, again, that taxpayers won’t be on the hook

THEY’RE MORE WHAT YOU’D CALL “GUIDELINES” THAN ACTUAL RULES: The Examiner‘s Rusty Graham notes that a Houston councilmember and local residents are questioning how TIRZ 17 operates. Councilwoman Jolanda Jones thinks there’s a contract involved,

THE CHRON reports what many of us learned via social networking sites yesterday: Embattled Harris County Commissioner Jerry Eversole will be running for re-election. The Chron version does offer comment from the usual go-to sources

CONTROLLER CANDIDATE PAM HOLM has purchased a 30-minute block on KCOH-1430 to allow opponent Ron Green “to explain his more than $120,000 federal income tax debt to you and to Houston voters.” We don’t expect

FOR SOME REASON, THE NEW YORK TIMES decided Houston’s mayoral race merited a story. To summarize: There’s not much difference among the three major candidates, one of them is a lesbian but it’s not that