Year: 2009

In the comments on our “Blame the Feds!” post, kjb434 called our attention to some excellent local radio by Michael Berry. In this mp3 from Tuesday’s program, Berry engages in some tough (but fair) questioning

Mayoral candidate Annise Parker’s new “Houston first” proposal didn’t excite us much one way or the other, but we did enjoy a couple of grafs from Alan Bernstein’s Chronicle coverage: To the extent allowed by

Most blogHOUSTON readers have surely been following the news of another needless shooting of a Houston police officer by an illegal immigrant. Part of the problem is that HPD remains understaffed, a circumstance bestowed upon

Texas Watchdog, the local watchdog/transparency group that broke a dead-voter story in 2008, follows up today with a report on two cases of apparent voter fraud. The names of dead voters may have been used

We were amused by this recent appearance in the Chronicle by hospitality consultant/advocate John Keeling: Houston-area hotel occupancy is expected to fall to 63.9 percent this year, down from 67.9 percent in 2008, according to