Month: March 2010

REMEMBER THAT ATTORNEY who resigned from Harris County Attorney Vince Ryan’s office about the time that Texas Watchdog started asking questions about potential conflicts of interest? In a followup to the story, Texas Watchdog reports

OVER THE WEEKEND, PUBLIC POLICY PUNDIT BILL KING had a Chronicle op-ed noting the various myths espoused by our light-rail Houtopians and special interests. Tom Kirkendall followed with “The Bad METRO bet.” The editorial board

YOU HAVE ANY MONEY TO PAY FOR THAT DREAM? A Montrose resident doesn’t want a new H-E-B at the site of the former Wilshire Village apartments, so she has started a petition calling for a

AND WE THOUGHT THE DANGER TRAIN WAS METRO’S BACKBONE: Lamely attempting to counter the accusation that it has improved reduced bus service to focus resources on light rail, METRO now says, “Our bus fleet has

BEFORE MAYOR ANNISE PARKER’S METRO ANNOUNCEMENTS yesterday, the METRO board made one big decision: They voted in favor of paying CEO Frank Wilson’s legal expenses related to the allegations about an improper relationship with a

MAYOR ANNISE PARKER held a press conference today to release the findings of her METRO transition team and to announce her new appointees to the METRO board. This Texas Watchdog post is a one-stop shop

PUBLIC POLICY PUNDIT BILL KING posted another critique of METRO this week. Here’s the intro: There could hardly be a more fitting image for the close of the current Metro administration than the recent photographs

METRO put out a press release yesterday announcing that outgoing chairman David Wolff “has asked UHY Advisors… to conduct an independent investigation into allegations that public funds were misused at METRO because of an inappropriate

REMEMBER HOW America’s worst big-city daily reported that none of the people involved in the latest METRO bus/Danger Train crash was injured seriously? KTRK-13 reports today that one of those injured passengers has a fractured

MAYOR ANNISE PARKER has vowed to shake up METRO’s leadership team, but KHOU-11’s Mark Greenblatt reports tonight that firing Frank “Procurement Disaster” Wilson could be costly: If his contract is terminated before 2012 and the