Year: 2009

NASTYGRAMS from Peter Brown? He doesn’t maintain an active architect license? WHAT?

THE HEADLINES AND BLURBS seem to have a gotten a little out of sync at Chron.com (see bottom left). Maybe the web staff was too busy doing political roundups for online news QA today. Thanks

THE CHRON’S CAUCASIAN THINK TANK approve of Mayor White’s new Veterinarian Shakedown Revenue Stream. KEVIN WHITED ADDS: Blogger Brian Phillips has a different view.

LOCAL 2 INVESTIGATES has done a nice story on problems with the city’s parking meters. Parking Management Busybody Lilianna Rambo told reporter Stephen Dean that the city only has four mechanics total to repair broken

KUHF-88.7’S LAURIE JOHNSON reports that City Council this week will continue efforts to get Harris County to help enforce Mayor White’s red-light-camera revenue stream. There’s just one tiny problem: Harris County officials are balking: “The

TEXAS WATCHDOG has posted the handwritten, undated resignation letter that Harris County Attorney Vince Ryan’s office insists that J. Marcus Hill turned in a few days before the nonprofit’s story on apparent conflicts of interest.

KEEP HOUSTON HOUSTON blogs in praise of obsolete transportation standards (and indirectly slams planning committees tinkering from a distance).

MURRAY NEWMAN blogs a tale of two cases in the Harris County District Attorney’s Office: While Miss Montgomery’s talking on the cell phone got her a conviction and some nasty names from the D.A.’s Office,

HOUSTON announces a “rewards program” for “recycling and other positive environmental behaviors.”

IF YOU’RE GOING TO critique someone’s grammar, it would probably be a good idea to have a grammarian proofread your post.