Month: August 2010

HOOKERS! HPD! DISMISSED CHARGES! OH MY! In all seriousness, a hat tip to the Chron‘s Brian Rogers, who wrote up that story much more professionally than we might have.

THE ANNISE PARKER ADMINISTRATION started making headway today on another of many problems they inherited from former Mayor Bill White. Jim Noteware, the person Mayor Parker appointed to reshape the city’s troubled Houston and Community

HERE is the conclusion to a recent Chron editorial: It will take time to change Metro’s internal culture while altering its public image of executive arrogance and unresponsiveness. The new team has the right priorities

RICHARD MURRAY takes a closer look at the upcoming political redistricting in the City of Houston.

RICHARD CONNELLY is back on the KTRH beat for the Houston Press, lamenting that the radio station used to have “aggressive and competent” journalists “who covered the city well.” Funny enough, but some of us

TEXAS TRIBUNE’S BRANDI GRISSOM looks at the ongoing controversy over Harris County jail overcrowding.

MIKE MCGUFF explains why you might have had reception problems with Houston radio stations last weekend.

LIVE OAKS follows up on a couple of points in The Mighty Wizard’s recent post on METRO.

TEXAS LIBERAL concedes that those “non-partisan” claims from Houston Votes look a little bit shaky. That conclusion is so obvious that one may have to be a staffer for Texas Tribune to miss it.

SWAMPLOT reports that Mayor Parker and her Council nixed small jitneys today. Yellow Cab doesn’t especially like competition, you see, and as we’ve noted before, what Yellow Cab wants from Houston’s pols, it usually is