Year: 2009

Texas Watchdog broke an interesting story today that follows up on the mysterious departure of Houston Airport System chief Richard Vacar a few weeks ago. There are any number of items that stand out in

The Chronicle‘s metro/state diarist Lisa Falkenberg weighed in on BARC today, effectively handing her column (such as it is) over to BARC’s Kathy Barton in an apparent effort to refute the latest reporting by Craig

In their ongoing investigation of Richard Vacar’s mysterious departure from the Houston Airport System, Texas Watchdog ran across an interesting bit of correspondence from Mayor White’s press honcho (and former Houston Chronicle editorialist) Frank Michel.

The Chronicle‘s Roma Khanna reports that a federal jury awarded George Rodriguez $5 million today as a result of his lawsuit against the city for wrongful conviction: A federal jury today awarded $5 million to

Chronicle transportation columnist Carolyn Feibel posted this interesting clarification/correction towards the end of this week’s column: Speaking of stimulus funds, I gave you outdated information in last week’s column. Metro cannot use $30 million of

The Chronicle’s Carolyn Feibel writes about the new database created to help police catch uninsured motorists. Since October, police can run license plates and will see if there is confirmed insurance coverage with the state.

Over on the Houston Press Hair Balls blog, Craig Malisow posts several updates on BARC (here, here, and here). Do you think Mayor White discusses his administration’s neglect of BARC (and puppies!) when he is