Month: June 2010

THIS INTERESTING LINE was tucked away in Bradley Olson’s Chronicle recap of the unanimous Council vote to approve the budget: Some council members questioned how Parker will cut $22 million in spending during the coming

TORY GATTIS asks and answers an interesting question regarding the latest Astrodome redevelopment proposal: How does demolition cost almost as much as two new Reliant Stadiums, you might ask? Well, they cleverly included their real

HERE’S ANOTHER SERIOUS PROBLEM that Mayor Annise Parker has inherited from the Bill White/Harold Hurtt dynamic duo (as reported by Moises Mendoza and James Pinkerton for the Chronicle): In the Houston Police Department’s fingerprint lab,

HOUBLOG posts that the word at Public Works is that director Michael Marcotte has tendered his resignation. Houblog says multiple sources claim Mayor Annise Parker requested the resignation. UPDATE (06/25/2010): The Chronicle finally got around

THE AUSTIN DISTRICT COURT where the City filed its effort to uphold the massive water-rate increase (a case subsequently joined by water-rate increase opponents Hotze and Bettencourt) has found in favor of the City. Documents

MIKE MCGUFF notes that longtime KUHF news anchor Jim Bell is retiring (here’s hoping he has more time for online commentary now!). McGuff also reports that Chronicle legal journalist Mary Flood is leaving the newspaper.

KPRC-2 reports that METRO has terminated a couple of bus drivers who were recently featured on the news. One was allegedly using social media websites while driving; the other had a suspended license. Another interesting

UNCA DARRELL observes, “You can take the girl out of the Houston Press, but….” Then again, the Chron editorialist DID finally discover Ixtoc this week, so that’s progress at the newspaper of record in the

IN SOME OUTSTANDING REPORTING for the Houston Community Newspapers, Michael Reed details an interesting deal put together by the outgoing board at the “old” METRO for its real-estate agency. Among other fascinating tidbits, he notes:

ONE OF SEVERAL INTERESTING ASPECTS of this Culture Map Houston article on Houston’s Smart Growth crowd and their vision for Houston… is that it pretty clearly confirms that the Citizens Transportation Coalition (which now has