HERE is today’s roundup, heavy on the views….
- A better vision for Metro (Houston Strategies)
How much better would the “New METRO” be with this guy on their board? - Isn't it painful when your true love . . . (Unca Darrell)
- White takes hands-on approach to campaigning (Corrie MacLaggan, Postcards)
While in flight from Harlingen to Austin today, Bill White peered through glasses perched on the end of his nose and marked up drafts of newspaper-insert ads for his gubernatorial campaign.
The Democrat is taking a hands-on approach as he seeks to unseat Republican Gov. Rick Perry. White said he writes many of the messages that come from his campaign. And he’s heavily involved in editing.
“Somewhat larger font,” he wrote on one part of an ad today.
The pol who micromanages his campaign ads down to font size and who won his first mayoral campaign on the theme of “Getting Houston Moving” nonetheless wants you to believe that he had no idea of the financial shenanigans at METRO during his tenure as mayor. Gotta love political season!
- For some, Walmart fills a need (Lisa Falkenberg, Houston Chronicle)
The Chron‘s precious teen columnist tries to go populist. Yeah, she has trouble pulling it off, but there ARE some folks who support the inner-loop Wal-Mart (even though *gasp* they don’t have blogs and facebook petition pages). - Falkenberg’s Wal-Mart strawman (Off the Kuff)
[Wal-Mart opponents] want something other than a Wal-Mart, something that they think will be a better fit for the dense urban area immediately around it….
Houston’s most prolific blockquoter takes the Falkenberg bait…. Just one question, though: If light rail must be built “where the people are,” as Kuffner and others contend, despite the traffic impact of running play trains down busy streets, then why doesn’t that same “logic” apply also to Wal-Mart?
Yeah, we know — the smart crowd likes toy trains and doesn’t like Wal-Mart.
- Pat Lykos' Accomplishments (Life at the Harris County Criminal Justice Center)
- Public Defender Board appointed (Chron Houston Politics)
Be sure to check out Rorschach’s comment on the post. - Sam Houston gets racing reprieve (Greg Barr, Houston Business Journal)
- Will Attacks on King Street Patriots Keep Citizens Away? (Big Jolly Politics)
