Month: January 2011

A full week ago, we noted in this blog post that FTA New Starts funding has been targeted by House Republican leaders for potential deficit reduction. We further noted that such cuts could seriously jeopardize

The last time the Chronicle editorial board weighed in on the municipal pension mess, we pointed out why it has no credibility on the issue and should be ignored. The Chonicle editorial board has weighed

Bill King continues his series on Houston’s municipal pension problems with his proposed long-term fix: The only permanent fix is to scrap defined-benefit plans in favor of defined-contribution plans. With defined-contribution plans we will always

KTRK-13 meteorologist Tim Heller cracks on some of the silly weather editorializing that has been published lately on the news pages of the Houston Chronicle: Here we go again. The Houston Chronicle published another article

If this doesn’t make you want to frolic downtown, Bob Eury doesn’t know what will: A new team of guides, trained in first aid, hospitality and other helping skills, is working the streets of downtown

Barry Klein passes along word that Clymer Wright, a longtime local conservative political activist, has passed away. Wright is perhaps best known for his efforts to impose term limits on elected municipal officials. KHOU-11’s Doug

Amidst last week’s launch of METRO’s latest and greatest effort to insist, contrary to accumulated evidence, that at-grade rail down somewhat busy Houston streets really IS safe (or Rhapsody in Red, for the Houtopian types)

Back in 2007, both KPRC-2 and KHOU-11 alerted viewers to MayorWhiteChiefHurtt’s interest in unmanned aerial drones. KPRC’s Stephen Dean even found the top-secret location in Waller County where HPD and Department of Homeland Security officials

In today’s Chronicle, Bill King continues his discussion of public pension woes. This time, King explains that the City of Houston’s pension problems are much worse than a review of the various pensions’ outdated financial

And he raises a very interesting question that probably isn’t going to make the local tax-and-spend crowd very happy: County Treasurer Orlando Sanchez has asked County Attorney Vince Ryan for an opinion on whether the