Year: 2009

YESTERDAY KEVIN WHITED NOTED that METRO VP Raequel “9-volt battery” Roberts gave a snippy response to Texas Watchdog’s Jennifer Peebles who was inquiring about media access to METRO Chairman David Wolff’s upcoming speech to the

AT LEAST ONE COLLEAGUE of Chron baseball reporter/McLane PR man Jesus Ortiz apparently isn’t impressed with his work either. Astros County posts the details.

SO THE CITY OF HOUSTON wants Harris County to go after vehicle owners who haven’t paid red light camera tickets, but the city is unwilling to pay county toll fines incurred by drivers of city

TEXAS WATCHDOG’S STEVE MILLER reports that over a thousand HISD employees have been issued district credit cards, despite the fact that some of those cardholders have serious credit issues. Perhaps it’s time for HISD’s new

KTRK-13 UNDERCOVER MAN WAYNE DOLCEFINO offers Part Three of his investigation into allegedly wasteful spending by Spring ISD administrators. This time, he looks at more travel boondoggles and an expensive consultant named Spence Rogers (no

ANOTHER SUSPICIOUS FIRE occurred this morning in the Heights (KTRK-13, Chronicle). Maybe the crack HPD leadership should deploy its new Plainclothes/Vagrant Battalion to hold up “Please don’t burn buildings” signs in the neighborhood?

WHICH OF HOUSTON’S MAYORAL CANDIDATES promises magic? Slampo has the answer.

STATE OF METRO: METRO’s expensive blogger notes that Chairman David Wolff will be speaking at the Greater Houston Partnership next week: If you want to find out exactly what’s going on at METRO, our current

THE AUSTIN-BASED LIBERAL BLOG BURNT ORANGE REPORT (which recently endorsed Houston mayoral candidate Annise Parker, lately the hot pick of liberal bloggers) has posted a scorching critique of the Harris County Tax Office, contending the

CORY CROW mocks this ongoing waste of tax dollars. Chron.com’s whimsical opinion-section linkblog also linked it, sans mockery.