Year: 2009

Texas Watchdog‘s Steve Miller reports that the City Controller finally has obtained requested documents from the nonprofit spinoff of the Houston Airport System. The nonprofit had previously rebuffed efforts by City Controller, one councilmember, and

Craig Malisow reports on the Houston Press blog that Houston consultant Gerry Fusco is apparently the “change agent” for BARC that Mayor Bill White’s press staff recently promised: BARC has inked a six-month contract with

A few days ago, Chron reporter Bradley Olson posted the news that HPD Chief Harold Hurtt and his wife had donated to mayoral candidate Gene Locke. Blogger David Ortez has since posted a compilation of

The River Oaks Examiner reports that the City of Houston has, for the tenth time, rejected plans from the Ashby high-rise developers: Plans for the Ashby high-rise were rejected for the 10th time Tuesday with

It’s been a while, but it seems we have another dangerous time/place/behavior situation (via Mike McGuff): A Houston television reporter was carjacked and kidnapped at gunpoint early Monday and forced to drive to Beaumont, KPRC

In today’s Chronicle, reporter Mike Tolson penned one of those one-sided “news analysis” pieces that has, unfortunately, displaced so much hard-news reporting from newspapers all over. The thrust of the 22-graf, front-page story is that

In today’s Chronicle, Carolyn Feibel discusses the role of EZ Tag transponders in helping TranStar estimate freeway traffic velocity and congestion. Area bloggers had that discussion nearly five years ago, here.