Year: 2009

News coverage of interest from a public finance industry publication: And as the board sorts out its financing plans for the three new stadiums, the authority is not even considering building a professional soccer stadium

IT’S TIME FOR US TO TAKE a little break from the blog as the Christmas weekend approaches. Here’s wishing everyone a Merry Whatever Holiday You Celebrate!

THE CHRONICLE follows up on this week-old Texas Watchdog story about the Harris County GOP’s apparent campaign-finance reporting problems with… their own story. We’re surprised columnist Rick Casey never ran with this one, but perhaps

THE CHRON’S MIKE SNYDER reports on Mayor Bill White’s big announcement about a new $11 million pet adoption facility. Even though Snyder covered the recent mayoral race, in which then-Senate Candidate White warned the mayoral

TOM KIRKENDALL posts that Tilman Fertitta’s “wild Landry’s ride continues.”

DEM BLOGGER CHARLES KUFFNER calls out the Texas GOP for possible copyright abuse involving a political video. We had no idea Kuffner had become such a copyright puritan, given his own abuse of copyright laws

The Chron’s editorial board has some suggestions, a wish list if you will, for Mayor-elect Annise Parker. Here are a couple of tidbits worth noting: The Houston Police Department’s layered command structure will allow the

SLAMPO notes that the campaign finance filings of newly elected District F carpetbagger councilmember Al Hoang “make a mockery of the notion of ‘disclosure’ and hardly conform to the spirit of the law, much less

ACCORDING TO AN AP STORY, outgoing HPD Chief Harold Hurtt gives himself a grade of A- for his tenure in Houston. We liked Marc Campos’s take: “Of course, the Mayor-Elect’s grade is the only one

WHAT’S THE STATUS OF THE CITY’S SORELY NEEDED NEW EMERGENCY RADIO NETWORK? 2005: “It’s not a problem that’s going to be solved in one day. It will be over a period of years,” said Mayor