Year: 2009

State Rep. Sylvester Turner has been in the news lately, defending normal people against those mean utility companies. None of the local stories we’ve seen mentioned one very interesting fact that Texas Watchdog‘s Jennifer Peebles

In a front-page story for the Chronicle today, busy reporter Brad Olson took an in-depth look at FBI crime statistics and how Houston ranks among the largest 25 cities in the country. The results, in

We are baffled as to why Mayor White refuses to expend any political capital fixing the horrifying conditions at BARC. He has no problem browbeating local industries about pollution and work schedules; he loves to

Remember back in 2006 when Mayor Bill White’s new Housing Czar David Mincberg (another successful BUSINESSMAN, we were told), announced with great fanfare that through various funding sources, the city would be overseeing a $35

The Chronicle‘s Bradley Olson calls our attention to Mimi Swartz‘s Texas Monthly article on the Houston Mayoral race. It almost reads like Mrs. White* back in the day: Bill White good, VERY VERY good. In

KPRC-2 has Mayor White’s reaction to the news that Houston is one of several major cities that will not be receiving federal Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) funding: “This is the wrong decision for the