Time to dump some news and views:
- Wilson’s defense costs Metro almost $150,000 so far (Michael Reed, Examiner News)
Metro’s outside legal expenses toward defending former President and CEO Frank Wilson now approach the $150,000 mark, transit agency records show.
Frank Wilson’s legacy just keeps *ahem* growing.
- Metro’s lingering litigation (Chron Houston Politics)
Note that the cost of the litigation does not find its way into the blog post from METRO’s man at the Chron. - Changes made to Safe Clear to help cut costs for freeway towing program (Deborah Wrigley, KTRK-13 News)
The program operates with mobility funds and can only be used for mobility. But 14 HPD officers are stationed at Transtar to approve Safe Clear tows. That cost totals $1.4 million. The plan is for HPD to remove its employees and hand those duties over to METRO police.
We have finally found some purpose for METRO’s police department?
- Judge puts brakes on red-light camera opponents (Bradley Olson, Houston Chronicle)
Paul Kubosh, an attorney who represents red light runners, had accused the city of purposefully offering a weak defense of the referendum as a ploy to keep the cameras operational.
The bolded phrase is an interesting editorial choice.
- Czech towns deploy cardboard police in miniskirts (AP)
Maybe Houston could install some of these “officers” at the intersections that used to have red-light cameras? For safety, of course. - As Mexico drug violence runs rampant, U.S. guns tied to crime south of border (James Grimaldi and Sari Horwitz, WaPo)
Eight of the top 12 dealers are in Texas, three are in Arizona, and one is in California. In Texas, two of the four Houston area Carter’s Country stores are on the list, along with four gun retailers in the Rio Grande Valley at the southern tip of the state. There are 3,800 gun retailers in Texas, 300 in Houston alone.
“One of the reasons that Houston is the number one source, you can go to a different gun store for a month and never hit the same gun store,” said J. Dewey Webb, special agent in charge of the Houston field division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. “You can buy [a 9mm handgun] down along the border, but if you come to Houston, you can probably buy it cheaper because there’s more dealers, there’s more competition.”
Hey, Houston is an entrepreneurial city.
- Dynamo stadium deal is a win-win (J. Kent Friedman, Houston Chronicle)
Not really. - I-Team: More burglars given ‘get out of jail” card (Jeremy Rogalski, KHOU-11 News)
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