Year: 2009

Texas Watchdog‘s Lee Ann O’Neal noticed that some of members of City Council hadn’t managed to pay their property taxes on time (click the link to find out which ones). Interestingly enough, those late taxes

We wondered who might cover the local Republican beat for the Chronicle after Alan Bernstein went to work for Democratic Sheriff Adrian Garcia. It appears that there will be a team approach (with a heavy

The Chronicle‘s Carolyn Feibel looked into the posting of METRO’s meetings, and discovered that the organization doesn’t exactly make it easy for people to attend its committee meetings: Metro does post the time of its

Houston Press reporter Craig Malisow reports the disturbing news that a puppy was “washed down” a drain and killed last week thanks to the latest example of negligence/incompetence at BARC. BARC spokeswoman Kathy Barton told

On July 16, Texas Watchdog posted a story by Rosanna Ruiz on one of METRO’s expensive no-bid contracts. The balanced reporting contained questions from others about the contracts, and included comments from METRO defending the

Local print media, television news, and talk radio were buzzing at the end of the week over the latest controversy involving the Houston Fire Department. Apparently, a discussion between Councilmember Jolanda Jones and Jeff Caynon,